After much speculation, today Renault Sport F1 team confirmed that Robert Kubica will be driving the R.S. 17 in Hungary on August 2nd as part of the two days of mid-season testing for the teams.
Let me take you back in time. In 1997, the reigning F1 champion was Damon Hill. He’d won the title when driving for Williams-Renault, but had lost his seat to Heinz-Harald Frentzen at the end of 1996. Nineteen ninety-seven was tough for Damon
With Formula 1’s annual silly season looming just on the horizon, Gene Haas of the eponymous team has fired the first shot, announcing that his team will be retaining their current line-up of Romain Grosjean and Kevin Magnussen for the 2018 season.
First up, the DTM, then Formula 1: Lucas Auer has a couple of interesting weeks ahead of him, with the DTM event in Moscow followed by an F1 test debut in Budapest. ...
Williams Felipe Massa qualified 15th and Lance Stroll 16th for the British Grand Prix Both drivers went out in Q1 on the supersoft tyre, but quickly swapped the dry tyres for a set of intermediates as the rain continued to fall Laptimes continued to fall as the track dried throughout the session, which allowed Fernando Alonso to set a time on the supersoft tyre at the end of the session. Alonso's time pushed Lance down to P16 and out of qualifying.
During his installation lap, the German’s car was fitted with a new head protection system being evaluated by the FIA, known as a Shield. Both Ferrari men ran the Supersofts for the entire session.
“We had a clutch issue at the start of the race. I could feel on the formation lap that it wasn’t great and then at the start it failed which triggered the anti-stall as I tried to launch. I pulled away after losing many positions and tried to stay out of trouble in to turn one but I got hit on the rear tyre."
If you missed the race today here are the Highlights and the including the crash at the start caused by the clutch failure on Verstappen's Formula making it his 3rd retirement in a row .
Lance Stroll finished third at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix to become the youngest rookie to secure a Formula One podium, and the first Canadian to do so since 2001
From Vettels view Hamilton seems to brake check him and then Vettel hits the back of Hamilton's car but then Vettel goes to the left of hamilton and rams him. What is you opinion on this behavior of Vettel?
Hamilton takes pole by going thru the small chicane without sliding out and keeping the car straight for the best grip.
Cars lining up behind Verstappen to try and get the 2 last laps in before the end of Qualifying.