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A question often asked of drivers during Formula 1‘s ‘killer years’ in the 1960s and 1970s, was how can someone knowingly put themselves in such danger with such a high possibility of serious injury or death? According to Kevin McConway, Professor of Applied Statistics at the Open University, in the decade between Read more…

Williams’ rapid gains

By Michaelmad, ago

It’s an expression that most Williams F1 fans wouldn’t dare dream about after the team’s disastrous start to the 2019 Formula 1 season. Technical issues forced Williams on to the back foot from the get go when they arrived at pre-season Barcelona test several days late, before having to redesign Read more…

F1’s summer break

By Michaelmad, ago

The summer break – a four week hiatus in Formula 1 Grand Prix mid-season is a concept that, like most things F1, divides opinion. If you’re a fan, it’s somewhat of an annoyance. A lull in proceedings at the very time the season appeared to be hotting up nicely. If Read more…

Williams’ development driver Jamie Chadwick has triumphed in the inaugural W-series championship, beating off stiff competition from a hand picked selection of the world’s best female racing drivers, sealing herself a $500k prize pot with which to further her racing career. The W-series was launched earlier this year to a Read more…

Russell not heading to Mercedes in 2020

By Michaelmad, ago

Yesterday, Red Bull Racing announced that as of the Belgian Grand Prix, the first after F1’s enforced summer break, Formula 1 new boy Alex Albon would be swapping places with Pierre Gasly, demoting the Frenchman to a seat in the B-Team after a thoroughly lacklustre first half of the 2019 Read more…

Williams giant scalextric for sale

By Michaelmad, ago

If you’re a Grand Prix fan of a certain age its almost guaranteed that you will have, at one time or another, owned a Scalextric set. I know I did, and thought it was rather grand – built by my Dad and permanently set up in a corner of my Read more…

There were signs of a corner having been turned last weekend at Hockenheim, but after a promising FP1 for Williams and their upgraded FW42, those signs seemed to ebb away when drivers George Russell and Robert Kubica slipped back in to their de facto 2019 positions of 19th and 20th Read more…

Hands off Russell says Williams

By Michaelmad, ago

Williams F1 Deputy Team Principal Claire Williams has responded to rumours that her star driver George Russell might be joining Lewis Hamilton at Mercedes in 2020 by reminding the World Champions that the young Briton is in the first year of a three year contract and that they expect him Read more…

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