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Jamie Chadwick joins Williams

By Michaelmad, ago

W-series championship leader Jamie Chadwick has joined the Williams F1 team as development driver. Britain’s Chadwick who in 2015 became the first ever female winner of the British GT Championship and the first to win a British F3 championship race in 2018 arrives at Williams after two successful outings in Read more…

Niki Lauda 1949 – 2019

By Michaelmad, ago

Austrian Formula 1 legend Niki Lauda has died aged 70 his family have announced. With deep sadness, we announce that our beloved Niki has peacefully passed away with his family on Monday” Lauda’s family said in a statement. “His tireless zest for action, his straightforwardness and his courage remain. A Read more…

Reports surfaced over the weekend that Williams are lining up reserve driver Nicholas Latifi to replace Robert Kubica after the Pole’s underwhelming start to the 2019 Formula 1 season. Kubica, in his first season back in F1 after a forced hiatus of eight years after being seriously injured in a Read more…

Williams F1 driver George Russell insists that the 2019 season isn’t a complete write-off just yet, despite fundamental problems with the FW42 preventing either himself or team-mate Robert Kubica from taking anything but last and second last places in any session at any of the five Grand Prix so far Read more…

I’m just back from the a Spanish Grand Prix that looks likely to be the last Formula 1 race in Spain for the foreseeable future. The event thrived in the 2000s during the reign of Fernando Alonso, but their hero’s meagre results in the last half dozen or so years Read more…

According to Autosport, Williams have cleared their backlog of parts that required manufacturing following a redesign of several key components of their FW42 after they were found to be illegal prior to the 209 Formula 1 season opener in Australia. The knock on effect of this is that the team Read more…

Officials from the Azerbaijan Grand Prix have confirmed that the Williams F1 team will be compensated for the damage caused to George Russell’s Williams FW42 when he hit a dislodged manhole cover during FP1 for last weekend’s Grand Prix in Baku. The incident caused the whole of first practice to Read more…

Imola – 25 years on

By Michaelmad, ago

There can be few Formula 1 fans who witnessed the devastating events of the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix who could quite have imagined the effect that it would have on the sport. We’d been living in a bit of a bubble. Twelve years had passed since Riccardo Paletti crashed Read more…

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