Vandoorne leads after five hours of testing
CIRCUIT DE BARCELONA-CATALUNYA | Since the day began and the green flag waved at 9:00, drivers quickly went on track to get the mileage they had lost yesterday. All cars had done at least...
Renault’s ultimatum to Red Bull
Red Bull-Renault relationship is far from its best moment. The lack of reliability that the engine has had in recent times and that has hurt the results of Red Bull does not help Milton...
Hartley: “The reliability has been faultless”
Despite the third day of testing was been one of the most odd, unproductive and cold sessions that have been held in years, some drivers have been brave enough to go on track.
One of...
Fernando Alonso, the only driver to complete a lap in Day 3
CIRCUIT DE BARCELONA-CATALUNYA | One of the most useless and odd days of preseason in recent years. A total of 16 laps between the only five drivers who have went on the track. Undoubtedly, no...
Snow stops activity in Day 3 morning
The third day of testing has started with no track activity at all during the entire morning. A heavy snowfall began to fall on the Barcelona-Catalunya Circuit at dawn and has covered the facilities....
Verstappen: “The initial feeling is very positive”
Max Verstappen has had a day with mixed feelings in Montmeló. After some decent laps, the Dutch driver had to stop for a very long time, and he even left the track. Despite this problems...
Vandoorne: “It was not a big problem”
CIRCUIT DE BARCELONA-CATALUNYA | Stoffel Vandoorne has had a really tough day of testing today in Montmeló. The Belgian driver suffered, at noon, a problem with the pipe of the car has made him lose...
Vettel leads a snowy testing day
CIRCUIT DE BARCELONA-CATALUNYA | The afternoon session, which was actually not separated from the morning one since there was no lunch pause, started with no driver change in any of the teams that had scheduled...
Robert Kubica: “I have to be honest, of course I was disappointed”
Robert Kubica got back on the Williams. It was not an easy day for the Polish driver as he drived when the conditions of the track and atmospheric were worse. Kubica points out that...
F1TV is born, the channel owned by F1
F1 is constantly changing digitally. It will be F1 itself who will now launch their own television channel that will be called F1tv. It is a subscription channel, which will offer exclusively the entire...
Claire Williams: “For us, filming day is important”
Claire Williams made an extensive review of all the news about F1 and especially the situation of his team. Williams just received that Martini will not be his prinipal partner for the next season.
In...
Martini and Williams to end sponsorship agreement
Martini and Williams Racing have confirmed that their sponsorship agreement will not be extended. After five years with the Grove-based team, their partership comes to an end and the iconic blue, red and white...
Ericsson: “With the track conditions it’s difficult to say anything”
CIRCUIT DE BARCELONA-CATALUNYA | Marcus Ericsson has finished eleventh on day one of testing at the Barcelona-Catalunya. On a day that has been conditioned by difficult conditions, with cold and rain in the afternoon, the...
Daniel Ricciardo: “It was a good day, reliability was solid”
CIRCUIT DE BARCELONA-CATALUNYA | Daniel Ricciardo has set the best time of the first day of pre-season testing at the Barcelona-Catalunya Circuit. The Aussie has spoken to the media at the end of the session...
Räikkönen: “The only problem was the weather”
While Italy is freezing, the Barcelona area is not doing much better, even if the trees are already in blossom here. After a sunny Sunday, which meant that Scuderia Ferrari was able to comfortably...
Ricciardo holds the lead after an odd afternoon session
Daniel Ricciardo has stayed on top during the last hours of the first day of testing at the Barcelona-Catalunya Circuit. The Australian driver has not improved during the afternoon since weather conditions have got worse....
Frédéric Vasseur: “It’s been a busy winter”
The C37, his first car made after the union between Alfa Romeo and Sauber, has taken its first official laps in the tests of this Monday. It is the start of a new ambitious...
Boullier dismisses a design problem in the wheel nuts
Mclaren's race director came out on a bad first day of Mclaren in the pre-season tests. It was a faulty wheel nut who caused the Fernando Alonso incident on the morning of the first...
Ricciardo leads the first morning session in Montmeló
After Haas, Force India and Toro Rosso have unveiled their cars, the 2018 Formula 1 pre-season has officially started at 9:10 local time. Valtteri Bottas set the pace since the beginning and as he quickly moved...
Zak Brown: “It has been a wheel nut issue”
It is not the best script for a start of the season. It has not been the engine as in the previous years, but Fernando Alonso has not been able to drive more than...
Toro Rosso officialy unveils the STR-13
CIRCUIT DE BARCELONA-CATALUNYA | The car was already leaked during the filming day the team held in Misano, and an official picture of the car was released due to that. But, now, the car...
Force India unveils the VJM-11
After several rumours about the possibility of a name change in Force India, the team is finally to stay with the same name. The team has unveiled its new car today on the pit...
F1 test preview: Let’s get ready to rumble
After three months without activity on track, F1 returns from holidays. The Barcelona-Catalunya Circuit will host the F1 pre-season test these two next weeks and Formula Rapida will cover the last minute of everything...
Check Barcelona’s F1 test line-up
The Barcelona Circuit -officially called Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya - is home of the preseason peregrination for the F1 teams. Since 2009, the FIA has reduced the number of collective testing days, and this year...
Rain and cold in first week of F1 test in Barcelona
Just one day before the start of the Formula 1 preseason 2018, the weather forecasts fear the worst for the development of teams and drivers at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. The worst possible conditions to...
Photo Gallery: All of Fernando Alonso’s cars
Throughout his sporting career, Fernando Alonso has driven all sorts of cars, most of them single seaters, although he has also driven endurance machines. In twenty years, the Spaniard has competed aboard more than...
Sirotkin: “I have great respect for Kubica”
Sergey Sirotkin, official driver of the Williams Martini Racing team, analyzed his first weeks of work with his new team, in an interview conducted by Motorsport.com. In it, we can observe the most human...
Alonso about Halo: “There shouldn’t be any debate”
The halo -new security measure in F1- has created a controversy in the F1 world. Everyone said their opinion about it. Fernando Alonso said: "There shouldn't be any debate about halo becasue it's a...
Renault will focus on making a reliable engine, says Abiteboul
After the amount of engine failures Renault suffered on the latest stages of the 2017 season and the new technical rules that are to be introduced in 2018 and that will limit the number...
Éric Boullier: “We have a solid package that can be improve as the season...
The Honda-Mclaren partnership was one of the biggest failures that are remembered in the recent history of F1. The duo that gave so many successes to the Woking team at the time of Senna...
