Motorsports Mondial

  Photo: gp2media Giedo van der Garde flies to Sakhir pole Caterham Racing driver steals Davide Valsecchi’s thunder Giedo van der Garde is a happy man: the Caterham Racing driver claimed today’s pole position at the Bahrain International Circuit in 1:42.451, one tenth quicker than Davide Valsecchi. Fabio Leimer took P3 in an thrilling qualifying […]

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Photo: SaharaForceIndiaFormula1team Sahara Force India F1 Team Academy drivers take their first step towards F1 The Sahara Force India F1 Team Academy stepped up a gear this month as the team’s three young Indian racers, Arjun Maini, Tarun Reddy and Jehan Daruvala began their European karting careers. The three youngsters are competing in the British […]

Motorsports Mondial

  Photo: Lotusf1 Four Renault-powered drivers finished in the top four of the Bahrain Grand Prix.  Sebastian Vettel secured the first win of the season for Red Bull Racing-Renault, 3.3secs ahead of Lotus F1 Team-Renault’s Kimi Raikkonen and Romain Grosjean. Mark Webber secured fourth for Red Bull Racing-Renault, giving the RS27 a clean sweep of […]

Motorsports Mondial

  Vettel holds off Kimi’s Lotus for victory in Bahrain. Sebastian Vettel:“It’s a very tight season, the cars are very close to each other and small things can make a huge difference on a Sunday. I think we started the season saying that the McLaren is the fastest car by quite a bit and we’ve […]

F1Weekly podcast # 569

  Photo: gp2media Davide Valsecchi flies to Bahrain pole position Davide Valsecchi was once again untouchable during today’s qualifying session at the Bahrain International Circuit: he put his DAMS car at the top of the timesheets early on and his laptime of 1:41.200 was never bettered. With this result, Valsecchi pockets his second pole position […]

Motorsports Mondial

Photo: mercedesamg Mercedes AMG FP1 and FP2 Bahrain Nico Rosberg “That was a good start to the weekend, and whilst it’s nice to be quickest today, we know that doesn’t count. The most important thing still is to improve our race pace. For the moment, it looks reasonable but we need to analyse where we […]