Ben Pon

The Woking-based outfit has come off the back of a difficult 2018 campaign, when a switch from Honda to Renault engines exposed problems with its team and prompted a major reshuffle of the organisation.<br>Newly-appointed team principal Andreas Seidl's first race with the outfit in Spain coincided with a major car update, which included a shift of concept for its front wing design.<br><br>Read ...

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The Sussex-based company took action to defend its stag logo, claiming that the Rich Energy logo was a copy of its own, and was being used without authorisation.<br> <br>As well as its presence on drink cans, the stag logo features prominently on the 2019 Haas car, as well as as on the helmets of Kevin Magnussen and Romain Grosjean.<br>The judgement in effect means that Rich Energy can no longer ...

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The German started 18th and finished a lowly 14th, ahead of only the two Williams drivers, having struggled for pace from the start of practice.<br>His teammate Daniel Ricciardo had been running on the fringes of the top 10 before retiring after an incident with Daniil Kvyat on lap 32.<br>The nosedive in performance came as a shock to the team after the Renault had been the fourth-quickest car at ...

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Lowe joined Williams from champion team Mercedes early in 2017 but the two cars designed and built under his technical leadership have been the slowest on the grid.<br>The 2019 Williams is even less competitive than its predecessor, it was late to testing and required design changes to be legal for the season opener, and Lowe has been on a leave of absence since pre-season.<br>Speaking to ...

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Binotto, formerly Ferrari’s technical director, was promoted to the overall leadership of the Scuderia at the start of 2019, replacing Maurizio Arrivabene in the role.<br>While Ferrari was widely judged to have been the benchmark outfit in pre-season testing, it has failed to win any of the first three grands prix of the season – which have all been won by Mercedes – and its drivers ...

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The British driver, a Red Bull junior since 2017, drove the title-winning team’s RB15 on day two of the post-Bahrain Grand Prix test at the Sakhir circuit.<br>He completed 134 laps, focusing more on long runs as Red Bull works through the set-up issues that have held it back in the opening two races of the 2019 F1 season.<br>“It’s different, definitely,” he said of working in the increased ...

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Ahead of this weekend's race in Bahrain it emerged that Sainz would need to move onto his second MGU-K following the early failure he suffered in the race in Melbourne.<br>However, the FIA confirmed at the start of the first free practice session at Sakhir that McLaren has made a host of changes.<br>As well as the new MGU-K, Sainz switches to a second internal combustion engine, turbocharger and ...

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The governing body had issued an invitation to tender last month, covering the supply of a common gearbox cassette for the 2021-2024 period.<br>The original deadline was March 14, but before the deadline expired the FIA legal department issued a clarification in the form of an “erratum.”<br>It read: “In order to encourage the submission of bids, the FIA has decided to postpone the deadline ...

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BAT, which owned the BAR F1 team from 1999 until it morphed into Honda's works operation in the mid-2000s, appears on the 2019 McLaren via 'A Better Tomorrow' branding and has made clear it will not be promoting any tobacco products via the deal.<br>BAT's return to F1 sponsorship comes shortly after Phillip Morris - another tobacco company moving into new areas - increased its visual presence on ...

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Racing Point will race in a largely pink livery that reflects ongoing support from BWT, which started sponsoring the team in 2017 in its Force India days, with blue flashes.<br>To mark its new title sponsorship with African sports betting company SportPesa, the company's logo appears with blue and white branding on the front wing, engine cover and rear wing.<br>The team will also be formally ...

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Mission Winnow’s sponsorship of Ferrari was launched at last year’s Japanese GP, and represents a new scientific and technological push from Philip Morris in a bid to move its business away from reliance on tobacco products that had been made famous through its Marlboro brand.<br>But the shape of the logo has prompted accusations that it is similar to Marlboro’s white-and-red ...

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Haas unveiled its 2019 Formula 1 car on Thursday, complete with a brand-new black-and-gold livery to echo the colour scheme of its new energy drink backer.<br>Rich Energy was linked with buying Force India at the start of last year and then again in the summer, but conversations were played down by the team both times.<br>The company tabled a bid to buy Force India when it fell into ...

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Irvine raced for Ferrari from 1996 to 1999 and earned all four of his grand prix victories in his final season with the famous team, taking on the role of its title protagonist after Michael Schumacher suffered a broken leg.<br>Despite claiming that "I don't watch it [F1] anymore because it bores me", Irvine – who left F1 at the end of the 2002 season after three years with Jaguar – questioned ...

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Sauber developed from a back-of-the-grid rival of Williams in the early races to being a regular top-10 qualifier and point-scorer by the end of the season.<br>Leclerc's own qualifying improvements meant he, and not his more experienced teammate Marcus Ericsson, led that charge.<br>Examining Leclerc's qualifying performance in greater detail showcases impressive raw numbers on the surface, but ...

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Full details of the new system will be presented at an FIA meeting next month but FIA Formula 1 medical delegates Ian Roberts and Alain Chantegret gave a brief outline to select media including Motorsport.com in Brazil last weekend. The basic premise is being able to send data to race control without using radio, and feed back video, which is in its early stages. It is a system that has been ...

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In September, F1 announced that it had signed a deal with the Interregional Sports Group concern to promote new ways of in-play betting on the championship, using live data. In addition, ISG acquired the right to sub-license betting partnership rights to betting brands worldwide. The move had led to criticism of F1 linking itself with betting at a time when the relationship between sport and ...

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Rich Energy failed in a bid to buy Force India earlier this year, and the drink company's CEO William Storey was in the Austin paddock last weekend. He held a meeting with Steiner in the paddock on Sunday morning and was also seen in conversation with Williams and McLaren. Four days later, Haas announced the new title sponsorship deal for 2019 and confirmed its cars would be painted in the ...

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The deal will prompt a rebranding of the team's livery, and is Haas's first title sponsor since it joined F1 at the beginning of 2016. The UK-based Rich Energy company has been looking at various opportunities to link up with teams, and tried hard to buy out Force India as recently as this year. But with that door now closed following a takeover by Lawrence Stroll's consortium, Rich Energy ...

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The deal between McLaren and Coca-Cola runs until the end of this season, but there are likely to be options to extend it if the tie-up proves a success. Coca-Cola as a company has been involved in grand prix racing before, when its energy drink Burn was a sponsor of Lotus from 2012. The McLaren deal is the first time the parent company's name and logos have been utilised in such a way in F1 ...

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Uralkali is suing the administrators because it believes that the winning bid from the consortium led by Lawrence Stroll was ‘significantly inferior’ to what it had offered itself. It has suggested that there was a lack of transparency with how the team was awarded to Stroll, and it wants the High Court in London to rule on the matter. Having finally been issued with legal paperwork on ... ...

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An independent research and development project is looking at making it easier for F1 drivers to race one another, with an initial change being implemented for 2019 ahead of a bigger overhaul as part of F1's 2021 revolution. Lowe, one of the key players in F1's Overtaking Working Group a decade ago, said F1 has not benefitted from such a dedicated approach before and will help avoid unintended ... ...

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Straightline speed performance is essential, even if it means that life can be a bit tricky through the chicanes. It sets the scene for the most outrageously low downforce rear wings you’ll see all season. In fact, for the most part, they’re designed specifically for the famed ‘temple of speed’ and instantly become obsolete after the race. Dueling duo Punching a hole in the air is ... ...

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Honda will sponsor this year's Suzuka event, while Mercedes will support next year's race at Hockenheim. Honda is also the owner and promoter of Suzuka through its MobilityLand subsidiary, but this is the first time that it has attached its name to the race, which has been confirmed for a further three years. In the past, Mercedes has helped the German GP through initiatives such as buying ... ...

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Interviewed on air by Sky F1 immediately after Max Verstappen retired from the Hungarian GP with an MGU-K issue, Horner expressed his frustration, which was exacerbated by the fact that it came so soon after an engine failure for Daniel Ricciardo in Germany."I am not going to get drawn into saying too much," said Horner."But we pay multi millions of pounds for these engines, for a ...

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As previously reported, a discussion and vote on the race had been scheduled for July 26, as part of a regular City Commission meeting that covers multiple topics. Four out of the five City Commissioners will have to vote in favour of the plans.However, a final decision has now been delayed, with an August summer recess pushing it back further.City Manager Emilio Gonzalez, the man ...

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