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Kevin Magnussen says that he’s enjoyed his first season at Haas F1 thanks to the ‘simple’ racing atmosphere at the team. “Everyone here is here to go racing,” Magnussen told ESPN this week. “We don’t have to deal with people you don’t want to deal with. “It’s kind of going racing in Formula 1 with […]

The Mercedes F1 team has been named as the year’s best team in all of sports at the prestigious 2018 Laureus World Sports Awards. The team was handed the Laureus World Team of the Year award at this year’s prize-giving event in Monaco on Tuesday. The team had been nominated after sealing the 2017 constructor’s […]

Pierre Gasly is keeping an eye on Daniel Ricciardo’s contract talks, just in case the Aussie decides to call it a day with Red Bull and move on to other pastures. The next few months will likely prove crucial for Ricciardo’s future as he weighs his options for 2019 and the prospect of either staying […]

Proving that the tensions surrounding recent events in Paris remain complex and will continue to have political and cultural reverberations, protests have taken place in numerous countries in recent days which demonstrate the “Je Suis Charlie” meme clearly has it limits when it comes to unanimous sentiment and interpretation around the world. occurred in Yemen, […]

As the Syriza Party took the helm of the Greek government in earnest on Tuesday, the Guardian newspaper described its selection of top cabinet ministers, announced by the new Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, as “a formidable coterie of academics, human rights advocates, mavericks and visionaries.” Among the most discussed appointments to the more than 40-member […]

The election of an anti-austerity Syriza government in Greece signalled trouble for the powers-that-be in the European Union. Principally Germany which has no interest in rethinking how the EU operates, since it serves German interests so well, but also the most powerful European institution: the European Central Bank (ECB). As of Saturday, June 27, it […]

A Texas man who won a controversial $350,000 auction last year for a permit to kill a black rhinoceros on Monday felled one of the endangered giants in Namibia, prompting immediate condemnation from conservation groups and experts who say the slaughter sets a dangerous precedent. The kill by 36-year-old Corey Knowlten, who hails from Dallas, […]

Brendon Hartley isn’t worried by the prospect of racing next year with F1’s most unreliable engine in his back. Along with Pierre Gasly, the Kiwi was confirmed last week at Toro Rosso for 2018, but the team’s switch from Renault to Honda power is not a cause for concern he says. “I think in the […]

ABB Formula E has revealed its new electric racer which the series will use in its 2018-19 season, the fifth in the burgeoning all-electric championship’s existence. The new car – called the Gen2 – sports a dramatic contemporary look in the digital images released by Formula E, with a wider nose, a single-plane front wing […]

Force India believes that the FIA’s decision to implement the Halo cockpit protection device has cost them around a million dollars in development. Technical director Andrew Green said that the introduction of the Halo meant that they couldn’t just evolve last year’s chassis. Instead, they had to go back to the drawing board to solve […]