Year: 2020

26 Jul 2020

FERRARI’S LOSS OF MOJO

With 5 races under our belts in the 2020 Formula 1 season one issue is still puzzling many. Where has Ferrari’s 2019 pace gone? Everyone outside Marinello is scratching their collective heads as the Italian icons continue to make a far from exemplary start to the 2020 season. The P2 finish from Charles Leclerc in [...]
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24 Jul 2020

GREAT DRIVES – JENSON BUTTON 2011 CANADIAN GRAND PRIX

For the second in our series of great drives in Formula 1, we focus on Jensen Button and his epic drive at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in 2011. For Round 7 of the 2011 World Championship, the Formula 1 circus headed for Monteal, Canada. Button, driving for McLaren Mercedes, went into the race off the [...]
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17 Jul 2020

ALONSO RETURNS! – WHAT NEXT FOR VETTEL?

Back in May before we had the all clear to go racing, we reported that Fernando Alonso may be returning to Formula 1. Last week it was confirmed that the double World Champion has signed a multi-year deal with the Renault Formula 1 team. The signing with the team that brought him his two titles [...]
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12 Jul 2020

JDC LAUNCHES TORQUE SHOP Q&A SERIES

It gives us great pleasure to introduce the first in our new "live" Q&A series "Torque Shop" which will take place on Sunday 2nd August and broadcast on Youtube and Facebook Live. We are super excited to announce that our first guest in the series is a pretty big hitter in the world of F1. [...]
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12 Jul 2020

ROB SMEDLEY – 21ST CENTURY RACE ENGINEER

As part of the build-up to our eagerly anticipated Q&A called “Torque Shop”, which will be broadcast live on 2nd August, we are delighted to focus this month’s Media Centre Spotlight Feature on our very first special guest and current Formula 1 Head of Performance Engineering and Analytics, Rob Smedley. Since his first Formula 1 [...]
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11 Jul 2020

A NEW CIRCUIT TO LEARN AS MUGELLO ADDED TO 2020 F1 CALENDAR

Formula 1 Management today announced 2 additional races to the revised 2020 F1 calendar with the addition of Mugello and Sochi scheduled for September. The full calendar of 10 races is now as follows: Round 1 Formula 1 Rolex Grosser Preis von Osterreich, The Red Bull Ring, Austria - July 3-5 Round 2 Formula 1 [...]
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10 Jul 2020

PENALTIES AND GEARBOX PROBLEMS BELIE MERCEDES DOMINANCE

Race day at the Red Bull Ring came with a far from perfect start for Lewis Hamilton and the Mercedes team as he was handed a three-place grid penalty just 41 minutes before the start of the race due to a reversal of an earlier appeal. With the verdict on the incident in question having [...]
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05 Jul 2020

GREAT DRIVES – AYRTON SENNA 1993 EUROPEAN GRAND PRIX

Today we launch the first in a regular series of features focusing on some of the great drives in Formula 1. It seems fitting as we restart the 2020 season that we focus on arguably the greatest ever driver to sit in a modern formula 1 car, Ayrton Senna. In 1993 Donnington Park played host [...]
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28 Jun 2020

THE ROAD TO A FORMULA ONE DRIVE

To get to the pinnacle of any professional sport needs total commitment with no guarantee of success. Unlike most sports though, Formula 1 has an additional barrier to entry, its phenomenal cost. Unlike other sports like football where a player can practice their skills with nothing more than a ball and jumpers for goals posts, [...]
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21 Jun 2020

GILLES VILLENEUVE AT 70

Gilles Villeneuve was taken from the world of Formula 1 all too soon in an horrific crash at the Belgian Grand Prix held at Zolder in May 1982. Had he lived he would have been celebrating his 70th birthday this year. His competitive career started with racing his road going Mustang on local tracks and [...]
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