Formula One

Gemma Cockrell With lots of difficult and unique terms and concepts, Formula 1 can prove to be a very difficult sport for new fans to fully understand. Like, what is DRS? What is sandbagging, or slipstreaming? Gemma Cockrell is here to define all of these terms for you, so...

Gemma Cockrell If you aren’t familiar with Dutch racing driver Nyck de Vries, then now’s the time. He won the Formula 2 championship in 2019, and was more recently crowned the 2020-2021 Formula E world champion. However, with his Mercedes-EQ Team announcing that they will be withdrawing from the...

Madelaine Telford 2020 has been a difficult year for women in motorsport. As a result of the coronavirus pandemic, the W Series’ 2020 season was cancelled. In August, Williams’ Team Principal Claire Williams stepped down from her role, after years of inspiring young women to pursue careers in an...

Rachel Roberts When the lights went out for the first race in the 2020 Formula 1 season in July, no one was quite sure how the rest would play out. Yet 9 Grand Prix in, one thing has remained the same: Mercedes still dominate. Their drivers have claimed victory...

First, let’s get one thing straight. The new breed of cars look downright monstrous: huge wheels, huge bodies – they are the hybrid era on steroids. Lewis Hamilton summed up the thinking around the new cars rather succinctly in a tweet when the new Mercedes W08 was unveiled on...

Valtteri Bottas finds himself in the enviable position of driving for the team who have dominated Formula One for the last three years. In replacing world champion Nico Rosberg, Bottas will be facing up against one of the most mercurial talents of his generation, Lewis Hamilton. Hamilton’s desire to...

With six races left in this year’s championship it is all to play for for this year’s title. While it is looking like the Constructor’s championship will once again be heading to Mercedes, this year’s world championship is as close as ever, with only 8 points separating Nico Rosberg...