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Mercedes engine guru Andy Cowell isn’t scrapping McLaren and Honda despite the partnership’s failure to yield success. Cowell is the man at the helm of the German manufacturer’s power unit division, and as such has received a good chunk of the credit associated with the Silver Arrows success. Honda struggled in its first two years […]

The U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic State (ISIS) launched a new wave of airstrikes in Syria on Saturday, aiming at least in part at wheat fields in the country’s eastern region where they claim a jihadi group is hiding. The strikes continued after Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey and Defense […]

Force India’s Sergio Perez and Esteban Ocon delivered another strong performance in qualifying this afternoon, finishing the session in tandem P8 and P9. The Silverstone-based outfit got on top of the balance issues which affected its performance on Friday and heads in to tomorrow’s race with a strong foundation. Like most of the front runners, […]

Making a tour of Asia President Obama has just landed in Burma. He just made headlines for a climate deal with China that can help save the planet. Now he has the chance to save 1.3 million people by bringing the world’s attention to the growing threat of genocide against Burma’s Rohingya ethnic minority. But […]

Daniel Ricciardo’s Sunday afternoon of racing went from a difficult race to a huge uphill battle after the Red Bull driver retired from qualifying with suspected turbo failure. The Aussie was fastest in the first batch of runs in Q1 but grinded to a halt on Wellington Straight, bringing out the red flags in the […]

Mercedes technical director James Allison says the team’s power units were running as strong on the last day of pre-season testing as they were at the beginning of the two-week arduous schedule. Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas completed a total of 1,040 laps of the Circuit de Catalunya – or 4,841km – over the course […]

Lance Stroll will be racing in unfamiliar territory this weekend as the Williams rookie tackles the Singapore Grand Prix for the very first time. After a three-race points scoring stint which started at his home race in Montreal, Stroll’s efforts were fruitless in Great-Britain, Hungary and Belgium. But the 18-year-old returned to the top ten […]

Following a thorough check, Honda has given the all-clear to the engine which powered Fernando Alonso in last Sunday’s Belgian GP. The Spanish driver retired from the race after 25 laps, claiming an engine problem, but the Japanese manufacturer has found no issues with the unit which has been returned to its pool of engines […]

Renault’s Cyril Abiteboul says the manufacturer is doubling down on its efforts to eradicate reliability concerns for 2018, as teams face a reduction in engine units. While Renault has made good progress on the power front over the last year following the introduction of a new engine, reliability woes have in some cases undermined its […]

Valtteri Bottas was fastest in afternoon practice at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza on Friday, ahead of this weekend’s Italian Grand Prix. Bottas was a little over a tenth of a second faster than his team mate Lewis Hamilton’s morning benchmark. Hamilton also improved in FP2 but he ended q quiet session 0.056s off Bottas’ best. […]