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The nine films featured in the ‘9×9 Film Festival’—created by The Source Project and presented here on Common Dreams in partnership with /The Rules project—have been made for one reason: to help people understand the reality of what’s really happening to the world’s food and farming systems, and why. As the likes of the World […]

Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo was looking in impressive form on Friday afternoon during second practice for the 2018 Azerbaijan Grand Prix. His closest challenger in the session was Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen. The Shanghai race winner’s team mate Max Verstappen also bounced back from his FP1 mishap to go third fastest, despite suffering from a late […]

Williams technical director Paddy Lowe believes the British team’s pace showed marked improvement in China even if points were never in the cards. The Grove-based outfit has endured a very difficult start to its 2018 campaign, its drivers struggling to bring the squad’s new FW41 up to speed. Lowe insists however that even after its […]

Formula 1 and the FIA have requested that Pirelli simplify next season the designation of the mandatory three tyre compounds it selects for each race. In a bid to provide simple clarity to F1 fans and spectators, the sport’s exclusive tyre supplier would offer a range of dry weather compounds but use the same hard, […]

Robert Kubica, who was back behind the wheel at Williams on Friday morning, is still targeting a race seat for 2019 but admits his options are currently limited. For the second time this season, Williams’ reserve driver was offered a free practice outing behind the wheel of the team’s under-performing Fw41. Kubica completed 38 laps […]

Marcus Ericsson could be a man on the move, but towards the exit at Sauber, which is why his solid drive into the points in Sunday’s German Grand Prix is a welcome result. Ericsson, now in his fifth year of Formula 1 – his fourth with Sauber, has so far failed to shed his status […]

Expectations were high for F1 fans awaiting the grand debut of Formula 1’s over-the-top streaming service, but all they’ve received so far is a glitch-filled, buffering disaster. After an indispensable period of beta testing, the much hyped service was officially rolled out on Friday in Barcelona, and F1i was among those writhing in anticipation. There […]

Fernando Alonso struggled to find a motif of satisfaction after his retirement from Sunday’s Monaco Grand prix, labeling his afternoon of racing as perhaps the most boring ever. The McLaren driver appeared to be settling into a sixth consecutive – albeit uneventful – finish in 2018, running P7 for much of the race when a […]

Formula 1’s current 21-race calendar and the prospects of increasing that schedule in the future may prompt teams to ask the FIA to consider a reduction of testing in 2019. Teams currently launch their season with two four-day pre-season tests, conducted at Barcelona this year, followed by a couple of two-day in-season tests. Barcelona was […]

Charles Leclerc will be pulling out the stops from the outset this afternoon in the Austrian Grand Prix in a bid to negate his five-place grid penalty. The Sauber driver has been demoted from 13th – where he qualified – to 18th as the result of a gearbox replacement conducted by the Swiss outfit between […]