Month: November 2019

Haas F1 team principal Guenther Steiner has confirmed that the squad will stick with its existing brakes supplier Brembo for the Spanish Grand Prix. Haas trialled braking components from rival supplier Carbon Industri during Friday practice in Sochi. However the team switched back to Brembo for the race, and isn’t planning to run further tests…

Click:Peptide Analysis Services McLaren’s pitiful performance this season following Honda’s inability to deliver a competitive engine is putting the great team’s future at risk, says Mark Webber. The former F1 driver and Red Bull stalwart casts a worried eye on the Woking outfit’s state of affairs, and considers Stoffel Vandoorne as the only one who…

Click:Wood screws Gene Haas had two reasons to smile after his team’s very first double-points finish, achieved in Sunday’s Monaco Grand Prix. Romain Grosjean equaled his best ever finish with the US outfit, crossing the line P8 while Kevin Magnussen was the last man in the top-ten. It wasn’t a cool Sunday cruise in the…

Mercedes has delivered an upgraded engine to its customer teams in Canada, Force India and Williams. The new-spec unit had already been introduced in Spain and used exclusively by works driver Lewis Hamilton while Valtteri Bottas recieved the upgrade in Monaco. “I think it’s more to do with reliability than outright performance,” said Force India…

Pundits in Baku are connecting some vague dots between  Ferrari’s relative under-performance in qualifying yesterday and the FIA’s recent restriction order regarding burning oil as fuel. Ahead of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, the FIA increased its efforts to restrict teams from attempting to generate a power boost by using oil as fuel. Ferrari’s sudden loss…

Helmut Marko is banking on Sebastian Vettel to defeat Lewis Hamilton this year and conquer his fifth world championship title. The Red Bull boss believes his former protégé will come back even stronger from F1’s summer break which ends next week at Spa and deliver the goods in the second half of the season. “I…

Lewis Hamilton hopes Mercedes can iron out the volatility from the performance of its W08 in the upcoming races after an inconsistent run so far in 2017. Hamilton took a commanding win in Montreal, his third of the season,  but under-performance in Russia and Monaco underlined his mount’s lack of consistency, an issue Mercedes traced…

Former Baltimore mayor Catherine Pugh (right) leaves federal court in Baltimore on Thursday after pleading guilty to charges stemming from a fraudulent children’s book sales to enrich herself and help her political career. Former Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh pleaded guilty to corruption charges on Thursday, a day after federal prosecutors unsealed an indictment accusing her…

Iraqi and Kurdish officials claim Monday to have retaken control of a strategic dam held by Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) fighters following a weekend in which the United States ramped up its military involvement in the country with additional air strikes. Agence France-Presse reports: Iraqi security spokesman Lt. Gen. Qassem Atta confirmed…