McLaren boss Zak Brown says he has no interest in fulfilling Red Bull’s hefty financial demands linked to an early release of Toro Rosso technical director James Key. McLaren has hired the British engineer to move to Woking sometime in the future, but in the interim Key remains contracted to Toro Rosso, and any premature…
Month: November 2019
Verstappen and Ricciardo target top two rows in Hungary
Max Verstappen said he was unsure whether Red Bull could realistically battle for pole position in tomorrow’s qualifying session for the Hungarian Grand Prix. That’s despite a strong showing for the team in Friday’s free practice sessions. Daniel Ricciardo was fastest in the morning, while Verstappen himself was second in the afternoon and just 0.074s…
Data points to downforce issue hindering Vandoorne’s car
Data analysis at McLaren has revealed a downforce discrepancy between the cars of Fernando Alonso and Stoffel Vandoorne, suggesting a fundamental issue on the Belgian’s MCL33. Since Silverstone, Vandoorne has been trailing his team mate by a significant amount in every session and particularly in qualifying. Saturday afternoon in Hockenheim, as he battled once again…
Giovinazzi: Preparation more useful for 2019 than past experience
Sauber’s 2019 driver Antonio Giovinazzi raced for the Swiss outfit at the start of 2017, but the young Italian doubts that experience will come in handy when he returns full-time to F1 next season. The 24-year-old Ferrari protégé will race alongside Kimi Raikkonen at Sauber in 2019, and will line up on the grid in…
McLaren’s Vandoorne gets new chassis ahead of Hungarian GP
Stoffel Vandoorne will start his Hungarian Grand Prix weekend with a new MCL33 chassis as McLaren attempts to solve the inexplicable problems encountered by the Belgian in the last two races. Vandoorne lingered at the back of the field at Silverstone and Hockenheim, unable to match the speed of team mate Fernando Alonso, his performance…
Resurgence of the World Left?
Click:Swiss lathe machining The sweeping triumph on September 24 of Jeremy Corbyn to be the leader of Great Britain’s Labour Party was stunning and totally unexpected. He entered the race with barely enough support to be put on the ballot. He ran on an uncompromisingly left platform. And then, standing against three more conventional candidates,…
Nearly 1,000 Doctors Join Campaign Urging Dominant Health Charity to Ditch Fossil Fuels
Adding their collective voice to a growing campaign, nearly 1,000 health professionals from around the world on Friday released an open letter calling on one of the world’s largest health charities, the U.K.-based Wellcome Trust, to honor the principle of “do no harm” by divesting from the fossil fuels industry. The letter notes that “divestment…
Advisor to Top EU Court Slams NSA's 'Mass, Indiscriminate Surveillance'
A data sharing agreement between the EU and U.S.—where the NSA engages in “mass, indiscriminate surveillance”—violates the fundamental rights of EU citizens and is invalid, an advisor to the EU’s top court said Wednesday. The opinion issued by Yves Bot, Advocate General of the European Court of Justice (CJEU), relates to the 2000 “Safe Harbor”…
Amal Clooney’s Inspiring Mission to Take ISIS to Court for Acts of Genocide: “This Is My Work”
There are plenty of reasons to love Amal Clooney: her effortless style, her incredible grace, and of course her #marriagegoals relationship with George Clooney. But Amal’s mission to take on ISIS in court is definitely the most inspiring. Clooney recently met Nadia Murad, a young girl of the minority Yazidi religion, whose family was killed…
Hartley on the sidelines for qualifying after suspension failure
Brendon Hartley will not take part in qualifying for the British Grand Prix following the Toro Rosso driver’s suspension failure and subsequent massive crash in FP3. Early in the free practice session, as it was running down Silverstone’s Wellington straight, Hartley’s STR13 suffered a complete front-left suspension failure under braking that violently pitched the car…