Image by MikesPhotos from Pixabay In 2014 the long lasting co-operation between McLaren and Mercedes came to an end. It had started back in 1996 and despite the almost 2 decades of partnership, the results were only one Constructors' championship (1998) and 3 Drivers' championships (1998, 1999, 2008). McLaren turned to a previous supplier, Honda, in an effort to revitalize the golden era of the late '80s, but the results proved to be far from. After 3 years with Honda engines (2015-17) the deal did not continue, without a single podium, not to mention victories or championships. After McLaren, Honda partnered with Red Bull with immediate good results, although failing to win championship, they won some races. Image by Hans Braxmeier from Pixabay Since last year, McLaren is powered by Renault. The French manufacturer has had a declining performance in recent years, and couldn't keep up with Mercedes and Ferrari when they were supplying Red Bull. With Fren

Controversy was created because of how the starting grid has shaped after the penalties that were given to Hamilton and Magnussen. FIA applies penalties in a peculiar way, resulting a paradox, although Hamilton was handed a 3 place penalty, he lost only two places in the starting grid. Those penalties should have been applied in chronological order , that is first 5 places for Magnussen for a mechanical change: and then 3 places for Hamilton for impending Raikkonen during Qualifying:

Vettel in Canada made a mistake and got off the track. As he declared, he couldn't control the car in order to make a safe re-entry to the track, so he returned on the racing line, keeping Hamilton. For that move 5 seconds were added to his total time, pushing him from first to second place. He was complaining that there was nothing he could do. But there was. He could have let Hamilton pass and then fight for victory. Instead he kept the champion behind him, hoping that he would not get a penalty...

 Shock: Mercedes didn't finish 1st and 2nd at Monaco! Just 1st and 3rd...

Ο Niki Lauda, ο άνθρωπος που πέρασε δια πυρός και σιδήρου κυριολεκτικά, έφυγε από τη ζωή στα 70. Ο αυστριακός γεννήθηκε το 1949, κατέκτησε το πρώτο πρωτάθλημα στη F1 το 1975, αλλά το έχασε το 1976 εξ αιτίας ενός δυστυχήματος στο Nurburgring που παρά λίγο να του κοστίσει τη ζωή. Παρ' όλα αυτά δεν το έβαλε κάτω. Κατάφερε να επιστρέψει στην ενεργό δράση μέσα στην ίδια χρονιά, χωρίς όμως να κατακήσει το πρωτάθλημα, κάτι που κατάφερε την ακόλουθη χρονιά, το 1977 πάλι με Ferrari. Σαν να μην έφτανε αυτό, αποσύρθηκε από την ενεργό δράση το 1979 για να επιστρέψει δύο χρόνια αργότερα και να κατακήσει τον τρίτο του τίτλο με McLaren το 1984. Για πολλά χρόνια (μέχρι την εμφάνιση του Schumacher) το όνομά του ήταν ταυτισμένο με την ταχύτητα. Όταν κάποιος ήθελε να πει ότι είχε να κάνει πολλές δουλειές σε μία μέρα και να τρέχει από το ένα μέρος στο άλλος για να προλάβει θα έλεγε ότι "πρέπει να το παίξω Niki Lauda". Το περίφημο ατύχημα του άφησε παραμορφωμένο το πρόσωπο, κά

This time Hamilton was not lucky, he won fair and square. He started from second place, but at the first corner was already in front of his teammate and pole man, Bottas, who held back Vettel. After that, the champion never looked back and comfortably won the 1000th GP of F1! It was an uneventful race, apart from the incident of the first lap, involving Kvyat, Norris and Sainz. The Russian hit the two McLarens, forcing them to drop down to the last places, while he was penalized with a drive through. On the other hand, Ferrari for once again gave team team orders to Leclerc, forcing him to let Vettel pass and ruining his race. At the Scuderia they haven't realized that they have a better chance at the constructors' championship if they let Leclerc do his job. Before they even know, Mercedes has almost double points already... Race results: Driver Team 1 Hamilton Mercedes 2 Bottas Mercedes 3 Vettel Fer

7th race of the season, with a different winner again. This time Evans made a solid race and reached his first victory. Second place for Lotterer who finished on podium for the first time, as Vandoorne who was third. The battles for the titles are tight for both teams' and drivers' championship. Race results: Driver Team 1 Evans Jaguar 2 Lotterer DS Techeetah 3 Vandoorne HWA Racelab 4 Frijns Envision 5 Buemi Nissan 6 Rowland Nissan 7 diGrassi AUDI 8 d'Ambrosio Mahindra 9 DaCosta BMW 10 Wehrlein Mahindra Standings after the race: Drivers' Championship Driver Points 1 d'Ambrosio 65 2 DaCosta 64 3 Lotterer 62 4 Evans 61 5 diGrassi 58 6 Frijns 55 7

What a pitty for Leclerc! The young and super fast driver of Ferrari deserved the victory. And he would have won if it wasn't for the failure of his engine. At least he made it to the podium, avoiding losing another spot from Verstappen, due to the safety car that was deployed because both drivers of Renault were forced to park their cars aside, after mechanical failures. The weekend seemed ideal for Ferrari, the drivers were dominating the practice sessions and  started from the front row. Leclerc set the fastest time in Qualifying, thus claiming his first pole position. Vettel was second, but made a better start when the red lights turned off. But had a faster pace than the German and managed to pass him. Vettel couldn't keep up with his team mate and couldn't get away from Hamilton. The champion, after the pit stops, was very close to his opponent and passed him on the outside! Vettel's misfortune hit him again, while without any contact the car spun off. As if

Vergne takes first victory of the season and places himself in the top 3. Race results: Driver Team 1 Vergne DS Techeetah 2 Rowland Nissan 3 DaCosta BMW 4 Lotterer DS Techeetah 5 Abt AUDI 6 d'Ambrosio Mahindra 7 Wehrlein Mahindra 8 Buemi Nissan 9 Evans Jaguar 10 Massa Venturi  Standings after the race: Drivers' Championship Driver Points 1 DaCosta 62 2 d'Ambrosio 61 3 Bird 54 4 Vergne 54 5 diGrassi 52 6 Mortara 52 7 Abt 44 8 Frijns 43 9 Lotterer 41 10 Evans 36 11 Wehrlein 36 12 Rowland 27 13 Buemi 19 14 Sims 18 15 Massa

The winner takes it all! The new season has started with Bottas claiming the first victory ahead of Hamilton and Verstappen. The Finn also set the fastest lap, which gave the extra point. Race results: Driver Team 1 Bottas Mercedes 2 Hamilton Mercedes 3 Verstappen Red Bull 4 Vettel Ferrari 5 Leclerc Ferrari 6 Magnussen Haas 7 Hulkenberg Renault 8 Raikkonen Alfa Romeo 9 Stroll Racing Point 10 Kvyat Toro Rosso Standings after the race: Drivers' Championship Driver Points 1 Bottas 26 2 Hamilton 18 3 Verstappen 15 4 Vettel 12 5 Leclerc 10 6 Magnussen 8 7 Hulkenberg 6 8 Raikkonen 4 9 Stroll 2 10 Kvyat 1

Victory for Cadillac, and 2nd place... and 3rd place! Race results: Team Drivers Car Laps 1 Whelen Engineering Racing Felipe Nasr Eric Curran Pipo Derani Cadillac 348 2 Konica Minolta Cadillac Jordan Taylor Matthieu Vaxivière Renger van der Zande Cadillac 348 3 Mustang Sampling Racing Brendon Hartley Filipe Albuquerque João Barbosa Cadillac 348 Full results: wikipedia.org/

One of the most important persons of Formula 1, suddenly passed away at the age of 66. Our thoughts are with the relatives and friends of Charlie Whiting. May he rest in peace.

Race results: Driver Team 1 Mortara Venturi 2 diGrassi AUDI 3 Frijns Envision 4 Abt AUDI 5 Massa Venturi 6 Bird Envision 7 Evans Jaguar 8 Paffett HWA Racelab 9 Turvey Nio 10 DaCosta BMW Standings after the race: Drivers' Championship Driver Points 1 Bird 54 2 d'Ambrosio 53 3 diGrassi 52 4 Mortara 52 5 DaCosta 47 6 Frijns 43 7 Evans 34 8 Abt 34 9 Wehrlein 30 10 Lotterer 29 11 Vergne 28 12 Sims 18 13 Buemi 15 14 Massa 14 15 Rowland 6 16 Turvey 6 17 Paffett 4 18 Vandoorne 3 19

The legendary Williams is having hard time in preseason testing. Although the team will be using engines by Mercedes, troubles prevented the drivers (Robert Kubica and George Russell) from completing sufficient amount of laps at the Circuit de Catalunya.

Alfa Romeo is going to make more obvious presence this year, as the team will no longer contain the name Sauber. So far, it is the car with the strangest nose we have seen.

WHAT A RACE! Wehrlein (Mahindra) made a good start from Pole Position. Nelson Piquet Jr. had a nasty crash early in the race, forcing the stewards to stop it. Werhlein was in first place in most of the time, but at the end his battery run out, allowing diGrassi (who was desperately trying to pass him) to claim victory on the finish line. The driver of Mahindra was also given a 5 second penalty for cutting a chicane at the last and thus ended in 6th place. Nevertheless, it was nail-biting last lap, with all drivers struggling with low batteries. Also, Massa scored his first 4 points of the season, by finishing 8th. Race results: Driver Team 1 diGrassi AUDI 2 DaCosta BMW 3 Mortara Venturi 4 d'Ambrosio Mahindra 5 Lotterer DS Techeetah 6 Wehrlein Mahindra 7 Evans Jaguar 8 Massa Venturi 9 Bird Envision 10

The new Ferrari is here and it is called SF90. Vettel will be driving for once again, while Leclerc will be at the steering wheel of the second car.

 McLaren presented the MCL34. This year the English team has a brand new line up of drivers, that is Carlos Sainz Jr and rookie Lando Norris.

 The new Mercedes has already been taken for a ride round the track!

Force  India last year went bankrupt and it was bought by a consortium led by Lawrence Stroll, last summer. Lawrence is the father of Lance Stroll who will be driving for the team, which will be called Racing Point from now on. The other car of the team will be driven by Sergio Perez.

The new car of Renault Sport was presented today. Daniel Ricciardo will be driving it, along with Nico Hulkenberg. For more information, you can visit the official site of Renault Sport

Toro Rosso revealed the STR14! It looks just like last year's car...

The World Rally Championship kicked off the past weekend, as usually from Monte Carlo. Reigning champion, Sebastian Ogier with the Citroen C3 WRC, took the first checkered flag of the season, while rally legend, Sebastian Loeb finished 4th with his Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC. Race results: Driver/Codriver Car 1 Sébastien Ogier Julien Ingrassia Citroën C3 WRC 2 Thierry Neuville Nicolas Gilsoul Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC 3 Ott Tanak Martin Jarveoja Toyota Yaris WRC 4 Sébastien Loeb Daniel Elena Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC 5 Jari-Matti Latvala Miikka Anttila Toyota Yaris WRC 6 Kris Meeke Sebastian Marshall Toyota Yaris WRC 7 Gus Greensmith Elliott Edmondson Ford Fiesta R5 8 Yoann Bonato Benjamin Boulloud Citroën C3 R5 9 Stéphane Sarrazin Jacques-Julien Renucci Hyundai i20 R5 10 Adrien Formaux Renaud Jamoul Ford F

Glorious days for Fernando Alonso who has done it again. The two-time F1 champion this time won the Rolex 24 at Daytona, driving a Cadillac DPi along with Kamui Kobayashi, Jordan Taylor and Renger van der Zande. The race was stopped due to bad weather conditions, but that doesn't reduce the Spaniard's feat. It seems that Alonso has found his motive for racing again, through endurance racing, as he has already won the 24hour Le Mans last year. So, we will be hearing a lot of him in the future, despite having retired from Formula 1. Race results:  1. Konica Minolta Cadillac DPi (van der Zande/Taylor/Alonso/Kobayashi) 593 laps 2. Whelen Engineering Racing Cadillac DPi (Nasr/Curran/Derani) + 13.458s 3. Acura Team Penske Acura DPi (Taylor/Castroneves/Rossi) + 13.964s 4. CORE Autosport Nissan DPi (Bennett/Braun/Dumas/Duval) + 4 laps 5. JDC-Miller Motorsports Cadillac DPi (Goikhberg/Vautier/DeFrancesco/Barrichello) + 7 laps 6. DragonSpeed Oreca 07 Gibson (Gonzalez/Maldon

Sam Bird was the winner of the 2019 Antofagasta Minerals Santiago Eprix, after having started from 4th place. Tough race for pole-man, Sebastian Buemi who did not finish the race, whereas the championship leader, finished just 8th. Those 4 points were enough to keep d'Ambrosio on top of the table, while Bird is just on point off. Race results: Driver Team 1 Bird Envision 2 Wehrlein Mahindra 3 Abt AUDI 4 Mortara Venturi 5 Frijns Envision 6 Evans Jaguar 7 Sims BMW 8 d'Ambrosio Mahindra 9 Turvey Nio 10 Lopez Dragon Standings after the race: Drivers' Championship Driver Points 1 d'Ambrosio 44 2 Bird 43 3 DaCosta 28 4 Frijns 28 5 Vergne 28 6 Evans 22 7

After 10 exhausting days, the 2019 Dakar rally at Peru was concluded on January 17. The  winners in each category are as follows:   Bike Toby Price Quad Nicolas Cavigliasso Car Nasser Al-Attiyah SXS Francisco Lopez Contardo Truck Eduard Nikolaev

Bird started from pole position and turned first, although Vergne desperately tried to pass him. Later on, DaCosta and his teammate at BMW managed to pass Bird, thus gaining the lead. Unfortunately for the team, Sims tried to pass DaCosta for the lead and ruined the race of the leader, who ended up in the barriers. D'Ambrosio was third at that point and after that incident moved to first and took the checkered flag in front of Bird and Frijns. Race results: Driver Team 1 d'Ambrosio Mahindra 2 Bird Envision 3 Frijns Envision 4 Sims BMW 5 Vergne DS Techeetah 6 Lotterer DS Techeetah 7 diGrassi AUDI 8 Buemi Nissan 9 Evans Jaguar 10 Abt AUDI Standings after the race: Drivers' Championship Driver Points 1 d'Ambrosio 40 2 DaCosta

Today one of the most famous and prestigious races in the world is getting under way, the Dakar Rally. It was originally called Paris - Dakar rally, because participants used to start from Paris and finish after several days in Dakar, from 1979 until 2007. But in 2008 extremists groups threatened to cause problems, so the rally was cancelled. Since 2009 the rally is being held in South America and it remains the toughest and most dangerous race on earth. Over the years many racers have lost their lives, usually riders. The rally has been held in several countries, including Argentina and Chile. For example last year it took place in Peru, Bolivia and Argentina, while this year, it will take place in Peru only. It is the only race that so different vehicles take part, that is motorbikes, cars, trucks and quads.

The founder of Formula 1 team Force India, Vijay Mallya, has troubles with justice. A special court in India today declared him fugitive economic offender. You can read the whole article here: indiatimes.com