Motorsport Random Stuff!

Transformula One: more than meets the wallet

Okay, so we’ve all seen those “Evolution of Formula 1” videos before, where the cars cycle through the years in an impressive show of CGI skill. This one from Shell is particularly impressive, as is this delightfully elegant one. But this new one is particularly special. It aired before the Brazilian GP and the level […]

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The Racers

This is brilliant. The wonderfully talented and passionate Antti Kalhola has just done another video that perfectly explains WHY F1 drivers race using just archival footage and perfectly judged quotes. It is compulsory viewing if you have forgotten why you love Formula One. Six minutes of pure awesome.

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Talking bird predicts Singapore GP result

Formula One fans are well used to brightly-coloured, noisy bird-brains making inane predictions that make no sense whatsoever to anyone with a grain of knowledge about the sport – after all, Eddie Jordan has been around for ages now. But this time it is a bit different – the noisy bird-brain is actually a bird! […]

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Mercedes power for Williams F1

The Williams F1 Team and Mercedes-Benz are pleased to announce the signature of a long-term engine partnership from the 2014 Formula One World Championship season onwards. Under the terms of the agreement, Williams will be supplied with a Mercedes-Benz Power Unit (Internal Combustion Engine plus Energy Recovery System) by Mercedes AMG High Performance Powertrains (HPP) […]

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Renault and Prost extend partnership

  The Renault Group and four-time Formula 1 world champion, Alain Prost, announced today that they will be  continuing their relationship for the coming year. Alain Prost has been the Brand Ambassador for Renault since 2012 and will take on an “enlarged consultancy role” within Renault Sport F1 this year. In addition to his current […]

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McLaren 50 – Courage

The first of three specially commissioned short films goes live today, depicting the McLaren brand in a way never seen before as part of its 50th anniversary celebrations. Instead of focusing on the high-tech, high-octane world of the Vodafone McLaren Mercedes Formula 1 team, or even the Group’s new Automotive division and its groundbreaking 12C […]

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McLaren P1 gate-crashes F1 car launch

McLaren’s new hypercar, the P1, has made its first public appearance, driven by none other than 2009 Formula 1 World Champion Jenson Button. Button drove the new, still disguised P1 during a drive-through of several cars from McLaren’s history at the launch of the company’s MP4-28 F1 car. Although a very low-speed run, it was […]

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How to Build a Supercar

McLaren have posted the entire BBC documentary “How to Build a Supercar” on their YouTube page. If you do not watch this then there is something wrong with you. It is fantastic, possibly more for showing the way Ron Dennis’ obsessive mind works than the actual car, but even that is fascinating!

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Kimi Speaks!

Kimi Räikkönen has shown that old German bloke how a comeback should happen with his brilliant win at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Now he does that rarest of things and speaks of his win and how he plans to celebrate that win. Check out the last answer; he hopes to make it home at […]

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