Williams has yet to announce Lance Stroll’s team mate for next season, but Sergey Sirotkin is now rumored to be the favourite to land the coveted drive. Williams ran Sirotkin at the post-race Abu Dhabi tyre test and added the 22-year-old Russian as a contender for its remaining seat, along with Robert Kubica, Paul di […]
McLaren’s Zak Brown says the fact that Stoffel Vandoorne and Fernando Alonso did not always have the same equipment led to the odd large performance gap between the two drivers. Early on in 2017, the Belgian driver found himself on the receiving end of Honda’s engine woes. But as reliability improved, as well as his […]
Two Antarctic weather stations recorded unprecedentedly high temperatures in March—offering grim evidence of accelerating climate change. A potential Antarctica record high of 63.5 degrees Fahrenheit was recorded on March 24 at the Esperanza Base, just south of the southern tip of Argentina—a temperature exceeding any figure yet observed on the Antarctic landmass or Peninsula, according […]
Sergio Perez is urging Force India to allow himself and Esteban Ocon the freedom to race each other in 2018 with the team facing increased competition from the likes of Renault and McLaren. Fierce on-track rivalry between Perez and Ocon led to several costly run-ins between the two pink panthers, enticing Force India to impose […]
Team mates are rarely the best of friends – even if they start off that way it rarely lasts – but Red Bull’s Max Verstappen and Daniel Ricciardo seem to be the exception to the rule. True, they fell out rather badly after colliding at the start of the Hungarian Grand Prix. But that was […]
Motorsports legend and maverick Dan Gurney, the only American to win in F1 in an American car, has passed from complications of pneumonia at his home in Newport Beach, California, at the age of 86. Racing has always offered its unfair share of injustices, and Dan Gurney is widely regarded – along with Stirling Moss […]
Citing public health and safety concerns, the Scottish government on Wednesday announced a ban against fracking until “the voices of the communities likely to be most affected are heard.” Introduced by Energy Minister Fergus Ewing, the new policy places an open-ended moratorium on granting permits for unconventional gas drilling in the country. “Fergus Ewing’s announcement […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin was willing to ready Russia’s nuclear arsenal during last year’s conflict over Crimea, he reportedly said in a pre-recorded documentary broadcast on Russian state television on Sunday to mark the one-year anniversary of Moscow’s takeover of the Black Sea peninsula. “We were ready to do this,” Putin reportedly said when asked […]
One week ago, I was honoured to receive an “Izzy Award” for “outstanding achievement in independent media and journalism.” The annual award, which this year also went to David Sirota for his groundbreaking investigations into political corruption in the U.S. pension system, is named after the great muckraker I.F. Stone (“Izzy” to his friends). In […]
The following remarks were made at the conclusion of the UN climate talks that formally concluded in Bonn, Germany on Thursday. This week — and the past few months — have seen an incredible surge of momentum for climate action around the world. Climate action is in the air. “Much more work to be done, but […]
