Singapore GP Review and Japanese GP Preview: Rules, Retirements and Rewards

Heading into the Singapore GP weekend, the main question was whether Mercedes could continue their dominance, or if other teams could challenge them on the much slower and tighter Marina Bay Street Circuit. After Free Practice, Red Bull and Ferrari appeared to be a lot closer than in the previous race at Monza, and Toro Rosso looked relatively strong - especially with Jean Eric Vergne, who doesn't even have a contract for 2015. In Qualifying, after the usual suspicions that Mercedes...

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Italian GP Review and Singapore GP Preview: Speed, Saves and Sanity

In the Italian GP, the biggest questions were whether the Mercedes pair would crash into each other again, and how the new asphalt run off at Parabolica would affect proceedings. The former was relatively easy to answer as they never came within half a second of each other during the whole weekend, and the latter wasn't as bad as it could've been due to everyone having at least two wheels on track for pretty much the whole weekend - but at least it was there to collect any GP2 or GP3...

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Belgian GP Review and Italian GP Preview: Tricks, Trips and Triples

As with most races so far this year, the Belgian GP gave us more questions than answers. After a fairly typical wet qualifying, barring a below par session for Hulkenberg, a car problem for Gutierrez and André Lotterer replacing Kobayashi, almost everyone was roughly where they should’ve been based on 2014 form. The big stories in Q3 were the two second margin Mercedes had over their rivals and Vettel beating Alonso for third. In the race, Mercedes initially scampered away and two...

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