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Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport agrees two-year contract extension with Lewis Hamilton

Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport and Lewis Hamilton today announced the agreement of a two-year contract extension for the 2019 and 2020 Formula One seasons. Since joining Mercedes in 2013, Lewis has,…

Volkswagen’s Pike Peak Run sounds eerie [+video]

Here is a helicopter view of the Volkswagen I.D. R Pikes Peak record-breaking run. As expected, it sounds really really eerie as you might imagine. Electric cars need to have their sounds tuned such t…

Dad saved son from burning car on the track only to get put on probation [+video]

At a NASCAR Late Model 100 at the South Boston Speedway, when driver, Mike Jones, crashed and then followed by his car catching on fire, nothing could stop his father, Dean Jones from hopping over the…

Verstappen wins the Austrian Grand Prix amidst Mercedes issues

Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas were set to win the race in amazing fashion but thanks to car troubles, both of them did not finish the race. Thanks to that, Max Verstappen took full advantage of i…

Volkswagen makes history with the I.D. R Pikes Peak

Volkswagen and the I.D. R Pikes Peak have made history at the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb. Driving the 500-kW (680 PS) I.D. R Pikes Peak, Romain Dumas (F) defeated a field including cars with …

Vettel wins Canadian Grand Prix and goes to the top of the driver’s standing

Vettel dominated in both qualifyings and in the race to win 5.7 seconds ahead of Valtteri Bottas who was followed by Max Verstappen in the Red Bull. Daniel Ricciardo was 4th in the second Red Bull and…

Ricciardo wins the Monaco Grand Prix

Red Bull driver Daniel Ricciardo took the first place with a win at Monaco overcoming engine issues ahead of Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel and Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton. In an action-packed af…

Hamilton takes the 2018 Spanish Grand Prix

Lewis Hamilton started from pole and finished first at the Spanish Grand Prix which brings this his second win in a row. Followed closely behind was Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas and in 3rd place,…

Hamilton clinches victory as team mate suffers a tyre blowout at the most critical timing

Sebastian Vettel who started at pole position was about to achieve his third win this season only for the race to go completely haywire thanks to antics from the Red Bulls and Romain Grosjean. The mos…

Riciardo wins the Chinese Grand Prix

Thanks to a safety car, Red Bull managed to pit Ricciardo and Verstappen with softer tyres and that made all the difference. The safety car was triggered when the two Toro Rosso cars collided which ca…

Ferrari fined 50,000 euros for running over mechanic

In last weekend’s race, Kimi Raikkonen was awarded a penalty for running over a mechanic after a pit stop. The impact caused a broken leg to the mechanic which ultimately led to Kimi being stopp…

Vettel wins first race of the season at the 2018 Australian Grand Prix[+video]

Even though Lewis Hamilton took pole position yesterday, it was Ferrari who stormed to first place in Australia as Sebastian Vettel took advantage of having a longer pit stop when the virtual safety c…

First qualifying highlights for the 2018 Formula 1 Season

Lewis Hamilton took home the pole position for tomorrows race in Australia, the first race of the 2018 Formula 1 season. He is followed closely behind the two Ferraris driven by Kimi Raikkonen and Seb…

Ferrari Challenge Race Driver Zen Low aims to outdo his prior performance for his second season in the Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli Asia Pacific 2018

Seasoned race car driver, Zen Low, is geared up to improve on his 2017 third-place finish for the coming 2018 Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli APAC season. Malaysia’s first driver to compete at the wh…