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F1i’s look back over the 2017 Formula 1 world championship season team-by-team and driver-by-driver puts Haas in the spotlight. Haas F1 Team We’re used to seeing Formula 1 teams suffer from that ‘difficult second album’ syndrome. After scoring a unexpectedly bright breakthrough success during their début season, all too often such teams suffer a sophomore…

Lance Stroll says he’ll be focusing on his performance in qualifying in 2018, an area of particular weakness for the Canadian during his rookie year in F1. The 19-year-old scored seven podium finishes in his maiden season with Williams, his best result coming in Azerbaijan where Stroll put in a flawless performance to finish on…

Ferrari chairman Sergio Marchionne says doubters are wrong to call his bluff, insisting anyone who doesn’t take his quits threats seriously is “playing with fire”. After reviewing last month the broad lines of Formula 1’s proposed 2021 regulation platform, Marchionne issued a quit threat, saying he would not hesitate to pull Ferrari out of Grand…

Sergey Sirotkin’s backers are pulling out all the stops to get their protégé into Williams’ second seat alongside Lance Stroll in 2018. The 22-year-old Russian emerged as a surprise contender for the drive after last month’s post-season Abu Dhabi tyre test, and is now rumored to be Williams’ preferred choice for next year, crushing Robert…

Maybe baby steps will help, but the world needs a lot more than either the United States or China is offering to combat the illegal traffic in wildlife, a nearly $20-billion-a-year business that adds up to a global war against nature. As the headlines tell us, the trade has pushed various rhinoceros species to the…

Fracking will now be permitted in national parks, “areas of outstanding natural beauty,” and potentially near drinking water sources, members of the UK Parliament said Wednesday,  marking a reversal of course from the commitment it made just three weeks ago to pass a prohibition, and infuriating opponents of toxic drilling. On January 26, the House…

“No new oil sands or related infrastructure projects should proceed unless consistent with an implemented plan to rapidly reduce carbon pollution, safeguard biodiversity, protect human health, and respect treaty rights.” So begins a letter (pdf) published Wednesday by more than 100 leading scientists from the U.S. and Canada, two days after G7 countries pledged to…

Red Bull Racing has worked ahead of schedule this year on the design of its 2018 car in order to avoid the team’s customary slow start to its campaign, says Helmut Marko. Wind-tunnel correlation issues were among the problems which hampered the development of this year’s RB13 in the first half of 2017. But when…

Like Max Verstappen, Kimi Raikkonen and Fernando Alonso, Haas’ Romain Grosjean has made a few adjustments to the livery of his 2018 helmet. The French driver released on Twitter a short animation of his helmet scheme in the making, a design created by Adrien Pavot for supplier Bell. The Haas F1 Team took everyone by…

Renault’s Nico Hulkenberg concluded the team’s first day of pre-season with the fourth fastest time and some good impressions to go with it. The German driver raked in 73 laps in the first half of the session – the most laps of anyone in the morning – before team mate Carlos Sainz took over testing…