Vettel leads the way in Sochi opening free practice

Sebastian Vettel and Ferrari enjoyed a good start to their Russian Grand Prix weekend, the pair outpacing Red Bull’s Max Verstappen and Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton in Friday’s opening session, with a lap in 1m34.488s that put him 0.050s clear of his closest rival. Overcast but warm conditions prevailed during the incident-free morning work session. Click…

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Raikkonen will be ‘allowed’ to win on Sunday

Kimi Raikkonen says he has no intention of playing second fiddle to Ferrari team mate Sebastian Vettel on Sunday, after successfully claiming pole position in qualifying at Monza. Vettel is fighting Lewis Hamilton for the world championship, but Raikkonen said that this wasn’t going to stop him from racing for victory in tomorrow’s Italian Grand…

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Marko confident that Honda will outpace Renault in 2019

Red Bull motorsports consultant Dr Helmut Marko is convinced that the team’s decision to part company with Renault and join forces with Honda in 2019 is the right move. “I’m sure we’ll be ahead of Renault next year,” Marko told Red-Bull owned television station Servus TV this week. “Renault doesn’t have the current engine package…

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Disagreements involving Binotto still brewing at Ferrari

The corridors of Maranello are still resonating with discord according to a report in the Italian media, with Ferrari team boss Maurizio Arrivabene and technical director Mattia Binotto remaining at loggerheads. Rumors of a division between the Scuderia’s two top men emerged last summer, and while Arrivabene recently slammed suggestions of a bitter dispute with…

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White House declines to release details on Trump hospital visit, calls it routine

BETHESDA, Md. —  President Trump spent more than two hours at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Saturday for what the White House said were medical tests as part of his annual physical. The appointment wasn’t on Trump’s weekend public schedule, and his last physical was in February. Press secretary Stephanie Grisham said the 73-year-old…

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Where the impeachment case stands as Democrats prepare to bring a barrage of new witnesses

WASHINGTON  —  Democrats this week enter a do-or-die phase of their impeachment inquiry following a week of public testimony, as they summon a flurry of witnesses they hope will convince the public that President Trump should be impeached for pressing a foreign government to launch criminal investigations for his political benefit. The hearings follow a…

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Democrats seek to tie Trump personally to Ukraine wrongdoing; GOP says impeachment case is 'crumbling'

WASHINGTON —  Democratic lawmakers on Sunday laid out their road map heading into the second week of public impeachment hearings against President Trump: continue to bolster an abuse-of-power case against him by tying Trump directly to demands that a vulnerable ally carry out criminal investigations for the president’s personal political benefit. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi added…

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