El año pasado fue el piloto revelación para más de un entendido; entre ellos, los mandamases de Renault Sport, cuando pensaron que hacerse con los servicios de Carlos Sainz Vázquez-de Castro bien valía renunciar a seguir suministrando motores a uno de sus equipos cliente. En […]
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Movistar F1/2018: Sergio’s Column
Acto 1: La ocasión la pintan calva Domingo, 17 de septiembre de 2017. Antonio Lobato está sentado en el sofá de su casa, frente al televisor, con unas aceitunas y una cerveza en la mano. Es la víspera del Gran Premio de Singapur. Faltan apenas […]
Grill the Grid Girls: Sergio’s Column
Disclaimer: no grid girls were harmed in the making of this story! What is an ideology? There is some consensus among social scientists to regard ideology as any system of ideas whose utility is to provide a global explanation to the reality around us. Consequently, […]
The MP4/6 at Goodwood FOS (Words by Sergio Alvarez; Images by Diego Merino)
The Goodwood Festival of Speed never fails to disappoint us hungry fans of loud and aggressive looking F1 cars. Once again present, was one very special machine from Woking, the one with which the legendary Brazilian Ayrton Senna clinched his third and final F1 World […]
#AbuDhabiGP by Sergio Álvarez (additional notes by Cyril Nikitenko)
Photography supplied by Diego Merino. Surprised to see the #77 Mercedes on top at the last trace? We weren’t. You only had to take the performance of Valtteri Bottas throughout the year to realize that Yas Marina was one of these opportunities for the Finn […]
Sergio & Diego Go Deep with @JethroBovingdon
Q&A: Jethro Bovingdon Motoring journalist and road car tester, turned TV presenter As soon as we start the interview, we contemplate a very interesting library behind Mr. Bovingdon: An Autocourse yearbook, a bunch of Evo magazine copies, some Ferrari stuff… and a couple of Porsche […]
Keep Austin Idiosyncratic – #USGP Report
By: Sergio Álvarez; header image courtesy of Renault F1 Team. #USGP Notes “Keep Austin weird”, says the old adage in Southern US. The F1 people would agree with this sentence, as the Circuit of the Americas has become one of the most exciting places they […]
Tête-à-tête with @ReneBinder12 (FIA Formula 2)
Symmetries are beautiful, aren’t they? After stints in GP2 with five different teams over the last five seasons (Arden, Trident, MP Motorsport, ART and Carlin), 25-year-old Austrian René Binder was once again news in the F2 paddock. This time he replaced Roberto Merhi at Rapax, […]
Jerez GP3/F2: Notes of the Observer
It is now eleven years ago when I first watched an F1 car running in front of my eyes, and I could hear the noise of a V8 engine; and it was in Jerez. However, to be honest, I have not paid attention to many […]
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