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  • Moments before a Mercedes-Benz promotional stunt goes wrong

    On Tuesday a promotional event involving Mercedes-Benz racing drivers Pascal Wehrlein and Nico Rosberg went horribly wrong, with two people needing to be taken to hospital. Wehrlein, a DTM driver, and Rosberg, current points leader in the 2014 Formula One World Championship, were driving in separate Mercedes-Benz cars on a stretch of road in northern Italy when Wehrlein in the lead car collided with two pedestrians. Wehrlein’s car was a prototype for the upcoming C63 AMG while Rosberg was in a new GLA-Class. As part of the event soccer players from Germany’s World Cup team...

  • Mercedes AMG's W05 Hybrid 2014 Formula One car
    Mercedes Road Car Division To Work Closer With F1 Team

    The Mercedes AMG Formula One team is dominating the current season, with one of its drivers named the victor at every race held so far. Part of the reason for the winning streak is the hard work engineers at Mercedes AMG High Performance Powertrains, based in Brixworth, England, put into developing...

  • Pastor Maldonado receives his new Lotus Evora S
    Pastor Maldonado Gets New Lotus Evora S, We Wonder How Soon He’ll Crash It

    The best weekend of racing this year is just behind us, and while most of us only had hangovers or lots of nacho-cheese-fueled regret to show for it, Lotus F1 driver Pastor Maldonado drove off in a brand-new Evora S. Lucky guy. ALSO SEE: McLaren F1 Flipped During Road Trip With Rowan Atkinson...

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    Caterham To Be Sold?

    Caterham, the British sports car manufacturer and Formula One team, is reportedly going up for sale, with an information memorandum said to have already been sent to potential investors in the Middle East. The information was first reported by The Edge Malaysia, citing an unnamed source...

  • Mercedes AMG at the 2014 Formula One Monaco Grand Prix
    Another One-Two Finish For Mercedes AMG At Formula One Monaco GP

    As always in the Monaco Grand Prix, qualifying is critical, and this was proven yet again with polesitter Nico Rosberg of Mercedes AMG winning the 2014 race in spectacular form. Once again the only real challenge came from Mercedes AMG’s other driver, in this case Lewis Hamilton, who...

  • Nico Rosberg at the 2014 Formula One Monaco Grand Prix
    Mercedes AMG Drivers Fill Front Row After Qualifying At 2014 Formula One Monaco GP

    UPDATE: Nico Rosberg's qualifying result has been cleared by stewards and he will start at pole. Last year’s winner Nico Rosberg of Mercedes AMG will start at pole position tomorrow in the 2014 Formula One Monaco Grand Prix, after setting the fastest time during today’s qualifying...

  • Formula One Monaco Grand Prix

    Monte Carlo’s favorable Mediterranean climate seems to have taken leave for this weekend’s Formula One Monaco Grand Prix, with some rain affecting the practice sessions on Thursday and today and the current forecast for Sunday’s race showing more rain. The temperature is expected to reach a peak 72 degrees F (22 degrees C) and humidity levels should be around 50 percent. As the one circuit on the calendar where lots of laps are a feature of every driver’s pre-race program, the rain hasn’t helped preparation for most teams. The good news is that the fears...

  • Lewis Hamilton versus Ken Block
    Lewis Hamilton In His F1 Car Takes On Ken Block In A Fiesta ST Rallycross: Video

    The 2014 Global RallyCross Championship got underway in sunny Barbados over the weekend, and on hand to help kick off the new season was none other than Formula One ace Lewis Hamilton. The Mercedes AMG driver was there to participate in the coinciding Top Gear Live event and took some time out to...

  • Ferrari at the 2014 Formula One Monaco Grand Prix
    2014 Formula One Monaco Grand Prix Preview

    This weekend the spectacle that is Formula One heads to the luxury playground of Monaco for its annual grand prix race. The Monaco Grand Prix is one the drivers always look forward to more than most, because of everything this race entails including its history and prestige, its difficult layout...

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    F1 racing legend Sir Jack Brabham dies aged 88

    Formula One racing legend Sir Jack Brabham died early this morning at his home in the Gold Coast, on Australia’s east coast. The 88-year-old is said to have passed away peacefully although he had been in ill-health for some time. MUST SEE: New High-Performance 2015 Ford Mustang Spied...

  • Mercedes AMG’s Lewis Hamilton at the 2014 Formula One Spanish Grand Prix
    Lewis Hamilton Leads Another Mercedes AMG One-Two Finish At Spanish GP

    Mercedes AMG has secured its fourth consecutive one-two finish in the 2014 Formula One World Championship, with drivers Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg fighting it out right to the very end of yesterday’s Spanish Grand Prix at the Circuit de Catalunya. Hamilton was the victor (for the fourth...

  • Mercedes AMG’s Lewis Hamilton at the 2014 Formula One Spanish Grand Prix
    Lewis Hamilton Leads Mercedes AMG Front Row After Qualifying At Spanish GP

    Mercedes AMG drivers Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg achieved a front-row lockout during qualifying at the 2014 Formula One Spanish Grand Prix. Red Bull Racing’s Daniel Ricciardo was the third quickest of the day, with Williams’s Valtteri Bottas filling the fourth spot on the grid. A...

  • Formula One Spanish Grand Prix

    The Circuit de Catalunya near Barcelona, home of the Formula One Spanish Grand Prix, is a track all the teams know intimately and one where conditions can change significantly throughout the race, mainly due to the weather. The latest forecast for Sunday’s race is partly cloudy skies and a peak temperature of 79 degrees F (26 degrees C). The wind direction is expected to be a southerly, which should remain light. However, as we’ve seen in previous years, changing wind direction is a common occurrence at the Circuit de Catalunya and often catches drivers by surprise. The track is...

  • Mercedes AMG's W05 Hybrid 2014 Formula One car
    Mercedes Expresses Its Love Of Electrified Cars, Sticks A Hybrid Badge On F1 Racer

    The engine is dead, long live the power unit. Well, that’s the assertion of Mercedes-Benz which came up with it when crafting the new power unit for its 2014 Formula One car. As the automaker explains, the change in terminology reflects the fact that the power unit in the latest Mercedes AMG...

  • Formula One Spanish Grand Prix
    2014 Formula One Spanish Grand Prix Preview

    Round five of the 2014 Formula One World Championship brings teams to Spain for the country’s annual grand prix, which once again is being held at the Circuit de Catalunya, located just outside of Barcelona. This is the first European race on the calendar and it promises to deliver plenty of...

  • Nico Rosberg’s selfie from behind the wheel of a 1954 Mercedes-Benz W196 Formula One car
    Nico Rosberg Takes Selfie Video From Behind The Wheel Of Fangio’s 1954 F1 Car

    Formula One driver Nico Rosberg recently took some time out from his busy schedule to hop behind the wheel of a classic Mercedes-Benz Silver Arrow racer, a 1954 W196 driven in anger by racing legend Juan Manual Fangio. The current leader in the 2014 Drivers’ Championship was on hand to drive...

  • Senna and Prost battle in the rain at Monaco, 1984
    Watch Senna Catch Prost In The Rain At Monaco, Announced By James Hunt: Video

    The 1980s may well have been the glory days of Formula 1. From the driving talent to the cars to the tracks, F1 of 30 years ago was a very different--and in many ways, better--sport. Here, we see an example of that from the end of the 1984 Monaco Grand Prix with Ayrton Senna chasing down Alain...

  • Ayrton Senna (Image via Wikimedia Commons)
    20 Years After His Death, The World Remembers Ayrton Senna

    Though he only lived to the age of 34, Ayrton Senna da Silva is widely regarded by past and present racers the world around to be one of, if not the all-time, greatest to have taken a wheel in anger. It was 20 years ago today that the Brazilian, with three Formula One world championships, 41 wins...

  • 2014 Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 race car

    Despite the fact that the Nürburgring is completely different from almost any real world roads out there, car manufacturers continue to use the track as a testing bed for their cars. One of the most prominent is Nissan, whose 2015 GT-R NISMO equipped with an available N-Attack package managed to set a blistering time of just 7:08.679 for a Nürburgring lap, making it slower than only much more powerful ‘hypercars’ like the McLaren P1 and Porsche 918 Spyder. Now, the racing version of the car, the GT-R NISMO GT3, is about to embark on an assault on the Green Hell, by...

  • James Hunt's 1977 McLaren M26 F1 race car. Photos via RK Motors.
    FIA Planning Historic Formula One Series?

    The FIA is reportedly considering a "masters" series for F1's senior stars.

  • Mercedes AMG’s Lewis Hamilton wins the 2014 Formula One Chinese Grand Prix
    Mercedes AMG Takes Third Straight One-Two Finish At 2014 F1 Chinese Grand Prix

    The Mercedes AMG Formula One team looks unstoppable at the moment, with its star driver Lewis Hamilton winning yesterday’s 2014 Formula One Chinese Grand Prix in dominant style and in the process earning himself his first three-race winning streak and the Mercedes team its fourth consecutive...

  • Gene Haas announces acquisition of FIA Formula 1 racing license
    America may be headed back to F1 thanks to Gene Haas

    America has had a turbulent, troubled, but at times successful relationship with Formula 1. Soon, that difficult history may get a new chapter courtesy of Stewart-Haas co-owner Gene Haas, who recently secured a Formula 1 team license from the FIA. Since the beginning, but especially of late...

  • Mercedes AMG at the 2014 Formula One Chinese Grand Prix
    2014 Formula One Chinese Grand Prix Weather Forecast

    Conditions are predicted to be only slightly overcast for this weekend’s 2014 Formula One Chinese Grand Prix taking place at the Shanghai International Circuit. We may still see some rain during tomorrow’s qualifying session, but things are expected to remain dry during Sunday's race...

  • Shanghai International Circuit, home of the Formula 1 Chinese Grand Prix
    2014 Formula One Chinese Grand Prix Preview

    We’re now at the fourth race of the 2014 Formula One season, the Chinese Grand Prix, which once again is taking place at the Shanghai International Circuit. This year the race coincides with the Beijing Auto Show, so there will be a lot of focus on China this weekend for automotive fans...

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