If you didn’t make it to Melbourne on the weekend, or even if you did, here’s your chance to relive the 2012 Australian Grand Prix. With thanks to the F1 teams we bring you almost 100 photos from Albert Park as our F1 in pictures series returns. Remember to click on the pics to open [...]
The dust has settled, the crowds are enjoying Melbourne’s nightlife and the FIA has released the transcript of the post-race press conference from the Australian Grand Prix. It goes without saying that Jenson Button now leads the drivers’ championship and with a first and third to their name McLaren also takes the early lead in [...]
When 22-year-old Daniel Ricciardo and 35-year-old Mark Webber line up on the grid today it will be the first time ever two Australians have started an FIA-sanctioned Australian Grand Prix. It’s an amazing stat when you consider there are no Italian drivers in F1 this year. You have to wind the clock back over [...]
Following his fifth place in qualifying Mark Webber is hopeful it will bring him good luck. Today will be Webber’s 11th race start in the Australian Grand Prix and so far the best he has to show for it is a trio of fifth places (2002, 2005 and 2011). Aside from his debut race here [...]
We might have seen 12 days of F1 pre-season testing already this year, but today is the eve of the 2012 Formula One season proper. When tomorrow’s free practice sessions go green that will be the first chance we get to see who is fast and who was mucking around during those pre-season tests. To [...]
This year the Red Bull Race Off returns to Albert Park for the 2012 Australian Grand Prix. Helping to promote the event Red Bull sent V8 Supercar driver Rick Kelly and Kiwi Drifter Mike Wihddett out on Melbourne’s streets in a couple of Renault Megane RS 250s to offer a few free taxi rides. Video [...]
Red Bull Racing, Williams, Caterham and Lotus will all be running Renault engines in 2012. And just in case you had forgotten, they have prepped these four Megane RS models to act as a reminder. As these cars are left hand drive we imagine they’ll be touring around the globe with the F1 circus so [...]
Mark Webber says he will only continue his Formula One career next year if he has a competitive car. He will enter the 2012 F1 season as the only Red Bull-aligned driver without a contract for 2013. Sebastien Vettel, Jean-Eric Vergne and compatriot Daniel Ricciardo are as safe as a driver can be in the [...]
Sebastian Vettel found himself in a familiar position after he took his Red Bull RB8 to the top of the timesheets in F1 testing overnight. The teams have arrived at Barcelona for four days of testing and with the launch of the Mercedes AMG F1 W03 all the major teams are now running their 2012 [...]
Following the F1 pre-season test at Jerez we’ve compiled a gallery of images showing the new 2012 cars on track for the first time. It’s good to see the cars away from press launches and studio lighting so we can get a better feel for how things will look this season. Because we’ve focused on [...]
Mark Webber got off to a delayed start in pre-seaon testing at Jerez, before recovering to post the fourth quickest time of the day (1m20.496s). The track debut of the RB8 had to be postponed while the team waited for new parts to arrive and around three hours were lost. Webber said he was satisfied [...]
Overnight a number of video clips featuring the Red Bull Racing RB8 have been uploaded to YouTube. We’ve assembled them together here in one place for you. Also included are Q&A interviews with the team’s major players. The image above, captured from the first video, gives one of the best looks yet at Adrian Newey’s [...]
Here’s a quick comparison of the last two Red Bull Racing F1 cars, the RB8 and the RB7. We don’t have a lot of comparable pics at this stage, but click on the pic above to launch a 2000px super image. Despite a poor angle, the change in the nose design is clear to see. [...]
Red Bull Racing has just unveiled is title-defending RB8 racecar in Jerez. For now we have just two studio images of the most eagerly awaited car in F1. Already we can see the RB8 features the now ubiquitous ‘platypus’ style nose. Click on the pics to view them at 4000px. The RB8 appears to bring [...]
Word on the street says this is the new Red Bull Racing RB8 being unloaded at Jerez, where it’s due to be launched tonight (midnight AEDT). Of great interest is discovering if the RB8 will follow the alligator/platypus interpretation of the 2012 regulations, as Caterham, Ferrari, Force India and Lotus have done. Based on the [...]