By Callum Springall In a race of fine margins, it was Lewis Hamilton who continued a number of trends while making some history on Saturday, and taking maximum points in consummate style on Sunday at F1’s 2017 Belgian Grand Prix around Spa-Francorchamps. From a strategy point of view, the most recent duel between Sebastian Vettel […]

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By Callum Springall In recent years there has been a significant change in prevalent schools of thought around environmentally-friendly energy use, with electric power taking centre stage over the course of the last 20 years or so. However, battery power opens up as many points of contention as it solves, such as its range, cost […]

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By Callum Springall Ferrari took a win against the recent run of results in Mercedes’ favour at the 2017 Hungarian Grand Prix which, despite coming on a track that suits the SF-70H’s characteristics, hints at the possibility of further success after the summer break. In spite of the Italian team’s woes during Friday practice, Ferrari […]

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By Richard Baxter From being relatively unheard of, Billy Monger has become a household name over the last few weeks. Unfortunately this wasn’t down to his race craft – but the horrendous crash he was involved in at Donnington in the British Formula 4 race series. To have both legs amputated at the age of […]

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By Callum Springall A few years ago, it was races like the Azerbaijan Grand Prix that made me feel sorry for those that had to write about them afterwards. So, bear with me! Straight off the bat, we’ll start with Red Bull – and I didn’t think I’d be saying that this season! It was […]

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Sweet lord, what have we just witnessed?! One of the grand prix greats is the answer. The pod had questioned the Baku circuit before this year’s race. They question it no more. The same can be said of F1’s Walking Weapon too, as Lance Stroll took his Formula 1 reputation to a whole new level […]

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By Callum Springall 1: The return of the technological war Waking up on Friday morning, it felt like a return to a seemingly bygone era where the leading teams would conjure up all manner of technical developments, bordering on illegality. The news during the Sky’s coverage of FP1 concerned an engine trick used by Mercedes, in […]

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By Kyle Cumbers So we move on to round eight of the 2017 Formula 1 season and a trip back to Baku. Last year’s European Grand Prix, held in the Azerbaijani capital, was not the greatest but we shouldn’t judge a new track from one race. It didn’t help that Lewis Hamilton hit the wall […]

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By Callum Springall Whether you are of the opinion that Monaco is essential to Formula 1 or a processional gimmick that only stays on the calendar for the money, the 2017 edition wasn’t short of intrigue – albeit for the want of overtaking. After a scintillating qualifying session that left the top three within 0.05s, including […]

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By Kyle Cumbers The Monaco Grand Prix creates a great debate on The NR F1 Podcast every year, over whether it’s just a gimmick race or a classic grand prix essential to the Formula 1 calendar? Personally, I fall on the side that it is essential to F1 with the history the track provides and […]

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