Sebastian Vettel will start tomorrow’s French Grand Prix from seventh position on the grid after a disappointing and perplexing final round of qualifying at the Circuit Paul Ricard. Vettel was within 0.069s of Valtteri Bottas in Q2, but then suffered an issue when he came out for his initial push lap in the top ten […]
Honda F1 boss Toyoharu Tanabe believes the good performance enjoyed by the engine manufacturer at Silverstone last time out sets it up nicely for Hockenheim. Honda put three of the four cars it powers in the top ten at the British Grand Prix with Red Bull’s Pierre Gasly and Max Verstappen finishing fourth and fifth […]
Super Formula charger Naoko Yamamoto is expected to make his F1 debut next weekend at Suzuka where the Japanese driver will run with Toro Rosso in Friday’s first practice session. Yamamoto’s presence behind the wheel of the Faenza-based outfit’s STR14 has yet to be confirmed by the team, but the 31-year-old driver apparently made the […]
Sebastian Vettel was celebrating on Saturday evening after clinching his first pole position of the season with a last push in qualifying for the 2019 Canadian Grand Prix. The Ferrari driver’s last-gasp push clocked in at 1:10.240s, which was 0.206s quicker than the lap just recorded by Lewis Hamilton at the Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve. The last […]
The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the outbreaks of microcephaly in Latin America and their possible link to the Zika virus a global health emergency—invoking a rarely used dictum due to the high risk to pregnant women and newborns. Speaking after an emergency session in Geneva on Monday, WHO director general Margaret Chan announced […]
Romain Grosjean will line up 6th on Sunday’s German Grand Prix grid and the Haas driver hopes that race day will finally allow him to sustain his good qualifying performance. Grosjean – still running a Melbourne-spec aero package on his VF-19 car – navigated through the first two segments with relative ease, clocking in among […]
Just before I left Syria last month, a tall and eloquent Franco-Lebanese man walked up to me in a Damascus coffee shop and introduced himself as President Bashar al-Assad’s architect. It was his task, he led me to understand, to design the reconstructed cities of Syria. Who would have believed it? Five years after the […]
Rapidly melting Arctic ice has opened up enormous swaths of this pristine and ecologically significant landscape to dangerous industrial threats. And as officials meet this week to hammer out new rules that could potentially protect the region, environmental groups are warning that the area known as the “Arctic Galapagos” is already in grave danger. Scientists […]
After learning that they would be excluded from an official state of emergency declared in the wake of two catastrophic oil spills in the Peruvian Amazon, members of the Wampis community of Mayuriaga stopped a helicopter from taking off late Sunday evening and held 8 officials hostage to force the government to respond to their […]
Keira Knightley is no novice to the world of Chanel, considering she already fronts the brand’s Coco Mademoiselle fragrance and Rouge Coco beauty campaigns. But for her latest portrait session for the beloved Parisian fashion brand, the 31-year-old actress successfully personifies Coco herself in the lead shot for her fall 2016 Chanel fine jewelry portfolio. […]