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Sir Frank Williams
Sir Frank Williams has passed away on 28 November 2021 aged 79. He was the founder of Williams Grand Prix Engineering and team principal of the Williams Formula One Team from 1977 until 2020. R.I.P.
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Mercedes are Formula E World Champions
Mercedes are the first Formula E team world champion and Nyck de Vries became the first driver world champion with his silver arrow after a dramatic final race of the season. Right at the start there was drama as Mitch Evans had a technical problem and for the first time…
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Ocean X Prix Final
Rosberg X Racing won the final of the Ocean X Prix which took place on 30 May 2021 on a beach near Dakar, Senegal, to highlight environmental issues of the oceans. The only other Odyssey 21 car to reach the finish line was the one of Veloce while JBXE and…
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Ocean X Prix
The second ever Extreme E race was the Ocean X Prix at the Lac Rose in Senegal which focuses on environmental issues of the oceans. The qualifying reminded a bit again of old Formula One days with Nico Rosberg competing against Lewis Hamilton, in this case the X44 team ahead…
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First Desert X Prix
The first Extreme E race, the Desert X Prix on 4 April 2021 was won by Rosberg X Racing, the team of Formula One World Champion Nico Rosberg, in front of Andretti United on P2 and X44, the team of seven times F1 World Champion Sir Lewis Hamilton, on P3.…
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Mercedes are Record World Champions
I have been a fan of Mercedes-Benz all my life, the first car I drove in was a Mercedes, and I have supported the Silver Arrows since I started watching Formula One in 1998. When the works team was created in 2010 I knew it is just a matter of…
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Mercedes-Benz Motorsport
125 years of Mercedes-Benz Motorsport and their 200th Formula One race are celebrated at the German Grand Prix 2019 at Hockenheim not only with some white paint on the Mercedes cars like before 1934 as well as suitable retro outfits for the whole team including the mechanics, but also with…
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Why You Should Listen To Safety Instructions
On 23 November 1996 hiiackers forced the captain of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 to fly to Australia. They thought the plane can fly eleven hours and Australia is only ten hours away, so they could reach it. The captain tried to make them understand that the plane had only enough…
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Turbocharged
Combustion engines are generally never totally clean when running on fossil fuels, they can only be made cleaner than they were before, so modern technology should be used. However, there are still naturally aspirated engines on the market. Those need more fuel so they pollute the environment more. At a…
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Silver Arrows
McLaren Mercedes MP4/13, by which the team won the constructors championship and Mika Häkkinen his first drivers championship, McLaren Mercedes MP4-23, by which Lewis Hamilton won his first world champion title, and Mercedes-AMG F1 W05 Hybrid, by which Mercedes-AMG Petronas won their first of a record eight constructors championships and…
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Nico Rosberg Is F1 World Champion
Nico Rosberg is Formula One World Champion 2016, congratulations! He deserves it. He is always fair, and he drives in a very balanced way, like a clockwork. Now he won the title just like his father Keke Rosberg did in 1982, so the Rosbergs are the second family to achieve…
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Super Sports Car of the Twenties
The Mercedes-Benz SSK was the supersportscar of the 1920s, or the hypersportscar even before the term was invented, the fastest car of the time. It was also the last car designed by Ferdinand Porsche for Mercedes-Benz before he left to found his own company and before he designed the first…
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