Mick Schumacher’s claiming of the FIA European F3 Championship last weekend has likely set the 19-year-old on a path to a prosperous motorsport future. After a relatively low-profile start to his 2018 F3 campaign, Schumacher pulled out all the stops in the second part of the season to overhaul his rivals and conquer the title, …
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Sebastian Vettel may suffer a serious set-back if the US Grand Prix stewards decide to hit the Ferrari driver with a grid drop penalty following a red-flag offence in FP1. Friday’s first free practice session was interrupted when Sauber’s Charles Leclerc spun and then rejoined the circuit, projecting gravel on the track and forcing a …
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Max Verstappen says Renault’s claim that its all-new 2019 power unit will represent a significant step forward is just “the same old song” from the French manufacturer. Renault Sport F1 boss Cyril Abiteboul revealed that limitations with its existing engine design have enticed the manufacturer to develop a brand new unit for next season, and …
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Engine gains from partner Renault and lessons learned from 2018 are helping McLaren cast a ‘cautiously optimistic’ outlook for next season, says CEO Zak Brown. The Woking-based outfit’s campaign fell short of expectations this year, with McLaren’s hopes of leading the mid-field never panning out, a shortfall that resulted in one of the worst seasons …
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Love it or hate it, you definitely at least know about TikTok. And clearly it’s not something you can ignore, because the app just hit 1.5 billion downloads across the world. And guess who’s leading the charge on that? Yup, it’s all of us here in India. Images courtesy: Reuters That download milestone is across …
A statement from North Korean Foreign Ministry adviser Kim Kye Gwan, posted by state news agency, KCNA, said: “I interpreted President Trump’s tweet on the 17th to signify a new DPRK-US summit” but “we are no longer interested in these meetings that are useless to us.” ### Kim suggested that the US is trying to …
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But the presence of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has prompted concern from some in the city, including a group of pro-democracy politicians who have demanded that Hong Kong’s government explain whether it requested public security and disaster relief assistance from China. ### Chinese soldiers stationed in Hong Kong joined pro-China Hong Kong residents on …
The toxic air quality has been showing signs of some improvement over the past few days. On Monday morning, the overall air quality in the national capital stood at 190, which is moderate. This was an improvement from the poor category on Sunday and was very poor the previous day. This, however, was far better than ‘severe’ …
“On the one side, powerful military bureaucracies, influential and richly financed weapons industries, their lobbies, their captive legislators, those for whom paranoia or past wars are a way of life,” he wrote. “On the other side, only reason, the will to survive, the inarticulate poor” —John Kenneth Galbraith, forward to the 1978 edition of Ruth …
For the fifth year in a row, global internet freedom continued its downward trend in 2015, with more governments censoring information of public interest while simultaneously expanding surveillance and thwarting privacy tools, according to the annual assessment by the U.S.-based Freedom House released Wednesday. Since June 2014, 32 of the 65 countries assessed in Freedom …
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