why the team has won the constructors’ championship four years in a row. When you add all of this up, it is clear that there is an opportunity for the sport to be drastically reworked, and for Ferrari or Mercedes, two of the other front-running teams, to end Red Bull’s dominance.
exciting Sergio Perez of Mexico, who had a torrid time at McLaren. In hindsight, he appeared to make the step up to a frontrunning team too early after two strong seasons at Swiss team Sauber. This will, hopefully, not affect his F1 career, as he is but one of a number of promising young drivers on the F1 circuit. Whilst the Premier League title race may be gripping, there’s always time to watch other sports, and F1 should be top of your list. After all, it’s much more than ‘cars driving around a track’, isn’t it?! PRAVAR PETKAR
There has been a flurry of drivers transferring between teams ahead of the 2014 season. Of the eleven teams, only Mercedes has retained its 2013 line-up of the British Lewis Hamilton, former world championship winner, and Nico Rosberg of Germany. The retirement of Red Bull driver Mark Webber at the end of the 2013 season has opened the door for a young driver to take his place. His fellow Australian, Daniel Ricciardo, will step up to the full Red Bull team from Red Bull’s junior team, Toro Rosso, which has replaced Ricciardo with 19-year old Russian Daniil Kvyat. Ferrari’s new combination should be competitive, comprising of the 2013 world championship runner-up Fernando Alonso with former Ferrari driver Kimi Raikkonen of Finland. Ferrari now has the most experienced line-up on the circuit and will be hoping to make it count. Force India, owned by Indian businessman Vijay Mallya, has a completely different line-up, re-signing the exciting young German Nico Hülkenberg after he spent a year at Sauber, and partnering him with the similarly P a g e | 46