Filed under: Motorsports , Ferrari , Mercedes-Benz , Racing Sebastian Vettel’s win in Australia ended a victory drought for Ferrari. Continue reading ‘The best Lewis’ Hamilton faces resurgent Ferrari in F1 ‘The best Lewis’ Hamilton faces resurgent Ferrari in F1 originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 05 Apr 2017 14:15:00 EDT

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‘The best Lewis’ Hamilton faces resurgent Ferrari in F1

Filed under: Motorsports , Videos , Ferrari , Racing Ferrari is the last of the three engine manufacturers remaining in Formula One to reveal its 2014 power unit.

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Ferrari launches 2014 Formula One engine, tests it in a LaFerrari? [w/videos]

Filed under: Motorsports , Videos , Ferrari , Racing Ferrari is the last of the three engine manufacturers remaining in Formula One to reveal its 2014 power unit. Called the 059/3, like the Mercedes and Renault units it is a turbocharged, 1.6-liter V6 further boosted by an energy recovery system that is twice as powerful as before. The 2013 KERS was good for 80 horsepower, could power the car for six seconds and reduce a lap time by about 0.3 seconds.

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Ferrari launches 2014 Formula One engine, tests it in a LaFerrari? [w/videos]

Filed under: Motorsports , Infiniti , Lotus , Ferrari , Australia , Racing A pre-season full of talking points was swapped for a brand-new set of talking points after the running of the opening grand prix of the 2013 Formula One season. The consistency of the regulations from last year to this year and the triplicate dominance of Infiniti Red Bull Racing meant that no one would have been that surprised if the relative order of things remained the same. But teams found so many ways to switch things up that, in typical pre-season fashion, no one was ready to make any bets on in-season performance, and a couple of surprising players suffered the ignominy of getting it really wrong: McLaren knew it was in trouble from the very first test, while Williams drivers applauded their car as the best in years, only to have Pastor Maldonado call it “undriveable” on the very first day of practice in Melbourne

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Recap: 2013 Australian Formula One Grand Prix is all about the rubber [w/spoilers]

Filed under: Motorsports , Audi , Mercedes-Benz , Ferrari , Australia , Racing For the last two years, Audi has won what’s called “The ultimate Aussie endurance race,” the Bathurst 12-Hour event at Mt. Panorama, reverentially known as “The Mountain.” It did so with factory-backed versions of the R8 LMS Ultra and factory-backed drivers sent over for the sole purpose of taking the checkered flag at the 3.861-mile course and then taking the silverware back to Ingolstadt. Erebus Motorsport, owned by property developer Betty Klimenko, is 18 months old.

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Race Recap: 2013 Liqui-Moly Bathurst 12-Hour race a feast of water, wrecks and yellow flags