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A team from Sheffield Methods Institute in the UK has analyzed all of the drivers, teams and results in Formula One history to produce a ranking of the best 50 F1 Drivers of all-time, as well as the best wet weather and street circuit drivers.

Lewis Hamilton's all-conquering Mercedes F1 car has struck a blow for downsized engines, beating the lap record set by Fernando Alonso in his championship-winning, V10 Renault R25. Hamilton's 1:29.493 time put him in pole position, and undercut Alonso's 2005 pole time of 1:29.848 by 0.355 seconds.

Unless you can afford the expense of a racing school or track day, getting close to the experience of riding in a F1 or GT race car is near impossible. Fortunately, the average race fan can now have something resembling that experience, with the opening of the Motion Simulation Room in England.

It's almost time for the 2016 Formula One season to kick off in Australia, which means we are about to see the results of what the 11 teams have been frantically working on. Can the rest of the pack close the gap to Mercedes and three-time world champion Lewis Hamilton?

Last year's Formula One season didn't quite go to plan for Renault. Thankfully, 2016 presents a fresh start - that means a fresh power unit and car for the newly formed factory team.

It may not go down as one of the best Red Bull stunts ever, but in what definitely qualifies as an interesting use of a Red Bull F1 car, Toro Rosso driver Max Verstappen gained and dropped vert on the world-famous slopes of Kitzbühel, Austria. The 800-hp RWD Red Bull RB7 sure looks cool doing it.

McLaren says that it wanted to peer into the future and “imagine the art of the impossible.” In doing so, the company’s design team has created the McLaren MP4-X Formula One race car. This is a sleek, powerful ride that makes the current crop of tech used in F1 racing look primitive.

Formula 1 teams have been redesigning and re-engineering their race cars in order to meet the first major regulation changes since 2009. New aerodynamic rules, odd noses, clipped wings and a completely new hybrid powertrain are part of the mix waiting for teams in the 2014 F1 season.

For the 2014 season, Formula One is set to introduce some of the most radical changes in the sport’s history. New thermal and Kinetic Energy Recovery Systems will give drivers an additional 160 hp of electrical power during the year to compensate for smaller 600 bhp turbocharged V6 engines.