Formula 1’s 2025 season kicks off with the Australian Grand Prix this weekend – and tyre suppliers Pirelli have confirmed which compounds will be in play during the event at Melbourne’s Albert Park Grand Prix Circuit.
The Italian company have chosen a trio of compounds in the middle of their range to tackle the 14-corner semi-permanent street circuit, naming the C5 as the soft, the C4 as the medium and the C3 as the hard. –read more–
Formula 1’s 2025 season kicks off with the Australian Grand Prix this weekend – and tyre suppliers Pirelli have confirmed which compounds will be in play during the event at Melbourne’s Albert Park Grand Prix Circuit.
The Italian company have chosen a trio of compounds in the middle of their range to tackle the 14-corner semi-permanent street circuit, naming the C5 as the soft, the C4 as the medium and the C3 as the hard.
Drivers will get two sets of the hard tyre (marked white), three sets of the medium tyre (marked yellow), and eight sets of the soft tyre (marked red), as well as the green intermediate tyre and the blue full wets, should they be required. –read more–
It’s funny to think that an entire Formula 1 car ¬is entrusted to just a few square centimetres of rubber gripping the asphalt. Looking at the whole field of 20 cars, that roughly adds up to around eight square metres and 700 kilograms of advanced technology fighting the laws of physics, courtesy of Pirelli’s tyres. Here’s how it all works, in theory and in practice. Centrifugal force tries to throw the cars to the outside of every corner. The tyres try to do the exact opposite. In Formula 1, these tyres are 305 millimetres wide at the front and 405 millimetres wide at the back, generating as much grip as possible. The slick tyres, as the name suggests, have no tread pattern on them, in order to provide optimal contact between the rubber and the road. –read more–
(CNN) – Rare video captured a super pod of more than 2,000 dolphins off the coast of Monterey Bay, California, including the elusive northern right whale dolphins, according to the Associated Press.
(CNN) — Jannik Sinner has accepted a three-month ban from tennis to settle a case which has lingered over the sport for months after he twice tested positive for a banned substance, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) announced on Saturday.
The men’s world No. 1 will be banned from February 9 to May 4 after twice testing positive for banned substance Clostebol in March 2024, meaning that he will be eligible to play in the French Open – the next grand slam on the calendar. –read more–
Smoke billows over Tulsa, Oklahoma, during the 1921 race massacre. In a review that concluded Friday, federal investigators outlined the scope and impact of the massacre, an attack by a White mob on a thriving Black district that left as many as 300 people dead and 1,200 homes, businesses, schools and churches destroyed. Alvin C. Krupnick Co./Library of Congress
The first-ever U.S. Justice Department review of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre concluded Friday that while federal prosecution may have been possible a century ago there is no longer an avenue to bring a criminal case more than 100 years after one of the worst racial attacks in U.S. history.
The Department of Justice said at the outset of its probe it had no expectation anyone would be prosecuted, but in a more than 120-page report federal investigators outlined the scope and impact of the massacre, an attack by a White mob on a thriving Black district that left as many as 300 people dead and 1,200 homes, businesses, schools and churches destroyed.
“Now, the perpetrators are long dead, statutes of limitations for all civil rights charges expired decades ago, and there are no viable avenues for further investigation,” the report states. -–read more–
Remodeling your bathroom doesn’t have to be expensive. Take a look at what you can do with a little creativity and some housewares you likely already have on hand. –read more–
(CNN) — The family home where rock band AC/DC was founded has been mistakenly demolished by a property developer in Australia.
Located in the Sydney suburb of Burwood, 4 Burleigh Street had long been a place visited by the band’s fans from around the world.
AC/DC’s Malcolm and Angus Young lived in the house as teenagers when they were founding the band, along with their brother George Young, a guitarist for another wildly popular rock group, the Easybeats.
The family migrated to Australia from Scotland, living first in a migrant hostel before moving to Burleigh Street in 1965. –read more–
