The 29-year-old Obiena, the world No. 4, trained late last year in Saudi Arabia before returning to Italy under Ukrainian trainer Vitaly Petrov. Obiena opted to rest after the Paris games due to a ...

It all went wrong when he got stuck behind Renault’s Vitaly Petrov after a mistimed pitstop though, and Alonso coming home seventh meant the crown went to young upstart Vettel. Then, at the 2012 ...

Alonso led the championship by eight points heading into the season finale in Abu Dhabi. But he became stuck behind Vitaly Petrov – ironically, a Renault driver – on a disastrous evening, allowing ...

and Vitaly Petrov. Of these, Komatsu developed a particularly close relationship with Grosjean, serving as his race engineer from 2012 to 2015. When Grosjean moved to Haas in 2016, Komatsu followed, ...

Stanislav Petrov was assigned to the Soviet Union’s Strategic Rocket Forces, monitoring American and NATO activity regarding ballistic missile launches. On Sept. 26, 1983, he was about to make a ...

In 2010, Alonso probably would have won the championship outright if he hadn’t been stuck behind Vitaly Petrov in the final race. Not winning at least one championship against Hamilton in the ...

He began as a tyre engineer for British American Racing in 2003 before moving to Renault in 2006 to work as a performance engineer, where he worked with drivers such as Nelson Piquet Jr, Romain ...

But Petrov is reportedly looking at another avenue that is neither with a current team nor altogether outside of F1. An official announcement has not been made, but all signs point towards Petrov ...

All of us, at Lotus Renault GP wish him a quick recovery. I will be travelling to Italy tomorrow, along with Vitaly Petrov, in order to see Robert and tell him that we are impatiently waiting for ...

In fact, Schumi's one of only two drivers – along with Renault rookie Vitaly Petrov – to be out-qualified by his wingman in all three races, reinforcing the adage that an F1 driver's teammate ...