Deliberations from the desert
Wow, what a week! And, as one of our bloggers remarked, wow, what a speech! The week in Bahrain was, as you might expect, dominated by revelations in the News…
Well, Massa needed a win, or at the very least a strong performance with all four wheels staying firmly on the Tarmac, and he delivered. From when the red lights…
Massa looked very much the strongest driver all weekend until Robert Kubica took the first pole of his career in Q3. Whether he was carrying a much lighter fuel load…
For the first time I decided to watch the two practice sessions on the ITV site with their 'live feed'. This was, without a doubt, my worst Formula 1 viewing…
April 2, 2008 Your highness, ladies and gentlemen. Traditionally, it’s stories, not speeches that start with the phrase “Once upon a time”. No, speeches don’t tend to begin that way,…
Firstly, the news that the BBC has captured the TV contract for Grand Prix racing inspired the biggest response to any of my Motor Sport blogs so far this year.…
My Editor has asked me to approach my weekly blog in a different way. He’s the Boss, so I will. He wants me to be more controversial, nothing too extreme…
Having completed a brilliant qualifying lap in Q3 for the Malaysian Grand Prix, Felipe Massa went on to spin out of the race, losing a much-needed second place. The Brazilian…
The second round of the World Championship saw Ferrari take a dominant victory, with Raikkonen crossing the line some 20 seconds ahead of BMW’s Kubica. Massa, who took pole yesterday,…
An all Ferrari front row and an all McLaren second row; the British outfit is saying that Ferrari must be carrying more fuel, Ferrari are saying that Massa did a…
So it appears that the promised rain, thunder and lightning has stayed away from Sepang, as both the first practices went ahead without so much as a drop falling on…
For the first time in many years, the Formula 1 rules are due to change very substantially in 2009, and Patrick Head recently talked about the problems implicit in developing,…
Max Mosley recently made a speech to the International Advanced Mobility Forum (IAMF) at the Geneva Motor Show about Formula 1’s move towards an “energy efficient future”. Whether this makes…
The Formula 1 World Championship certainly got off to an action-packed start – 9 cars taken out of contention by accidents, 5 breakdowns, a disqualification and only 7 finishers. Hamilton…
It certainly seems that Hamilton is enjoying driving without traction control having put his car on pole for the Australian Grand Prix with a time of 1:26.714. After getting out…
Well the season has officially started… At 10am Australian time, the first of three practice sessions began. What was interesting was just how competitive the Force India cars were –…
In recent days, the big talking point in Formula 1 has been the racist gestures and insults aimed, by a few Spanish cretins, at Lewis Hamilton during a Barcelona test…