Archive for August, 2007
This weekend’s F1 alternative: Champ Car Assen
The Champ Car World Series is back in Europe so catch it while you can. But what on earth are they doing at a bike track?
Plus German and British tin-top action and the Indy Racing League title races to a climax on the streets of Detroit.
There’s no F1 this weekend, but there’s plenty of other [...]
F1 in the news 50: Hamilton vs Schumacher
Bernie Ecclestone is keen to see a battle between Lewis Hamilton and Michael Schumacher - but even his megabucks might not be enough to make it happen.
Also in the F1 news this week advertising revenue from the Turkish GP broadcast fell, speculation over the futures of Nelson Piquet Jnr and Nico Rosberg, and safety in [...]
Rosberg excited by traction control ban
Five races to go until the traction control ban - assuming it isn’t jeopardised by the row over ECUs. We’re going to see more spins next year, according to Nico Rosberg:
It’s going to be exciting. I tried it recently and it was quite shocking actually. In the difficulty sense it is not ideal - and [...]
Debate: Will the safety car decide the title?
Such a finely poised world championship battle - with four drivers still in close contention with five races left - comes along only once a generation.
The slightest misfortune could easily tip the balance in favour of one driver. We saw at Montreal how the dubious safety car rules can easily compromise an unlucky driver.
Fernando Alonso [...]
The Ben Evans Column: A classic season - on paper
Even Kimi Raikkonen agreed that the Turkish GP was an exercise in tedium not seen in F1 since, oh, the Hungarian GP three weeks ago.
Aside from Hamilton’s puncture it was a largely incident and interest free two hours. Furthermore what little glimpses you did get of the grandstands showed them to be largely empty.
From a [...]
10 worst… chicanes
Trees get Dutch Elm Disease. Rabbits get myxomatosis. F1 circuits get Chicane Blight. And the original victim was Monza, the next stop on the calendar.
Happily, Monza has still remained a decent track where the teams trim the cars for top speed and they reach almost 350kph on the run to turn one.
But Chicane Blight has [...]
F1 retirees head for NASCAR
The NASCAR Home for Retired Formula One drivers is set to welcome two new residents.
Jacques Villeneuve has been hovering on the outskirts of the series since his dismissal from BMW last year. And Toro Rosso refugee Scott Speed is tipped to join Red Bull’s NASCAR
squad.
Juan Pablo Montoya left MclAren to join NASCAR in the middle [...]
Changing my mind about Massa
If you’d told me five years ago that Felipe Massa would be a serious contender for the 2007 world championship, I wouldn’t have believed you.
As the 2002 series drew to a close, Sauber’s rookie driver was under a cloud. He’d had a year marked by crashes, culminating in a needless collision with Pedro de la [...]
Debate: Fernando Alonso
Fernando Alonso just racked up his 100th Grand Prix appearance so it seemed like a good opportunity to have a discussion about the Spanish double champion.
Alonso has a rack of impressive achievements under his belt - youngest pole sitter, youngest race winner and youngest driver to win two championships.
But we;ve seen another side to Alonso [...]
Hamilton faces media backlash
In the future when even more biographies of Lewis Hamilton are being written, and the authors wonder at what point did the adulation of Hamilton in the press start to turn sour, that moment was now.
Hamilton spoke out against the harassment he has received from some elements of the press over the Turkish Grand Prix [...]
