Archive for May, 2008
2008 Monaco Grand Prix notes
Here are my notes on last week’s Monaco Grand Prix.
Some people have suggested it showed McLaren now have the upper hand in the championship but I’m not convinced.
Plus, Massa’s impressive start to the race, the drivers who missed opportunities, and more.
CART drivers who raced in F1: From Andretti to Zanardi part 1
Champ Car is no more. Once the top American single-seater racing series, home to past and future F1 drivers, it came to an end on April 20th with its final race at Long Beach.
Its influence on Formula 1 was huge. F1 nicked all manner of innovations from CART* including refuelling pit stops and today’s tyre [...]
Might have been Hamilton: Magnussen
Concluding the two-part series begun yesterday Ben Evans looks at the career of Dane Jan Magnussen (right, with Rubens Barrichello), another ex-McLaren driver who showed great promise in his pre-F1 career but never reached the heights expected of him in Formula 1.
In Formula Ford and Formula 3 both McNish and Magnussen were-once-in-a generation fast, but [...]
The bottom 10 F1 drivers: Shortlist
Two weeks ago we began compiling the list of the bottom 10 F1 drivers of all time - the 10 worst F1 drivers.
Here’s how the shortlist stands at the moment along with some of your remarks. Is there anyone missing from it? And who doesn’t belong there?
Could Felipe Massa ‘do a Prost’?
On his current run of form Felipe Massa stands a chance of achieving something very rarely seen in Formula 1: he could turn the tables on his team mate by taking the title off him the year after he won it.
The only driver to achieve this in recent F1 history is Alain Prost, who did [...]
Might have been Hamilton: Allan McNish
In the first of a two-part series F1 Fanatic columnist Ben Evans looks at two previous young McLaren drivers and asks why they never scaled the heights Lewis Hamiton has.
Watching Lewis Hamilton drive the race of his life on Sunday storming to victory in the Monaco Grand Prix, my mind couldn’t help wandering to the [...]
Battle lines are drawn on Mosley vote
A series of letters and new revelations in the past 24 hours has shed light on the state of play ahead of the FIA’s confidence vote on June 3rd.
Here’s a brief recap on the latest developments.
Ayrton Senna vs Michael Schumacher
Last week I asked for your suggestions for F1 Fanatic articles. And coming out on top with almost 100 votes was this topic from Tom Bellingham…
It could have been one of Formula 1’s greatest rivalries. Instead, while Michael Schumacher romped to race wins and world championships in the mid-1990s everyone wondered how it might have [...]
New stuff: Top 100 and past polls
It’s been an extraordinarily start to the season on F1 Fanatic. Just a few months ago I marked the 10,000th comment on the site - yesterday we passed the 15,000 mark*.
There’s already a list of the top 10 posts with the most comments on the front of the site (look up to the top [...]
Not enough seats to go round
Super Aguri are gone and the F1 field has shrunk down to 20 cars, increasing the competition for any seats that might become available.
That’s bad news for some of the promising drivers squeezed out of the sport who might have hoped to get back in - to say nothing of Takuma Sato and Anthony Davidson, [...]
