F1 Fanatic round-up: 12/3/2010
Our first live blog of the year is coming up shortly for free practice one in Bahrain. Until then, here’s today’s round-up:
Links
Q & A with Martin Whitmarsh (Autosport)
On McLaren’s radical snorkel/rear wing design.
McLaren Snorkel: How it works (Scarbs)
More on the snorkel.
A New Code of Practice (Viva F1)
“It’s a remarkable turn around for the FIA after years of Max Mosley, the FIA and WMSC being pretty much interchangable terms for the same thing. Is the FIA finally starting to act like a proper professional body rather than some kind of private members club?”
Prost joins stewards for Bahrain (Autosport)
My first reaction was a sarcastic “great, because he never did anything dodgy which he got away with.” Being more reasonable, it would be hard to find many successful ex-F1 drivers who didn’t have a few controversial moments in their careers.
Comment of the day
Here’s Hallard’s prediction for what will be the biggest political story of 2010:
Zoran Stefanovic kidnapping Jean Todt, and demanding a place on the grid in a very poorly-translated ransom note/press release. Mark my words…
Hallard
Happy birthday!
We have three F1 Fanatic birthdays today – best wishes to Monkzie, Daniel and Garf
On this day in F1
The Jaguar team started their first race on this day ten years ago. The outfit only lasted five full seasons before Ford sold them to Red Bull.
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