Ralf Schumacher wants 2010 F1 return

Ralf Schumacher wants to emulate brother Michael’s F1 return, telling a German news agency:
I would seriously consider an interesting and attractive offer to drive in a competitive Formula One team.
Ralf Schumacher
Sibling rivalry, eh? Whatever one of them gets, the other has to have one too. But there doesn’t seem to be much chance of a [...]

The team mate debates: Toyota

With the first signs of the silly season getting started for 2010, I thought it would be a good time to start a new series of Friday debates on the subject of team driver pairings.
Starting today, we’ll look at each of the teams and ask at which point in their history did they have their [...]

Australian GP history 1996-2008 (Video)

F1 Fanatic guest writer Journeyer concludes his look at the history of the Australian Grand Prix.
Albert Park in Melbourne is a very different place from Adelaide’s streets.
Where Adelaide had long straights and mostly 90-degree turns, Albert Park has more varied corners. But it still provided plenty of action, as we shall see in the second [...]

100 F1 race winners part 9: 1993-2001

David Coulthard and Rubens Barrichello, who scored their first wins in 1995 and 2000 respectively, are the first active drivers in this series looking at F1’s 100 race winners.
Plus two famous one-hit wonder of the mid-90s: Jean Alesi and Olivier Panis.

Ralf Schumacher’s DTM switch isn’t going well (DTM)

Six races into his first DTM season and six-times F1 Grand Prix winner Ralf Schumacher is struggling to make an impression:

Round
Qualifying
Race

Hockenheim
15
14

Oschersleben
13
10

Mugello
13
DNF

Lausitzring
13
13

Norisring
11
16

Zandvoort
19
12

He’s only made one appearance in the top ten in qualifying or the race all year.

Analysis: F1 team mates in qualifying

Thanks to D Winn and David Watkins who sent in further analysis of how each team’s drivers compare against each other in each part of qualifying, in response to yesterday’s comparison of team mates so far this year.
If you want to contribute an article to F1Fanatic, have a look at the guest post section.
Here’s how [...]

Video: How drivers react to big crashes

Sebastien Bourdais had a big crash in testing at Barcelona on Wednesday. Happily he was unhurt but he may have dealt a blow to his standing in the team if the damage to the new STR3 forces the team to delay its introduction.
Major crashes can affect F1 drivers in different ways. Even though drivers regularly [...]

New DTM drivers: Oliver Jarvis, Katherine Legge… and Ralf Schumacher

Three new names have been confirmed for this year’s DTM championship.
The headline grabber is F1 refugee Ralf Schumacher, who will drive a one year-old Mercedes C-Class.
Oliver Jarvis (pictured above with team mates Legge and Markus Wikelhock) joins Audi in a one year-old A4, which really disappoints me. Jarvis has had some excellent results in Formula [...]

F1 news review: Alonso looked at Renault move in March

In the F1 news this week Fernando Alonso first approached Flavio Briatore about returning to Renault in March of last year after just one round of the championship.
Plus Ralf Schumacher comes clean about his claims of having an F1 seat for 2008, Kimi Raikkonen hints at his eventual retirement, and Bahrain International Circuit takes a [...]

How much does an F1 driver cost? And why…

Max Mosley has approved increases in the cost of F1 drivers’ superlicences that will net the FIA an extra €1.1m* (£818,000).
F1 drivers have seen the cost of their licences increase by up to 479%. The top drivers will pay the most but it’s not as if they’re impoverished to begin with – Lewis Hamilton will [...]