Great F1 cars of the last six decades: Lotus 72 (Autosport International)

The Lotus 72 is featured at this year’s Autosport International show as one of the great racing cars of the last six decades.
Although 40 years have passed since the 72 first appeared its designer faced much the same challenges the likes of Adrian Newey do today: like how to make the car work on heavy [...]

1969 Canadian Grand Prix flashback

There’s no Canadian Grand Prix on the calendar this year – but FOTA and many F1 fans hope the sport will return soon. F1 Fanatic guest writer Andrew Tsvyk looks back on one of the earliest world championship rounds in Canada.
While this year’s Turkish Grand Prix was taking place in front of largely empty grandstands [...]

Over 500 F1 cars in one picture

I came across an excellent picture on another blog which shows every Formula 1 car from 1950 to 2004 side-by-side. Here’s a sample of it:
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F1 drivers who won at Le Mans

This weekend sees the 77th running of the Le Mans 24 Hours. The great race has been won by 117 different drivers and over half of them – 62 – also competed in the Formula 1 world championship at some point in their career.
Many of them were race winners in F1, some were even champions [...]

Button closes on ‘best start’ record

With five wins and a third place from the first six races, Jenson Button has made one of the best starts to the world championship ever seen in F1.
His achievement equals Michael Schumacher’s in 2002, and is bettered only by Schumacher in 1994 and Nigel Mansell in 1992.

Jarno Trulli’s F1 career in video (part 1)

F1 Fanatic guest writer Journeyer looks back on the F1 career of Toyota’s Jarno Trulli.
The Monaco Grand Prix has given lots of people a day in the spotlight lately – they’ve had 7 different winners in the past 8 years. One of them was Jarno Trulli. While his win here in 2004 has been his [...]

Fernando Alonso’s career in video p2

F1 Fanatic guest writer Journeyer finishes his look at Fernando Alonso’s F1 career.
By the end of 2004, many people acknowledged that Fernando Alonso was going to win titles. It was a matter of when, not if. But few anticipated how quickly it would happen.

Rubens Barrichello’s career in video (p2)

Journeyer concludes his two-part look at Rubens Barrichello’s F1 career.
Rubens Barrichello is the most experienced driver in Formula 1 history – and from the end of 1990s and throughout the 2000s he was usually found mixing it with the leaders and regularly winning races himself. But despite a long spell at multiple championship winners Ferrari [...]

Rubens Barrichello’s career in video (p1)

F1 Fanatic guest writer Journeyer begins a new series of F1 driver retrospectives with a look at the most experienced driver of them all: Rubens Barrichello.
Rubens Barrichello won the first Chinese Grand Prix in 2004 – in fact, that was his last victory to date.
In this first part of a look back on Barrichello’s career [...]

Domination: the 1998 Australian GP

A new season, a new generation of Formula 1 cars, and a routing of the opposition. This year’s Australian Grand Prix had much in common with the 1998 race. F1 Fanatic guest writer Andrew Tsvyk tells the story.
During the presentation of McLaren’s newest Formula 1 challenger on January 16th, Ron Dennis announced his retirement from [...]