French Grand Prix archive
Flins-Mureaux: France’s Tilke-free track
New details about France’s potential new F1 track have emerged at Grandprix.com.
It’s being built without the aid of Hermann Tilke, who has had something of a monopoly of F1 circuit design for more than a decade.
Valencia was least popular race of 2008
I’ve compiled the results from the 18 ‘rate the race’ polls of 2008 and crunched the numbers to find what were the most popular and least popular races of the year.
Unsurprisingly Brazil came out on top as the fans’ favourite, with the European Grand Prix at the new Valencia Circuit voted worst race. Here’s the [...]
Race-by-race review (F1 2008)
We shared every twist and turn in the 18 Grands Prix of 2008 here on the F1 Fanatic Live Blogs.
Here’s a reminder of how each race unfolded and what we said about the most exciting moments of the year as they unfolfed before our eyes:
2009 French Grand Prix cancelled
The French Grand Prix has been cancelled for 2009 in a surprise move by the event organisers, the Federation Francaise du Sport Automobile. The FFSA issued the following statement:
After examining the economic situation, the FFSA renounces to be the financial promoters of a Formula One Grand Prix. As a result, and as long as [...]
Provisional 2009 F1 calendar has good news for France, bad for America
The first details of the 2009 F1 calendar were published today with the F1 schedule set to return to 19 races – a high it has only reached once before, in 2005.
As was expected the French Grand Prix is remaining at Magny-Cours. The Australian Grand Prix also appears as a provisional fixture.
However there is still [...]
Pictures: 2008 French Grand Prix
Here are 21 pictures from Sunday’s French Grand Prix including the Ferraris romping off at the start, jarno Trulli scoring an emotional podium for Toyota, and McLaren drivers Lewis Hamilton and Heikki Kovalainen pictured with a 1908 Benz Grand Prix car.
We are all weathermen now
What has been the biggest talking point on the Live Blogs during the past three races?
Plenty has been said about the state of Lewis Hamilton’s driving and Max Mosley’s libido, but I think the most popular question is this:
“Is it going to rain?”
Video: Pressure on Lewis Hamilton after error in French Grand Prix
The French Grand Prix went about as badly as it possibly could for Lewis Hamilton – and he has nobody to blame but himself for it.
From the moment he got back behind the wheel of the McLaren at Magny-Cours it looked as though he was still working out the frustration from his humiliating crash at [...]
2008 French GP review: Problem for Raikkonen hands win to Massa
Felipe Massa took over the lead of the drivers’ championship with a fortunate win at Magny-Cours at the expense of team mate Kimi Raikkonen.
At the track where Raikkonen out-fumbled Massa via the pit stops in 2007, this year Massa capitalised on a broken exhaust on Raikkonen’s car to win.
Apart from Raikkonen’s troubles it was an [...]
Championship points after the French GP
Felipe Massa now leads the F1 drivers’ championship for the first time in his career.
It’s also the first time a Brazilian driver has led the championship in 15 years, since Ayrton Senna topped the table after the 1993 Monaco Grand Prix. There was more good news for another Brazilian driver, Nelson Piquet Jnr, who finally [...]
