F1 Fanatic

Vettel is a ‘once in a generation’ type driver

Hamilton and Alonso are only 3 & 6 years older than Vettel so maybe it’d be more accurate to say he’s a three times in a generation type driver…

Wasn’t there talk a few years back about engines being allocated by a sort of lottery system whereby the manufacturer makes them but the FIA then decides which engines go to which team (when a manufacturer […]

That line up is getting close to matching the team of Todt, Brawn, Byrne & Schumacher, if they can match the improvements made by Ferrari after putting that team together maybe Mercedes could be the team to beat […]

@hohum & @scuderia29
You are both correct, was thinking of the NSX concept they had at Geneva – god knows how I confused that with a Skyline…
It’s either early on-set dementia or the fact that yesterday was my […]

@bendana
Maybe they’ll get a Honda GT-R or something similar from Honda’s sports range, I certainly wouldn’t mind swapping a Merc for a Skyline ;-)
Although given the choice I’d probably be asking for a new […]

I’m very happy to see the return of Honda, they’re one of the best engine manufacturers in the world and HRC are one of the biggest names in motorsport. Even though I’m a Ferrari fan I hope their return will keep […]

@minnis

No, but in football they don’t have different size pitches for different matches. If they did, I’m sure that once in a while they might get it wrong, and it gets changed.

They do have different size […]

No way mate, they should bring back Goodyear !

@john-h
I am a Ferrari fan and other than getting both drivers on the podium I found very little else to get excited about after the first few laps on Sunday.

@tdog
Fastest qualifying time:
2005 – 1:14:819 (just taking run one into account)
2013 – 1:20:718

Fastest lap:
2005 – 1:15:641
2013 – 1:26:217

Race time:
2005 – 1:27:16.830
2013 – 1:39:16.596

So in […]

@shreyasf1fan
California, Texas and New York have a higher GDP and population than many other countries, including several that host F1 GP’s. The US is the single biggest market for companies involved with F1 as […]

I’ve never understood why teams don’t do test days on the Monday after a race at one or more GP’s a season. They’ve already got the teams, drivers, cars, fans, marshals and media at the circuit. Staying an extra […]

@bascb
Which is the same penalty you’d get for exceeding the speed limit by 10-20 kph, which seems appropriate to me.

Up until the late 90s we’d regularly see marshals recovering cars and debris from the track […]

@timtoo
The FIA have increased the cost of the superlicence, in return they agreed to bring in a penalty points system and do away with financial penalties for drivers.

MotoGP have brought in a points system […]

@bascb

But this seems to penalize drivers double for some things

That’s no different to the system for driving on the roads in the UK; break the speed limit and you get a fine and points on your licence, […]

@todfod
I wouldn’t think many people would disagree with you there mate, just look how many Championships Williams and McLaren have won without him compared to how many they won with him and the significant […]

As ever, a great post I thoroughly agree with !

Run-off & kerbs are a bit of a double edged sword, on the one hand I don’t want to go back to the days when lots of the cars were dropping out of the GP because […]

How is it an ill judged move when he made up a place and did nothing worthy of a penalty ?

Even Jorge has since said:

I lost the second place and it was like this. Race Direction decided not to do anything and […]

@Tango
If you put your username into the “Search F1 Fanatic” box on the top right of the page you can see every time you’ve been mentioned in an article, you’ve got quite a lot of them, and deservedly so !

On sunday lorenzo got pushed way at the final corner by an ill judged pass.

No he didn’t, Lorenzo left a massive gap going into the last corner of the last lap and like every single decent MotoGP rider of the […]