F1 Fanatic

Farina’s debut season?

That first picture of di Resta with the helmet and hans device on the sidepod makes it look like he’s driving one of those 3 seater F1 cars.

For me it’s not just the fact they booed Vettel, but they booed during the German national anthem. That’s pretty poor form.

I’ve been to podium ceremonies where the winning driver is someone I don’t […]

The thing that would make that defence difficult is that the Mercedes race drivers took part in the test. Pirelli have Lucas di Grassi and Jaime Alguersuari as test drivers so they should have been able manage […]

It’d be interesting if they did get a 2 race ban. Imagine a team that’s based in Britain and owned by a German company, with British and German drivers missing out on the British and German GP’s. I’d imagine […]

The rule isn’t that you aren’t allowed to test at all during the season, it’s that you can’t test using a car from this year, last year or some other car which is significantly similar to a current car (I assume […]

I’m guessing it’s a template to make sure his head isn’t too high for the roll hoops but I like your theory better.

I don’t think Keith’s saying that the organisers of the Australian GP invented it, just that it’s good to see when races proudly display their national colours and he used the kerbing at Albert Park as an example.

I understand why the FIA are increasing the tests as some teams are trying to evade the purpose of the rule whilst meeting the letter of the rule.

The unfortunate thing is that some of the work that these teams […]

@keithcollantine But the teams have a finite budget regardless of what they spend it on. If you reduce testing then they’ll obviously spend less money on testing but they won’t just leave the money they saved in […]

Yeah but Vettel wasn’t fighting McLaren at the end of the Championship, they were fighting Ferrari, a car that most agree was slower then the Red Bull. Wouldn’t really be fishing for praise if he goes on about […]

But does the lack of testing really save money? The cash they would have spent on track testing gets spent on simulation, bench testing and wind tunnels, which is not only less accurate then testing the parts on […]

@isaactham It’s up to the team. When Alonso joined Ferrari he was new to the team so even though he finished ahead of Massa the previous year he was #8 to Massa’s #7.

The same season Sauber picked up 2 new […]

Ha why stop there?

He prefers a long stint but this year he’s had to stop for fresh rubber more often.
He’s popular with the ladies because like in the championship, he finishes second.
He never has to worry […]

@atticus-2 I suppose they might not have known about the incident until it was too late although you’d think they’d have been told by someone pretty quickly. The other possibility is that they didn’t think there […]

@atticus-2 The deadline for a team to protest had passed but the FIA had until the end of November to review the race if new information or evidence came to light. Ferrari sent a letter asking what the FIA’s […]