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Keith Collantine wrote a new post, Vettel: ‘I’m to blame’ for missing out on pole 5 minutes ago

Sebastian Vettel believes he could have been on pole position for the Monaco Grand Prix.

The Red Bull driver was fastest in Q2 and headed the times after the drivers had done their first runs in Q3.

But he […]

Keith Collantine wrote a new post, Mercedes “moderately optimistic” of victory chances 12 minutes ago

Mercedes team principal Ross Brawn is hopeful they will finally score their first win of the year in today’s race.

The team has started the last three races in a row from pole position but hasn’t won any of […]

Keith Collantine wrote a new post, Alonso focused on beating Vettel and Raikkonen 26 minutes ago

Fernando Alonso says his priority is beating his closest championship rivals as he doubts his victory chances in the Monaco Grand Prix.

The Ferrari driver starts tomorrow’s race from sixth on the grid and said […]

Keith Collantine wrote a new post, 2013 Monaco Grand Prix qualifying report 1 hour, 7 minutes ago

Mercedes’ domination of qualifying extended to four races in a row in Monaco. Nico Rosberg claimed pole position for the third race in a row and Lewis Hamilton will join him on the front row after a rain-hit […]

Keith Collantine wrote a new post, 2013 Monaco Grand Prix grid 1 hour, 37 minutes ago

Row 11. Nico Rosberg 1’13.876Mercedes
2. Lewis Hamilton 1’13.967Mercedes
Row 23. Sebastian Vettel 1’13.98Red Bull
4. Mark Webber 1’14.181Red Bull
Row 35. Kimi Raikkonen 1’14.822Lotus
6. Fernando Alonso […]

Keith Collantine commented on the post, Three-in-a-row for Rosberg in crash-strewn session 3 hours, 7 minutes ago

Looks like the rain has wrecked the chances of this happening. Ah well!

Keith Collantine commented on the post, Three-in-a-row for Rosberg in crash-strewn session 3 hours, 40 minutes ago

Last year the fastest time in Q3 (1’14.301 by Michael Schumacher) was eight-tenths of a second faster than the best time in FP3 (1’15.159 by Nico Rosberg).

This year the fastest time in FP3 was Rosberg’s […]

Keith Collantine commented on the post, Three-in-a-row for Rosberg in crash-strewn session 3 hours, 46 minutes ago

@joshua-mesh According to who?

Keith Collantine wrote a new post, Three-in-a-row for Rosberg in crash-strewn session 4 hours, 26 minutes ago

Nico Rosberg made it three out of three in practice for the Monaco Grand Prix as he remained the driver to beat on the streets of the principality.

Rosberg found a clear lap late in the session to set a […]

BasCB commented on the post, Williams tipped for Mercedes engine deal 5 hours, 53 minutes ago

After seeing part 2 – linked above, I also had a look at part 1.

Alonso doing it great, but with little margin for error. Grosjean much the same, Webber leaving a tad more room for error. Vettel going in with […]

BasCB commented on the post, Williams tipped for Mercedes engine deal 6 hours, 19 minutes ago

@tophercheese21 its not just Lotus and Ferrari, but clearly FI has done the same with far less resources and it pays off.

Just as the teams that did bring a DDD in 2009 had an advantage, and Red Bull had an […]

BasCB commented on the post, Williams tipped for Mercedes engine deal 6 hours, 24 minutes ago

Even with throwing together not really matching statistics, and coming up with a pretty arbitrary amount of 1 and 0,5 seconds to account for DRS in qualifying, his article is not really convincing.

Prisoner Monkeys commented on the post, Williams tipped for Mercedes engine deal 6 hours, 58 minutes ago

Am I the only one who finds Webber’s complaints to be a little bizarre? He’s upset that teams are relying more on data than driver feedback, and yet he’s driving for the team that probably does this more than any other team.