F1 Fanatic

Maybe a stupid question here but why did the change the tire compound in the first place if the 2012 tires worked the way they wanted them to work? Maybe it’s just an American way of thinking but our racing series […]

I always though Mugen was the in-house Honda preformance brand? Like TRD, Nismo, HSV, Ralliart, etc..

It may not be that the Ferrari engines are the cheapest but that they have so many conditions & clauses in their supply contract that nobody else really wants them? “Is the hassle worth the possible […]

Actually BMW did work on a V6 a few years back. http://www.autoblog.com/2011/09/09/bmw-patents-turbocharged-v6-engine-design/

@coefficient, isn’t that the truth though for any manufacture who is seriously looking at getting into any form of motorsports? You prototype & design on the downlow meanwhile you’re running the equivalent of a […]

Caterham also works with Coswoth outside of F1 as well, just like the majority of Lotus street cars are Toyota powered. The McLaren F1 was BMW powered yet their actual F1 cars were Honda, Ford, Peugeot & Mercedes […]

Not to mention that would actually be a return to Honda if you trace the teams roots back to Jordan F1.

If it weren’t for the fact that Vodafone is leaving (or appears to be leaving) I wouldn’t be so fast on the “they’re gonna drop the Silver (Pewter?)” bandwagon as Vodafone cars in all forms of motorsports over the […]

I’m putting my money on Caterham with and outside chance of Sauber or Williams.

Something I’ve been wondering for awhile is what do the numbers on the pitbox tape (50 40 30 20 10 0 10 20 30 40 50) represent?

Why buy Lotus when the rumor is that RB is looking to offload Toro Rosso on the cheap. Though it will be interesting to see if a midfield team like Williams or if one of the 2 back-of-the-pack teams (my bet is on […]

“I learned to approach racing like a game of billiards. If you bash the ball too hard, you get nowhere. As you handle the cue properly, you drive with more finesse.” — Juan Manuel Fangio

There is also another […]

Here is the thing though, nowhere in the rulebook does it say “if you break a rule you must be penalized”, in-fact the rulebook says quite the opposite with the little clause of (and I don’t feel like opening it […]

Here is the total race times for every F1 race at the track. 2004 is when they started running 66 laps instead of 65, keep in mind there is also differences in the layout of the track over the years as well as […]

Everybody is given the same tyres, if these people claim to be the greatest teams, engineers, drivers, crewmembers, etc in the world then shouldn’t they be able wrap their heads around what isn’t really a problem […]

In all forms of motorsports it’s universal that qualifying laps are faster then race laps.

No idea about the GP2 time however here is the total race times going back to 2004 when they started running 66 laps instead of 65.
2013 — 1:39:17.00
2012 — 1:39:09.15
2011 — 1:39:03.30
2010 — 1:35:44.01 […]

Right….. You keep thinking he “broke down” when the video clearly shows him going along fine and then deciding to pull off right in the exact location of a marshal that had not only a folded Spanish flag but a […]

I’m guessing the previous situation is Alonso doing the same thing last year (or was it 2011?) in Valencia after he won there.

Average medium stint = 12.17 laps, 56.65km (35.19mi), or 18.43% of the race.
Average hard stint = 13.83 laps, 64.37km (39.99mi), or 20.95% of the race.