F1 Fanatic

Button: “I want the freedom to find out if the Honda engine is going to be crap so I can bail out before the season starts.”

The pre-pirelli era races all scored lower than this one. That says a lot. Mind you, I agree with some commentators above, “marking up” seems to be a common phenomenon in the past year or two.

What’s Bob Bell’s title now, then? “Non-executive Technical Director (non-Directional)”? And Aldo Costa is “Technical Director (technical engineering directions)”? Geoff Wills is “Technological director of […]

Cue hundreds of people shrieking “McLaren-Honda! Winnnaarr!” like sheep. Honda haven’t been a desirable engine supplier for 20 years. Their last engine, in the words of a Brawn engineer, “couldn’t pull the skin […]

The incidents this weekend were shockingly awful. I don’t normally watch the gp2 races so I have no idea if this stuff is par for the course or not, but drivers like cecotto have no business in any open wheel formula.

You know what the worst thing in modern f1 is? Hearing from Christian Horner 4 times in one programme.

I’m going to say it was boring, but maybe not for the same reasons as everyone else. Well, ok it was certainly boring in terms of the ultimate result, which seemed determined by the first set of pit stops. […]

If an awful lot of viewers love watching predictable, dominant racing, why did fom and the fia go to such lengths to stop the domination of Ferrari and Schumacher? Because viewers were switching off.

If you […]

Luca di Montezemalo was gifted a significant delta topco shareholding last year. He hates backmarkers.

I’m sure it’s a coincidence.

How do you patch the aero problem, though?

The 2009 regulations were brought in to rip up the amount of aero that teams were able to deploy, by banning complex triple front wings, the profusion of winglets […]

What you’re suggesting does not mean the best win on merit. What it means is that the teams with the best money/technical staff combination win.

Toyota, Honda & BMW may have failed by the standards of winning […]

You know what happens when the best drivers in the fastest cars go racing without any restrictions?

2002, 2004 and 2011. One driver, in a dominant car, cruising around for a team who have outspent the rest of […]

2008′s Torro Rosso was actually a better car than the 2008 Red Bull, though. That year, RB were trying out a different design, whereas TR were running the 2007 RB design. Much like if Williams were running last […]

Sky may be touting that article as “Paul could be a champion” but Bob’s words are lukewarm at best. If you’re flattering your driver you don’t say that half the grid are just as good as him, you’d say he’s great, […]

I’d remind you that the British government banned the public from demonstrating at Thatcher’s funeral and pre-emptively raided the homes of many people under bogus “public safety” assumptions so that their tv […]

small teams are doing well to run two cars as it is….

if only Wikipedia was editable by anyone.

That reminds me, must insert one direction’s names into random articles.

Wolff is dead right, they need to sort out these problems early. It’s ruining my fantasy f1 team.