F1 Fanatic

With all the controversy with the tyres this week, it’s great to see something that we can all agree is good news!

I’ve not been an enormous fan of the 2013 Pirellis, but to change them mid-season is completely unfair.

When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade, which is exactly what Ferrari and Lotus are doing – and […]

A lot of strong drives, it’s difficult to pick. Stars of qualifying were unquestionably the Mercedes pair as well as Perez, if just for that mega Q2 lap.

Several others impressed me in the race. Alonso […]

I’m more surprised that the always-confident Alonso in his home race didn’t already have a Spanish flag in his car.

Starting to think it’s not the Mercedes car that’s bad – it’s the strategy calls. You’d think that a team with magnificent short-run pace on the softer tyres and woeful long-run pace on hard tyres would do shorter […]

I put neutral effect for both. I feel that both have improved the show in some areas but detracted from it in others.

2 DRS zones worked well in Oz and Bahrain but kind of spoiled Malaysia and Shanghai. I […]

This upgrade should be EVERYTHING to McLaren. We’ll be 1/4 of the way through the season once Spain is out of the way so if the car isn’t a championship contender by now then why bother with it?

They might as […]

Even those bottom teams employ hundreds of people. That’s hundreds of mortgages needing paying, hundreds of children’s mouths to feed… But nah, Bernie doesn’t want an 11th team.

I don’t understand his gripe […]

Can’t say I approve multiple DRS zones on nearly every track, but I’d prefer too much overtaking to too little. Get rid of DRS and we’d be back to 2010, which had the dullest racing of any season I can remember. […]

Regarding the COTD — sorry, but if you find F1 to be a bit too “gimmicky” then I do not believe IndyCars is the place to go.

Whether or not its more artificial than F1 is debatable, but with yellow flags […]

I actually like this design. Sure, it’s not going to be a classic driving circuit, but in its simplicity it is still very different to almost every race on the calendar. And that’s what F1 needs – variety.

My […]

Webber’s already 36 actually. Jenson Button is already the most experienced on the current grid, and given he started in F1 younger than many, I’d say Jenson’s the next man to beat Barrichello’s record. But like […]

This is the 15th consecutive race that Caterham have got both cars to the finish – currently the longest streak of any team.

In addition, 2013 is the first year in which each of the Caterham and Marussia cars […]

Nico Rosberg’s 9th place is the worst result for a polesitter since Lewis Hamilton was classified in 12th place after crashing out of the 2009 Italian Grand Prix on the final lap. However, if you wish to ignore […]

Jenson’s clearly a tad peeved that, having held Sergio at arms length for most the season so far, he’s been clearly out-shone here. I fail to see what Sergio has done wrong, it was an asbolute joy to watch.

I’m […]

8/10

Typical Seb snoozer up front, but from 3rd place down it was absolutely fantastic! Simply brilliant to see the return to form of Grosjean and Perez, Alonso’s fantastic recovery and some genuinly good […]

Big test for Pirelli & DRS at this race. If people complain about even the Bahrain Grand Prix being too hectic we will know for sure that it’s gone too far!

Is he even old enough to smoke? He looks about 14!