F1 Fanatic

The Mercedes W04 – P(latypus) spec will be making it’s Debut in Australia.

I don’t know why haven’t painted one on the side yet. It’d be nice to see that they have a sense of humor about it.

Better here than in Catalunya, or even worse, Australia.

that argument might even carry weight if they didn’t somehow manage it for other sporting events.

For example, when the MotoGP is on, they have advertising between Moto3 Moto2 and MotoGP, but only have one ad […]

I don’t care if OneHD broadcasts in 3D. I just wish they wouldn’t interrupt the race very 4 minutes for 3 minutes of ads.

It looks like they painted this car using the contents of a sick goat’s pancreas. Yuck. I really hope its either super fast or ridiculously unreliable. Anything to get it off the track, and my screen, sooner.

I would love to see Mark win a WDC as well. It’s been way too long since Alan Jones came home with the silverware.

When you think about it, Australia is a bit weird in terms of the amount of success its […]

if you are right about peak revs being 12-12500 I will be very sad. That’ll mean my little 250cc motorcycle will outrev a million dollar prototype F1 car engine. That’s just so wrong, even if the comparison is […]

A problem I lay squarely at the feet of CVC partners and one Mr B Ecclestone.

Yes, I did buy a 4 day ticket at $320, and will be attending the Grand Prix for the first time since Adelaide ’94. Yes I feel […]

@prisoner-monkeys

I agree that not having TC or ABS ensures that more of the racing is in the hands of the driver, rather than the computers. I prefer it this way too.

Perhaps I was unclear, but I was […]

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aside from the absurd cost of development (manufacturers are already worried about costs of developing the next F1 engine, which runs on conventional fuel), and the fact that petroleum companies have a […]

With respect to F1 needing to look towards future technology.

I think part of the appeal of F1 has always been that the cars were so ridiculously advanced compared to what you could buy as a consumer.

The […]

I was just a little tyke at the time, but I was lucky enough to go to the 1992 and 1994 Adelaide GPs.

I was 5 and 7 years old respectively at the time, and I don’t remember much about it.

However, I will […]

As an Australian, I’m inclined to agree with Alan Jones. I had to get up at 5.00am to watch the USGP, and will have to get up at 2.00am to watch the decider in Interlagos. I don’t regret that, as I feel it’s part […]

oh god! My sides!

Mark stayed because of Mr Adrian Newey, and the fact that Red Bull have the budget to give equal spec cars at each race. It is in their best interests to give Mark AND Vettel the best cars they can so that they […]

@oskar

I think you might be right. Alguersuari has been talking about a race seat for next year. The question becomes who will take Massa’s seat at Ferrari?

I’d love for it to be Schumacher. But somehow I […]

I imagine then that a team budget would look something like this:

Factory (including composite materials, car construction and employee labour); $200 million
Driver wages: $10 million

16 breeding pairs of […]

I have to admit that I haven’t read the full conference transcript, but the quotes from the article Keith linked to above about Kobi’s comments seem to suggest that he “thought that Grosjean DESERVED further […]

I don’t get it either. The only thing I can think of is that it was because of the “severity” of the incident and the fact, as the FIA have said, because the championship leader was less than 2 feet away from […]

Am I the only one who practically burst into tears when that first lap horror occurred?

When the debris was cleared, basically all my favorite drivers were out. Kamui and Alonso on the sidelines within 300 […]