F1 Fanatic

Anyone tyred of talking tires? … sorry, tired of talking tyres? Ecclestone wanted a minor “spice up”, Pirelli blew it to 4/5 tyre changes and a few delaminations. Drivers, engines, tracks, the weather, even DRS […]

It’s all or nothing. If teams really need radio comms with their drivers that in the interest of the sport and of drivers’ safety should not be available to other teams, then military-grade radio encryption should […]

“The circus” does not equal “Bernie.” But he won’t be around forever. (Ouch, that hurts, he’s only a couple of years older than I am.)

Thank you – bang on. Alonso’s analysis was refreshingly honest and open, and the compliments he paid to other drivers are well merited. And if he’s trying to keep his development engineers on their toes, then […]

Conspiracy theory: Q2 will see all the teams going for broke on the softs. Then the teams will agree that nobody participates in Q3. Start of the race will be on mediums, grid set by Q2 times. ;=}

Of course “tyre management was every bit as important as it is today” — so was brake, engine, clutch and gearbox management. But it wasn’t artificial. There was a choice of tyre manufacturers, teams could work […]

Team orders always have been and always will be part of F1 — whether they’re allowed in the regs and “open”, or disallowed and “secret.” Drivers are under contract to the teams, and pre-race driver briefings by […]

Snipping commentary: “It’s quite different from last year … and you have to change your driving style … it’s really a question of trying to keep the rubber on the tyre … to do that [is] just guessing … […]

In the HuffPost article, Tom Webb writes: “It’s hard work, carried out in often freezing conditions and with little visible results to motivate a tired workforce.” Bizarre statement, but…

That got me […]

OK, so “track testing” is banned for cost cutting reasons, but simulators are not in the budget? Marussia struggles to reach a minimum (say $50M) by getting rid of Glock, and Ferrari (say a $400M budget) can have […]

Thorpedo writes ” he [Vettel] still can’t forget that Ferrari protested…” Please, for the sake of factual accuracy, Ferrari did not protest — they sent a letter asking for information/clarification.

Happy 2013 to all.

If you “define” DOTW-poll championship as the aggregation of the numbers Keith gives above, you end up with:

Fernando Alonso … 272.1
Lewis Hamilton … 207.6
Sebastian Vettel … 189.3
Sergio Perez … […]

Whatever the percentage mix of good driving and luck might have been, the one point that has been undermentioned here is that RBR had enormous freedom to set the car up for the race rather than qualification; this […]

And it gets worse (maybe…) Rule 6.6.1 says “Competitors must provide a means of removing all fuel from the car” and here’s Horner saying there’s still some left and he doesn’t know how to get it out without […]

Team principal Eric Boullier *f*ailed Raikkonen “exceptional comeback”? Hailed?

The sped trap figures given above show that Alonso should make up about five car-lengths on the straight, Hamilton just a bit less. Might prove to be a tad interesting…

Try getting up at 1.45, with a dog who expects his walk at 5.30 – really ruins your sleep cycle.

But Pup sat next to me on the couch and only showed interest in the last couple of laps. Big brown eyes watching […]

That [totally meaningless] quote comes from a blog at advrider.com which belongs to the MacAskill family from Mountainview California, written by someone claiming to be a Canadian in exile in Rhode Island. He […]

I am only guessing, but this sounds more like washout and wing twist than rake. The FIA test requires limited deflection of the front wing when an adapter supplied by the team is placed on the wing (see Tech Reg […]

With all the comments about how this will be a “close race”, is anyone else surprised that the spread for the top ten is approx 2 seconds? Even the first three are over half a second apart. I know that FP times […]