F1 Fanatic

“It’s hard to find arguments to why this is different”

New to F1 are you? It’s different because previously, it benefited Ferrari and this time, it doesn’t.

Sadly, Ferrari don’t want the tyres to change so we’re stuck with these for the year.

As long as the mistakes keep affecting Webber, Red Bull won’t be to worried.

Not sure about the track. Mainly 80-100 degree bends so not sure if this will allow for much overtaking. Fingers crossed I’ll be wrong but it just doesn’t look exciting….

To win F1, you have to have a massive budget and lots of years experience. It’s foolish to think that a new team can enter F1 and compete for a good few years so that leaves you with having to buy a team (like […]

Perhaps they could say that you have to run your reserve driver in a specific amount of sessions during a season? Extra tyres should definately be for all drivers though…

How about a different tyre (a harder […]

I give it 2 races until Kovalainen is back in the seat. Once Kovalainen batters Van Der Garde’s quali time in FP1 twice, Caterham will look ridiculous not making the change and will be forced into it.

Did they really cave in to the teams though? All I’ve heard this week is about how the tyres were rubbish at China and how it makes a mockery of the sport etc. If anything, they’ve caved in to what the fans […]

@me262 – There’s a big difference between what you’re saying and what Stirling Moss is saying. You are stating that based on scientific information “women generally tend to have a reduced sense of spatial […]

@matt90 That’s exactly the reason. I karted for over 10 years every other week and I must have only raced against a handful of women. Certainly no more than 10 and probably not even that.

I wonder if part of […]

It genuainly didn’t cross my mind but as a rule, I don’t believe anything Horner says so I’m caught in an interesting position.

Of more interest to me is the rumours that Mark has signed a deal to race in the […]

@billbranch The constructors championship isn’t “the prize”. Sure, Red Bull will get more money for winning it but F1 for the drivers championship. I couldn’t care less who wins the constructors and neither do the […]

He clearly has though! He was told not to pass and he did anyway. Red Bull admitted this was the case.

If you boss says “don’t do that” and you think “hmm… nah I think I will do that”, you have undermined […]

Vettel went up in my estimation by being honest and saying that he wasn’t really that sorry and that he’d do the same again. Fair play – you can’t argue with that!

Horner can’t really go down in my estimation […]

If they removed the need to use both tyres and start ont the tyre you qualified on, it’d actually be pretty much as it should be! A qualifying tyre that only allows for one quick lap so you have to get it right […]

Are pit-stop times published officially anywhere? It would be really interesting to see how all the teams stack up but I’ve never found the info anywhere…

Support for Webber over Vettel isn’t just a British thing. I’d have thought other than Germany, Webber is the more popular Red Bull driver!

Also, regarding Di Resta, I agree that he gets a decent following […]

@ivano I think you misunderstood him – he meant that the factory is based in Britain and the staff are British.

Using your argument, Chelsea are a Russian football team and Man Utd are American!

I guess it depends where you’re from… Germans supported Schumacher, Spanish support Alonso, Italians support Ferrari and the Polish supported Kubica…. If I had Karthikeyan or Chandhok as my choices, I’d not […]

I think the 2nd tier is probably about right. He’s in a group with other “decent” drivers such as Coulthard, Webber, Ralf Schumacher etc. All good drivers who, given the chance, could win races but are never going […]