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Scratch the 2nd point, I forgot Valencia 2012. But the 1st point is true.

It was Alonso& Ferrari’s first pole in a dry qualifying session since Singapore 2010, and Also Alonso & Ferrari;
‘s first win in a completely dry race weekend since Singapore 2010!

Cheers for CotD Keith!

Career moves that didn’t start well, but ended up producing world championships:

James Hunt, McLaren, Brazil 1976: Took pole only to crash out due to a sticking throttle. Won the WDC that year.

Alan Jones, […]

Canada is a usually a much more exciting race, plus the highlights would be at an inconvenient time if it wasn’t live, so between Monaco and Canada I’d choose Canada every time…

Glad that Canada is going to be live as having late night highlights is incredibly problematic for due to my busy schedule that time of year, which makes it impossible to watch the highlights when they’re […]

I struggle to recall a season where a team has screwed it up so badly. McLaren should have won both titles but in the end they weren’t even close to either. Possibly reminiscent of 2005 where they had comfortably […]

So it’s his fault that his car kept breaking down and his team kept messing up his pitstops?

@dam00r I disagree, he was completely useless for the first half of the season. A common mistake with season reviews is to place too much emphasis on the later races and ignore the earlier races. Every race is […]

I don’t like the way this comes across. It should make no difference to the punishment whether it’s Grosjean taking out Alonso & Hamilton or Schumacher taking out Karthikeyan and Pic.

Actually scratch that, Schumacher won neither the 1st nor the last race in 2003.

Another one I’ve just though of, 2012 was the first season since 1990 in which the world champion won neither the first race nor the last race.

So if not for Massa gifting Brazil 2007 to Raikkonen, it would be […]

Button became the 1st driver since Raikkonen in 2007 to win both the 1st and last races of a season, but if it hadn’t been for Ferrari’s team orders on Massa in Brazil that year, he would have been the first since […]

@kaiie Actually Alonso was lapped in Spain 2011, so if he’d finished in Canada he’d have been one lap short!

I can’t help but wonder if they did this to try and spice up the championship fight…

Interestingly, Vettel has led every lap of the last 2 Korean GPs, despite not taking pole in either of them!
The Korean GP has never been won from pole in its 3 years on the calendar.

Hold it in daylight.

As someone without the Sky F1 channel I have had to wait until the BBC highlights show to see the race, in the meantime trying to avoid hearing the result and sometimes failing. The exception was the Hungarian GP […]

Raikkonen won a wet race in Spa in 2005…

@vjanik The F1 website just shows the fastest race lap. Raikkonen’s lap was set in the race, but back when the circuit had a slightly different configuration (the bus stop was different), so not comparable to […]