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Some of the onboard camera shots were just painful to watch today – coast, back off, watch the tyre wear on that corner, careful on the throttle, watch those tyre temperatures. I can’t believe they were pushing at […]

“So, Ross, you say this new design was inspired by Footwork?”

Nice to see the best 3 drivers on the grid on the podium together for the first time.

Also nice to see two equally matched cars battling it out at the front – VET’s car clearly had slightly better one lap pace […]

A furious Vettel came on the radio to complain about Karthikeyan as Hamilton edged away.

I’m not Vettel’s biggest fan, but he was complaining on the radio about being stuck behind an HRT, which allowed Hamilton […]

To be honest, I agree to a point – things couldn’t have fallen much better for VET on Sunday (given the circumstances from the previous day). It was certainly a very good drive, but a lot of good luck was involved.

I suppose it depends how similar next year’s car is to this one – you’d have thought with all the expertise they’ve brought into the team, sorting out the fundamental issues of the car would have been high on the […]

Mclaren and Hamilton have abjectly failed to make the most of their package throughout the season for a combination of different reasons.

This season, I think it’s diffiuclt to lay much of the failure at […]

No, Belgium is far too early a point to pick out – even with the benefit of hindsight. The Mclaren car at least still had good momentum back then, and we’ve seen the turn around in Vettel’s fortunes in just a few […]

Lewis Hamilton gave some frank views on who are his toughest adversaries on the track.

I think it’s worth pointing out that HAM is talking about who he’s wary of when overtaking (because of increased risk of […]

I think the comparison is completely valid – you can only compare them based on what actually happened, not “what if” scenacios.

Having said that, even if you did give Alonso an extra (for argument’s sake) 15 […]

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I think the best way to describe Button’s performance is to liken him to the Pirelli tyres – a small operating window, but when he’s in that window he’s up there with the very best.

Mclaren seemingly back at the top in dry conditions (although Button’s form remains erratic). I just hope they continue to develop the car to maintain the momentum – preferably in small iterations, rather than […]

Unless the Mclaren doesn’t go too well on the soft tyres, it looks as though HAM has a lot of pace still up his sleeve. His run on medium tyres only a couple of tenths off WEB’s best on softs, whereas his own lap […]

I think HAM has always been one of the fastest in wet conditions, but has thrown away a few good positions (Hungary vs Button springs to mind).

He did put in a lap that was much faster than anyone else managed […]

Interesting how some cars seemed to perform much better on full wets than intermediates and vice versa. Not sure if any of it was down to lack of fresh tyres, but HAM got a mighty lap out of the full wets at the […]

Racing incident between two hotheads

What exactly was “hot headed” about Hamilton in this situation? Was it the part where he dared not to raise the white flag and actually defend his position, or was it the […]

No, I think it’s just incompetence on this occasion. It was clear he had an edge over the field throughout qualifying. No need to deliberately under-fuel the car to gain half-a-tenth, especially given the high […]

LOL I don’t think many people want tyres that last 50,000 laps!

Shock horror, there might actually be a happy medium between what we have now and your extreme example. ;)

Whilst the last couple of minutes of Q3 was exciting, all I can say is that Schumacher is right about these tyres.

We’ve just seen a great example of exactly why there being so much onus on the tyres is a bad […]