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I’m pretty sure that’s what Senna, Mansell, Piquet, Villeneueve (Giles or Jacques), Montoya, etc would all said.

Would that be the same Gilles Villeneuve who sat loyally behind his team mate at Monza in 1979, […]

At this point I feel obliged to don my anorak and point out that in the video Alesi was testing the 642 (an updated version of Ferrari’s successful and very pretty 1990 car), whereas Prost’s “truck” comment was […]

Perez started his career in Sauber, then ferrari said he is inexperienced and not good enough and mclaren picked him up. Raikkonen started his f1 carrer in Sauber, ferrrari said he was inexperienced and not good […]

A WDC within the next three years? Impossible to say definitively either way, but stranger things have happened and it wouldn’t be a huge surprise…

Part of it depends on Mercedes – is the parent company […]

I think in 1989 Senna clearly had a point.

He did, and the reasons for his actions in 1990 are very convincingly put by the film of the same name.

What the film failed to give very much weight to, however, […]

I’m not sure I’d count that a lucky escape – certainly Donnelly was fortunate to be alive, but he suffered career-ending injuries and has never raced in any serious way again. I saw him in the paddock at Thruxton […]

Actually, the first outfit run by Frank Williams was Frank Williams Racing Cars which was later bought by Walter Wolf with Frank kept on as team manager, but he quickly became disillusioned and left. Starting […]

I remember when the drivers didn’t like racing against Sato back in 2005 I think.

Sato was a bit incident prone but I can’t recall him ever intentionally driving into an opponent, which Maldonado has done twice […]

I think people have every right to be annoyed about what happened on Friday and Saturday.

Of course they do, but even Bernie – a longstanding critic of Silverstone in the wake of the 2000 debacle – is saying […]

The properties of the ‘material’ used in the car does not govern its aero-efficiency, it only influences it by taking a shape in the form of a winf or a winglet etc.

@deepaksingh – That effectively assumes that […]

It’s great to see how our understanding of physics and aerodynamics evolved through the years.

Not to mention our understanding of material science, which has allowed us to exploit our understanding of physics […]

On top of this, all the discussion on whether Hamilton should have let him by or been less agressive is even more ridulous. Why on earth should he have to do that? We didn’t hear any calls for Kovalainnen to let […]

Newey joined Williams in 1990 having been fired by Leyton House in the middle of the year – just before Capeli’s astonishing drive at that year’s French GP – and had a big impact at Williams almost immediately. […]

I think the easiest way to do that would be to restructure everything so that series flow into one another.

That has an attractive simplicity – and GP3 to GP2 is fine – but I don’t think it works in practice. […]

The more fundamental question Ferrari need to ask themselves here is just what sort of team do they want to run?

Are they intending to build themselves around Alonso with a strong, reliable but generally […]

Niki Lauda saw the accident as follows: “To my mind, when you are coming in, you should either edge out towards the grass verge or clearly adhere to the ideal line, so the the driver coming up behind you knows […]

I seem to recall Michael Schumacher calling for wheel-protectors at a couple of points in the mid-1990s. One of the arguments wheeled out in response was that it would make drivers (not least Schumacher, some […]

Francois Fillon, the Prime Minister under Sarkozy, is probably going to be replaced (though as I don’t know the nuances of the French political system, I can’t say for sure).

The French Prime Minister is […]

Interesting that you should highlight Alonso and Raikkonen – they were two of the drivers who struggled most to adapt to the Bridgestone control tyres introduced in 2007, having used Michelins in previous […]

If I won the lottery, I’d have that in the middle of my lounge room — no matter how awkward that made everyone’s life! Oh, and I’d have to start it and rev it every day, too.

I can’t help but think you’ve […]