F1 Fanatic

I have the app. I find it’s priceless in helping me to follow the action, particularly for the races which are only available live on Sky. I mainly flick between the circuit map screen and the live timing screen […]

It sounds like Christian Horner is struggling to control his drivers. If he knows his team orders will be ignored during a race, then why bother with them? To cover his own back perhaps he’s saying “If Seb and […]

I don’t think the main reason for team orders in the races so far this year is worries about tyre wear, certainly when we’re talking about orders relating to passing or not passing team mates. I think it may be […]

I’m finding it difficult to pick the best driver from this weekend. For me no one had an exceptional weekend. The Red Bull drivers did more or less what I’d expect from them, as did the Mercedes. The Ferraris, […]

I think what Vettel did was completely wrong. Whilst I largely disagree with the idea behind team orders from a fans point of view, I want to see the best car and driver win after all, I completely understand why […]

I have no sympathy for Red Bull and their tyre wear issues. From the evidence so far this season it looks like some of the other teams have done a better job on managing tyre wear then them, Lotus and Force India […]

I don’t understand why they persist having sessions in the late afternoon year after year when the race organisers and FOM know that the climate and prevailing weather seems to mean rain is almost always […]

I voted for Kimi Raikkonen as I think he managed to make a 2 stop strategy work in the race and didn’t make any mistakes other than in qualifying, which I think he made up for with his overtakes at the start of […]

It’s a pity Rosberg retired as he and Hamilton appeared to have a similar race pace and it would have been interesting to see if they could have got to the end on a two stopper. Apparently Hamilton flat spotted […]

9/10
The race was a lot better than I expected after the qualifying result. Though it was pretty clear by halfway how the various strategies were going to play out, it was still entertaining waiting for them to […]

I hate to say it but, barring rain and unreliability, the only way I can see someone from a team other than Red Bull winning is if Red Bull make a mistake with their tyre strategy and someone else gets it perfect. […]

Despite the conditions we’ve ended up with the usual suspects in more less their usual positions right the way down the grid. Watching the cars at the back of the grid start could be pretty interesting as 5 out of […]

As I was only listening to commentary on the radio I can’t really comment on whether race control was overly cautious, but in general from the races I have seen, I think in general, they are overly cautious when […]

I’m slightly worried for Mclaren as I don’t think Button and Perez are the best at dragging performance out of the car if its hard to find or not there, as it seems to be at the moment. Hoping they don’t spend the […]

It looks like it might be a strong weekend for Mclaren as long as they can qualify in the dry and stay out of trouble in the race. Given the season so far, and today’s sessions I’m not ruling out Alonso either, […]

Only 5/10 I think.
The number of replays the director felt the need to show of the very straightforward DRS pass of Webber on Alonso for the lead says it all really.

Everyone in the points other than […]

Even if it stays dry qualifying’s going to be very interesting. There’s 5 or 6 teams that looked quick this morning, though there’s a thought at the back of mind I’m trying to suppress that Vettel will come out at […]

I feel sorry for the fans paying to watch practice sessions then seeing no action due to rain, but unfortunately that’s motor sport. Perhaps there’s scope for refunds or partial refunds depending on just how much […]

The BBC are saying she has life threatening injuries. sounds very worrying. Just hope she’s going to be ok. Sounds like something must have gone very wrong for an accident like this to happen at a straight line test though.

9/10 for me.

The first half of the race was interesting but Vettel scampering off into the distance took a little bit away from it. Then the safety car came out and the race got very busy. An unusual amount of […]