I realise that I haven’t posted much about last year’s Formula One season, but I have been creating my usual graphs to display the progress of each participant in both the drivers and constructors championships throughout the year after each race. Below you can see how the season developed in those title fights, ultimately won […]
Photos taken on a lovely day out watching the British Touring Car Championship series at Oulton Park. Location: Oulton Park, Little Budworth, Tarporley CW6 9BW
I love a good graph. So, here are two showing the Championship points throughout the 2017 F1 season in both Drivers’ and Constructor’s Championships. If we focus on the two title protagonists, Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel, it’s clear to me that Ferrari, in particular, threw the Championship away with poor reliability and some silly […]
Now in its third year, the Tour de Yorkshire passed through Gomersal yesterday. I was taken aback by the number of people who were out on the streets to watch the cyclists hard at work. We had decided that being on Spen Lane would be a good place to watch as the hill there is […]
The long wait for the 2017 Formula One Season to begin ended at the end of March. A new era of regulations creating more aggressive looking cars with wider tyres and revised rear wings had generated a lot of interest over the winter break. The takeover by Liberty Media had also seen huge advances in […]
Autosport.com posted today that “McLaren would be ‘disappointed’ with fourth” at the conclusion of the next Formula One season. This is after coming ninth in 2015 and sixth last year. I hope, being a fan of the team, that comes to be, but whether they can come close to Mercedes, Red Bull and Ferrari and […]
Simply because I’ve been distracted by other projects… bits and bobs. And also because the shock retirement of Nico Rosberg soon after clinching his title came as a huge surprise. It threw the driver’s market into disarray. There still hasn’t been an announcement about Lewis Hamilton’s teammate for next year, but the strong rumours surrounding […]
A mere five days after he became Formula One World Champion, Nico Rosberg has announced, quite out of the blue, that, for sure, he is retiring. He had been confirmed as the Mercedes teammate to Lewis Hamilton for next year. I sort of understand where he is coming from. He has raced for 25 years […]
The odds were always in his favour, but Nico Rosberg eventually became World Champion this afternoon. He becomes the 33rd person to achieve that feat. 21 of them are still alive. He is also the third German driver to do this after Michael Schumacher and Sebastian Vettel. Lewis Hamilton became the first driver to win […]
Nico Rosberg goes into tomorrow’s final Formula One race in Abu Dhabi 12 points ahead of Lewis Hamilton. If Hamilton wins at the Yas Marina Circuit, Rosberg must finish third or better. If Hamilton crosses the line in second place, Rosberg needs to be sixth or better. If the German finishes seventh, they would be […]
