Formula One
Spanish Grand Prix 2013: Race
Felipe Massa will receive a three-place grid penalty for the Spanish Grand Prix for impeding Mark Webber in the second part of qualifying yesterday. Esteban Gutierrez gets the same punishment for blocking Kimi Raikkonen earlier in the session. The starting grid for today’s race therefore looks like this (drivers with penalties in italics): Nico Rosberg, Mercedes […]
Formula One
Spanish Grand Prix 2013: Qualifying
This is going to be a strange post to write. I’ll end up watching sessions 1 and 2 live, but a Grange Moor Band job will mean that I have to miss Q1 live and watch that on replay afterwards. After 4 rounds, it’s probably time to look at the qualifying battle so far in […]
Formula One
Bahrain Grand Prix 2013: Race
Five minutes to go before the race begins. I hope this will become a good race – Bahrain races tend to be fairly dull, mainly due to the sandy track surface making overtaking very difficult. However, there are two DRS zones here this year, with the length of the front straight into Turn 1 looking […]
Formula One
Bahrain Grand Prix 2013: Qualifying
Firstly, I am not watching qualifying live. I have been completing a job outside and so the result has already been decided. Some news though, Lewis Hamilton will receive a 5 place grid penalty for having to change his gearbox after a third practice accident. Mark Webber and Esteban Gutierrez will also have 5 place penalties. The […]
Formula One
Chinese Grand Prix 2013: Race
Here we go then. Mark Webber now starts from the pit lane after first being relegated to the back for fuel problems yesterday. Further changes overnight to his gearbox mean starting from the pit lane. The main thing to watch for in this race is tyres: some drivers are on the harder medium compound to […]