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ThomasJPitts 27th December 2017

2017, Formula One, Sport

The 2017 F1 Season: Final Championship Points

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 […]

ThomasJPitts 15th April 2017

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What happened in the 2017 Australian Grand Prix?

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 […]

ThomasJPitts 13th January 2017

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Ripped from the headlines

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 […]

ThomasJPitts 29th April 2016

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120: Should F1 adopt the canopy driver protection system?

In my view, no matter what the looks of the car are, safety is absolutely paramount. The aesthetics of the proposed Red Bull system, introduced today as a test in Russia’s Frist Practice session, are a lot better than Ferrari’s halo system – which is a terrible design. I’m not convinced they suit the car […]