The weather looks good today in Montreal – certainly better than yesterday. Sebastian Vettel starts today’s 70-lap encounter from pole position. Lewis Hamilton will race him on the short run to Turn 1. Valtteri Bottas is handily placed in a superb third position on the grid, alongside Monaco GP winner Nico Rosberg. The grid: * Ten place […]
A bit of a change to these posts as I move to ten lap summaries. This is down to a few reasons, the main one being a short lap around Monaco leading to 1m15-16s lap times. The weather looks good today and the mixed weather of yesterday appears to have gone. Here’s how the grid […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Up bright and early, 4 hours after going to bed, to watch this race. Settled nicely downstairs with Kit and a cup of coffee. I will certainly be taking a nap after this one even though it’ll be roughly 8am by the time the race is over. Nico Hulkenberg had a major fuel system problem on his […]