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 […]
Quite a lot. The new system sees the slowest car knocked out every 90 seconds in the second part of each of three sessions. The teams had warned everyone wince the changes were announced – just three weeks ago – that the new format would result in no cars on track at the end of the […]
“Nico Rosberg obtuvo el segundo lugar” by Joaquin.ignacio.mc – Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 via Commons – https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nico_Rosberg_obtuvo_el_segundo_lugar.jpg#/media/File:Nico_Rosberg_obtuvo_el_segundo_lugar.jpg Stats Wins Nico Rosberg took his 11th F1 victory which put him level with one of the drivers he shared the podium with – Felipe Massa – as well as Jacques Villeneuve and Rubens Barrichello. […]
“Hamilton Canada 2015” by Richard Paquet – https://www.flickr.com/photos/rpaquet/18495848738. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 via Commons – https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hamilton_Canada_2015.jpg#/media/File:Hamilton_Canada_2015.jpg Stats Consecutive Front Row Starts Lewis Hamilton equalled Sebastian Vettel’s best run of consecutive front row starts with his 14th. But he needs to keep going for ten more races to equal the record set by Ayrton Senna. […]
I’m not sure whether Sebastian Vettel‘s dominance of Formula One at the moment is good for it or not, but it is leading to dull races. Sure there was a fair amount of overtaking in Italy today, but nobody could possibly challenge for the lead at any stage. He has now won as many Grands […]
I’ve just finished watching an illuminating interview with Max Mosley, former president of motor sport’s international governing body, the FIA. He presided over the sport from 1993 until 2009 – and therefore the majority of recent times when I’ve been watching it. He led the safety revolution in the mid-90s after the deaths of Roland […]
I’ve blogged on this day before – not today, but 30th April – I remember that because it was this 2004 post about Roland Ratzenberger. He was the up coming F1 driver who died the day before Ayrton Senna did at Imola 19 years ago. This is the strange feeling. I remember that day so […]
Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso can join an exclusive group later this weekend if he wins his third world title. Other triple world champions are Ayrton Senna (1988, 1990, 1991), Nelson Piquet (1981, 1983, 1987), Niki Lauda (1975, 1977, 1984), Jackie Stewart (1969, 1971, 1973) and Jack Brabham (1959, 1960, 1966). If Alonso does win this title, […]
Many things excite me about the title of this post. Ayrton Senna is one of the most thrilling Formula One drivers of all time. The Honda NSX is a wonderful piece of machinery. Suzuka is a fabulous circuit. In this video, all three are combined. Brazilian Formula One World Champion Ayrton Senna, for whom Honda had […]
While I wasn’t alive to see him race, I’ve read about and seen enough of his career to know how fabulous Gilles Villeneuve was. Today, 25 years ago, Formula One lost one of its greatest ever exponents, a man whose modest record belied an impact on the sport so profound that his memory lives on […]
