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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 29th December 2016

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364: Why haven’t I written about the end of the Formula One season?

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 […]

ThomasJPitts 17th October 2016

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292: What happened in the 2016 Japanese Grand Prix?

Nico Rosberg strengthened his position at the top of the Driver’s Championship with another dominant victory at Suzuka, his lead is now 33 points with four races left – he can secure the title without winning another race this season if needed. Mercedes sealed their third consecutive Constructors’ Championship at the race with Lewis Hamilton’s […]

ThomasJPitts 2nd October 2016

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277: What happened in the 2016 Malaysian Grand Prix?

I normally like to mull a race over before writing about it, thinking about its impact on the championships and hunting out various stats. However, I didn’t want to fall into the trap of not writing about it with the Japanese Grand Prix only a week away and with a busy weekend ahead then. This […]

ThomasJPitts 4th September 2016

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249: What happened in the 2016 Italian Grand Prix?

The 2016 edition of the Italian Grand Prix was one dominated from start to finish by Nico Rosberg. His pole-sitting team-mate, Lewis Hamilton threw his opportunity for victory away at the start by making a poor start – however, he still finished second. Rosberg was unthreatened throughout the race and finished 15 seconds ahead of […]

ThomasJPitts 3rd August 2016

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217: What happened in the 2016 German Grand Prix?

They say you can’t have too much of a good thing, and this being the longest ever Formula One season you would hope that would apply. However, in the last 8 weeks, we have seen 6 races. Some of them have been ok, a couple have been very good, but a couple have also been […]

ThomasJPitts 3rd April 2016

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94: What happened in the 2016 Bahrain Grand Prix?

Quite a lot. Here are the main things: lots of battling through the midfield runners; another points scoring finish for Haas F1; the fifth consecutive race win for Nico Rosberg; a debut points finish for Stoffel Vandoorne. What didn’t happen is probably more significant though. There was no real battle for the lead – Rosberg […]

ThomasJPitts 26th May 2015

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Formula One

2015 Monaco Grand Prix: A Short Review and Championship Standings

One radio message sums up this race: “I’ve lost this race, haven’t I?” Those words, spoken by Lewis Hamilton after his team brought his in for fresh tyres towards the end of the race – with 15 laps to go – don’t show the anger and frustration that he did afterwards. This race was undoubtedly […]

ThomasJPitts 30th March 2015

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2015 Malaysian Grand Prix: A Short Review and Championship Standings

In the end this race, won by Ferrari‘s Sebastian Vettel, will be remembered as the beginning of a new chapter in his career. He will hope it provides him with a similar amount of success as his time at Red Bull did! Lewis Hamilton was on the back foot a bit as he had missed […]