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Going all the way with Kate’s Dirty Sister

No, really.

I’m sure a fair few of you noticed a curious sticker affixed to the cockpit of Sebastian Vettel’s winning Red Bull in Shanghai.  It turns out that Sebastian is in the habit of naming his racing cars.  Last year’s Toro Rosso was Julie, this year’s Red Bull named Kate.  Kate met a sticky end against [...]

Red Bull Gives You Water Wings: China GP

Sometimes, when you close your eyes and la-la-la-I’m-not-listening at all of the politics, all of the stewards enquiries and all of the off-track rubbish, you find that the racing you’re trying to concentrate on instead is good enough to make you wonder why the teams and governing bodies keep trying to make us ignore it.

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Wet Wet Wet

15 minutes to the off in China, and it’s soaking wet.

That means a reprieve for the teams who were going to struggle on super-soft dry tyres, because even if the track dries, the rule that states teams must use both types of dry tyre doesn’t apply if the race is declared wet.  It means that [...]

Weighing Up: Shanghai Qualifying

Tonight’s look at relative fuel loads is, for one night only, subtitled Permission To Grin Smugly.  Post-qualifying weights in kilos, and lack of weights in kilos, for the 20 starters in tomorrow’s Chinese Grand Prix:

1. Sebastian Vettel, Red Bull, 644kg
2. Fernando Alonso, Renault, 637
3. Mark Webber, Red Bull, 646.5
4. Rubens Barrichello, Brawn GP, 661
5. Jenson Button, [...]

Return of the Mystic Petrolhead: Chinese GP Qualifying

It’s a bit tricky to analyse a qualifying session when you were travelling to work and barely saw any of it, but if either of the two men on the front row can get out of their own way tomorrow I’ll be very impressed.

Well, no, that’s being a bit harsh on one of them, I [...]