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Walking Away: Anything Webbo can do…

…Francisco Carvalho can do better.

Ever found yourself walking along the street thinking about what you’d do if you were suddenly confronted by an out of control, airborne Seat Leon? Try this handy video guide – we’ll sum up once you’re done:

In summary, then:

1) Run
2) Keep running

It’s easy to be flippant about these things when you [...]

This weekend’s forecast: overblown with a 95% chance of monotone

You may remember that last September, this little blog ran a piece on Nigel Mansell, a brilliant racing driver with a taste for overacting and the ability to suck every last drop of excitement from a sporting moment simply by speaking. In that piece, which those in need of a refresher can find somewhere [...]

The Canberra Milk Kid takes flight

For the benefit of those who’ve just returned from a weekend break on Jupiter, here’s an Australian chap having a bad Sunday afternoon:

It’s a testament to the strength of modern-day Formula 1 machines that Mark Webber got out of that with nothing more than a scratched arm, and a wave of Lady Luck’s fair hand [...]

Slight differences of opinion, part two

For those of you who like your sport to contain the odd bit of handbags at 10 paces, yesterday’s press conference exchange between Jarno Trulli and Adrian Sutil will make wonderful reading.

Jarno is still more than a little upset over their coming together in the Brazilian race a couple of weeks ago, in which Jarno [...]

Escape to victory: Brazilian GP

Time flies when you’re having fun. Melbourne seemed like only yesterday, yet already we were almost done. Three men within two races of their first world championship.

One man, Jenson Button, had spent the entire year with one hand on the trophy, but that hand had been slipping since early summer. Without a win to his name [...]

Talking about something else instead: Japanese GP

What you need to know about the Japanese Grand Prix is this: Sebastian Vettel won from Jarno Trulli and Lewis Hamilton, the top three finishing as they’d started. Trulli had lost his place to Hamilton off the start, but regained it in the last round of stops when Lewis had an issue selecting gears as [...]

Weighing up: Suzuka qualifying

This week, “What you think you saw, you did not see.”

You know by now that a field of 20 drivers is whittled down to 10 via a pair of knockout qualifying sessions, leaving 10 drivers filling up with race fuel and fighting for pole while the other 10 do the filling up but leave the [...]

When is a grid not a grid?

After qualifying for the Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka, which will be weighed up in the usual manner later, penalties were issued to Rubens Barrichello, Jenson Button, Adrian Sutil, Sebastien Buemi and, amusingly, the saintly Fernando Alonso. Four of those men failed to slow down sufficiently for yellow flags, while Buemi dragged a rolling wreck [...]

By 5 o'clock everything's dead: Singapore GP

Del Amitri had the right idea. If every third car was a cab, there might be a bit of overtaking, though the pit stops for fuel, tyres and a newspaper might not be that compelling.

Then again, if it’s a choice between that and the Singapore Grand Prix, it might be worth taking the Daily Star [...]

And then there were two: Italian GP

You can only miss so many opportunities before you are punished for it. As Jenson Button spent the summer forgetting how to win, the watching world waited for his nearest challengers to take advantage. Waited, waited, waited. Come the Italian Grand Prix at Monza, his lead stood at 16 points with only 50 left to [...]

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