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New Ferrari and McLaren break cover

In order to keep this little article halfway sensible in length and appearance, you’re about to be linked to within an inch of your lives.  Be ready.  The links are for comparative purposes, so if all you’re interested in is pictures of new cars, you’re quite safe to ignore them all.  Speaking of pictures, a [...]

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It’s the done thing at this time of year, isn’t it?

The teams we all expected to challenge were nowhere.  The teams we’d written off in pre-season were somewhere, and a team that barely made it to the first race won the whole show.  The world champion divided opinion, with his supporters matched in size and volume [...]

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 [...]

A quick F1 digest

Listen up, soldiers!  A few things to fill you in on.

One of next year’s nailed-on driver moves has been confirmed, Robert Kubica committing to Renault for 2010 and quite possibly no longer than that, being one of the men keeping a keen eye on Felipe Massa’s performance on the off chance that the Brazilian’s comeback [...]

Replacing Massa’s replacement’s replacement

Third time lucky?

First there was Michael Schumacher, whose fractured neck put paid to his comeback before it ever really started.  Then there was People’s Champion Luca Badoer, whose comedy stylings reminded fans worldwide that they were only a couple of lucky breaks away from driving the second Ferrari themselves.  Now?

As the only one [...]

Ferrari confirm Massa’s replacement’s replacement

It was a glorious dream while it lasted, wasn’t it?  Michael Schumacher has announced that injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident in February are severe enough to end his planned comeback before it ever got started.

His injuries, for those disinclined to click on the link, included fractures to the head and neck.  Had we all [...]

Because F1 can do good news too

Enough negativity.  Time for something positive:

Felipe Massa, 10 days on from his horrific accident in Hungary, already back home in Sao Paulo.

Ferrari confirm Massa’s replacement

Yes, there are still issues from Hungary to talk about.  All in good time.

First, some news on Ferrari.  Felipe Massa’s personal doctor has said today that his left eye doesn’t show any signs of long-term damage, his recovery is progressing well and he should be able to race again.  Only a couple of days ago [...]

Get well soon, Felipe

The good news for those of you who’d prefer it if my social life didn’t keep getting in the way of race weekends is that I’ve got nothing planned for the next month.  The bad news is that neither does the Formula One circus.

The Hungarian Grand Prix threw up a couple of talking points which [...]