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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 [...]
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 [...]
An awful lot of things happened these past few days, and I was ill so didn’t get to blog about any of them. The topics that merit further attention will receive it in due course, so let’s recap quickly:
Mercedes have bought a controlling stake in Brawn GP. The team will race in 2010 as Mercedes [...]
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 [...]
Formula One’s worst-kept secret is out, Ferrari confirming Fernando Alonso on a three year deal starting in 2010.
It has since emerged that a deal starting in 2011 was concluded in the summer but has since been brought forward, the recent race fixing scandal and Kimi Raikkonen’s acceptance that he is no longer wanted at Maranello [...]
A couple of quick ones for you, appearing here because to have put them in the main write-up would have given the altogether false impression that what took place today was an interesting motor race:
- Martin Brundle called him ‘Teflonso’ on the grid. How many of you are sat kicking yourselves right now for not [...]
Might. For the love of all, remember that their accusers need not be telling the truth.
What we should be discussing is a mouthwatering weekend at Monza, with only five weekends left to settle a championship nobody wants to take ownership of, one in which almost the entire grid suddenly looks capable of causing a disturbance at [...]
From the freshly-released full Court Of Appeal judgement allowing Renault to race this weekend, a chunk of the FIA’s decision to ban Renault from the European Grand Prix:
The contested decision further states that the Competitor knowingly released car no. 7 from the pit stop position without one of the retaining devices for the wheel-nuts being securely [...]
…what? Issues from Hungary to talk about? Oh, bugger.
One of those issues was the penalty given to Renault for an incident at the Hungaroring. The team were adjugded to have released Fernando Alonso’s car from its first pit stop before it was safe to do so, and were excluded from this week’s European Grand Prix [...]
Friend of petrolheadblog.com Nelson Piquet Jr has been shown the door by Renault, and it’s fair to say that he isn’t overjoyed about it.
Let’s get the mitigating circumstances out of the way first. Nelsinho cites his manager and team boss Flavio Briatore as his ‘executioner’, and if that’s an accurate description then he wouldn’t be [...]
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