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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 [...]

Honestly, you look away for two days…

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Alonso to Ferrari, floodgates to open

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 [...]

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 [...]

Happening before your very eyes: Belgian GP

Formula One is so terribly predictable these days, isn’t it? In such a technologically advanced sport, one where what you’re driving matters as much as how you drive it, a quick car is a quick car. There’s no mystery any more. Unless it’s one of those races where the weather can’t make its mind up, [...]

Austrian team, German driver, Swiss precision: British GP

In a week dominated by political headlines, some of them unforeseen, some unfortunate and some frankly unsavoury, Formula One needed a thrilling British Grand Prix. The sport needed something to draw media and public attention away from the infighting and backstabbing so prevalent among the egos at the top of the tree. It needed a [...]

Politics-free Silverstone practice impressions

We’re not talking about it. We’re really not. As promised, unless something spectacular happens between now and Monday morning, petrolheadblog.com’s Silverstone race weekend coverage will be exactly that. This weekend (and, if I’ve any brains at all, only this weekend) we shall be heeding the words of the famous Kentuckian philosopher Darrell Waltrip, whose most famous utterance [...]

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