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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 [...]
Kimi Raikkonen today became the first Formula One world champion to make a full-time switch to the World Rally Championship, committing to a one-year deal with the Citroen Junior team. He’ll be driving the Citroen C4 WRC that has carried Sebastien Loeb to the last three of his six consecutive WRC titles, in a two-car team with [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Some of the folk who visit this tiny little corner of the Internet work, or have worked, in PR roles within motorsport. They understand this whole business far better than anyone with 18 years viewing experience and a sweet Damon Hill cap could ever hope to. Perhaps they’ll gently shake their head when they learn [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
This week, subtitled “Lightning never strikes in the same pl…oh.” More on that in a second.
First, the weights. For the newcomers, the cars all weigh 605kg without fuel. The top 10 drivers qualified with their race fuel on board, so we can see who did the best job, and for those outside the top 10 [...]
145 days have passed since Interlagos 2008. 145 days since that race, that rain shower, that final lap. A long winter and a late start for the Formula One circus, but with the winter politicking as controversial as ever, the time has flown. After an off-season testing period that posed more questions than it answered, are we [...]
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