|
|
Four months ago, the 2009 season went out with a quiet whimper in Abu Dhabi. In those four months, we’d had the return of one of the best there’s ever been, the never-ending USF1 saga and what looked to be one of the tightest winter testing periods in history. The grid contained four world champions, [...]
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 [...]
Where does the time go? Memories of petrolheadblog.com’s blue and white beginning are still fresh. Just 9 months later, it’s time to bid farewell to 2009.
The intention when petrolheadblog.com started was to cover as many forms of motorsport as possible. As time has gone on, I’ve found it necessary to become an F1 blogger making [...]
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 [...]
This week, “Domination: the act of being in control.”
With refuelling banned for 2010, this is the last time we get to do this for at least a year. A reminder, one final reminder, that qualifying is made up of 3 knockout sessions, with the fastest 10 drivers competing in Q3 with race fuel aboard while [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
This week, delayed because it is apparently written in law that the writer of this piece must attend at least one wedding each race weekend, “If you want to get ahead, get a Hamilton.”
Qualifying starts with 20 drivers and, via a process of lap time based elimination, ends with 10 setting the top grid times [...]
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 [...]
This week, “Brevity will get you everywhere.”
After the Chinese meal, the drinks that followed, the tour of Hartlepool’s clubs and the eventual horrible singing, it was the second chorus of Delilah that decisively saw off my already-fragile voice. I should really go and rest that, so we’ll not be long this week.
You know how these things [...]
|
|