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Man out of time - a quick catch-up

There are reasons why nothing has been posted for a little while, all of them rather too mundane to detain you with here. Time that might otherwise have been spent doing this had to be spent doing something else instead. There is, of course, a quick and easy fix: match my current salary.

Shall we have [...]

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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 [...]

2009, a race oddity: Abu Dhabi GP

Abu Dhabi. If we were to pool the combined knowledge of those occupying petrolheadblog.com Towers, we’d learn that Abu Dhabi is the capital city of the United Arab Emirates, that it has the hot, arid climate typical of the Gulf region and that no matter how hard he tried, Garfield could never quite successfully mail Nermal, [...]

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 [...]

Talking about something else instead: Japanese GP

What you need to know about the Japanese Grand Prix is this: Sebastian Vettel won from Jarno Trulli and Lewis Hamilton, the top three finishing as they’d started. Trulli had lost his place to Hamilton off the start, but regained it in the last round of stops when Lewis had an issue selecting gears as [...]

Weighing up: Suzuka qualifying

This week, “What you think you saw, you did not see.”

You know by now that a field of 20 drivers is whittled down to 10 via a pair of knockout qualifying sessions, leaving 10 drivers filling up with race fuel and fighting for pole while the other 10 do the filling up but leave the [...]

Not falling, just stumbling

From first practice for the Hungarian Grand Prix:

19. Buemi STR 1:23.998 +1.720
20. Alguersuari STR 1:24.228 +1.950

If he keeps that up all weekend, either STR have access to a wonderful simulator or questions need to be asked about the performance of all those folks with proper F1 experience. Unless it’s the cars, of course, but surely they aren’t [...]

The beginning of the end for F1’s youngest ever driver?

Felipe’s right, isn’t he?

There are to be no terrible Ferrari-based predictions this weekend, so let’s explore some other ways of setting up for a fall. About a week ago, when we were bidding Sebastien Bourdais farewell, I asked whether Scuderia Toro Rosso would be wise to put Jaime Alguersuari, a 19 year old with minimal F1 [...]

Farewell, Seabass

Unless Red Bull have some junior driver I’ve forgotten about, only 10% of the grid for the Hungarian Grand Prix will be called Seb. Sebastien Bourdais is the first F1 driver to lose his seat in 2009, paying the price for a season of underperformance at Scuderia Toro Rosso.

It’d be easy, if you were so inclined, to [...]

Not really covering the German GP after all

It turns out that I’m not going to have the time to knock together the usual race review. A couple of thoughts, though:

How nice to hear Mark Webber’s outpouring of emotion as he crossed the line. A fine, fine drive, and it’s scary to think how far he might have won by had he pushed [...]

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