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Milky yet reasonably strong: Bahrain 2010

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, [...]

The 2009 petrolheadblog.com Awards

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 [...]

petrolheadblog.com's 2009 Top 10

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, [...]

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 [...]

By 5 o'clock everything's dead: Singapore GP

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 [...]

Weighing Up: Silverstone qualifying

This week subtitled, “At least the certain winner isn’t called Jenson…”

Never seen one of these before?  Here’s how it works: each car weighs 605 kg without fuel.  The top 10 drivers run the final part of qualifying with their race fuel aboard, and the FIA publish the car weights so we can compare relative performances [...]

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 [...]

Weighing Up: Istanbul qualifying

Brawn were quick, Red Bull were wonderful in the faster corners and the Ferrari revival appeared to only be partial.  Proof, if it were needed, that if you keep on making predictions for long enough you’ll eventually fluke one.

Sebastian Vettel was fastest in all three stages of qualifying on his way to pole position, just [...]