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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

How Renault might have gone race-fixing

Might. For the love of all, remember that their accusers need not be telling the truth.

What we should be discussing is a mouthwatering weekend at Monza, with only five weekends left to settle a championship nobody wants to take ownership of, one in which almost the entire grid suddenly looks capable of causing a disturbance at [...]

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, [...]

World's nicest driver wins motor race: European GP

In the port area of Valencia, on the eastern coast of Spain, the local streets join up with some purpose-built stretches of asphalt to create a racing circuit, home to the European Grand Prix. Travel far enough up the coastline, stopping to pass border control on the way, and you’ll arrive in Monaco:

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 [...]

Call off the dogs: Turkish GP

They’re not catching Jenson Button now. If you’re one of the people who were wise enough to back Jenson for the title at 300/1 before the season started, put your betting slip somewhere very safe. It would have needed one of the strays that claimed Bruno Senna in a GP2 race last year (animal lovers take [...]

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