Tag Archive | F1
My View on the Lewis Hamilton Controversy
I think Lewis really needs to change something in the way he mentally tackles a race. He’s said before that he won’t change his driving style regardless of what happens because it’s just the driver he is. That’s all well and good, but he has to ask himself if he wants to win another championship. [...]
F1: Turkish Grand Prix Thoughts
The Turkish Grand Prix in Istanbul extended F1′s streak of exciting races to start this season. While we still had the same winner and pole sitter, that didn’t stop it from being an enthralling race in which you couldn’t predict the podium result until right near the end of the race due to predominantly the tyres. People [...]
F1: Australia, Malaysia and China Thoughts
Here’s what I think quickly about each of the first 3 flyaway races of the season in F1. Austalia The DRS wasn’t very successful in the first race, not long enough to make it work as desired but it did add some overtaking at least, but not enough. Red Bull far ahead of everyone else, [...]
F1: Season Pecking Order Prediction
Now that testing has come and gone, and we’re 2 weeks away from the start of the season in Melbourne, we’re a little closer to understanding where all of the teams will be in performance. We still are essentially guessing, as a variety of factors can prevent onlookers from getting a true sense of where [...]
Williams FW33 Final 2011 Livery
Williams finally showed off their car in its final form today with the definite colour scheme it will sport for the 2011 season. Upon first glance, it isn’t a whole lot different from the last several years, but for several new details which harken back to the 1990s when the team was sponsored by Rothmans. [...]
F1 2011 Testing So Far
Testing has been interesting so far. As always, the times are not generally representitive of actual pace under race conditions. Not only this, but many teams still aren’t running their Bahrain packages which means they have several major upgrades to come before the first race, which may or may not take place, due to the [...]
Force India VJM04 2011 Car Launch
The new Force India car is an interesting subject. The air-box has been changed considerably to use the blade style pioneered by Mercedes last year, and adopted by Team Lotus this year. It’s an interesting change considering Mercedes themselves haven’t continued with that concept and have gone back to a traditional style. The front of [...]
First Images of the HRT F111 2011 Car Released
It’s clear to see where Daniel Simon got the inspiration for this livery. They even call it the cosmic motors livery in the above picture. It looks a lot better than last year’s ugly grey design but I’m not sure what it really has to do with Spain. That’s not necessarily a problem, but even [...]
F1 Off-Season News #4
Tony Fernandes was offered £6 million from Lotus to abandon name This is a bit of old news now, and I don’t really want to cover this silly argument much more, but it was interesting that Tony Fernandes responded to Gerard Lopez’s accusations that Team Lotus only kept the name to keep the FOM money [...]
Virgin Racing MVR-02 2011 Car Launch
Today was the turn of the latest F1 team to launch their 2011 car. Virgin Racing, now officially named with Marussia, the Russian sports car maker and major sponsor in the title, unveiled their new car at the BBC television centre. I really like the shape of the new car over the previous [...]
