Englishman living in Canada; photographer; Agile coach; badminton player; Formula One (F1) fan.
Mercedes have the front row locked out again, although HAM is “only” P2. There are no penalties coming out of Qualifying, so the grid is unchanged. Grid: BOT, HAM, LEC, VER, GAS, VET, RIC, NOR, ALB, HUL, GIO, RAI, SAI, GRO, PER, MAG, KVY, STR, RUS, KUB It’s looking a little overcast, and there’s talk […]
Great to hear that Silverstone’s contract has been renewed for another five years. I’ve been busy at the Toronto Indy race weekend, so I’m catching up on F1 quite a bit later and somehow I’ve avoided spoilers so far. With HAM finishing down in P5 in Austria and BOT in P3, there’s just 31 points […]
There’s been three races since Monaco: Canada: HAM, VET, LEC, BOT*, VER, RIC, HUL, GAS, STR, KVY France: HAM, BOT, LEC, VER, VET*, SAI, RAI, HUL, NOR, GAS Austria: VER*, LEC, BOT, VET, HAM, NOR, GAS, SAI, RAI, GIO (*indicates fastest lap) Here are the standings: Drivers points 1 HAM 197 (6 wins; 1 […]
June seems to have a sports theme – two rugby games and the Raptors parade (as NBA champions). Toronto Wolfpack vs Dewsbury Rams – 15/06/2019 Raptors parade – 17/06/2019 Toronto Wolfpack vs Toulouse Olympique – 22/06/2019 [My monthly round up posts on this site] [Last month: May] Want more? [Photoblog] [Flickr albums]
The Qualifying session was interesting yesterday, after which the provisional grid was: LEC, HAM**, VER, BOT, MAG*, NOR, RAI, GIO, GAS, VET, GRO, HUL*, ALB*, RIC, SAI*, PER, STR, KVY, RUS, KUB *Penalties to be applied for MAG, HUL, ALB & SAI A couple of Q1 incidents were investigated following which both HAM and RUS […]
It’s only been a few days since France, which ended with RIC being handed two post-race time penalties by the stewards; he said he thinks one is a bit harsh but agrees with the other – see VET, this is how a professional handles it. So the revised result of the French GP: HAM, BOT, […]
There were 2 investigations outstanding at the end of Qualifying yesterday: Incident involving RAI and RIC will be investigated after the session (for leaving track) Incident involving RAI and GRO will be investigated after the session (for unsafe rejoining track) “The stewards ruled Ricciardo took reasonable steps to avoid holding up Raikkonen and also ruled […]
Obviously the main news since Canada has been all about Ferrari and Vettel continuing to whine about the penalty that cost Vettel the victory. Initially Ferrari said they would appeal but then changed that to a request for a review … and yesterday the FIA rejected the “new evidence”. [BBC] [FIA] Sporting director Laurent Mekies […]
There were a couple of incidents under investigation at the end of Qualifying yesterday. Provisional grid: VET, HAM, LEC*, RIC, GAS, BOT, HUL, NOR, SAI*, MAG*, VER, KVY, GIO, ALB, GRO, PER, RAI, STR, RUS, KUB SAI lost three grid places (and gained a penalty point on his Super License) for impeding ALB LEC was […]
Not much in the way of news since the Monaco GP weekend, although there were some updates after the race which I posted on that page; here’s the summary: VER given two penalty points on his licences for the incident with BOT in the pit lane MAG relegated from 12th to 14th place (and given […]
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