Paul Henman

RACE 1000 A very close Qualifying session ended with another all-Mercedes front row, a bit unexpected for the 10,00th race. Fun watching Johnny Herbert ask F1 drivers for their favourite races; so many great moments, especially the footage of the very first race which was held at Silverstone and that’s why (Bernie and I think) […]

Grand Prix of China – Qualifying

April 13, 2019

It’s the 1,000th round of the world championship – it’s quite muddy how the FAI determined this because between 1950 and 1960 the Indianapolis 500 was included in the world championship even though there was barely any participation by F1 teams or drivers, and in 1952 and 1953 the sport was run to Formula 2 […]

Grand Prix of Bahrain – Race

March 31, 2019

Ferrari fill the front row of the grid, with LEC just ahead of VET after a strong Qualifying session by the youngster. Quali ended with the provisional grid: LEC, VET, HAM, BOT, VER, MAG, SAI, GRO*, RAI, NOR*, RIC, ALB, GAS, PER, KVY, GIO, HUL, STR, RUS, KUB; *Q1 incident involving GRO and NOR under […]

Grand Prix of Bahrain – Qualifying

March 30, 2019

Mercedes came away from Australia with all the points – BOT heads the Drivers’ Championship by the biggest margin ever, thanks to the new-for-2019 extra point for fastest lap, and with HAM finishing P2 that gives the silver arrows a 22-point lead over Ferrari going in to round 2 of the season. However, it’s not […]

Grand Prix of Australia – Race

March 17, 2019

Yesterday’s Qualifying was the first real chance to see the relative performance of the new cars. Provisional grid: HAM, BOT, VET, VER, LEC, GRO, MAG, NOR, RAI, PER, HUL, RIC, ALB, GIO, KVY, STR, GAS, SAI, RUS, KUB The only penalties so far have been financial penalties for unsafe releases by Haas in Q1 and […]

Grand Prix of Australia – Qualifying

March 16, 2019

The F1 season kicks off in Australia as usual. I posted last month about the team and driver changes; as per previous years, I’ll be using drivers’ abbreviated names (e.g. HAM for Hamilton) just so I can keep up when I’m writing notes. Sadly the season gets off to a sad start as Charlie Whiting, […]

F1 line-up, 2019

February 16, 2019

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Changes since the end of the 2018 season: Sauber is now Alfa Romeo, back for the first time since 1985 Force India became Force India Racing Point during last season, but now they’re just Racing Point Fernando Alonso left F1 for Indy, and recently won the Daytona 24-hour race, although Zak Brown has said he […]

F1 calendar, 2019

February 14, 2019

The start of the 2019 season is a month away: Race Day Venue Grand Prix Quali Standings 17 March Melbourne Australia notes – 31 March Sakhir Bahrain notes – 14 April Shanghai China * notes points 28 April Baku Azerbaijan notes – 12 May Barcelona Spain notes – 26 May Monte Carlo Monaco notes – […]

Photo updates, November 2018

December 1, 2018