Englishman living in Canada; photographer; Agile coach; badminton player; Formula One (F1) fan.
Brazil is the penultimate race of the 2019 season; the Drivers’ and Constructors’ Championship titles are decided but there’s plenty to fight for in the midfield and further down. Despite qualifying P4 (and then dropping 10 places because of engine changes), LEC has sewn up the challenge for most pole positions – he’s had 7 […]
HAM sealed the Drivers’ Championship at the GP of America, and Mercedes took the Constructors’ title in Japan. I posted an updates points standing table last week. There’s only 2 races left but still some key battles to be resolved: 3rd in the Drivers’ table is between LEC, VER and VET; P6 is being fought […]
There’s been three races since Russia: Japan: BOT, VET, HAM*, ALB, SAI, LEC, GAS, PER, STR, KVY Mexico: HAM, VET, BOT, LEC*, ALB, VER, PER, RIC, GAS, HUL USA: BOT, HAM, VER, LEC*, ALB, RIC, NOR, SAI, HUL, PER (*indicates fastest lap) Here are the standings: Driver Points #Wins #f/lap 1 HAM 381 10 […]
Before Qualifying, I said it looked likely that HAM will tie up the Drivers’ Championship this weekend… but then he qualified P5 and BOT (the only person between HAM and his 6th title) is on pole; I still think he’ll do it but it’s just a bit harder than I expected. Grid: BOT, VET, VER, […]
Hamilton will have to be really unlucky not to seal the Drivers’ Championship this weekend – it requires BOT to win the race and HAM to score less than 2 points, but given this is one of HAM’s favourite tracks and his race engineer Pete Bonnington is back, it’s looking pretty likely. This weekend also […]
Verstappen shot himself in the foot after Qualifying – the stewards didn’t seem to be investigating his last lap but in the interview he was asked if he knew BOT had crashed; VER said yes, and that the next question asking if he lifted, to which he said (something like) doesn’t look like I did […]
After the GP of Japan there were a few updates: “The classifications of Ricciardo and Hulkenberg are provisional subject to the outcome of a protest initiated by Racing Point.” – More on that in a minute. “Leclerc received a 5-second and a 10-second post-race penalty for causing a collision and then driving his car in […]
Disappointing to see that Ferrari’s obfuscated tobacco advertising is back on the car and the drivers’ helmets. The FIA had told Ferrari to remove it but it’s now very prominent. Despite Mercedes topping both Practice sessions (BOT ahead of HAM in both FP1 and FP2), Ferrari locked out the front row of the grid in […]
The first thing to note is that Qualifying has been moved to Sunday (10am local time) because of Typhoon Hagibis; support races and FP3 were cancelled, but Quali was postponed. [revised schedule] Meanwhile, in other news… 2020 Formula 1 calendar officially approved by FIA [FIA] Starts mid-March in Australia; ends in Abu Dhabi at the […]
There’s been four races since Hungary: Belgium: LEC, HAM, BOT, VET*, ALB, PER, KVY, HUL, GAS, STR Italy: LEC, BOT, HAM*, RIC, HUL, ALB, PER, VER, GIO, NOR Singapore: VET, LEC, VER, HAM, BOT, ALB, NOR, GAS, HUL, GIO (f/lap was MAG, P17) Russia: HAM*, BOT, LEC, VER, ALB, SAI, PER, NOR, MAG, HUL (*indicates […]
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