Englishman living in Canada; photographer; Agile coach; badminton player; Formula One (F1) fan.
Round 6 was in Azerbaijan two weeks ago; round 7 would have been Canada but it was dropped due to quarantine requirements; it was replaced by Turkey, but then that too was dropped due to quarantine requirements. Rather than find yet another circuit, the FIA decided to move France a week earlier and then have […]
There’s been two races since the previous points update: Monaco: VER, SAI, NOR, PER, VET, GAS, HAM*, STR, OCO, GIO Azerbaijan: PER, VET, GAS, LEC, NOR, ALO, TSU, SAI, RIC, RAI (DNF: VER*) (*indicates fastest lap) Here are the standings: Driver Points #Wins #f/lap 1 VER 105 2 1 2 HAM 101 3 2 […]
An eventful Qualifying session yesterday, more exciting than the entire Monaco GP, resulting in an interesting grid: LEC, HAM, VER, GAS, SAI, PER, TSU, ALO, NOR*, BOT, VET, OCO, RIC, RAI, RUS, LAT, SCH, MAZ, STR, GIO *NOR was given a 3-place penalty “for red flag offence in qualifying” [FIA] “The Stewards assume that if […]
Two weeks after the dull Monaco race, Baku is another street circuit but it’s much wider and in fact often has the most overtakes of a season. Going into round 6, VER is 4 points ahead of HAM (105 to 101, with NOR P3 on 56 points) and Red Bull is just 1 point ahead […]
Well, I’ve named this post “Race” the same as I do for every race-day post but Monaco is usually more procession than race; it would be great to see on-track battles and overtaking, but my expectation is pretty low. That means Qualifying well is essential, so it’s understandable when people are frustrated when the session […]
Two weeks after the GP of Spain, F1 is in Monaco – one of my least favourite tracks because most times it’s a procession. BBC tried to defend the venue but their examples were 2016 (RIC lost the race because of a pit-stop mistake), 1988 (Senna hit the barrier at Portier when he slowed his […]
It’s not as chaotic as 2020 (touch wood) but there’s been a few changes to the F1 calendar for this year, so I thought I’d post an updated version. The changes since my post in March are: Apr28: Canada (round 7, June 11-13) was dropped due to quarantine requirements; it was replaced by Turkey’s Istanbul […]
There’s been two races since the last points update: Portugal: HAM, VER, BOT*, PER, NOR, LEC, OCO, ALO, RIC, GAS Spain: HAM, VER*, BOT, LEC, PER, RIC, SAI, NOR, OCO, GAS (*indicates fastest lap) Here are the standings: Driver Points #Wins #f/lap 1 HAM 94 3 1 2 VER 80 1 1 3 BOT […]
It was a big Qualifying session for HAM because he claimed his 100th F1 pole, which is a huge milestone. To put it in context, Michael Schumacher has the second most poles (68) followed by Ayrton Senna (65) – in fact, only five constructor teams have recorded 100 poles! Also celebrating a century is VER […]
Fortunately the only post-race penalty came before the podium ceremony at the GP of Portugal, with VER losing his fastest lap time for exceeding track limits. So that means HAM is 8 points ahead of VER, with NOR 32pts behind the world champion, and BOT a further 5pts back; Mercedes are only 18pts ahead of […]
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