Englishman living in Canada; photographer; Agile coach; badminton player; Formula One (F1) fan.
I skipped a June update because I hadn’t taken anything since May, and even now all I’ve taken are a few snaps of our foster cat, Milo. The good news is he’s up for adoption
It’s almost mid-season, and the teams are starting their enforced summer break. There’s been two races since the previous points update: Great Britain: HAM, LEC, BOT, NOR, RIC, SAI, ALO, STR, OCO, TSU (PER* P16)
This is the final race before the teams take their enforced summer break; VER is only 8 points ahead of HAM, and Red Bull are just 4 points ahead of Mercedes. Quali: HAM was slow
Two weeks on from the British GP at Silverstone. Red Bull continued to complain that HAM’s penalty wasn’t enough, forgetting how VER has done the same and worse in the past. The news since Silverstone
After the inaugural #F1Sprint (don’t say race!) and a post-session penalty for RUS, the grid looks like this: VER, HAM, BOT, LEC, NOR, RIC, ALO, VET, OCO, SAI, GAS, RUS*, RAI, STR, GIO, TSU, LAT,
The first thing to address is the format for this weekend: this is the first of three planned “sprint format” race weekends. This means that Quali is on Friday afternoon (while I’m in meetings!) and
There’s been three races since the previous points update: France: VER*, HAM, PER, BOT, NOR, RIC, GAS, ALO, VET, STR Styria: VER, HAM*, BOT, PER, NOR, SAI, LEC, STR, ALO, TSU Austria: VER*, BOT, NOR,
Red Bull continue to dominate; VER on pole, PER in P3, but it’s not a Mercedes between them – it’s NOR in the McLaren! VET was given 3-place grid drop for impeding ALO in qualifying
Third of the back-to-back-to-back races; same circuit as last week, but different tyres… will we see the same result? I’ll update my points standings page after this race; VER is currently on 156 points, with
After Qualifying TSU was penalised 3 grid places for blocking BOT in Q3, so in addition to BOT’s 3-place penalty for his pit lane spin in FP2, here’s the grid: VER, HAM, NOR, PER, BOT*,