Englishman living in Canada; photographer; Agile coach; badminton player; Formula One (F1) fan.
There were a couple of penalties after yesterday’s Quali sessions: STR was given a 3-place grid drop for causing the collision with LAT, and ALB was “disqualified from the results of qualifying” but allowed to race. So here’s the grid: LEC, VER, PER, NOR, HAM, RUS, RIC, OCO, SAI, ALO, GAS, BOT, TSU, ZHO, SCH, […]
Round 3 of the 2022 season is in Melbourne, Australia, which means it’s the middle of the night for me. Unfortunately TSN doesn’t care about F1 so I’m struggling to watch the recording between pixelation, audio interruptions, and the usually poorly-timed adverts. News since the Saudi Arabia GP: ALB was given a three-place grid penalty […]
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 […]
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, […]
As expected, BOT has a penalty following his crash in Qualifying – his team needed to replace the gearbox, so he gets a 5-place grid penalty. This drops him to P15, behind OCO. Revised grid: HAM, RAI, VET, VER, MAG, GRO, HUL, RIC, SAI, ALO, VAN, PER, STR, OCO, BOT, HAR, ERI, LEC, SIR, GAS […]
It’s finally the start of the new F1 season, and there’s lots that’s new! new logo new theme tune new driver protection, the halo – Force India and McLaren have theirs sponsored by flip-flop manufacturers 🙂 new tyre compounds, adding pink “hypersoft” (softer than ultrasoft) and orange “superhard”, and changing the hard compound’s colour to […]