Tag: f1

Somehow VET escaped any significant penalty for his stupidity at the weighbridge in Qualifying session 2 yesterday. (He was fined €25,000 but no grid penalty.) Mind you, HAM also escaped penalty for his Q2 incident when SIR had to take Read More …

Although the Drivers’ Championship was sewn up in Mexico, there’s still the battle for 3rd (RAI is only 9 points ahead of BOT) and the Constructors’ Championship (Mercedes are 55 points ahead of Ferrari), as well as some further down Read More …

As I mentioned in my Qualifying notes, HAM “just” needs to finish 7th or better to win the Drivers’ Championship, whereas VET needs to win this and both the following races with HAM failing to score. Mercedes need 20 points Read More …

Hamilton failed to win the Drivers’ Championship in America so now he needs to finish 7th or better and he will succeed this time. It’s unlikely Mercedes will tie up the Constructors’ Championship though – the battle at the top Read More …

There’s been three races since Singapore: Russia: HAM, BOT, VET, RAI, VER, RIC, LEC, MAG, OCO, PER Japan: HAM, BOT, VER, RIC, RAI, VET, PER, GRO, OCO, GAS America: RAI, VER, HAM, VET, BOT, HUL, SAI, PER, HAR, ERI Here Read More …

There are all sorts of stats that people are bringing up (e.g. every race at COTA has been won from the front row) but there’s no guarantee HAM will win the race and/or the drivers’ championship …. but it should Read More …

Many journalists & commentators have been talking about how HAM can seal his 5th World Drivers’ Championship this weekend, because there are just 4 races (including this one) left this season and VET’s chances are fast disappearing. The simplest (arithmetically Read More …

VET had a poor Qualifying session, ending up P9 but thanks to the penalty handed to OCO (for failing to slow sufficiently for red flags in FP3) he’ll start P8. Revised grid: HAM, BOT, VER, RAI, GRO, HAR, GAS, VET, Read More …

Hot on the heels of the Grand Prix of Russia, it’s time for the GP of Japan. Unfortunately that means it’s on in the middle of the night, so I won’t get to watch qualifying or the race live – Read More …

There are a lot of penalties to apply, and Qualifying session 2 (Q2) was a bit pointless as there were 4 drivers getting grid penalties and one making a tactical decision to qualify P11 so they’d have a free choice Read More …