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It’s the last race weekend of the season; there’s not much left to fight over, but will Vettel and Leclerc still be battling amongst themselves? Ferrari say the intra-team squabbling is over, but LEC says VET “should not have made move” which put them both out of the GP of Brazil. It’s also the last […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
A post-race penalty for GIO didn’t change the result for the Singapore GP. Penalties: All four drivers from the Red Bull and Toro Rosso teams will be hit with grid penalties at the Russian Grand Prix. [BBC] Red Bull’s Max Verstappen and Alexander Albon and Toro Rosso’s Pierre Gasly drop five places on the grid. […]
Singapore is a unique race – it’s the only one run under floodlights. The drivers tend to use clear visors rather than the tinted ones preferred for daytime races, which provides an opportunity to watch the concentration required to compete at this twisty circuit. [video] Some good news following the horrible crash in the Forumula […]
A week after the Belgian GP, people are still thinking about Anthoine Hubert, who died in the Formula 2 race, but also Juan Manuel Correa who was seriously injured in the same incident and has been placed in a medically-induced coma. [BBC] He suffered a spinal injury and broken legs, but when he was moved […]
It feels like an eternity since the Grand Prix of Hungary, even though it was less than a month, so here are some posts to remind us what’s going on 🙂 [Points standings] [Calendar] [Drivers and Teams] Despite it being an enforced break from F1, there have been a variety of announcements: “Red Bull have […]
Thanks to a post-race penalty for the Alfa Romeo pair (RAI, GIO), HAM was moved up to P9 and KUB to P10 to make the points-paying results from Germany: VER, VET, KVY, STR, SAI, ALB, GRO, MAG, HAM, KUB with only 3 more cars making it to the end of the race (RAI, GIO, RUS). […]
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