Englishman living in Canada; photographer; Agile coach; badminton player; Formula One (F1) fan.
Great to hear that Silverstone’s contract has been renewed for another five years. I’ve been busy at the Toronto Indy race weekend, so I’m catching up on F1 quite a bit later and somehow I’ve avoided spoilers so far. With HAM finishing down in P5 in Austria and BOT in P3, there’s just 31 points […]
It’s only been a few days since France, which ended with RIC being handed two post-race time penalties by the stewards; he said he thinks one is a bit harsh but agrees with the other – see VET, this is how a professional handles it. So the revised result of the French GP: HAM, BOT, […]
Obviously the main news since Canada has been all about Ferrari and Vettel continuing to whine about the penalty that cost Vettel the victory. Initially Ferrari said they would appeal but then changed that to a request for a review … and yesterday the FIA rejected the “new evidence”. [BBC] [FIA] Sporting director Laurent Mekies […]
Not much in the way of news since the Monaco GP weekend, although there were some updates after the race which I posted on that page; here’s the summary: VER given two penalty points on his licences for the incident with BOT in the pit lane MAG relegated from 12th to 14th place (and given […]
Most of the discussion has, of course, been about Niki Lauda who died on Monday. [FIA] Mercedes have posted some nice photos on their instagram feed: the red cap amongst the headsets, the single red star on the car, and the red halo. [More tributes on FIA site] Not much else in the news since […]
Following the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, Mercedes are still comfortably ahead of Ferrari (173 points versus 99) but BOT is just 1 point ahead of teammate HAM; VET is a further 34 points behind the current World Champion, with VER on his heels just 1 point behind. News: Ferrari announced they’ll be running a new spec […]
HAM’s win in China puts him 6 points ahead of teammate BOT in the standings, and Mercedes a healthy 57 points ahead of Ferrari. The good news is that VET has shaved off his moustache 🙂 Not such good news for GIO – his Alfa Romeo has a third electronics change in four races, which […]
It’s the 1,000th round of the world championship – it’s quite muddy how the FAI determined this because between 1950 and 1960 the Indianapolis 500 was included in the world championship even though there was barely any participation by F1 teams or drivers, and in 1952 and 1953 the sport was run to Formula 2 […]
Mercedes came away from Australia with all the points – BOT heads the Drivers’ Championship by the biggest margin ever, thanks to the new-for-2019 extra point for fastest lap, and with HAM finishing P2 that gives the silver arrows a 22-point lead over Ferrari going in to round 2 of the season. However, it’s not […]
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, […]
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