Formula One

F1: Catalunya

May 9, 2013
Alonso

Ah, Catalunya, where the people are Spanish but hate you for saying so, and the racing is fast and furious around a circuit both technical and terrifying. Without doubt this is the home of Fernando Alonso’s most loyal and fanatical supporters and the place where they love to see him win almost as much as the Tifosi at Imola do, and that makes the weekend that much more stressful for all the other men on the grid trying to beat the red car, or stay ahead of it in the case of Sebastian Vettel. The next race in the calendar [...]

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F1: Bahrain GP

April 19, 2013
Alonso

This season the Formula One World Championship looks to be a three-horse race, provided the funding at Lotus doesn’t dry up, and Bahrain looks to be another chance for Kimi Raikkonen to put a serious dent in the ambitions of the men in the premium seats at Ferrari and Red Bull. The potential for off-track incidents has dominated the new leading up to this Grand Prix, but it seems money talks and the event will go ahead as planned despite the fact the civil unrest that cost Bahrain this race in 2011 shows no signs of being fully resolved. On [...]

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Bad times in Bahrain

April 19, 2013
BernSchu

Sport has had a difficult relationship with politics for a very long time, although possibly the most troublesome events have occurred in the games shared throughout the commonwealth rather than the world, and as the Bahrain Grand Prix approaches and Formula One gears up for another trip out to the desert it seems like this is another event unable to escape its context. Of course it is no coincidence that there is an awful lot of money coming out of the middle east for all sports right now, and it is also true to say that there are few administrators [...]

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The grassy fuel bowser…

April 14, 2013
MWebb

If you were into conspiracy theories and Formula One then the Chinese Grand Prix from Shanghai this weekend would have made for particularly fascinating viewing, and left you with a lot of questions. It’s probably worth saying at this point that everything from this point on is speculation, but after the troubles in Malaysia for Red Bull and the subsequent ‘clarification’ from the team about their direction in future it would be easy to come to the conclusion that there are no team orders, but we do finally have a definitive number one driver in the number one team. Our [...]

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Chinese GP preview

April 12, 2013
LHam

A wave of new tracks has seen the landscape of Formula One shift somewhat in the last decade or so, and of the new black ribbons falling across the world China has perhaps the most stunning of them all. The track at the Shanghai International Circuit is a combination of high speed action and maddening turns, no more so than the famous turn one, which tightens and forces drivers to brake, turn and deal with an elevation change all in one horrible right-hander, and has been a happy hunting ground of late for teams that have otherwise spent their time [...]

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Red Bull: Resolved

April 11, 2013
Webber

The Sebastian Vettel incident at the end of the Malaysian Grand Prix certainly had the paddock all of a fluster for a few days, and one of the main questions seemed to be whether Red Bull would go the way of Ferrari and commit to their fastest man, or continue to maintain that they are a socialist democracy, where everyone gets an equal chance. Ironically, the outfit have managed to make a statement this week which says the latter whilst actually making it very clear that from this point on Mark Webber had better get used to the idea of [...]

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