Monthly Archives: April 2013
I know that makes no sense, there were cars on the track, at the end we had a winner and two runner-ups. So yes, in that respect a race was held at the Grand Prix of Bahrain. But was that the race we all wanted to see? I have a hypothesis: what we wanted to see was the RB9 and F138 go head to head with Sebastian Vettel and Fernando Alonso mano a… Read More
Vettel Whips The Competition, Alonso Loses Ground, Hamilton Shows Why He’s Worth It. And The Buddha…
I have said this many a time, I will never just blog, that is not my intent nor does it make for anything interesting. So I normally stay away from recapping a race. I am however going to say a few words (yeah right, when has that ever happened) about the Grand Prix of Bahrain that I think are worth mentioning. As impressive as Alonso was last weekend, Vettel was equally sensational… Read More
Well not to but to fine a point on it but that qualifying session delivered the goods. It had a little of everything. Some fast laps, a penalty, a tire issue (again). an aborted lap, and a nice surprise. I’ll be the first one to say it, “Not to sure anyone was betting on Mercedes or for that matter Nico Rosberg sticking his car on the pole, given how the weekend has… Read More
I recently signed up to follow Peter Windsor’s blog. I can’t tell you why it took so long. Maybe because every morning when I get up I go the 20 or so web and blog sites and his is one of them. Anyway I finally signed up and now receive an email when Mr. Windsor logs a post. I just finished reading his most recent effort. This one in particular goes by… Read More
“Do you like the old-style F1 or the new tyre-dominated F1 best?” Raikkonen: “Makes no difference. This is what we have and you’d better like it or do something else.” I got this wonderfully deadpan delivered Kimi-ism from Andrew Benson’s twitter feed after the race, which at least gave me a smile as I sadly realized that “the tires” were going to sabotage any conversation about the great drives from Fernando, Raikkonen… Read More
All this talk of team orders has got me thinking about another issue and that is the issue of having #1 and #2 drivers within a team. Not because of the Vettel and Webber affair from the Malaysian GP; clearly Sebastian Vettel is Red Bull’s #1, just as Fernando Alonso is Ferrari’s #1. No, this is in response to the problem with the Mercedes boys. While Red Bull politics were causing all… Read More
Well that was very interesting. Don’t think I have ever seen such little qualifying for a gp. I suppose we all know the reason for the lack of track action (not even the back markers wanted to go out in the beginning of Q1). The impression that one gets is the option tire that Pirelli brought which is the soft tire with the yellow band around the outside is not as durable… Read More
This could be the shortest post so far of my short blogging career or maybe not. I could easily sum it up by saying Ferrari WTF, why gamble this early in the season? And be done with this post and move on. However, the impassioned, crazy F1 fanatic with an opinion on everything just can’t let it go. Guess you’re going to get the long version. Why am I so irate you… Read More
Team orders, do they suck? Yes. Are they going away? No. To give you an idea of the emotion that Vettel’s action stirred up, on JamesallenonF1.com (one of my favorite sites) there were over 1100 comments by the time the sounding off was done. Wow. I am a long-time F1 fan and I can’t remember a time when something has caused such uproar. I don’t even think there was this much hoopla… Read More
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