Formula 1 Blog

Chinese Grand Prix, can Vettel stop Brawn ?

2009-04-18T13:16:00.003+01:00

The days when the guys in the images above dominated F1 , including the Chinese GP seem to be over. The 2 Brawn pilots and Vettel seem to be the new contenders. Jenson Button had a great seasons start earning 2 wins which now give him the highest odds for winning the 2009 season. But Vettel seems to be in great form. The qualifying session gave him a pole , while Brawn cars start 4th and 5th. Red Bull team's 2nd pilot Mark Webber got a great 3rd place on the grid while Alonso sits between the 2 Bulls. Kimi and Lewis start 8th and 9th, both desperately wanting to get their first podium this year.

Will Hamilton repeat last year's success in Canada ?

2008-06-04T19:32:00.003+01:00

After a really crazy Formula 1 race in Monaco, the teams go to Montreal,Canada . Everybody is anxious to see what will happen next. Lewis Hamilton has climbed to the top of the drivers championship with his latest win and will be now racing on a circuit he likes and where he won last year. The McLaren's seem to have closed the car performance gap that seemed to separate them from the Ferrari's of Massa and Raikkonen, but Robert Kubica ,the young polish driver is looking stronger each race and this could be the place where he will grab his first Formula 1 win. The location of the circuit is magnificient as well, but we doubt the pilots will have time to enjoy the view :) .
This is looking to be the most fought season in decades, with no less than 4 drivers from 3 different teams in contention and probably Canada will be another beautifull chapter of this fight.

Could Bahrain give an early title favourite?

2008-03-29T20:32:00.005Z

After the first 2 races , no less than 5 drivers managed good performances which could make them compete for the season champion title.
Kimi and Lewis each won one race, while the BMW drivers Heidfeld and Kubica delivered convincing performances as well. Allthough he didn't take the spotlight , the second McLaren driver Kovalainen is also among the top drivers, while Massa is yet to finnish one race. The former double world champion Fernando Alonso is strugling with his car , clearly slower than anybody on the top 3 teams.
Anyone of this top 5 winning will surely put his name in as the early front runner now. Bahrain is a rather new circuit,and allthough rain has a 1 in a million chance to appear , everybody is worried about high speed winds which would bring sand on the race track. Also extreme temperatures are something normal here,so we might expect quite a bunch of engines going boom.
The third interesting thing would be who will receive an offer from the sheic of Bahrain this year to live in his pallace as Michael Scumacher hasn't returned to F1 :)

Michael Schumacher back in Formula 1

2007-11-26T21:22:00.000Z

.... Just for testing :)

One week after making a triumphant return to Formula One testing for Ferrari at Barcelona, it Michael Schumacher will do more tests for the Italian team.

Schumacher, who retired at the end of the 2006 season, is expected to be in action at the next multi-team test which will take place at the Spanish circuit of Jerez next month.

The seven-time world champion will spend 2 days behind the wheel of the F2007 as he continues to assist the squad with their 2008 preparations.

At last week’s test in Barcelona the german clocked the fastest time on both days he was in action. Since his retirement, he has remained close to the Ferrari family and attended several Grands Prix this season as a ‘special advisor’ for the Italian team.

Fernando Alonso leaves McLaren Mercedes

2007-11-03T20:11:00.000Z

What was expected by many has happened . Alonso and his team McLaren Mercedes decided to separate their paths in the next season. Alonso disagreed the team's attitude of not making him the number 1 pilot ,although he was the defending double world champion while McLaren disagreed to Alonso's attitude towards the team and consider him to be the one to be blamed for the 100 million dollar fine from FIA plus the lost constructors title. Alonso declared that he never felt at home at McLaren ,allthough even as a child he dreamed of one day running for this great team.

Honda tests 3 young GP2 drivers in the next weeks

2007-10-31T15:02:00.000Z

Honda announced on Monday that GP2 drivers Mike Conway, Luca Filippi and Andreas Zuber will drive at the team’s first winter test, which will be held in Spain next month. All three young hopefuls will get the chance to test the Japanese team’s race car at Barcelona's Circuit de Catalunya from November 13-15.

Conway has been part of Honda's Young Driver Programme since March 2007, and has worked closely with the squad throughout his debut season in the GP2 series with the Super Nova International team. Prior to GP2, the 24 year-old won the British Formula Three championship and the Macau Grand Prix during the 2006 season. He also won the Formula Renault UK title in 2004.

Filippi, who was Conway’s team mate at Super Nova in 2007, has competed in the GP2 series for the past two seasons. He finished in fourth position in the 2007 driver standings. The 22 year-old began his racing career in his home country of Italy, winning the Italian Formula 3000 championship in 2005 before moving up to GP2.

Zuber has also spent the past two seasons racing in GP2, finishing in ninth position this year with championship-winning team iSport International. The Austrian-born 24 year-old previously competed in the F3 Euroseries and the World Series by Renault before switching to GP2.

First night race in Formula 1's history to be held in 2008 in Singapore

2007-10-24T18:04:00.000+01:00

The schedule for next season was just decided and FIA brought into it what many expected with joy : The Singapore GrandPrix. This race won't be held during the day ,but during the night. This will give a different atmosphere to the race , and to the people worldwide watching it on TV.
The Grand Prix of Singapore and the other new track in Valencia are both city tracks and they will join Monaco in the list of tracks in this category. As Monaco is considered by many the most importang Grand Prix of the season, having 3 such races a year will increase Formula 1's intensity and public appeal.
Below is the whole race program for 2008:
16/3 AUS Australia
23/3 MAL Malaysia
6/4 BRN Bahrain
27/4 E Spain
11/5 TR Turkey
25/5 MC Monaco
8/6 CDN Canada
22/6 F France
6/7 GB Great Britain
20/7 D Germany
3/8 H Hungary
24/8 E Europe
7/9 B Belgium
14/9 I Italy
28/9 SGP Singapore
12/10 J Japan
19/10 CN China
02/11 BR Brazil

Will the name Schumacher leave Formula 1 forever?

2007-10-23T20:08:00.000+01:00

After big brother's retirement from Formula 1, his brother Ralf could be leaving the top racing world as well. The Brazilian Grand Prix was Ralf's last race for Toyota . Unfortunately for the young Schumacher brother his latest results don't recommend him for a contract with a top team next season. Also,most of the teams have allready signed contracts with their 2008 pilots, with only Alonso's likely transfer having a chance of changing things.
Ralf and Toyota ended their relationship in a very decent way, both the driver and the team admitting being pleased with the 3 seasons spent together.

Hamilton still hopes to get the title

2007-10-22T19:03:00.000+01:00

Things may not be over yet in the Formula 1 2007 season. McLaren appealed to the race officials decision of not punishing Kubica , Rosberg and Heidfeld for using fuel with characteristics outside the allowed ones. The 3 drivers have finnished 4,5 and 6, just in front of Hamilton, and if 2 or 3 or them are stripped out of their places , the young english driver can win the title in the backstages. This is the last hope of McLaren to save something of a season which until 6 races ago they completely dominated.

Dramatic last race of the season gives Kimi Raikkonen his first driver title

2007-10-21T19:08:00.001+01:00

What an amazing last race of the season this was.
Right at the start Raikkonen and Massa managed to put the 2 McLaren's behind them. Alonso overtook Hamilton in the second corner and the championship title was now in everyone's grasp.
Unfortunately for Hamilton, the young brittish driver lost control of his gearbox and found himself on 18th position. Filled with determination, Hamilton started climbing back the ranks, but his 7th place was not enough.
Up front Raikkonen passed Massa in the late stages of the race to overtake Alonso in the Championship by 1 point.
The final standings:
1. Raikkonen 110p
2. Hamilton 109p
3. Alonso 109p

What everyone wants to know now is what will happen with Alonso. Will Briatore buy him back? , will he choose Toyota's white check offer? The following days will probably clear this as well.

The downfall of eurosport.com

2007-10-21T13:10:00.001+01:00

A few months ago one of the most visited sport information websites ( www.eurosport.com) was bought by the giant web services provider Yahoo. This might have brought some good money into the pockets of the people who owned eurosport but became a huge disappointment for the visitors of the old site.
The new site removed all the stats from most of the football leagues, and the new owners ignore all the requests for getting the stats back from the site visitors.
Football fans all over Europe have stopped visiting the site since Yahoo bought it, this is seen very easily just by looking at the number of visits the site had in the past months . If you know people with management roles in Yahoo please contact them and ask them to bring the old stats back, the sport fans all over Europe need it badly.

New blog on air

2007-10-21T12:45:00.000+01:00

Sunday ,21st October 2007, this is the day in which this site starts. Oh, just another sport blog some would say, well I can't argue with that , and I will try in the next weeks to prove you ,the visitor, that this blog is one worth reading. As this project is at its beginning I will focus at start on 5 sports, 4 of them you can already see , the 5th one I will leave up to you , in a poll open till the end of 2007. In the meantime, I will focus on writing quality articles concerning football , formula 1, ski jumping and biathlon. I also intend to write some articles about events taking place in the sport info business, starting with my comments about what is happening when a good full of info site is taken over by a huge player in the internet industry (the aquisition of eurosport.com by yahoo).