Welcome to F1 Insight, the blog that gathers up over forty years of watching F1 and bundles it into a neat little package for your enjoyment!
Pre-season Honda RA107
You will notice that it doesn't look like the standard Blogger, WordPress or Typepad blog - that's because it's built entirely by my son, Mad, a web developer in England. It has a few differences from the norm in operation as a result, some because those features haven't been turned on yet, some because we like it that way (and just a few that Mad hasn't had the time to design yet). But the basics work, so I can post and you can comment. Of the buttons to the left, only Home, Contact, MadTV and Gone Away lead anywhere at the moment, but the others will be made operational within the next week or so.
That's about it except for one little oddity that you won't notice yet but that has been introduced deliberately - Scott Speed has been given a Category all of his own. This is because I have decided to point out his achievements in an attempt to counteract the usual opinion: the only thing wrong with Toro Rosso is the choice of drivers.
I first started watching Scott as a salute to the States, where I now live. Before that decision, I knew nothing about him but some digging into statistics revealed a surprising fact - he improved steadily during his first year to the point where he was consistently faster than his team mate, Vitantonio Liuzzi, in the second half of 2006. And Liuzzi is no slouch, having demonstrated surprising speed in his early races in F1.
This year, Scott has had some awful luck to begin with but is now beginning to post times and results that are better than our assessment of the car. I am forced to the conclusion that he is much better than we had thought and does not deserve the casual dismissal so often meted out to him. So I will trumpet those occasions when he does well and excuse him when he fails.
Not that this is becoming a fan site. It's just that I'm giving you fair warning that I will post on Scott Speed quite often, although I will try to provide an extra post on such days for those who don't want to know (Haplo!).
But enough on the blog itself - let's get to the main point: the glorious, extravagant sport that is F1!
Pre-season Honda RA107
You will notice that it doesn't look like the standard Blogger, WordPress or Typepad blog - that's because it's built entirely by my son, Mad, a web developer in England. It has a few differences from the norm in operation as a result, some because those features haven't been turned on yet, some because we like it that way (and just a few that Mad hasn't had the time to design yet). But the basics work, so I can post and you can comment. Of the buttons to the left, only Home, Contact, MadTV and Gone Away lead anywhere at the moment, but the others will be made operational within the next week or so.
That's about it except for one little oddity that you won't notice yet but that has been introduced deliberately - Scott Speed has been given a Category all of his own. This is because I have decided to point out his achievements in an attempt to counteract the usual opinion: the only thing wrong with Toro Rosso is the choice of drivers.
I first started watching Scott as a salute to the States, where I now live. Before that decision, I knew nothing about him but some digging into statistics revealed a surprising fact - he improved steadily during his first year to the point where he was consistently faster than his team mate, Vitantonio Liuzzi, in the second half of 2006. And Liuzzi is no slouch, having demonstrated surprising speed in his early races in F1.
This year, Scott has had some awful luck to begin with but is now beginning to post times and results that are better than our assessment of the car. I am forced to the conclusion that he is much better than we had thought and does not deserve the casual dismissal so often meted out to him. So I will trumpet those occasions when he does well and excuse him when he fails.
Not that this is becoming a fan site. It's just that I'm giving you fair warning that I will post on Scott Speed quite often, although I will try to provide an extra post on such days for those who don't want to know (Haplo!).
But enough on the blog itself - let's get to the main point: the glorious, extravagant sport that is F1!