F1 Insight
Formula 1 analysis and race pondering
596 posts
- Drivers
Underneath It All
Here's a news item that seems to have slipped by most sites: Coulthard buys Aussie undies for F1 season . Now, I can understand why the F1 greats chose to pass over such an apparently frivolous snippet but I let it…
- Opinion
Ron Stays, the Flav Brays
Ron Dennis has announced that he will be continuing as team principal at McLaren this year, according to PitPass . Pardon me for saying it but I told you the man would stay and fight. All the flak he's taken over the…
- News
New Kid on the Block
I dropped a hint in my last post that there was something new on the horizon - and now I can reveal the full extent of "Project X-27", as it was dubbed by Steven Roy. Remember all those articles on websites pointing out…
- Misc
A Little Publicity
I am a writer, not a publicist. Long before I ever got into blogging, I was a writer and I remain so today - just a writer who happens to love F1 as well. But my weakness in the area of promoting my work really came…
- Teams
Toyota Prospects
The award for most contradictory statements in the off season goes to Jarno Trulli this year - unsurprisingly. Throughout testing, his view of the Toyota TF108's performance has ranged from despair to wild optimism,…
- Technical
A Few Technical Thoughts
There is still far too long to go until the Australian GP opens the season. I do not think that I am the only one who has found the break interminably long this time - it feels at least twice as long as last year's.…
- Technical
Mosley and KERS
As is evident from his interview with The Times recently, Max Mosley is staking F1's environmental reputation on Kinetic Energy Recovery Systems (KERS). The extent to which he is banking on this becomes even clearer in…
- Politics
Ron Dennis and McLaren
When the Spanish newspaper, Marca , printed their story that Ron Dennis was about to be fired, we all had a good laugh at how desperate the press can get when short of a good story. It was fun to point out the obvious…
- Drivers
Rosberg for Champion!
Keke Rosberg seems to be making a serious bid to take over from Niki Lauda as F1's top old fart commentator; in the last week he has made quotable comments to just about every journalist in sight, opining the hell out…
- Misc
Battle of the Podcasts
To my mind there are only two F1 podcasts worth listening to - Sidepodcast and Formula1blog . It is fascinating to compare them since they are so similar and yet so different at the same time. Both adopt the…
- Teams
The Lessons of Super Aguri
In a very short space of time, Super Aguri has replaced Minardi as the small team everyone supports. Much of this is thanks to their showing last year, when they made their parent team, Honda, look a bit silly,…
- Drivers
Mosley on the Schu and Lew
It's that man Mosley again, this time suggesting that Michael Schumacher would win a straight contest with the rookie sensation of last year, Lewis Hamilton. We all like to indulge in these hypothetical questions,…
- Races
Fortune Favors McLaren
I see the German magazine Bild reckons that Heikki Kovalainen was only McLaren's third choice of driver after Alonso's departure. Rosberg and Vettel were approached first but both had rock solid contracts, apparently.…
- Drivers
Transferring Affections
It's not what you say, it's what you do. Reading over the comments to my last post, and particularly the discussion on Alonso that sprang up, I was reminded of Alonso's statements after leaving Renault but before he…
- Teams
Sandbagging the Renault Way
Rumors of sandbagging have always been rife during testing but those surrounding Renault recently have been more persistent than most. On the track, the cars have been occasionally quick but, more often, pretty…
- Opinion
Guest Spot Thursday - Andy Roberts
A while back I had a good moan about Thursdays and how so often I seem to arrive at that time of the week utterly exhausted and uninterested in whatever F1 has managed to concoct that day. In my desperation, I suggested…
- Politics
Are You Reading, Max?
I can't help it - I do love a good Mosley bash. And F1 Fanatic has a great post at the moment that majors on Max's love of reading F1 blogs. If you haven't given him a good thumping recently, hurry on over and score a…
- Drivers
Sutil and Fisichella
In a recent post I expressed my mystification at Sebastian Vettel's reputation; on reflection, it seems to be entirely the product of Michael Schumacher having picked him as a star of the future after watching him in a…
- Misc
The American Elite
John F has written a comment on my last post that I think is so important and eloquent that it bears repeating today. I have been particularly busy this morning with other sites and projects and was going to fob off F1…
- The Future
Doctor Vee, F1 Fanatics and Thee
You cannot have your cake and eat it. You cannot have television for the masses and retain the esoteric qualities of a sport. Formula 1 has been confronted with this choice for thirty years now and has generally chosen…