F1 Insight
Formula 1 analysis and race pondering
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- Races
Brazilian GP Friday Practice
Well, surprise, surprise, the McLarens and Ferraris are evenly matched yet again. Although Hamilton and Alonso headed the time sheet, the Ferraris are so close behind that it makes little difference; and anyway, they…
- Drivers
Deserving a Championship
Earlier this week, I wrote an article for Keith Collantine's F1 Fanatic entitled "Why Lewis Hamilton Should Be Champion" . At one point I did claim that Hamilton deserves to be champion through his almost faultless…
- Drivers
Old Champions, Old Wounds
This season has been the most exhausting that I can remember. The racing itself has been exciting at times, predictable at others, but off track there has been nothing but argument, litigation, bad feeling, accusations…
- Politics
Prodrive and Customer Cars
With Prodrive seemingly unable to participate in next year's F1 calendar, the number of teams remains at eleven. Prodrive have not yet announced that they will not compete but it is hard to see how they can put anything…
- Teams
No Change at Ferrari
With Ferrari announcing an extension of Felipe Massa's contract to 2010, all the rumors of an Alonso move to the red team have gone silent. GrandPrix dot com have not completely given up hope but they do admit that a…
- Politics
Mosley Avoids the Question
With Sir Jackie Stewart asking more pertinent questions regarding the FIA's actions this season and calling for Max Mosley's resignation, Max has responded with more evidence of his inability to understand how damaging…
- Drivers
Driver Changes for 2008
Assuming that there is some truth in the story that Fernando Alonso has already committed himself to driving for Renault next year, we can speculate on how his and other seats will be filled. There is the small matter…
- Races
Tire Choices and a Championship
I am very late in posting on F1 Insight today, mainly because I looked at the news and realized just how sick of much of it I am. It would be possible to write of Fernando Alonso's childish accusations of favoritism at…
- Politics
Jackie Stewart Takes on Mosley
Autosport reports that Max Mosley has refused to back down from his ridiculing of Sir Jackie Stewart recently. At a media lunch, Mosley described Stewart as a "certified idiot" who dresses oddly. He also said that Sir…
- Races
Thoughts on the Chinese Grand Prix
Everyone was impressed with Sebastian Vettel's drive to fourth place in China but we should spare a thought for Robert Kubica too. He was leading the race when the BMW's hydraulics decided to give up the ghost. Robert…
- Races
Shanghai Qualifying
That was an interesting qualifying session for the Chinese GP. It had to be if it kept me awake at 2:00am in the morning! Some interesting patterns developed during the three parts and most of them concerned unusual…
- Races
Friday Practice in Shanghai
With the stewards having decided that Hamilton's driving behind the pace car in Fuji deserved no penalty, sanity returns to F1 and we can get back to racing. The practice sessions produced no surprises, the usual four…
- Politics
Email and Espionage
Grandprix dot com has managed to upstage us all with more interesting revelations from Stepney, but PitPass hits back strongly with a Mike Lawrence article on the future of Ferrari. So what to write about? Sebastian…
- Politics
Stepney Speaks Out
Grandprix dot com has an interesting article today that might set a few cats amongst the pigeons. After looking at Luca di Montezemolo's deliberate overstatements of the recent past, the article has an account of an…
- The Future
Readiness for 2008
One item of news in the last week that was hardly noticed but actually has considerable importance was the announcement by BMW Sauber that their challenger for 2008 will be revealed on January 14th and 15th. The…
- Races
Controversies at Fuji - Part 2
Before I start this one, I should make clear that I like Sebastian Vettel and consider him to have great potential in F1. It is not his fault that he was picked as the replacement for Scott Speed in the Toro Rosso team…
- Races
Controversies at Fuji - Part 1
In the end, the race was so long that I really could not manage to write a report afterwards. It's back to post-race talking points for me! And there were plenty of them. To begin with, many are saying that the race…
- Races
Fuji Qualifying - or Not
SpeedTV has let me down a little for the Qualifying sessions in Japan; I don't get to see them until this afternoon. All the European sites have their reports up already, of course, so there's little for me to do but…
- Races
Fuji Practice
It looks as though we could have a race on our hands come Sunday. The Ferraris were quickest in the morning session but then the McLarens came through in the afternoon, Massa slipping down to third and Raikkonen to…
- Races
Thoughts Before Fuji
Although we all wish the Japanese GP was at Suzuka this year, the fact that it is at Fuji does add a little spice to the championship at this stage, purely because it is an unknown to the majority of the drivers. It…