Early on during this morning’s Japanese Grand Prix, Fernando Alonso overtook Felipe Massa. Massa didn’t make it difficult for Alonso — not that you would expect him to. Scuderia Ferrari immediately tweeted on their official Twitter account: [blackbirdpie id=”122917348792479744″] Just for fun, I cheekily replied: [blackbirdpie id=”122917459014590464″] They responded! [blackbirdpie id=”122917576102780928″] I have to admit […]
World Series by Renault — the feeder series to watch
There is a surfeit of motor racing championships that aim to usher in the next generation of Formula 1 stars. But only a few are worth paying serious attention to. GP2 — the ‘official’ way to progress to F1 The most well-known by a long way is GP2. Backed by Bernie Ecclestone, GP2 is the […]
Lewis Hamilton, why ruin it?
I feel sad. The Monaco Grand Prix was a great race — easily the best of the season so far. At a track notorious for processions, Monaco was producing a corker. Pirelli’s tyres held up for a change, meaning genuinely good racing through strategy, not cartoon-style degredation. The DRS is little use round here too, […]
Ferrari panic levels revised
Following the news that Ferrari technical director Aldo Costa has relinquished his role to “take on new responsibilities within the company” following the team’s poor start to the season, a change has been announced in the Ferrari panic levels. No panic Keep focus Keep concentrate Panic PANICISSIMO
Horse Shit — Wind problematics
Another dollop of derrière drizzle from Ferrari’s anonymous “Horse Whisperer”. The Horse Whisperer has been seeing recently some vicious rumours regarding the poor start to the Scuderia Ferrari season. It is clear that things cannot continue as they are, and we are absolutely determined to reach the bottom of this situations. However, contrary to vicious […]
Why is so much bodywork falling off?
While it is by no means unheard of for pieces of bodywork to come off an F1 car from time to time, there has already been quite a lot of it this season. In fact, after one and a half race weekends, I can think of four big bodywork failures. Firstly, there was Kamui Kobayashi’s […]
Why did McLaren rely on Race Control to tell them the obvious?
One of the most incredible moments of the Australian Grand Prix was when Jenson Button gave up trying to overtake Felipe Massa properly and cut the chicane at turn 12 instead. It’s easy to see why Button became impatient — he was clearly faster than Massa for several laps, but just couldn’t quite find a […]
Horse Shit – Rubber intrigues
Ferrari’s Horse Whisperer suffers another bout of botty bother in Barcelona. It was of greatly surprise for the Horse Whisperer to see, once again, competitor teams copying the approach of the famous Scarlet brand. It was very intrigue that other teams also are running the Pirelli rubbers during Valencia testing, just as Ferrari are doing […]
Congratulations to Red Bull Racing — 2010 Constructors’ Champions
This is a post that I should have written at the end of last season, but didn’t get round to before deciding to go on hiatus. Many of these points will have been made before, and it may be a bit past its sell-by date — but here it is anyway. I am in awe […]
Horse Shit – F150 is not a truck
I am making an early return to reveal an exclusive unpublished bum belch from Ferrari’s ‘Horse Whisperer’. It is greatly amuse to see that the unrefined ones at Ford Motors Company are miffed with our choice of the ‘F150’ designation for our latest F1 challenger (car). The reasonings behind ‘F150’ name are the clearest for […]