Formula 1

1 point forward, 1 point back

October 4, 2009

Jenson lost a point to Rubens at Suzuka today, but drove the better race. Just as he did last week in Singapore, Jenson started behind his team mate – this time 4 places behind rather than 2. Last week he made up 3 places on Rubens to finish one place ahead of him.  This week [...]

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Nice One, Jenson!

September 28, 2009

After Monza, and barring completely unforseen circumstances (which you can never rule out), Jenson’s job was to make sure he didn’t lose more than 2 points a race to his team mate. That would have brought him the Driver’s Championship with a 6 point margin. Last night in Singapore he came from behind to beat [...]

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Eccelstone: Way Past His Sell-By Date

September 24, 2009

The statement by Bermie Eccelstone that his friend and business partner, Flavio Briatore, had been treated too harshly in the crashgate hearing beggars belief. Doesn’t Eccelstone have any shame? Or Morals? Briatore was quite happy to send out a driver to put himself in harm’s way by crashing an F1 car during a race.  Worse, [...]

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Crash-Gate: F1 Self Destructing

September 17, 2009

Of course, F1 won’t self destruct – but it has made an incredibly valiant effort to do so this year. When the crashgate stories first appeared I dismissed them as journalistic mischief. After all, who in their right mind deliberately crashes an F1 car during a race? However, it seems that not only was Nelson [...]

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Fisi Moves to Ferrari

September 4, 2009

So after all the on-again, off-again it’s finally official:  Fisi will move to Ferrari. Not just for the final 5 races of this season but as test/reserve driver for 2010. I’m happy for Fisi – he’s always come across as a great guy. But I feel for Badoer.  He should never have been put in [...]

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Button Crashes, Rubens Catches Fire

August 31, 2009

… and it turns out that Renault is being investigated for race fixing. What a weekend. Despite crashing out (through no fault of his own, by all accounts) Jenson’s championship lead was only cut by 2 points – thanks to Rubens having a problem with his clutch at the start. And springing an oil leak [...]

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Congratulations Rubens!

August 24, 2009

Congratulations to Rubens Barrichello on his first F1 victory for Brawn and his first for 5 years! It was good to see the Brawn cars on the pace again, but I have to ask Jenson Button:  What are you doing..!!?? You know Valencia offers about zero overtaking opportunities, which makes qualifying that much more important. [...]

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F1 Returns to Action

August 21, 2009

F1 returns to action today and it’s going to be an interesting weekend for more than just Jenson Button. In this article Jenson sounded reasonably up beat, claiming they had discovered what it was that caused the Brawn car to lose ground in the last 3 races. But in this article he sounds a lot [...]

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