Formula 1

Felipe Massa's Progress

August 14, 2009

Rubens Barrichello visited Felipe Massa yesterday. You’ll remember it was the spring from Rubens’ car that hit Massa’s helmet and caused the crash. Although it was totally outside of Rubens’ control I can only imagine how he must have felt. Luckily Massa seems to be making good progress – which is wonderful news. Here’s the [...]

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Webber Can Win The WDC

August 13, 2009

And why not..?  He’s 18 points behind Button with 7 races to go – absolutely Webber can win the championship. But what gets me is that by the 2nd or third race of the season everyone was saying Button was going to win it. Now the talk is of his ‘rapidly shrinking lead’.  It’s dropped [...]

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Schumacher Pulls Out

August 12, 2009

I do realise there’s going to be lots of wailing and moaning (it started yesterday) at MS’s decision to pull out of his F1 comback – but, as you know, I’ve never been impressed with the idea. Firstly, as I said before, if I had been one of the Ferrari test drivers I would have [...]

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An Unhealthy Use of Authority

August 10, 2009

The FIA’s biased selection of new teams to compete in F1 next year surfaced again recently with the Serbian team StefanGP taking a complaint to the European Commission. You’ll recall that the FIA favoured teams who promised to use Cosworth engines. It seems that a number of other teams (ProDrive among them) were seriously upset [...]

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Massa's Gone Home

August 7, 2009

Excellent to read today that Felipe Massa has been able to leave hospital and return home to convalesce. I know F1 is a dangerous sport, but it’s still horrible and scary when an accident like he had happens. I’ve often wondered how Rubens Barrichello feels about it all. There was nothing he could have done, [...]

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The Kids Are Fighting Again

August 5, 2009

Well, just when you thought peace had broken out in F1 (thanks to the agreement signed last Friday)… Ferrari have now had a really petty go at Williams for opposing their request to let Schumacher test before the Valencia GP. They do claim, though, to have agreed to the request to let Alguesuari test prior [...]

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Williams Opposes Schumacher's Testing

August 4, 2009

I’m not having a personal go at MS or his return to racing, but I am pleased to see the points I made yesterday being echoed by 3 of the F1 teams: Williams, Red Bull and Torro Rosso Alguesuari made his F1 debut at Hungay without the benefit of any testing – and he was [...]

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Michael Schumacher Feeling a Bit Stiff…

August 3, 2009

My God – I go away for a week and everything happens while my back’s turned..! Firstly – I’m delighted that Felipe Massa is recovering and well enough to go home. That’s great news, and I hope he recovers fully, quickly, and is able to race in F1 again.  My thoughts and best wishes are [...]

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