filed in News, Opinion on Feb.17, 2011
Looks like I spoke a little bit too soon about the Bahrain Grand Prix not being under threat. That’ll teach me for being such a bleeding heart liberal… So, the GP2 Asia races which were meant to be happening in Bahrain this weekend have been canceled due to the political unrest in the country. With [...]
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filed in News, Opinion on Jul.05, 2010
Next year, the brain trust over at the FIA are going to try to make all the teams use these stupid flappy rear wings which will eliminate any racing and just provide artificial overtaking in straight lines. As we have long established, this is a ridiculously bad idea for many reasons: It replaces skillful racing [...]
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filed in News, Opinion on Jul.05, 2010
Tony Purnell, a former technical advisor to the FIA and Jaguar F1′s old Team Principal, has slammed modern F1 for being ‘ugly’ and ‘scandelous’. He also reportedly told his mommy that F1 called him a rude name and took his lunch money too. Purnell left his post as an FIA advisor earlier this year and [...]
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filed in News on Jun.25, 2010
Yesterday, the FIA announced that in 2011 F1 cars will have adjustable rear wings so that a car within 1 second of the guy in front can run with an adjusted down force setting, giving a 10mph straight line speed boost. I trashed this new rule on several grounds: It is stupid and gimmicky It [...]
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filed in News, Opinion on Jun.25, 2010
As we all know, USF1 were meant to be this great big American F1 sensation. They were going to design and build their car in the NASCAR heart of Charlotte, NC, get established American drivers to make the switch to F1 and do it all bankrolled by YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley’s money. Well, in the [...]
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filed in News, Opinion on Jun.24, 2010
Whenever the FIA brain trust gets together to figure out how they will keep the F1 teams on their toes, I generally cower in dread just waiting for the day that they pass the rule saying that all the cars must be run off of plutonium and drivers need third eyes. They can be that [...]
filed in News on Jun.24, 2010
Good news for the BMW Sauber Ferrari Smith Johnson Mountbatten team – they will eventually be able to shorten their name! The bad news is that it will only happen at the end of the season, so until then we can carry on mocking them. Up until last year, the Sauber team had been owned [...]
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filed in News on Jun.15, 2010
According to umpteen reports out there today, Michelin are close to pulling out of the race to provide F1 with rubber and leave the path clear for Pirelli to assume the mantle. The move by Michelin comes after apparently failing in some last gasp wooing at the Canadian Grand Prix last weekend to convince the [...]
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filed in News, Opinion on Jun.14, 2010
Right now the decision over who will supply tyres next year in F1 is a mess. The teams spent so long trying to convince Bridgestone to hang around that the courting process of other companies has suffered, and now the FIA and FOM are having to step in and remind the teams that at the [...]
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filed in News on Jun.08, 2010
Up until now Jean Todt has been a rather docile character in the F1 paddock, seemingly letting everything tick over and not getting overly involved – a far cry from his predecessor, Max Mosley. Today, though, that has changed a bit as Todt has put his foot down about two big issues in F1 – [...]
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