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
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, Opinion on Jul.02, 2010
Next year, the brain trust that is the FIA have decided to liven up F1 by giving the cars adjustable rear wings. These devices will swap wheel to wheel racing to a procession of cars overtaking each other on straights, as a car will have a 10mph boost when they are within 1 second of [...]
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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, 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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filed in News on May.17, 2010
Three races ago in China, all the F1 teams said that they would sort out the tyre situation ASAP. Two races ago in Barcelona, they were meant to have them sorted out. After last weekend’s race in Monaco, still none of the teams have the foggiest about who is going to be supplying their tyres. [...]
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filed in News, Opinion on May.12, 2010
After getting together and having a good old natter in Barcelona, it looks like FOTA have decided to bring KERS back in 2011. Nothing has been made official yet, however all the teams agreed that it would be a good idea providing it can be done cheaply. Based on reports that are now leaking out, [...]
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filed in News on May.09, 2010
This weekend, the Formula One Teams Association (FOTA) had a little chat about just where F1 is going in the future. They do this a lot around this time of year, with Monaco usually being the big meeting, however a few important decisions forced the Team Principals to have a cup of tea and a [...]
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filed in News on May.07, 2010
The battle to supply tyres to the F1 grid from 2011 onwards is heating up a bit, with Pirelli making their case to the FIA. Thing is, Pirelli aren’t interested in having a ‘tyre war’ with Michelin, Avon Cooper or anyone else who wants a slice of the F1 pie – they want to be [...]
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