Paging Adrian Newey

Like most right-thinking people at the moment, I’m desperate for anything resembling Formula 1 news.  While making my usual hopeful web-surfing rounds last night, I came across a story in which Adrian Newey, in the words of the headline writer, “slams” stuff.  Well, if Adrian Newey’s going to “slam” something, I — again, like most [...]

F1 Reporting Interests Me, Part 2

It’s been a bit of a slow learning process for me, discovering the extent to which a given story reported in the F1 media ought to be taken at face value.  However, I can say now that I’ve finally figured out a few things.  When a news item appears in one of the more comprehensive [...]

F1 Reporting Interests Me, Part 1

I don’t know if you guys find the way the same story can be reported on two different web sites as amusing as I do.  Yeah, probably not.  Still. . . Sebastian Vettel, in a column published in Bild, describes (among other things) his thoughts on the possibility of driving for other another, more legendary [...]

Scariest Dude in F1?

In the November 2010 issue of F1 Magazine, HRT boss Colin Kolles answers a series of questions from readers.  Okay, first he intimidates the interviewer for fun, as is apparently his way — but then he answers a series of reader questions.  And really, what’s notable about it, as far as I’m concerned, is that [...]

Hollywood Ending

I predict a Hollywood ending, with the worst case scenario that we don’t become champion but if that’s the case, we’ll do it next year. Our philosophy stays the same because this is a sport and it must remain a sport. That, of course, was Red Bull owner Dietrich Mateschitz, quoted just a few days [...]

Allow Me to Extend a Triumphant “Number 1″ Finger

I’ll tell you a secret: I had a feeling Webber would qualify last among the four contenders.  As usual, you will just have to take my word for that, I’m afraid.  I didn’t say it out loud or put it in writing anywhere on the intertubes, because as soon as the feeling was, er, felt, [...]

Well…When Certain Conditions Are Met, Anyway

Lewis Hamilton, quoted on GPUpdate.net: . . . we’ve seen before that this championship can be unpredictable and volatile – and I think this last race of the year could be even more unpredictable than normal. I know from personal experience that the championship isn’t over until you cross the line on the final lap [...]

More Distasteful Than Defeat

Look — I don’t want Fernando Alonso to win the championship.  I don’t think any of us want that.  (Okay, okay. . . it’s possible that some of us want that.)  But here’s another thing I don’t want, ever: for one Red Bull driver to hand a race win to another Red Bull driver.  If [...]

Brazilian Grand Prix Qualifying and My Psychic Powers

An emotional roller coaster of a qualifying session, that was! And I’ll tell you one thing that doesn’t make things any easier: the GIANT, HONKING time lag between qualifying reality and qualifying as presented by SpeedTV.  So, for example, I see the fact that Bruno Senna spins out and ends up qualifying last, first via [...]

Mark Webber Provides Further Comment…and Then Some

So. . .yes!  Mark Webber has commented further on the crash in Korea. Webber responded sarcastically to [Gerhard Berger's] remarks on Thursday by saying: “First of all, I lost control of the car and then I’ve regained control and tried to take someone out. I’m a bit of a genius, aren’t I?” He added: “Gerhard [...]