Monthly Archives: May 2006

They’ve added a graphic for this year on a Saturday to help with the situation in qualifying where you’re trying to work out who is in and who is out at the end of each of the three qualifying sessions. … Continue reading →

I have an Italian friend who runs an Italian restaurant in London. And I fell into conversation with him about Formula 1 this week while I was eating there. He and I were talking about the current state of F1 … Continue reading →

Alonso said at the race this weekend after qualifying, “it doesn’t make a big difference for the championship, winning here, just the difference between 10 or 8 points, but psychologically it’s a big win”. The thing with this kind of … Continue reading →

Is racing/playing at home an advantage? I predicted Schumacher would win today’s race, not necessarily because he had the faster car, but because I thought Alonso wouldn’t be able to take the pressure. For Alonso, like I would say Barrichello, … Continue reading →

He’s been such a changed man ever since that happened. But… I couldn’t help but laugh when he said, after he’d been knocked out of the qualifying, that he’d have to “take it on the chin”.

Tomorrow’s race is going to be decided by the strategists I think. Which is very much how it should be at a race where overtaking is more tricky. There are a large number of factors in a Formula 1 weekend, … Continue reading →

So Barrichello finally out-qualified Jenson last weekend thereby proving the promise of the season, and today he’s done it again. Before the season had started who can deny that it was one of the most interesting battles. The logic goes … Continue reading →

F1 has always been considered one of the most exacting sports in the world. But it really is coming to something if we are going to have to start measuring times in fractions of thousands of a second. Because Rubens … Continue reading →

Who do you think will win on Saturday? A resurgent Michael has won those two and was second fastest today (only behind his team mate Massa). While Renault have been on the back foot two races in a row, Alonso … Continue reading →

For ages (well since it was obvious Michael wasn’t going to win last year) I’ve been of the opinion that Michael had a master plan about last season. Once he knew he was going to loose he thought that the … Continue reading →