Monthly Archives: March 2007

Something for the Weekend?

I don’t know about you, but I feel that there is something missing from this weekend. It’s been two weeks since Australia, and I’m ready for another Grand Prix. How about you? This whole ‘three weeks’ thing seems to be … Continue reading

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Kimi’s charge card

So according to my secret sources Ferrari will announce that they will have to replace Kimi’s engine before the Malaysian Grand Prix. So we will likely see Kimi charging from the back, something we know all too well that he’s … Continue reading

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The Button didn’t work

So the result of our Poll (a day late, sorry about that): And we can see that the one thing that everyone is agreed on is that Lewis Hamilton isn’t the new Button. Most people think he could be the … Continue reading

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Winning Ways

To continue today’s trend of journalist-bashing (although I wouldn’t quite go so far as Alex to call them all a cancer on the sport), a point made by Richard Barnes annoyed me quite a lot. He said that it was … Continue reading

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Mass Dampners For the Soul

There does seem to be a habit among formula one pundits to extrapolate in extremis. I personally think that the murray quote, “anything can happen in formula one, and it usually does” is completely correct. In other words, each race … Continue reading

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Your flexible friend

Remember the flexible wing saga from last year? Well apparently this year it will be the flexible floor saga. Apparently Ron Dennis has lodged a complaint with the FIA about teams (read Ferrari) have developed a flexible floor. The main … Continue reading

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SofaF1 Championship – Round 1

Well Alex gets off to a flying start, predicting Raikkonen for the pole and win gave him 6 points to kick off with. Fourstar’s default option of his final championship prediction stood him in good stead to pull in a … Continue reading

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It’s the little things that you notice…

…Like the preverbial “Royal with Cheese” it is the little things that can make it difficult to adapt to a new team. And as Alonso proves here it may still have not happened for him:

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Getting a steer

The result of last weeks poles were very accurate, but I must say slightly skewed by the one person who voted after the race had actually occured! At least that’s one way to increase the accuracy! So this weeks question: … Continue reading

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An Ordered Team

Subsequent to my race-time blitherings, in his review of the race James Allen gives a reason for the priority given to Alonso during the pit stops. Apparently, McLaren always let the fastest qualifying driver choose a strategy which the slower … Continue reading

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