Peculiarity seemed to surround the Japanese Grand Prix this weekend. With a typhoon taking aim at Japan, the usual schedule of events was changed, with the third free practice being canceled and qualifying being moved to just hours before the race. Then the start confounded. And in the end, even the end brought consternation. None …
Odds & Sods We start off this week’s F1 Midweek with a note about the weather. This coming weekend, Formula 1 returns to Suzuka, Japan for the Japanese Grand Prix. There is, however, another visitor heading for the country, which would be super typhoon Hagibis. While rain usually makes F1 races more interesting, a typhoon …
Odds & Sods: This week we give a quick overview of the headlines of Formula 1 after the Russian Grand Prix. – This past weekend brought more drama to the relationship between the Ferrari drivers of Charles Leclerc and Sebastian Vettel. Ross Brawn, who knows a thing or two about running a team and maintaining …
Check the headlines for Formula 1 and they tend to center on three main stories. The first ledes deal with Ferrari’s one-two performance, taking the win and the second place on the podium, a feat they had struggled to execute in the last, um, like nine years or something. (Not that bad, really, as their …
This weekend highlights one of the more strikingly innovative races on the Formula 1 calendar. Announced in 2007 and developed over a year’s span, the inaugural Singapore Grand Prix ran in 2008. It marked dual firsts in being the first street circuit in Asia but more significantly was the first and only night race in …
The race this past Sunday looks to be the sign of change at Ferrari. At its home track for the Italian Grand Prix, Charles Leclerc put his car on pole then titillated and frustrated Lewis Hamilton with a battle for first for nearly half the race before driving away with the win. That’s a pretty …
Formula 1’s Italian Grand Prix gave a little bit of everything on Sunday (Sept 8). The main thing that it offered was a battle at the front, which is something that has rarely been seen. First, Charles Leclerc fended off Lewis Hamilton for nearly two-thirds of the race, and then when Hamilton’s tires had given …
Qualifying for Formula 1’s Italian Grand Prix turned out to be one of the more peculiar in more recent memory. When things don’t go as usually expected, the weather tends to feature in the narrative. Sometimes the culprit could be the tires. Then, in a few exceptions, the track itself provides an added element of …
As Formula 1 begins its month-long summer break, the news that has rippled through the tranquil waters came in the form of Red Bull making a driver change. Pierre Gasly has been demoted to Toro Rosso beginning with the next race, the Belgian Grand Prix on September 1. The driver taking Gasly’s seat will be …
This past week’s Formula 1 race, taking place in Hockeheim, Germany, gave the season one of its most unpredictable and brightest moments of the year. The German Grand Prix was supposed to be a homecoming celebration for Mercedes, a chance for them to display their dominance in front of their home crowd and to further …
Refueling One of the more intriguing things being floated about in the paddock is the return of refueling during races. The sport eliminated refueling as part of the in-race element beginning with the 2010 season in a move predicated on safety. The move came on the heels of a number of petrol related incidents in …
This past Sunday brought a fair amount of drama from Silverstone as Lewis Hamilton earned his sixth British Grand Prix victory and Sebastian Vettel continued his tour de force implosion when he rear-ended Max Verstappen and took himself out of the points. The battles from the third position through 14th gave glimpses of wonderful competition …
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