Tuesday’s F1 News – The Up’s…And The Down’s
After a positive German Grand Prix for McLaren, Team Principal Martin Whitmarsh has made bold claims that he believes that both McLaren and Ferrari are fully capable of catching the run-away Red Bull’s of Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber. As a result of these claims, Whitmarsh added “Hopefully we can make this another fantastic championship [...]
Silverstone shows more than one chink in Red Bull’s armour
Red Bull are dominant and some people are calling the season boring – everything always seems to change at Silverstone, doesn’t it? The entire weekend in the paddock was spent politicking over the off throttle blown diffuser restrictions with Renault and then Mercedes both being given certain latitudes due to reliability issues. Eventually some sort [...]
In the rain, always bet on Button
Six trips through the pit lane, including one driver through penalty, contact with his team mate and Fernando Alonso, at the very back of the field at a restart and Jenson Button was still able to come through to win the longest ever Formula 1 race. The official time of the race was just under [...]
F1 Blog’s Canadian Predictions
Carrot’s Predictions Canadian Grand Prix 2011 Winner – Lewis Hamilton Canadian Grand Prix 2011 Pole Position – Sebastian Vettel Canadian Grand Prix 2011 Fastest Lap – Mark Webber Other predictions – At least one safety car period Canada, the race Pirelli were told to copy their degradation patterns from, and they’ve brought the softest tyres [...]
Gambling pays off for Red Bull
Red Bull gambled in Monaco, going against the current season mantra that more stops are better, to take the win with a risky strategy to allow Sebastian Vettel to record his first Monaco win in what is surely looking like his second championship winning year. The strategy was not however a result of genius, a [...]
Strategy is back in F1
While not as easy as he’d like, losing pole to Mark Webber, losing the first corner lead to Fernando Alonso and being hounded to the finish by Lewis Hamilton, Sebastian Vettel still managed to score the win in Spain today. This makes Vettel’s fourth victory in five races, meaning he’s only dropped seven points from [...]
Red Bull get back in their stride
Sebastian Vettel wiped out his car with a crash in FP1 and there were KERS issues for Red Bull on Saturday morning, still come Sunday afternoon nothing could match Red Bull and Vettel as they returned to their winning ways in Turkey. The race proved that the amount of overtaking in China wasn’t a one [...]
F1 Blog’s Turkish Predictions
Carrot’s Predictions Turkish Grand Prix 2011 Winner – Mark Webber Turkish Grand Prix 2011 Pole Position – Sebastian Vettel Turkish Grand Prix 2011 Fastest Lap – Lewis Hamilton Other predictions – Felipe Massa to finish higher than Fernando Alonso at the race he’s won on three previous occasions With Vettel having had a heavy crash [...]
McLaren answer Red Bull’s pace in China
You are going to have to go back a long way to find a race more exciting than the 2011 Chinese Grand Prix. The most recent one I personally can think of is Brazil 2008 and that had the additional tension of a championship decider and being a rain affected race. China 2011 had no [...]
F1 Blog’s Chinese Predictions
Carrot’s Predictions Chinese Grand Prix 2011 Winner – Sebastian Vettel. Chinese Grand Prix 2011 Pole Position – Sebastian Vettel. Chinese Grand Prix 2011 Fastest Lap – Sebastian Vettel. Other predictions – Lewis Hamilton to out-qualify Jenson Button but finish behind him on Sunday due to being harder on his tyres. If anything the Red Bulls [...]
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