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Canada Preview
2008-06-06 12:52:00 The Canadian GP is our only romp into the northern America’s this year. We have been coming to the Track de Gilles Villeneuve since 1978 for the F1 championship, and it usually makes for an interesting race, with 2005’s GP still holding the record as the most watch GP event, and the third most watched ... More About: News , Formula , Preview , Canada
Max let off
2008-06-03 18:39:00 The FIA extraordinary general meeting has given Max a life-line, for now. It seems that of the 177 votes cast, he got 103 votes for him to stay on, with seven abstentions and four invalid votes. So for now he is still the FIA president. However it could all change. The German ADAC (largest motoring body ... More About: News
Monaco a full runthrough
2008-05-27 18:17:00 The rain soaked Monaco GP threw up a few surprises, and a few incidents. So let’s have a look at how the teams and drivers got on in the Principality. The race started with the teams having to make a difficult choice over which tyres to have on the cars before the three minute warning, ... More About: News , Ferrari , Full , Felipe Massa
Lewis conquers the Monaco Rain
2008-05-25 19:37:00 Lewis Hamilton and McLaren have taken the race win in Monaco on a rain drenched day. Lewis managed to get the jump on Kimi at the race start, taking corner one behind Massa. He then managed to bump his rear wheel against a barrier, and had to pit for replacement, where the McLaren team switched him ... More About: News , Formula , Rain , Lewis
Monaco Qualifying
2008-05-24 17:13:00 A shock result from the qualifying session for Monaco, the McLaren ’s have only managed to take the second row of the grid, being out qualified by the Ferrari ’s at the ‘McLaren Track’. Lewis Hamilton seemed to be struggling the whole session to get a good time in sector 2 of the track, and it seemed ... More About: News , Qualifying , David Coulthard
Monaco Preview
2008-05-23 15:55:00 The Monaco GP is the most prestigious event of the F1 season. It has history, glamour and most importantly, money. The track is the tightest and slowest of the championship, and recently has suited the McLaren cars well, coming in with a one-two last year (Alonso, Lewis). They also hold the record for most wins ... More About: News , Formula , Preview , Ferrari
Clean new look
2008-05-22 16:21:00 Some of you keen eyed readers will have noticed that we have changed our looks. The previous style and feel of the site was starting to get old, and I thought it would be nice to update it, and in the process make things feel, look and work better. So here you see our nice new ... More About: News , Clean
Turkey a full runthrough
2008-05-13 17:38:00 The Turkish GP again did not disappoint. We had all sorts of drama in the race, both on and off the track. The Ferrari’s where surprisingly not as far ahead of the McLaren’s as we thought they would be, and the BMW-Sauber’s where miles off the pace. So it seems to have all moved at the ... More About: News , Turkey , Report , Race , Full
Turkey Qualifying
2008-05-10 14:25:00 For the third year in a row, Felipe Massa has popped his Ferrari onto the pole slot. He has won from first on the grid for the last two years, so looking good for the Brazilian in tomorrows race. Heikki made a great comeback from his smash in Spain to take the second spot on ... More About: News , Turkey , Results , Qualifying
F1 Games
2008-05-09 15:33:00 For years Sony had the right’s to the F1 game’s, so we only ever saw ‘arcady’ games make it onto their own platforms. However today it’s been announced that Code Masters have picked up the license, and it’s internal race driver : GRID team will be doing the game, that’s good news, as CodeMasters have a long ... More About: News , Games , Online
Turkey Preview
2008-05-08 18:06:00 Istanbul is another of the Hermann Tilke new tracks, with the exception that it is a counter clockwise track. Filipe Massa has enjoyed the track in the past, winning here twice since it’s opening race in 2005, and Ferrari have typically been strong here. The track temperature will again be high this weekend, and the teams ... More About: News , Turkey , Preview
Spain a full runthrough
2008-04-28 15:39:00 The Spanish GP turned out to be a bit of an interesting beast. Yes the racing was not amazing (as it rarely is at the Circuit de Catalunya), but from a technical and strategy standpoint it was a very interesting mix. The first European GP of the year is always where strange things turn up, ... More About: News , Spain , Full
Spain Qualifying results
2008-04-26 15:16:00 OK, so where did Renault come from? Alonso is the talk of the Qualy session without a shadow of a doubt. Yes Kimi took a pole position, and Massa took third, but it’s certain that all talk will be about Fernando, who was pleased as punch coming over the line after setting the pole ... More About: News , Ferrari , Spain , Results
Spain Preview
2008-04-25 16:43:00 Right back to doing something on the site, after sorting out our ‘technical problems’ (note to self, don’t annoy the FOM), let’s get back to race news and issues. The Spanish GP is the first of two proposed Grand Prix’s in Spain this year, however the Valencia GP has bumped into some issues of late. So ... More About: News , Preview
Woops
2008-04-24 22:58:00 Just a quick note of apologies for the absence of the site, all sorted now though, so normal service will resume shortly. Copyright © 2008 F1-Blog. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you are looking at is guilty of copyright ... More About: News
Bahrain a full runthrough
2008-04-07 13:45:00 The Bahrain GP had a few revelations and showed some issues, so it made for an interesting race from the technical side, as well as a decent race from a racing point of view. Let’s get onto the disappointing day for McLaren. Not only was their car completely off the pace all weekend, but their Star driver made a complete hash of it, and the team had to rely on the new boy to score points. Lewis Hamilton had a terrible day, from the start he bogged down his McLaren, forcing Heikki to take a detour around him, this put him tenth, behind Fernando Alonso in his Renault. Then to add insult to the injury he ran into the back of the Renault, destroying both his and Fernando’s race as he destroyed his nose, and took a huge chip out of Fernando’s rear wing (see pic left). To be fair to Fernando he raced on, and did a decent job considering the damage to the car, it may only look like a small piece missing, but he will have had a huge loss of rear downforce, as well as vibr... More About: Full
Bahrain a full runthrough
2008-04-07 13:45:00 The Bahrain GP had a few revelations and showed some issues, so it made for an interesting race from the technical side, as well as a decent race from a racing point of view. Let’s get onto the disappointing day for McLaren . Not only was their car completely off the pace all weekend, but their ... More About: Ferrari , Full , Massa
Bahrain
2008-04-06 15:22:00 I’ll do a full race run through later on, but Massa has taken the race win for the second year in the row. He took the lead off the line, and maintained it all the way through the race, Kimi grabbed second, and Robert Kubica took the last step on the podium. Lewis had an appalling start of the line, and bogged down, he went around the first lap in 10th spot behind Fernando Alonso, Lewis was sat right behind the Renault, and it looked like Alonso feathered the throttle, this caused Lewis to run into the back of the car, damaging both cars in the process. Toyota and Trulli did well, coming in sixth to take the best of the rest spot. The race was full of incidents, so I will do a full race run through shortly. Copyright © 2008 F1-Blog. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you are looking at is guilty of copyright infringement. Please message us at http://www.f1-blog.co.uk/contact-us/ so we c... More About: Bahrain
A Pole on Pole
2008-04-05 15:10:00 Robert Kubica has started the weekend well for the BMW Sauber team by giving the team their first pole position. Mario Theissen seemed overjoyed, and told Robert so while the driver was returning to the pits. Behind Robert was a close battle between last years race winner Filipe Massa and Lewis Hamilton in the McLaren. Kimi Raikkonen looked to be running longer than Filipe on fuel and popped his Ferarri into the fourth spot with Heikki Kovalainen a few hundredths behind him in fifth. Nick Heidfeld put in his fast lap, then pulled into the pits happy with it and sat out the last few minutes of the Q3 session. Jarno Trulli showed that the Toyota certainly has true pace this season as he was the best of the rest behind the BMW’s, Ferrari’s and McLaren’s. The Toyota powered Williams of Nico Rosberg was the last of the drivers in the 1:33 times, and he seemed to be quite happy with his eighth place on the grid, and said that the car is better suited to this track than i... More About: Pole
Bahrain Preview
2008-04-02 13:02:00 The 2008 Bahrain GP could be the last at the circuit, as it looks likely that the event may swap over to the Yas Island track in Abu Dhabi from next year. So what do we have to look forward to this weekend? The drivers will be glad to be at the Bahrain track this weekend while they all still try to get used to their cars now that traction control and engine breaking are gone, this is because the track offers some of the largest run-off areas of any of the modern tracks, previously a criticism by some, as it did not punish mistakes, however the drivers will welcome that this weekend. Felipe Massa was the dominator here last year, taking pole, fastest lap and the win. After the race the three 2007 title contenders (Hamilton, Raikkonen and Massa) left the race on equal points standings as they went into the European season. It’s also worth remembering that this was Lewis Hamilton’s third straight podium finish in a row, a first for an F1 Rookie. We could see quite an intere... More About: Preview
McLaren being punished?
2008-04-02 12:16:00 The German newspaper Bild has published what it says are details of why the McLaren team are at the bottom of the pit lane this weekend in Bahrain. The Newspaper says that it is the FIA actioning it’s right to do this to the team, after Bernie Ecclestone had agreed with the relevant parties to allow the McLaren team to take the fifth pit garage. This demotion will not really affect the team this week, as the Bahrain circuit is well setup, and all the teams get the same allocation of space, however if the FIA enforce this again whilst the teams are in Europe, then the McLaren outfit will suffer as space is limited at most European tracks, especially at the bottom end of the pit lane. Bild says the reason this has happened is that the FIA agreed to the deal with Ernie, under the belief that Ron Dennis would stand down before the season start. Obviously this did not happen, and when Dennis went to collect the winners trophy in Australia, it seems that it annoyed ’someone&rs...
Max talks
2008-04-02 12:01:00 First up the letter, and it’s really well worded, proving he is a political animal, and not stupid. From information provided to me by an impeccable high-level source close to the UK police and security services, I understand that over the last 2 weeks or so, a covert investigation of my private life and background has been undertaken by a group specialising in such things, for reasons and clients as yet unknown. I have had similar but less well-sourced information from France Regrettably you are now familiar with the results of this covert investigation and I am very sorry if this has embarrassed you or the club. Not content with publicising highly personal and private activities, which are, to say the least, embarrassing, a British tabloid newspaper published the story with the claim that there was some sort of Nazi connotation to the matter. This is entirely false. It is against the law in most countries to publish details of a person’s private life without good reason....
What’s Max done now
2008-04-01 14:51:00 Just as ‘Mad’ Max had started to get into my, well not good books, but books I wouldn’t burn, he’s allegedly gone and done something quite stupid again. I’ve not reported on this until now, because I was on my Hol’s, but as it’s the current talk of the blogosphere I thought I would add my two peneth worth to the mix. Now I am all for keeping your personal life personal, but Max didn’t do that, he filmed it (or at least someone did) and it got splashed all over the front of the News Of The World. The only other main stream newspaper to pick up on the story was The Times who covered the story in detail. It’s strange how not many of the usual news outfits have picked up on this story (as Oliver rightly points out over on his site). The story says that he was involved in an orgy with a group of prostitutes, and acted out some rather weird Nazi fantasies. This has had Jewish supporters up in arms asking for his resignation. I suppose ...
RIP : David Leslie
2008-04-01 13:26:00 It’s a sad day when we have to say goodbye to anyone, even worse when that person is a truely great and likable character, and that is what David Leslie was to a lot of people. David was involved in a plane crash over the weekend that took his and Richard Lloyd’s (Apex Motorsport boss) life. Also on the plane where Christopher Allarton, and pilots Mike Roberts and Michael Chapman. David Leslie was probably best known for his Touring Car appearances, and as far as I know, was one of those rare drivers who did not have a person that disliked him. He was a mentor to drivers like David Coulthard and Alan McNish, who he coached through there lower formula days. We offer our condolences to all family and friends involved. Video from BBC News covering the crash. Copyright © 2008 F1-Blog. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you are looking at is guilty of copyright infringement. Plea...
GTA Final Trailer
2008-03-28 01:15:00 The final trailer is out for the latest (and probably greatest) Grand Theft Auto . I can see what everyone, who is saying that the title does not look Next Gen is saying, however some of the things are great in this trailer. Yes the game looks not dissimilar to previous titles, but some of the shadow’s are ... More About: News , Trailer , Final
Malaysia a full runthrough
2008-03-24 19:47:00 It was not quite the race that McLaren and Lewis were hoping for after their domination in Australia. It was however an interesting race, as it showed that the season is not going to be the two horse race that we have had in recent seasons. Ferrari shone all weekend, and where pretty much unbeatable, Felipe was looking fast, as was Kimi, and the Ferrari with it’s minor changes to improve cooling looked strong. The race started under a little cloud, the McLaren team had been penalised five grid spots for both of their cars, this was because Lewis and Heikki had impeded Heidfeld and Alonso’s fast laps at the end of the Q3 session. This put the two lower fueled McLarens into eight and ninth place, in and around heavier fueld cars. This did however show us that both the McLaren and Lewis are quick away from the line, the Brit lined up ninth on the grid, and finished the first set of corners in fifth, Mark Webber did well getting the Red Bull into fourth as well. This left t... More About: Malaysia , Full
Malaysia a full runthrough
2008-03-24 19:47:00 It was not quite the race that McLaren and Lewis were hoping for after their domination in Australia. It was however an interesting race, as it showed that the season is not going to be the two horse race that we have had in recent seasons. Ferrari shone all weekend, and where pretty much unbeatable, ... More About: News , Malaysia , Full , Heikki Kovalainen
Malaysia Race Report
2008-03-23 09:51:00 Without doubt the Ferrari’s where the cars to beat this time out, however Massa managed to throw his car off the road and into the gravel to end his race. Kimi however kept his head, and finished the race on the top step of the podium. Lewis had an on/off race, at points showing great pace, but his luck was not good, as he had issues when the tyres were graining, and had a right front wheel stick at his first stop, which culminated in his wheel deflector on that wheel not being fitted properly for the whole of his second stint. He managed to finish in fifth in the end. It was a good battle in the final stages of the race between Hamilton and Jarno Trulli who finished a deserved fourth in the Toyota, showing that the Japanese team have real pace in the car. Heikki raced a mature race, moving up the field and finishing third. Kubbica raced well too, to take the second spot, however there was not much footage of him through the race as he was on his own. Heidfeld dropped off the ... More About: Malaysia , Report , Race
Malaysia Race Report
2008-03-23 09:51:00 Without doubt the Ferrari ’s where the cars to beat this time out, however Massa managed to throw his car off the road and into the gravel to end his race. Kimi however kept his head, and finished the race on the top step of the podium. Lewis had an on/off race, at points showing great pace, ... More About: News , Malaysia , Results , Report
McLaren Penalised
More articles from this author:2008-03-22 16:49:00 The McLaren drivers have both been penalised 5 places on the grid for tomorrows race for blocking Nick Heidfeld during his fast lap. The McLaren team’s Martin Whitmarsh said “We accept the stewards? decisions, but would like to add that neither Lewis nor Heikki impeded any of their competitors deliberately. It was an unfortunate incident, nothing ... More About: News 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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