Silverstone: the best of the year so far?

Rate the Race and Driver of the Weekend, Round 10,  Silverstone, British GP 2019 Mean Reader Score 8.53 Ranked 1st or 2nd /10 races so far. Well, what a race that was! If we exclude Austria (which, due to time constraints, did not have a ‘proper’ poll associated with it) then Silverstone has been rated … Read more

A scorcher, and not just track temperature!

Rate the Race and Driver of the Weekend – Spielberg, Austria, 2019 Mean Reader Score:  9.0 Ranked 1/9 Due to time constraints, the author has made a unilateral decision to rank the race and the drivers based entirely on her own opinion: [ Another (proper) Rate the Race may follow.] What is it about Austria … Read more

Shhhhh…..Don’t mention penalties!

Who’d be a steward? Can’t do right for doing wrong (as my mother would have said). Not me thanks,even if I were qualified for the job, which I’m not. I think the stewarding job after this F1 GP in Austria this weekend may have been the hardest to date. Why? Because of Canada, that’s why. … Read more

Am I the only one who smells a rat?

2014 AustrianGP

Call me cynical (or worse!!) but I’m not at all impressed by the qualifying result in Austria. Not wishing to take anything away from the excellent performances of Leclerc and Verstappen (congratulations to them both, as I am looking forward to a decent scrap between them in the race later on today) BUT it’s all … Read more

The biggest 2019 positive for McLaren

  Rate the race and driver of the weekend. Round 8, France 2019 Mean Reader Score: 2.15 Rated 8/8 races this season Oh dear, compared to this year’s 2.15, last year’s score of 5.61 is positively astronomical. Dreadful or Abysmal? How best to describe this awful ‘race?’ The score says it all- it was extremely … Read more

Should Ferrari have taken the win in Canada?

  Rate the Race and Driver of The Weekend: Round 7, Canada, 9th June 2019. Rate the race Mean Reader Score: 5.33 Rated 4/7 races so far this year. Unlike last years abysmal score of 3.50 this year’s score was a half decent 5.33, nowhere near as good as the 7.34 from 2017 or even … Read more

Could this be Bottas’ year?

Rate the Race and Driver of The weekend. Round 4, Baku City, Azerbaijan, 2019 Mean Reader score: 4.53 7.91 Ranked 3 out of 4 races so far this season. This year’s score of 4.53 was nowhere near 2018’s score of 7.91 , or 2017’s score of 8.74. In fact it is marginally lower than 2016’s … Read more

A new Red Bull junior destined for big things?

  Rate the Race and Driver of the Weekend, Round 3, China, 2019 Mean Reader Score: 4.12 Ranked 3/3 races This year’s mean race score of 4.12 was way lower than the 8.18 from last year and the 7.31 from 2017. In 2018, by the narrowest of margins, China was heading our leader board, being top of … Read more