Haas & Magnussen on top at Melbourne

Rate the race and driver of the weekend, 2018 Round 1 Melbourne Australia Mean reader score: 4.59 Well, if you thought last year’s score of 5.6 paled against 2016’s score of 7.26, then this year’s score of 4.59 was poor indeed. Not the best start for the new season (wonder how Liberty feel about that?). … Read more

Ask not for whom the bell tolls…..

Rate the Race and Driver of the weekend – Round 20 Abu Dhabi 2017. Rate the race: Mean reader score 2.62 The score speaks for itself- 2.62 by far the lowest score of the season and the worst score for Abu Dhabi for quite some time. Last year there was still the WDC to be … Read more

Hamilton wins the vote, Verstappen who?

Rate the race and Driver of the weekend: Round 19, Interlagos, Brazil 2017 Mean reader score: 5.85 This year’s score was nowhere near as high as last year’s score of 8.03, but way higher than 2015’s score of 3.92. Then again, this time last year the championship had not yet been decided, Rosberg was 19 … Read more

Deja Vu…

Rate the Race and driver of the weekend 2017 Round 18, Mexico Rate the race: Mean Reader score 6.84 This year’s race scored slightly higher than last year (6.45) and much higher than 2015 (4.70) With Hamilton being 66 points ahead of nearest rival Vettel, a good race for Vettel (i.e. a win) was crucial … Read more

How can millions of £s of state of the art engineering be scuppered by a spark plug?

Rate the race and driver of the weekend – Suzuka , Japan 2017  Mean reader score:  6.20 This year’s score was lower Than last year’s score of 6.97, which was the highest scoring race of the previous four years: way higher than 2015 (5.11), considerably higher than 2014 (5.42) and a bit higher than 2013 … Read more

‘I thought you were better than that’

Rate the Race and Driver of the Weekend Sepang, Malaysia, 2017 Mean Reader Score :7.31 Malaysia’s swansong may have drawn in the crowds but it didn’t draw in the votes from our discerning readers. This year’s score of 7.35 was lower than 2016 (7.82) and 2015 (8.25) With this track being technically difficult, fast and … Read more

Hamilton eclipsed by Ricciardo

Rate the Race and Driver of the weekend –  Round 13, Monza 2017 Mean Reader Score:  5.82 Once again Monza’s score was not as high as the expectations we had for it. As with last year, the Tifosi had one of their  own (Vettel) on the podium, and like last year it was third place.  … Read more

Hamilton takes all

Rate the race – Round 12 – Belgian GP , Spa Francochamps 2017 Rate the Race reader score 6.38 Well, you thought this was nowhere near as good as last year’s race (7.28) and marginally better than 2015 (6.32.) Last year’s race saw Vettel, Verstappen and Raikonnen collide into turn 1, KMag ‘s crash on … Read more

Fastest lap at boring Budapest; Alonso actually came first too

Rate the Race and Driver of the Weekend – Round 11, Hungaroring, Budapest, Hungary Mean Reader score : 4.77 This year’s score of 4.77 was marginally higher than last year’s 4.36 and is currently ranked as 9th out of the 11 races so far this season. Well, it was ‘better’ than last year in that there was … Read more