F1 Insiders Est. 2012
The 1990 Mexican Grand Prix served up a wonderful race. The event had been dominated by the McLaren duo of Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost in 1988 and 1989, but for 1990 Prost was now driving for Ferrari after his acrimonious departure from McLaren. It was Senna’s McLaren teammate Gerhard Berger who took pole however, … Read more
The first race of the 1990 F1 world championship was held on the streets of Phoenix. Back then the qualifying format had two days of qualifying, but with rain on the Saturday the times from Friday would decide the grid order. Gerhard Berger took pole position in his first race for McLaren after replacing Alain … Read more
Formula One and the United States have had a strange relationship over the years, with neither one every seeming to fully embrace the other, for a variety of reasons. The Indianapolis 500 was a part of the F1 World Championship from its inaugural season in 1950 (a race won incidentally by America’s Johnnie Parsons – … Read more
With horrendous weather conditions predicted for this weekend, similar to that of 2015 when Hamilton took the drives championship away from teammate Nico Rosberg, TJ13 looks back at another memorable moment in Austin. Formula 1 2012 – Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel arrived in Austin for the penultimate round of the 2012 World Championship with a … Read more
On this day…. 16th August 1992 Today is the day Nigel Mansell finally won the world driver’s championship at the Hungarian Grand Prix after finishing second in the race to Ayrton Senna’s McLaren. Mansell came oh so close to winning the title in 1986, when he narrowly lost out to Alain Prost due to the now iconic … Read more
On this day in F1… 8th August 1953 Our Nige was born One of the underrated greats of Formula One, Nigel Mansell celebrates his birthday today. ‘Il leone’ as he was known to the Tifosi for his fighting drives for Ferrari was born in in Upton-on-Severn in 1953. Mansell seemed destined never to win the … Read more
The Red Bull story will be a story very central to this weekend’s Canadian Grand Prix. The team are on the cusp of a decision monumental to the team’s future performance in Formula 1, the transfer of engine supply to Honda. The bosses at Red Bull will be very interested to see how the … Read more
Rumour from the Barcelona Paddock has it that Fernando Alonso was spotted with Ferrari management – adding to the story today we have the Spanish Media purporting that a secret meeting had indeed occurred. Diario Gol claim the two parties met at the Barcelona Grand Prix and terms were laid on the table for a … Read more
In the lead up to the Spanish Grand Prix, Fernando’s home circuit, the Spanish driver is “ready for this challenge,” after winning the WEC 6hrs of Spa last weekend. Spurred on by his first WEC win, Fernando Alonso is set to tackle at his home race at the Spanish Grand Prix this weekend at the … Read more
The previous race held at Baku before this weekend’s 2018 Azerbaijan Grand Prix, was rich in drama. Insiders suggest we should be getting ready for a similarly chaotic race. And part of the reason why is due to the football World Cup in Russia. Previous races in Baku had been held later in the year; … Read more
