F1 Insiders Est. 2012
The Mexican Grand Prix was the last round on the 1964 World Championship calendar, and it served up a thrilling battle for the title. Coming into the race 3 drivers stood a chance at winning the title. Graham Hill led the way for BRM, holding a 5 point cushion over Ferrari’s John Surtees, with 9 … Read more
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 last US Grand Prix West was held at Long Beach in 1983. The front row was locked out by the Goodyear shod Ferrari’s of Patrick Tambay (1st) and Rene Arnoux (2nd), with an all Williams second row, Keke Rosberg (3rd) and Jacques Laffite (4th) utilising their Goodyear’s to good effect. Pirelli had the honour of … Read more
Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel arrived in Austin for the penultimate round of the 2012 World Championship with a slender 10 point lead over Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso. This was the first United States Grand Prix to be held on the brand new Circuit of the Americas, and after a gap of 5 years without a United … 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
In 1988 McLaren-Honda were the dominant force, and their two drivers, two time world champion Alain Prost and his younger team-mate Ayrton Senna arrived at the Japanese Grand Prix with the championship within the grasp of Senna. Senna had dominated qualifying that season, taking 11 poles to Prost’s two, but in terms of race wins … Read more
The first Formula One Japanese Grand Prix was the final round of the 1976 season, staged at the Fuji circuit. This was the season where Ferrari’s Niki Lauda had his near fatal crash at the Nurburgring whilst looking set to retain the driver’s championship he won in 1975. McLaren’s James Hunt closed the gap to … Read more
Ferrari arrived in Malaysia in a right mess in 2012. Their new car was hopelessly off the pace and it’s unpredictable and unforgiving nature made it a hard beast to tame. In the opening round of the season in Australia, Felipe Massa had qualified down in 16th place. Love him or loath him, Fernando Alonso … Read more
If Sebastian Vettel is going to get his title challenge back on track after Ferrari’s Singapore nightmare, then he will need the number 2 Ferrari to provide cover and help take points off his rivals. Ferrari produced arguably the greatest display of number 2 driving in Malaysia back in 1999, when a certain Michael Schumacher … Read more
Coming into the Singapore Grand Prix in 2011 the title was a fight between Sebastian Vettel, Mark Webber (Red Bull), Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button (McLaren) and Fernando Alonso (Ferrari). Well, mathematically anyway. Such was Vettel’s dominance in the 2011 season that he could wrap the title up in Singapore if results went his way. … Read more
