F1 Insiders Est. 2012
Brought to you by TheJudge13 contributor CFD1801J Ambient 26.9° Track 32° Humidity 70.3% Wind 0.5 m/s Prelude The sun still lingered on the horizon as the cars completed their installation laps, twilight hues refracted beautifully over the paddock in the high wispy clouds as the pre-race chaos crescendoed towards the start. And the biggest driver … Read more
Brought to you by TheJudge13 contributor CFD1801J Ambient 27.9° Track 39.4° Humidity 60.1% Wind 0.5 m/s Prelude In stark contrast to qualifying, skies overarching the grid were rapidly turning grey as the race gods again played with the teams as sport, rain arriving with 20 minutes to go, darkening the track and sending the engineers … Read more
Brought to you by TheJudge13 contributor Mattpt55 Ambient 16° Track 36° Humidity 50% Wind 2.6 m/s Prelude Overnight at Montmelo saw a hammering rain and as the track went green for installation laps there were massive grey clouds hanging over the circuit at the back of the pitlane, and an oculus of blue at the … Read more
Brought to you by TheJudge13 contributor Mattpt55 Ambient 16° Track 25° Humidity 23% Wind 3.5 m/s Prelude There’s wind and there’s wind and then there’s today in the paddock. The winner of the F2 race, George Russell described the wind as “scary” and that’s with an F2 car. F1 cars have infinitely tricksier aero and … Read more
Brought to you by TheJudge13 contributor Mattpt55 Ambient 18° Track 37° Humidity 23% Wind 2.1 m/s Prelude Another day, another dollar or so the saying goes. Funny how 24 hours after Mercedes’ seeming display of dominance at FP1 and FP2, a singularly poor qualifying session has the world writing them out of the championship and … Read more
Brought to you by TheJudge13 contributor Mattpt55 Ambient 28° Track 33° Humidity 46% Wind 1.5 m/s Prelude The faint gloaming of twilight was just a hint in the air as the cars rocked up to the pitlane exit for their practice start and installation laps. The failing sun still buried the artificial daylight set to … Read more
Brought to you by TheJudge13 contributor Mattpt55 Ambient 24° Track 37° Humidity 36% Wind 2.9 m/s Prelude Well, that didn’t take long. One minute, the top three contenders were separated by a mere tenth, and the three way battle for the championship was very much on, the next, Hamilton was the better part of a … Read more
Many say Alonso is the best driver in the world. This may be so, or it might be more evident if he could finish a race, but if it is, and we take a look at the current driver standing we might also make a couple of assumptions that:
Alonso never really ever had any expectation of finishing in the points, he was anticipating “13th or 14th but in reality, it was looking like last. His optimisms of improvements by Budapest are equally cool.
Alonso & McLaren. He likes the car and thinks it’s up there with the best. The team wants him to stay, the fans definitely want him to stay so will a Merc engine be enough to keep him in 2018? – He was asked that exact question this weekend….
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