F1 Insiders Est. 2012
Brought to you by TheJudge13 contributor Mattpt55 Ambient 25° Track 42° Humidity 50% Wind 1.2 m/s Prelude The bright blue sky was studded with clouds, not just the usual cotton balls but off in the far distance, slightly more ominous, perhaps even threatening, a dark grey wall loomed, perhaps the sole remaining hope for an … Read more
Brought to you by TheJudge13 contributor Mattpt55 Ambient 22° Track 30° Humidity 60% Wind 0.4 m/s Prelude Let it never be said that the challenges of being a Formula 1 fan are overstated, after yesterday’s epic Fake Charlie Whiting traffic thread. 9.5 hours for 90km of driving to reach the circuit makes even the BQE … Read more
Brought to you by TheJudge13 contributor Mattpt55 Ambient 20° Track 41° Humidity 27% Wind 1.2 m/s Prelude Traffic was jammed on the BQE, brakelights solid red. An early promising start combined with some well spotted overtaking and an allegedly healthy disregard for posted limits had seen the GPS move it’s needle from 8 after to … Read more
Brought to you by TheJudge13 contributor Mattpt55 Ambient 22° Track 43° Humidity 21% Wind 2.0 m/s Prelude Montreal has long been a Hamilton track, he has won 6 times, crushing the opposition mercilessly relative to current drivers. But Qualifying is all about who’s fastest over a single lap, not a race distance and if you … 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 18° Track 27° Humidity 77% Wind 2.4 m/s Prelude IT was a dark and stormy night… wait a minute….. random, unpredictable winds lashed the paddock as ominous clouds scudded overhead in the run up to qualifying. The possibility of rain was added to a long list of … 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 22° Track 26° Humidity 47% Wind 2.3 m/s Prelude Cloudy skies and howling winds dominated the paddock and as much as the low temps were a point of discussion during FP3 it was the tailwind into the turns that provided much of the entertainment for both drivers … Read more
Brought to you by TheJudge13 contributor Mattpt55 Ambient 12° Track 14° Humidity 79% Wind 1.9 m/s Prelude When it rains it pours, and in China it appeared that it might be more than metaphor, the wind whipping leaden gray skies into an angry visage, foliage dancing in the violent gusts that coursed through the paddock. … Read more
Brought to you by TheJudge13 contributor Mattpt55 Ambient 28° Track 32° Humidity 45% Wind 0.7 m/s Prelude Encomiums to the legendary Jim Clark dominated the pre-qualifying conversation, glittering star amongst the constellation of F1 heroes from the glory days of the sport. Meanwhile, back at the nitty gritty of actual current governance, the F1 teams … Read more
