F1 Insiders Est. 2012
Brought to you by TheJudge13 contributor Mattpt55 Ambient 16° Track 21° Humidity 92% Wind 7.0 m/s Prelude As the pit lane opened with 30 minutes to the race, the weather remained changeable, the pitlane wet but the track looking dry. Massive clouds hanging over the track split by blue sky, and rain still hitting parts of … Read more
Brought to you by TheJudge13 contributor Mattpt55 Ambient 20° Track 25° Humidity 79% Wind 5.5 m/s Prelude Steel Grey Skies, wind and omnipresent damp ruled the roost as the teams prepared for qualifying. With Rosberg mere hundredths slower than Hamilton in FP3, fireworks at the front look to be a real possibility yet again. Vettel … Read more
Brought to you by TheJudge13 contributor Mattpt55 Ambient 15° Track 25° Humidity 66% Wind 1.5 m/s Prelude Polar opposite to yesterday. Cool with steel grey skies and pouring rain early in the morning set the stage for a completely different set of tyre problems with graining likely for teams that struggle to get heat into the … Read more
Brought to you by TheJudge13 contributor Mattpt55 Ambient 27° Track 52° Humidity 50% Wind 1.7 m/s Prelude Well Well Well it was a bit of a crashy start to the weekend with Vettel off into the gravel with brake issues in FP2 and Rosberg suffering a suspension failure in FP3. Both of them will now … Read more
Brought to you by TheJudge13 contributor Mattpt55 Ambient 33° Track 40° Humidity 31% Wind 4.2 m/s Prelude Once again brutal sunshine hammered down on spectators and drivers alike, but as the race start for the nominal European Grand Prix approached the track temperature began to approach normality ensuring similar conditions to qualifying yesterday. Grid Drops of … Read more
Brought to you by TheJudge13 contributor Mattpt55 Ambient 27° Track 39° Humidity 60% Wind 4.1 m/s Prelude Brutally hot dawned the day of qualifying at the first ever, nominally European Grand Prix, with hammering sun melting spectators and race data alike. Based on the GP2 race (nevermind the post checkers crash in FP3 of Perez) … Read more
Brought to you by TheJudge13 contributor Mattpt55 Ambient 12° Track 22° Humidity 58% Wind 2.8 m/s Prelude Nasty cold threatening weather with occasional spits of rain overhung the start of the Canadian GP, with the prospect of a very entertaining race at the front and in the midfield thanks to the unusually unpleasant weather. Also entertaining … Read more
Brought to you by TheJudge13 contributor Mattpt55 Ambient 15° Track 20° Humidity 73% Wind 4.9 m/s Prelude Spitting Rain and a nasty chill set the stage for Qualifying in Montreal, accented by Kevin Magnussen’s odd looking accident in FP3 that red-flagged the session and ended it early. The same incident also left KMag completely out … Read more
Brought to you by TheJudge13 contributor Mattpt55 Ambient 17° Track 18° Humidity 91% Wind 2.1 m/s Prelude Rain Rain don’t go away…… IT’S WET!!!! Not the utterly catastrophic mess of yesterday’s Nurburgring 24h but looking SC start as the minutes to the start ticked off. Bit of a shame for Danny Ric’s clever tyre stratagem, but … Read more
Brought to you by TheJudge13 contributor Mattpt55 Ambient 22° Track 42° Humidity 45% Wind 3.6 m/s Prelude Well Well, 5 spot for Kimi and his new gearbox and Vettel suddenly in the mix after P3. Racy sounding Horner sayingthey have yet to extract the maximum from their new PU as everyone wondered exactly how much … Read more
