F1 Insiders Est. 2012
Brought to you by TheJudge13 contributor Mattpt55 Ambient 24.0° Track 29.3° Humidity 24.0% Wind 0.8 m/s Prelude The moon hung large on the horizon as the last gloamings of twilight echoed softly off the desert sands. In the paddock, there was a fever pitch of activity as the last usable moments before the first real … Read more
Brought to you by TheJudge13 contributor Mattpt55 Ambient 19.7° Track 26.5° Humidity 58.0% Wind 0.6 m/s Prelude The light in the paddock slowly dwindled as the sun dipped slowly towards the horizon, as the impending chaos of qualifying loomed, ever larger, in the rearview mirror of the teams. The massive change in regulations having somewhat … Read more
Brought to you by TheJudge13 contributor CFD1801J Ambient 25.2° Track 29.9° Humidity 62.7% Wind 0.5 m/s Prelude As the last rays of sunshine began to lengthen shadows in the paddock, the teams furiously bent to their tasks, keen to ensure the last outing of the season gave their drivers the best chance for whatever goals … Read more
Brought to you by TheJudge13 contributor CFD1801J Ambient 17.2° Track 36.6° Humidity 65.6% Wind 0.6 m/s Prelude Glorious blues skies, studded with cotton ball clouds vaulted effortlessly over the paddock as the latest reverberations from the stewards’s ruling echoed through the F1-verse. That specifically being Lewis Hamilton’s exclusion from qualifying results due to a technical … Read more
Brought to you by TheJudge13 contributor CFD1801J Ambient 18.4° Track 22.4° Humidity 83.3% Wind 0.1 m/s Prelude Dark angry clouds scudded across the sky over the Intercity Istanbul Park after the Rain Gods unleashed their full wrath on FP3. The end result of which was some highly entertaining aquatic ballet and not much useful info, … Read more
Brought to you by TheJudge13 contributor CFD1801J Ambient 19.1° Track 22.2° Humidity 62.1% Wind 0.2 m/s Prelude Leaden grey skies hung menacingly over the paddock, the sort that implied violence of a meteorological sort without actually promising as much, 70% according to the latest professional guesses… Worth noting Tchaikovsky replaced the usual anthemic bleatings as … Read more
Brought to you by TheJudge13 contributor CFD1801J Ambient 14.1° Track 17° Humidity 75.4% Wind 0.6 m/s Prelude After a deluge of biblical proportions, the weather gods played their joker and let the rain expire and with a golden glow on the horizon the start of qualifying approached. Verstappen, Leclerc and Latifi all had brand new … Read more
Brought to you by TheJudge13 contributor CFD1801J Ambient 28.2° Track 43° Humidity 36.2% Wind 0.4 m/s Prelude Glorious sunshine rained down on the paddock, helpfully raising track temperatures above anything the teams had thus far experienced as the second installment of the grand sprint race experiment approached. With the success of the Alonso Soft tyre … Read more
Brought to you by TheJudge13 contributor CFD1801J Ambient 29.1° Track 60.2° Humidity 47% Wind 0.8 m/s Prelude Tyre melting temperatures and, contra the touted weather forecast and extra set of Inters, blue skies with the odd puffball cloud hovering in the distance oversaw the final preparations for qualifying. New PU for Sainz overnight, and FP3 … Read more
Brought to you by TheJudge13 contributor CFD1801J Ambient 29.2° Track 52.3° Humidity 28.1% Wind 0.5 m/s Prelude A savagely brilliant sky lorded over the paddock, waves of brutal heat shimmering off the tarmac and inflicting untold pain on the tyres and drivers, even hotter than yesterday. At least, as they say, it was a dry … Read more
