Interlagos

Godfather wins Grand Prix

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On this day in F1 – 26th January 1975: Michael Corleone wins his first Grand Prix Brought to you by TheJudge13 chronicler: The Grumpy Jackal Michael had overseen the family’s crime syndicate grow to titanic proportions when he approached friends in Italy about a possible diversion to his nefarious activities in America. He had eliminated … Read more

Verstappen to keep on winning? The Ultimate Brazilian GP Weekend Guide

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Introduction: The driver’s title may be finally decided with a record 4th title for Lewis Hamilton, but that doesn’t mean we won’t be able to see a cracking race in Brazil this weekend. Red Bull have been going from strength to strength lately, and Max Verstappen will be feeling confident he can once again prove … Read more

On This Day in #F1: 26th January 1975: Godfather wins Grand Prix

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Brought to you by TheJudge13 chronicler: The Grumpy Jackal – 1975: Michael Corleone wins his first Grand Prix Michael had overseen the family’s crime syndicate grow to titanic proportions when he approached friends in Italy about a possible diversion to his nefarious activities in America. He had eliminated all his rivals in various daring missions … Read more

Castrol #F1 GP Predictor Summary – Interlagos 2014

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Brought to you by TJ13 Courtroom Reporter & Crime Analyst: Adam Macdonald (@adamac39)   Once again, Pirelli came under the spotlight after being bullied into a compound change by pressure from teams and drivers.  For all the public exposure they get, there must be a nagging feeling of being unappreciated that recurs back in the … Read more

On This Day in #F1: 29 January

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Brought to you by TheJudge13 chronicler Carlo Carluccio – 1978: Michelin man to the rescue In the mid 70’s the Renault-Alpine collaboration designed and built a series of sports prototype race cars to contest the Le Mans 24hour race. Success here was of utmost importance to the French manufacturer due to the prestige that winning … Read more

Castrol GP Predictor Summary – Interlagos 2013

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Brought to you by TJ13 Courtroom Reporter & Crime Analyst: Adam Macdonald. The best comparison I could give to this year’s TheJudge13 fantasy league would be to that of the 2010 World Drivers’ Championship.  Going into the last round, there were 4 teams in contention of claiming the title with the favourite enjoying a commanding … Read more

Daily #F1 News & Comment: Saturday, 23rd November 2013

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This page will be updated throughout the day. Please if you are on Twitter press the tweet button below. If you re-write and tweet individual story headlines don’t forget to include #F1. You may not realise how significant this is and has helped grow our community significantly in the past couple of months – thank … Read more

Daily #F1 News and Comment: Wednesday 20th November 2013

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This page will be updated throughout the day. Please if you are on Twitter press the tweet button below. If you re-write and tweet individual story headlines don’t forget to include #F1. You may not realise how significant this is and has helped grow our community significantly in the past couple of months – thank … Read more

Nurburgring lifeline, Consistancy analysis, Vettel yellow flag storm brewing in Italy, Kingfisher Airlines finally finished, Champagne & Hot Dogs in Milton Keynes

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Nurburgring: My favourite subject, the 2013 F1 calendar. It’s a week for lifelines, first HRT and now Nurburgring. To cut a long story short, in February the operators of the circuit, NAG, were given an eviction notice for non-payment of rent. Today Motorsport are reporting this matter is now ‘settled’ – how or by whom we don’t know.

2 weeks ago a spokesman for NAG said, “Formula 1 is no more at the Nurburgring”, discussions with Ecclestone were cancelled and all the other 2013 events were at risk.

Today, “Now we have to make progress in the talks with the Bernie Ecclestone toward a contract”, said Thomas Schmidt of NAG. I presume the operating company had been declared insolvent or bankrupt and the original contract is therefore no longer in force. Anyway, good luck lads – Bernie’s feeling a little down and unwanted at the moment, you may catch him in a rare moment of weakness.

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Interlagos: Race review

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Predictable unpredictability

I have no intention of producing a detailed lap by lap, stop by stop report – the BBC and others have the resources to do that better than I do. Yet what has happened to F1 in the past few years? 6 of the last 8 WDC’s have been decided on the last race of the season.

This is the antithesis of what preceded when I almost stopped watching the sport after the borefest of Ferrari dominance from 1999-2005. Madmax Moseley changed something, and it was definitely for the better. My guess it was the beginning of engine restrictions in 2005 and then everything flowed from there.

@F1photographer was mocking those of us who have spent all week checking out weather forecast reports – because 1 hour before the race it was sunny. Having searched for and studied websites I didn’t know existed like some saddo trying to glean 3-4 day forecasts for the weekend, I didn’t take kindly to the picture man’s sneers. For example, The Brazilian ‘National Institute for space research’ is a most interesting proposition and a great read for those who suffer the ignominy of insomnia.

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