James Allison

Daily #F1 News and Comment: Monday 29th July 2013

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This page will be updated throughout the day. Please press the twitter button at the bottom of the post if you are on twitter. Pirelli and the future (11:12) updated (17:10) The F1 2014 calendar (11:51) McLaren take the rest of the season off (12:45) Questions over Force India finances again (13:28) Heartache the key for Lewis (14:51) … Read more

Daily #F1 News and Comment: Wednesday 10th July 2013

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This page will be updated throughout the day GMT 11:35 11:52 12:45 13:39 14:19 14:54 15:26 17:30 18:27 Crack’s appearing in Ferrari’s unity TJ13 reported Alonso prior to the race in Germany informing the world that he didn’t work for Pirelli and as such would not be going to the Young Driver Test in Silverstone … Read more

Daily #F1 News and Comment: Wednesday 12th June 2013

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This page will be updated throughout the day GMT 08:35 09:50 11:01 11:15 11:55 12:15 12:33 More support for Pirelli Is the pendulum swinging in favour of Pirelli now? Yesterday TJ13 reported that both Stefano Domenicali and Gary Anderson were putting the responsibility to get the best out of the Pirelli tyres firmly with the … Read more

Daily #F1 News and Comment: Wednesday 5th June 2013

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This page will be updated throughout the day – 13:28 GMT Newey The F1 media are today reporting a number of stories which relate to Red Bull’s designer, Adrian Newey. In the comments section last night, I hinted James Allison to Red Bull may be in the news. This was based upon an unconfirmed sighting … Read more

Daily F1 News and Comment: Friday 10th May 2013

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This page will be updated throughout the day – we begin in a humorous manner 😉 Anderson says Allison to Red Bull I was listening to Gary speak this morning and he is of the opinion that Adrian Newey is looking to hand over the reins in an ordered and proper manner. Newey quit F1 … Read more

Daily F1 News and Comment: Thursday 9th May 2013

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This page will be updated throughout the day FIA Press Conferences As always, we love to kick off the F1 race weekend with the mystifying event that is the FIA drivers’ press conference. Here are the schedues. Thursday, May 09, 1500 hours local time (1300 GMT) Fernando Alonso (Ferrari), Valtteri Bottas (Williams), Esteban Gutierrez (Sauber), … Read more

Daily F1 News and comment: Wednesday 8th May 2013

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This page will be updated throughout the day Allison to leave Lotus? 8/5/13 GMT 00:15 I had a coded conversation with someone yesterday, who suggested there may be some ‘exciting’ Lotus news this weekend, however they were not prepared to reveal exactly what this news was. So tonight when a secondary source suggested Lotus technical … Read more

F1 Forensics: Rake

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F1 Forensics is brought to thejudge13 readers in partnership with SomersF1, Like most of us, Matthew Somerfield has a day job and his is being the manager of a car & van rental company in the Isle of Wight.

His passion is to try and bring us non-techies closer to F1 by bridging the gap between the full blown engineering publications and the simplicity of much that is provided by TV.

I posted this gallery last week and asked TJ13 readers what they could see. Of course the rake of the RB9 was evident. Having hunted about for some explanation on ‘rake’ I couldn’t find much of value, so I suggested to Somers he fill this gap in our knowledge.

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Breaking News: Thursday 7th March 2013

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This page will be updated throughout the day as news is released. Click on the tab above for the latest updated version. If you follow @thejudge13 on twitter you will see when I tweet a new headline and know the post has been updated.

Quick Question: Did anyone notice the make of Lewis Hamilton’s motor home in the paddock in Barcelona?

Renault lobbying FIA

In my article “Evidence mounts that the Renault engine mapping fiasco is hurting Red Bull and Lotus” James Alison attempts to persuade us that the engine mapping set back suffered by Renault is of no importance to them. “We were experimenting in testing, on the last day of the last test [Barca 1], with an engine map and we explained to the FIA what we were doing. But having run it on the track we found it did not work very well anyway. We learned from the FIA that they were not so happy with what we proposed, so we are not doing it.”

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Evidence mounts that the Renault engine mapping fiasco is hurting Red Bull and Lotus

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A Quick look at how much each team managed to extract from 2013 pre-season testing

Team Total Testing Laps

1. Sauber 1161 laps
2. Mercedes 1095 laps
3. Ferrari 1068 laps
4. Red Bull Racing 1008 laps
5. McLaren 1008 laps
6. Caterham 985 laps
7. Sahara Force India 980 laps
8. Toro Rosso 960 laps
9. Marussia 798 laps
10. Lotus 770 laps
11. Williams – FW35 666 laps
12. Williams – FW34 305 laps

Driver Total Testing Laps

1. Esteban Gutierrez Mexico Sauber-Ferrari 607 laps
2. Nico Rosberg Germany Mercedes-Mercedes 572 laps
3. Nico Hulkenberg Germany Sauber-Ferrari 554 laps
4. Paul di Resta Britain Force India-Mercedes 553 laps
5. Sergio Perez Mexico McLaren-Mercedes 553 laps 
6. Max Chilton Britain Marussia-Cosworth 550 laps
7. Jean-Eric Vergne France Toro Rosso-Ferrari 536 laps
8. Lewis Hamilton Britain Mercedes-Mercedes 523 laps
9. Charles Pic France Caterham-Renault 516 laps
10. Valtteri Bottas Finland Williams-Renault 513 laps
11. Sebastian Vettel Germany Red Bull-Renault 513 laps
12. Felipe Massa Brazil Ferrari-Ferrari 513 laps
13. Fernando Alonso Spain Ferrari-Ferrari 505 laps
14. Mark Webber Australia Red Bull-Renault 495 laps
15. Romain Grosjean France Lotus-Renault 495 laps
16. Giedo van der Garde Holland Caterham-Renault 469 laps
17. Pastor Maldonado Venezuela Williams-Renault 458 laps
18. Jenson Button Britain McLaren-Mercedes 455 laps
19. Daniel Ricciardo Australia Toro Rosso-Ferrari 424 laps
20. Kimi Raikkonen Finland Lotus-Renault 259 laps
21. Jules Bianchi France Marussia-Cosworth 253 laps *
22. Adrian Sutil Germany Force India-Mercedes 249 laps
23. Luiz Razia Brazil Marussia-Cosworth 112 laps
24. James Rossiter Britain Force India-Mercedes 61 laps
25. Pedro de la Rosa Spain Ferrari-Ferrari 50 laps
26. Davide Valsecchi Italy Lotus-Renault 16 laps

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