Mario Andretti

On This Day in #F1: May 31, 1965 – Jim Clark wins the Indy 500

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Brought to you by TheJudge13 chronicler Jennie Mowbray “If you can dream—and not make dreams your master; If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same.” ~Rudyard Kipling~ The “British invasion” of the New World initially appeared to be of … 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

On This Day in #F1: 15 January

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Brought to you by TheJudge13 chronicler Carlo Carluccio – 1978: Andretti and Lotus dominate Argentina The Formula One circus descended on Argentina for the first race of the 1978 season. Mario Andretti started from pole position ahead of the Ferrari of Carlos Reutemann and Andretti’s new team-mate – Ronnie Peterson. The Braham-Alfas of John Watson … Read more

#F1 Circuit Profile: 2013 – United States, Austin, Circuit of the Americas – Round 18

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Brought to you by TheJudge13 ‘Track Profile Specialist’ Alistair Hunter 2013 Formula One United States Grand Prix This weekend, arguably the most important racing series in the world finds itself in one of the most important countries in the world. The series is – obviously – F1, and its destination is the United States of … Read more

#F1 History: The story of the 1982 World Championship – Part III

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Brought to you by TheJudge13 chronicler BlackJack’sBriefs 1982… and all that…! Part III In Germany things continued with the ‘sour’ 1982 ‘norm’… Having qualified on pole Pironi came up fast behind Prost’s slower car (during non-timed rain-tyre tests), on a wet track, and was launched into the air in a frighteningly similar repeat of Villeneuve’s … Read more

On this day in #F1: 27 September

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Brought to you by TheJudge14 chronicler Carlo Carloccio – 1981: The greatest 3rd place ever? Everyone has a different opinion; that is a given. Whatever the subject, every person will have their own personal reasons for their selection. Possibly it’s based on experience, maybe it reminds them of a specific time in their life or … Read more

On This Day in F1: 06 March

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On this day in F1 06 March, is brought to you by TheJudge13 chronicler: Samora Machel

– Andretti wins maiden GP 1971

“My Home” well not really MY home, but the circuit in South Africa whose name literally translates to that in the native Zulu. Kyalami. The opening round of the 1971 Formula One Season is underway. Unlike what we might be used to nowadays though (boy are we spoilt!), Spa and Interlagos aren’t part of the roster (how did they live like that?), some teams have three cars on the grid and the season is only 11 races long (this is just sad). The anticipation is probably greater than what we face now because the last running was about 4 months prior.

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Perez taunts Di Resta on twitter, F1 Calendar 2013 to be finalised after the 1st race, De La Rosa back to McLren or Ferrari or Mercedes or Williams…, Gorgio Ascanelli returning to F1?

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Di Resta vs Perez: I posted a video a couple of days ago that showed Paul talking about various things F1 at the Autosport show (LINK). A number of other sites and print media wrote up his comments yesterday, but I was busy with my ‘Da Vinci Code’ story, buried in pages of Italian newsprint and blogs.

Anyway, here’s a few of the highlights. Di Resta revealed he held talks with McLaren over replacing Lewis. “I’m not going to give away too much, but yes, there were discussions,” Di Resta said. “Unfortunately in this sport now there’s a little bit more to it. There’s a commercial side and money’s tight. Perez has some good backing.”

Martin Whitmarsh has maintained all along that cash from Telmex owned by one of the world’s richest men – Carlos Slim – was absolutely nothing to do with the team’s decision when recruiting the young Mexican to replace Hamilton.

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Austin GP Review

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In no particular order, here are the post race threads to be gathered together…

The track and the race: Hat’s off to Mr. Tilke, it seems like he’s finally getting to grips with how to design a track. The topography makes the circuit visually really interesting and the combination of the 3 sectors made for an excellent race. “Turn 2 to turn 9 is probably the best sector I’ve driven in F1”, commented Jenson.

The race itself was tremendous with battles up and down the grid. There were concerns about overtaking but this was clearly not a problem, in fact at times we were back to the same old problem of the FOM TV director not really sure what to show.

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