F1 Insiders Est. 2012
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 hugely important this is and has helped grow our community significantly Di Resta settles out of court Lopez … Read more
Brought to you by TheJudge13 chronicler Carlo Carluccio – 1979: Asterix would have been proud. Anybody who is a smoker and has visited France may have had the dubious pleasure of having smoked Gitanes at some stage; a quite foul aroma which maybe explains the reasons why Frenchmen wear onions around their neck – I … Read more
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
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 hugely important this is and has helped grow our community significantly UBS Leaving Formula 1 (10:21) The Lotus-McLaren Job … Read more
Brought to you by TheJudge13 contributor Carlo Carluccio – 2002: Alain Prost speaks the truth… Alain Prost surprised a number of people with an outburst when he labelled the modern drivers little better than trained monkeys. “The drivers simply follow the instructions of the engineers and let the computers do all the work. To me it’s not … Read more
This page will be updated throughout the day. Please if you are on Twitter press the press the tweet button below. If you re-write and tweet individual story headlines (tweeted) with links, please make sure you use #F1. Editor’s note 2014 F1 Winter Testing (09:57) Korea FP1 and FP2 (10:09) Sauber engine announcement (10:16) Renault break … Read more
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
Brought to you by TheJudge13 chronicler BlackJack’sBriefs 1982… and all that…! Part II At Monaco Prost soon took the lead in the race and built up a massive lead, apparently trying to get the race over as rain clouds advanced… but… on an increasingly wet track Patrese (Brabham) was able to catch Prost and pressured … Read more
Brought to you by TheJudge13 chronicler BlackJack’sBriefs 1982… and all that…! Part I Although turbo-charged engines had, at this time, been running for a few years the FIA allowed teams to run larger, normally-aspirated engines in direct competition with each other. Teams were fairly evenly split with each system while some tried both throughout the … Read more
Brought to you by tj13 contributor James Parker of GrandPrixMerchandise Welcome everyone to the final instalment of the TheJudge13’s mini-series discussing the Formula 1’s turbocharger era. In the first two episodes we covered both the drivers and the tyres, exploring the differences between the turbocharger era in the eighties and the one that is about … Read more
