F1 Insiders Est. 2012
Brought to you by TheJudge13 contributor Mattpt55 Ambient 26° Track 44° Humidity 51% Wind 1.8 m/s Prelude One minute to the anthem and puffy cotton balls loitered viciously in the firmament, not a hint of rainy disaster in sight on the grid, tragically enough. Although the wind at track level was whipping about viciously, suggesting … Read more
Brought to you by TheJudge13 contributor Mattpt55 Ambient 22° Track 30° Humidity 83% Wind 1.9 m/s Prelude Rain, Rain, come to stay/ Hockenheim looks FUN today!!! That’s right, FP3 was a total wash, and were it not for the inexplicable war between the Beeb and Sky, the only thing to discuss would’ve been how little … Read more
Brought to you by TheJudge13 contributor Mattpt55 Ambient 23° Track 48° Humidity 38% Wind 0.8 m/s Prelude Cerulean blue skies studded with brilliantly white puffs of clouds ruled the paddock on a track much hotter than that of the qualifying the day before. To the shock and horror or delight of all, post quali Sebastian … Read more
Brought to you by TheJudge13 contributor Mattpt55 Ambient 24° Track 35° Humidity 48% Wind 1.1 m/s Prelude The Styrian hills echoed with the guttural howls of thoroughly unhinged power units being unwound as dollops of angry grey clouds bounced off the tops of the mountains surrounding the Red Bull Ring. Down with a 5 spot … Read more
Brought to you by TheJudge13 contributor Mattpt55 Ambient 25° Track 42° Humidity 50% Wind 1.2 m/s Prelude The bright blue sky was studded with clouds, not just the usual cotton balls but off in the far distance, slightly more ominous, perhaps even threatening, a dark grey wall loomed, perhaps the sole remaining hope for an … Read more
Brought to you by TheJudge13 contributor Mattpt55 Ambient 22° Track 30° Humidity 60% Wind 0.4 m/s Prelude Let it never be said that the challenges of being a Formula 1 fan are overstated, after yesterday’s epic Fake Charlie Whiting traffic thread. 9.5 hours for 90km of driving to reach the circuit makes even the BQE … Read more
Brought to you by TheJudge13 contributor Mattpt55 Ambient 20° Track 41° Humidity 27% Wind 1.2 m/s Prelude Traffic was jammed on the BQE, brakelights solid red. An early promising start combined with some well spotted overtaking and an allegedly healthy disregard for posted limits had seen the GPS move it’s needle from 8 after to … Read more
Brought to you by TheJudge13 contributor Mattpt55 Ambient 22° Track 43° Humidity 21% Wind 2.0 m/s Prelude Montreal has long been a Hamilton track, he has won 6 times, crushing the opposition mercilessly relative to current drivers. But Qualifying is all about who’s fastest over a single lap, not a race distance and if you … Read more
Brought to you by TheJudge13 contributor Mattpt55 Ambient 16° Track 36° Humidity 50% Wind 2.6 m/s Prelude Overnight at Montmelo saw a hammering rain and as the track went green for installation laps there were massive grey clouds hanging over the circuit at the back of the pitlane, and an oculus of blue at the … Read more
Brought to you by TheJudge13 contributor Mattpt55 Ambient 18° Track 27° Humidity 77% Wind 2.4 m/s Prelude IT was a dark and stormy night… wait a minute….. random, unpredictable winds lashed the paddock as ominous clouds scudded overhead in the run up to qualifying. The possibility of rain was added to a long list of … Read more
