F1 Insiders Est. 2012
Brought to you by TheJudge13 contributor Mattpt55 Ambient 26° Track 39° Humidity 54% Wind 2.9 m/s Prelude Wowsers, where to begin this week? Weather is stunningly boring with nary a rain drop in sight? Rosberg aces all 3 sessions at a track not favoured by Lewis? The entirely not Spanish Esteban Ocon all but confirmed … Read more
Red Bull Racing are understood to be preparing for life after Daniil Kvyat. Russian news agency Izvestia reports on the matter, claiming ‘inside information’ from the fizzy drink company. Dr Helmut Marko and Toro Rosso head Franz Tost were recently positive about the Russians future. Tost told F1.com 5 weeks ago, “I regard Daniil Kvyat … Read more
Brought to you by TheJudge13 contributor Mattpt55 Ambient 28° Track 52° Humidity 48% Wind 1.0 m/s Prelude Polar opposite to yesterday as brilliant sunshine smashed down on the circuit with the odd ball of cotton floating by. Massa managed to break his car on the way to the grid as the replacement steering rack the … Read more
Brought to you by TheJudge13 contributor Mattpt55 Ambient 22° Track 27° Humidity 89% Wind 3.4 m/s Prelude 30 minutes to Quali and the clouds poured in, smashing rain down on the brand new tarmac and delaying qualifying, sending Sky into their big bag of tricks to keep viewers entertained. Thunder and lightning framed the circuit … Read more
Brought to you by TheJudge13 contributor Mattpt55 Ambient 16° Track 21° Humidity 92% Wind 7.0 m/s Prelude As the pit lane opened with 30 minutes to the race, the weather remained changeable, the pitlane wet but the track looking dry. Massive clouds hanging over the track split by blue sky, and rain still hitting parts of … Read more
Brought to you by TheJudge13 contributor Mattpt55 Ambient 20° Track 25° Humidity 79% Wind 5.5 m/s Prelude Steel Grey Skies, wind and omnipresent damp ruled the roost as the teams prepared for qualifying. With Rosberg mere hundredths slower than Hamilton in FP3, fireworks at the front look to be a real possibility yet again. Vettel … Read more
Brought to you by TheJudge13 contributor Mattpt55 Ambient 15° Track 25° Humidity 66% Wind 1.5 m/s Prelude Polar opposite to yesterday. Cool with steel grey skies and pouring rain early in the morning set the stage for a completely different set of tyre problems with graining likely for teams that struggle to get heat into the … Read more
Brought to you by TheJudge13 contributor Mattpt55 Ambient 27° Track 52° Humidity 50% Wind 1.7 m/s Prelude Well Well Well it was a bit of a crashy start to the weekend with Vettel off into the gravel with brake issues in FP2 and Rosberg suffering a suspension failure in FP3. Both of them will now … Read more
Brought to you by TheJudge13 contributor Mattpt55 Ambient 33° Track 40° Humidity 31% Wind 4.2 m/s Prelude Once again brutal sunshine hammered down on spectators and drivers alike, but as the race start for the nominal European Grand Prix approached the track temperature began to approach normality ensuring similar conditions to qualifying yesterday. Grid Drops of … Read more
Brought to you by TheJudge13 contributor Mattpt55 Ambient 27° Track 39° Humidity 60% Wind 4.1 m/s Prelude Brutally hot dawned the day of qualifying at the first ever, nominally European Grand Prix, with hammering sun melting spectators and race data alike. Based on the GP2 race (nevermind the post checkers crash in FP3 of Perez) … Read more
