F1 Insiders Est. 2012
Brought to you by TheJudge13 contributor Mattpt55 Ambient 22° Track 44° Humidity 36% Wind 0.6 m/s Prelude FP3 at the magnificent Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve featured a rather rejuvenated looking team Mercedes, with Hamilton rocking up directly behind the Iceman for P3 just 0.6s off Kimi but a rather more hefty 0.354s off Vettel who put in … Read more
Today it’s quite clear that Ferrari is the team to beat for this season. But what brought them there? Last year almost every pundit said it was Red Bull which would bring the challenge to the ‘all dominant’ Mercedes. Â Now it seems Ferrari outsmarted all their competitors. It seems I’ve written this before, haha. This … Read more
Brought to you by TheJudge13 contributor Mattpt55 Ambient 25° Track 53° Humidity 37% Wind 0.7 m/s Prelude On a glorious day round the Principality, sun smashing into the mega-yachts and celebrity riff raff trolling the streets, FP3 was every bit the entertainment one might expect in this tiny nation of billionaires, gamblers and grifters. And … Read more
Brought to you by TheJudge13 contributor Mattpt55 Ambient 26° Track 44° Humidity 27% Wind 2.1 m/s Prelude Ooooooh!! Well no time like the present says Ferrari as an engine problem at the end of FP3 has resulted in an engine change for Vettel, according to Sky normally a 4 hour procedure, and this just after … Read more
Brought to you by TheJudge13 contributor Mattpt55 Ambient 21° Track 40° Humidity 37% Wind 2.0 m/s Prelude If you had 4 races in the “How Long before McHonda get an engine penalty” office pool, congratulations, your ship has come in. 15 place banger for Stoffel as misery and woe continues to be visited on the … Read more
Brought to you by TheJudge13 contributor Mattpt55 Ambient 21° Track 32° Humidity 66% Wind 2.1 m/s Prelude Limpid pools of darkness surrounded the track at Sakhir as the teams desperately raced to prep the cars for the qualifying session. Palm trees adorned with twinkle lights made for excellent eye candy as the commentariat jockeyed for … Read more
FIA’s race leader Charlie Whiting had a heated driver meeting today, in Bahrein. And with him Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel. Vettel had to listen to a lot of criticism about his starting position on the grid of Shanghai. Sebastian Vettel put his Ferrari, at the start of the Chinese Grand Prix, approximatly one meter outside his … Read more
Brought to you by TheJudge13 contributor Mattpt55 Ambient 21° Track 32° Humidity 66% Wind 2.1 m/s Prelude Well another day another dollar, as the drivers finally delivered some entertainment in FP3 after a day of mega weather normally reserved for apocalyptic zombie movies canceled pretty much all of FP1 AND FP2. And entertaining it was … Read more
Now that the first Grand Prix weekend of the year is over, it is a good time for analysing what really happened. Some questions we had after testing have finally been answered, however it seems Australia gave us a couple of new questions. Will this season give us a clash of the titans between the three giants that … Read more
Brought to you by TheJudge13 contributor Mattpt55 Ambient 26° Track 41° Humidity 70% Wind 1.5 m/s Prelude AS the race start approached, an ominous thick black cloud appeared on the horizon, threatening all manner of chaos and disarray, suggesting a wide variety of metaphors. EU investigation, the disintegration of the Red Bull and Renault partnership, … Read more
