Friday, February 26th, 2010
Team: McLaren. Drivers: Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button.
The cars are looking sharp this year, we must say. It seems the liveries are getting more focused in line with the less fussy cars that have been mandatory for two seasons now. There’s loads of brand new teams and of course Lotus is back with (obviously) their traditional colours and USF1 continues to surprise and entertain us. We’ve also got every date on the calendar in a handy, um, list format.
Every car on the grid and race calendar after the jump: (more…)
Tags: 2010, calendar, cars, colours, f1, formula 1, grid, livery, race, team
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Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
A few weeks back I had a bit of a rant about the typo on soon to be shite Campos F1′s website. I prattled on about all the intimate details that need to be considered in order to triumph in the high-tech world of Formula 1. Boy was I wrong. It seems success is a far simpler task. Read on…
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Sheepish unveiling.
Naively, we thought Brawn GP’s sprint then trot and ultimate crawl to the title last year was a once off phenomenon. But it seems they were merely showing the rest of the floundering grid the way to win championships. It’s all very easy.
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Tags: 2010, bankrupt, bmw, consortium, ego, f1, honda, Kamui Kobayashi, kobayashi, portsmouth fc, sauber, sheepish., step-by-step, toyota, world champions. sponsorless
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Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Traction control se ma se p@#s.
All in all it was a great day for Frenchy. They must have spilled their Pernod and flicked their Gitanes Filters defiantly at passersby as Jean-Pierre Jabouille (a driver as French as shrugging at Americans) won the French Grand Prix at Dijon-Prenois in a French car (a Renault) on French tyres (Michelin) and powered by a French fuel manufacturer. Unfortunately due to archaic alcohol laws in France, ironically it’s the only race where you aren’t allowed to spray Champagne.
Video, more pictures and full explanation after the jump: (more…)
Tags: arnoux, battle, dijon, driving, epic, french, gilles, god, grand, prenois, prix, rene, villeneuve
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Thursday, January 28th, 2010
A fool and his money are soon giving press conferences.
Last season was one of the closest in terms of actual times seperating the cars on track. Pole position to the last slot on the grid was usually settled by just over a second. And then for whatever reason the big guns started leaving. Honda, BMW and then Toyota used words like “corporate re-alignment”, “brand re-focus” and “we’re just plain shite” as exit strategies.
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Tags: adrian campos, ambitious, backmarker, campos meta, f1, fools, money, senna, underfunded
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Thursday, November 12th, 2009
Hot off the wires is that Renault is handing a test drive to young French Formula 3.5 Champion, Bertrand Baguette. So that’s what the crisis meeting in Paris was all about, whether the French car manufacturer could suffer another blow to it’s image by having such a ridiculous surname adorning its cars.
Baguette. Pasty.
I’ll get us started then.
Let’s hope Baguette doesn’t roll.
Baguette. A cut above the rest. (Yawn, get used to seeing that one in SA car publications)
Why wouldn’t you let your daughter date Baguette? He’s only fresh until you leave the parking lot.
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Thursday, November 5th, 2009
Ferrari has long loathed privateer upstarts. The old man himself, Enzo Ferrari, famously referred to the British teams as garagista -garage owners. Now, although I’m not particularly a fan of theirs, Ferrari has it absolutely right.
Check it out by clicking this word. Or this one.
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Tags: campos, cocaine, cosworth, country club, enzo, f1, ferrari, jean-michel jarre, lotus, smuggling, toyota, usf1, withdrawal
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Thursday, November 5th, 2009
Just two weeks ago Toyota offered Raikkonen oodles of cash to put Panasonic on his chest and race for the slightly red and white. Today, Toyota quits F1. Coincidence?
That's what he thought of your offer, Toyota.
This morning’s headline came as a bit of a shock to me. We all knew that the Japanese car industry was in trouble when giants Honda pulled out of F1 and Subaru pulled out of WRC. Colin Mcrae must have 360′d in his resting place.
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Tags: bmw, exits, f1, formula 1, formula one, honda, quits, raikkonen, toyota
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
Jean Todt has just been elected President of the FIA. He’s the first Frenchy in charge since the often hated Jean-Marie Balestre’s senile reign ended over 15 years ago. One thing’s for sure, Todt’s private life couldn’t be more bizarre than Max Mosley’s extra-curricular activities even if he enjoyed collecting goat’s hoofs and claimed to be the Emperor of Neptune.
It also seems every FIA president needs to have some sort of connection to Hitler. Mosley’s dad -as head of the British Fascist Party- had the Fuhrer at his wedding no doubt boring people round the punch bowl and doing an embarrassing jitterbug once the schnapps started flowing. Balestre joined the French SS during the war and later claimed (obviously) that he was a spy for the good guys all along. Yes. So let’s hope Jean Todt doesn’t prove to have an Aunt who financed the Napoleonic wars or invented the U-Boat.
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Tags: Asterix, Balestre, Climbdance, dungeons, fascist, ferrari, FIA, Hitler, motorsport, Presidency, Todt, Vatanen
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Friday, October 23rd, 2009
No-one likes a bad loser, but the Brits seem to have a wonderful knack of being bad winners. And bad losers. Y’know, because they always lose at stuff. I have maintained for many years now England will never win another FIFA World Cup™ because they’re all atheists. “God is a Brazilian” after all, but not when it comes to F1 it seems. Poor Rubens Barrichello. It’s like his house always burns down when he has a braai in his own backyard.
Button. Probably supports Chelsea.
But I guess we should grudgingly give Jenson Button some measure of kudos for wrapping up the world title. However it spoke volumes for me about the man’s character when he was stuck behind Kamui Kobayashi for lap after excruciating lap. Button got on the team radio and complained about Kobayashi weaving and blocking him. Please. It was his Grand Prix debut and as a World Champion elect it’s your job to get past him. Kobayashi drove defensively and legally, although his honour was called into question later on when he swerved dangerously in front of Kazuki Nakajima sending him on a murder ride into the barriers.
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Tags: 2009, barriers, brazil, button, crash, david brent, f1, FIA, kobayashi, nakajima, pit radio, sao paolo, shovlin, singing, weaving, world champion
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Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
Ron Dennis is a weirdo. Not since Howard Hughes locked himself in a hotel room with jars of urine and wore tissue boxes as shoes have we seen anyone display such an aversion to germ-carrying scruffiness. His level of Second-World-War-matron-at-a-Catholic-hospital idea of cleanliness even extended to not allowing employees at McLaren to have any personal effects on their desks. Not even pictures of their families.
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Tags: alonso, dennis, ferrari, hamilton, massa, raikonnen, ron
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