News Corporation has revealed that the UK will get a new dedicated Sky Sports Channel just for Formula 1 (F1) starting March 2012. It’s not exactly a huge surprise that Sky Sports is launching a new F1 Channel in 2012, perfectly timed to coincide with Sky’s takeover of Formula 1 Coverage from the BBC. The F1 HD Channel (as [...]
It’s familiar territory in the return to Brazil for the last F1 race of the season. Red Bull front row, McLaren second row. Will Vettel win the last race? The Brazil Grand Prix is the last of the year, a year dominated by Sebastian Vettel and Red Bull, and sees Red Bull on the front [...]
It’s being reported that Honda are heading back to F1 supplying McLaren with engines from 2014, recreating a successful partnership from the 1980s. There is no real love lost between McLaren and Mercedes. Respect, certainly, but McLaren has done all it can to extricate itself from business dealings with the Germans, and the final step may be a partnership [...]
Formula One returns to Abu Dhabi for the penultimate race of the season, with Vettel on pole and the McLarens behind. Another Vettel win? The Yas Marina circuit in Abu Dhabi is certainly a spectacular venue. It doesn’t yet have the soul of the traditional F1 circuits in Europe, but it is a special race [...]
The first Grand Prix in India see Red Bull on the front row with Button in the McLaren and Alonso in the Ferrari behind. Can Vettel take another win? India is a fascinating country, still firmly in the past in parts and so much in the present in others. And the paradox of Formula One – with [...]
Formula One is back in the USA with a vengeance, with an F1 Grand Prix in Texas in 2012 and now the news that New Jersey will host F1 from 2013. America has always played a marginal part in the F1 Circus. Yes, there have been lots of Grands Prix in the US, but the American public have [...]
Infiniti and Red Bull have revealed that their partnership is to grow, with more collaboration and a higher profile for Infiniti’s sponsorship. We’ve not been the biggest fans of Infiniti’s marketing efforts in the UK and Europe, but we had to concede that the decision for Infiniti to sponsor Red Bull in F1 had its upside. That [...]
Lewis Hamilton upped his game in qualifying and took pole, with new champion Sebastian Vettel in 2nd. Can Lewis hold off Seb to take a win? Last year’s Korean Grand Prix was more like a jaunt on the Solent than an F1 race, but the weather was a little more forgiving for the 2011 F1 [...]
Despite the McLarens seeming stronger, Vettel managed to take pole at Suzuka with Button alongside and Hamilton & Massa on row two. Did it stay that way? The reality of the 2011 Japanese Grand Prix is not about who wins the race, but whether Sebastian Vettel can grab the single point needed to clinch the 2011 F1 [...]
Back to normal form for the 2011 Singapore Grand Prix with Vettel on pole and Webber in second. Can Vettel close out the world championship title? Why does the Singapore Grand Prix, which is brilliantly put together and looks stunning, always seem to disappoint? You’d expect it to be an Eastern version of Monaco - run as [...]
The F1 Grand Prix Circus returns to Monza for the Italian Grand Prix. Vettel is once again on pole, but can he hold off the McLarens, never mind the Ferraris on their home turf? Monza is home to the Italian Grand Prix and home to Ferrari. Which makes for a rather partisan – but very knowledgeable [...]
Spa was wet for qualifying, and Button fell victim in 13th on the grid. But can Hamilton stop Vettel from regaining winning form in Spa Francorchamps? As always, Spa threw the weather in to the equation in qualifying for the Belgian Grand Prix, with Button ending in 13th place on the grid after a rapidly drying track left [...]
Red Bull is in the US promoting F1, and had a day with Tom Cruise driving the Red Bull F1 car at California’s Willow Springs Raceway. In case you hadn’t noticed, F1 is heading back to the U.S. and Red Bull are in the States in the F1 summer break glad-handing the locals. Just this week we had [...]
Red Bull and David Coulthard are Stateside and made a trip to the under-construction Circuit of the Americas, where they took the Red Bull F1 car for a spin. Surely, I hear you say, the Americans haven’t managed to finish off the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas, already, have they? And you’d be quite right [...]
Back to normal service at the Hungaroring, with Sebastian Vettel on pole. But the McLarens of Button and Hamilton are snapping at his heels. How did it all play out? The 2011 Hungary Grand Prix marks the 200th Grand Prix for Jenson Button, and is also the scene of his first Grand Prix win, a [...]
Back at the Nurburgring for 2011, the German Grand Prix sees Vettel off the front row of the grid. Is that enough to keep the young German off the podium? We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again. The Germans and the British are very alike. One has the sense of humour turned up to [...]
The second British Grand Prix on the new Silverstone circuit was enmeshed in debate over the blown diffuser controversy, but still Red Bull filled the front row. Did it stay like that? With all the arguments over the blown diffuser and how it would penalise Red Bull more than any other team on the grid, it was [...]
Qualifying for the British Grand Prix was a bit of a nonsense thanks to the blown diffuser row and rain , but Red Bull took the 1st row, Ferrari the 2nd and Button took 5th place. Qualifying for the 2011 British Grand Prix was a wet event. After all, this is England in July. Lewis [...]
Williams F1 are to revisit their partrnership with Renault, with the French company supplying engines for Williams starting in 2012. For those of us who enjoy F1 (on the whole – although races like Canada rather than Valencia, it as to be said) but are very slightly past the first flush of youth, it’s rather sad to see [...]
It’s a Red Bull lockout of the front row as Vettel attempts to reset the default settings for F1 2011 after Jenson Button upset him in Canada. Did it work? It’s probably as big a shift in weather and conditions as we’ve had this F1 season, from the deluge of the island track in Canada [...]
The 2011 Canadian Grand Prix usually offers some fun on the banks of the St Lawrence, and with rain forecast will this race turn the form book on its head? There is no point reporting the 2011 Canadian Grand Prix as we normally would. There is no need to set the scene and go through [...]
The FIA’s World Motor Sport Council has reinstated the Bahrain Grand Prix on 30th October, moving the Indian Grand Prix to December. The start of the F1 Circus this year was put back after the Arab Spring made the Gulf Kindom of Bahrain a less than suitable venue for something as frivolous as Formula One, leading to [...]
The Monaco Grand Prix is usually a procession, so with Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel on Pole and Jensen Button in second, is that how F1′s most glamorous race will end? Far from being a long line of very expensive F1 cars following each other round the streets of the Grimaldi Empire, the 2011 Monaco Grand [...]
Another Red Bull front grid, but this time it’s Webber on pole with the McLarens and Alonso behind. Can Alonso take the win for his home crowd? Well, it was almost business as usual at the front of the grid for the 2011 Spanish Grand Prix. Almost, but not quite. Instead of Sebastian Vettel sitting [...]
Normal service resumed at Turkey with Vettel on pole and Webber riding shotgun. Did the McLarens – or the improving Ferraris – change that? What a difference a year makes. The 2010 Turkish Grand Prix was full of problems for Red Bull after Vettel and Webber collided, leading to Webber’s – seemingly justified – accusations [...]
