Assorted notes on the the good and the bad of the 2019 Australian Grand Prix and what we learned (or can assume) based on last Sunday’s results. VB77 reloaded comes with upgrades Valterri Bottas circa-2018 looked like a man who wanted to find a hut in the middle of a Finnish forest, lock the door…
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F1 2018 preview with Mobil 1 The Grid
It’s lights out in Melbourne this weekend as the 2018 F1 season gets underway. In what could prove to be a pivotal year for the sport, F1 enters the era of the halo, hypersoft tyres and potentially the next 5-time World Champion. Our friends at Mobil 1 The Grid got exclusive access to Aston Martin…
F1 Australian Grand Prix – heroes and zeroes
In my usual post-race wrap-up I rate the heroes and zeroes from the 2017 F1 Australian Grand Prix. Find out who covered themselves in glory and who covered themselves in gravel. 2017 F1 Australian Grand Prix Heroes Heroes – Ferrari When Ferrari kept Sebastien Vettel for several laps following Lewis Hamilton’s pit stop, we all thought…
F1 Australian Grand Prix Qualifying Results
Lewis Hamilton took a record-equalling 6th pole position for the 2017 F1 Australian Grand Prix. Sebastien Vettel put Ferrari on the front row by splitting the Mercedes pairing, suggesting the Italian team’s pre-season form may be real. Giovinazzi and Grosjean star in qualifying Antonio Giovinazzi and Romain Grosjean were the surprise of the session. Giovinazzi narrowly…
F1: Australian GP 2016 ‘hot & not’ list
A slightly delayed catch up on the heroes and zeros from the 2016 F1 Australian Grand Prix in our ‘hot and not’ list. Hot Jolyon Palmer The race performance by the British rookie was a brilliant advert for the single-seater ladder system to F1. Palmer demonstrated race craft that many of the recent crop of…
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