Can you feel the excitement? Do you have that fizzy feeling in your groin? F1 is back after an orange man (or is he papaya?) induced an unexpected month off, and to really push you over the edge, it's a Sprint Weekend. I can hear the cheering from across the land!
What have the teams been up to during this hiatus? I've seen lots of stuff with George Russell going on about how exciting it is to be in a World Championship battle, after having been soundly beaten by a child in the last two races.. Let's wait until the end of the season to see where it all ends up George. Max Verstappen has been driving cars in other race series. OMG! This must mean he's going to stop racing in F1! Yeah, right. I can think of several million reasons why Max Verstappen ain't leaving F1 any time soon. Red Bull did have a "filming day" at Silverstone. Or a test session, as it used to called.
Ferrari have been showing us lots of pictures of drivers with their dogs. Aston Martin have been bigging up how well they are actually going to do now that they have sacked their Team Principal, who really wasn't up to the job, after two months in charge. I can only assume Aston Martin use the same HR team as Chelsea use to select their managers. McLaren have signed an 11 year old. No idea why this is newsworthy, presumably it's because the dullards who driver their cars haven't been up to much over the last few weeks so they needed to create a story of some kind.
There has been MUCH discussion about engines, and super clipping, and power management, and lots of other "safety" issues. Apparently, prior to Ollie Bearman running in to Franco Colapinto in Japan, there had never been an accident in F1 where a fast car had hit a car running more slowly on the track. Who knew? Also, F1 drivers (supposedly) no longer have control over their cars ability to accelerate or brake, forcing them to overtake when they don't want to. I wonder what those pedals at the bottom of the cockpit are for? Are they no longer operated by the drivers feet?
For Miami, there will be a 90 minute practice session in the morning of the first day, rather than the usual 60 minutes. This has been extended so that Max Verstappen can have a good old moan about how it's not fair that the other teams are given more time to set their cars up to beat the Red Bull
Contrary to many, I've enjoyed the first few races of the season. F1 should be unpredictable and the new engine rules have given us that, although all three races have been won by a Mercedes car so far. Hmmm... At least we can all agree that active aero has added something, with the cars able to follow one another more closely than for many seasons. I'm sure there are some dissenters out there though who think that it's not "pure" motor racing, and "it's all contrived". Here's a thought, any sport with a rule book is contrived.
Here's the timings for those of you based in the UK. Enjoy!
What have the teams been up to during this hiatus? I've seen lots of stuff with George Russell going on about how exciting it is to be in a World Championship battle, after having been soundly beaten by a child in the last two races.. Let's wait until the end of the season to see where it all ends up George. Max Verstappen has been driving cars in other race series. OMG! This must mean he's going to stop racing in F1! Yeah, right. I can think of several million reasons why Max Verstappen ain't leaving F1 any time soon. Red Bull did have a "filming day" at Silverstone. Or a test session, as it used to called.
Ferrari have been showing us lots of pictures of drivers with their dogs. Aston Martin have been bigging up how well they are actually going to do now that they have sacked their Team Principal, who really wasn't up to the job, after two months in charge. I can only assume Aston Martin use the same HR team as Chelsea use to select their managers. McLaren have signed an 11 year old. No idea why this is newsworthy, presumably it's because the dullards who driver their cars haven't been up to much over the last few weeks so they needed to create a story of some kind.
There has been MUCH discussion about engines, and super clipping, and power management, and lots of other "safety" issues. Apparently, prior to Ollie Bearman running in to Franco Colapinto in Japan, there had never been an accident in F1 where a fast car had hit a car running more slowly on the track. Who knew? Also, F1 drivers (supposedly) no longer have control over their cars ability to accelerate or brake, forcing them to overtake when they don't want to. I wonder what those pedals at the bottom of the cockpit are for? Are they no longer operated by the drivers feet?
For Miami, there will be a 90 minute practice session in the morning of the first day, rather than the usual 60 minutes. This has been extended so that Max Verstappen can have a good old moan about how it's not fair that the other teams are given more time to set their cars up to beat the Red Bull
Contrary to many, I've enjoyed the first few races of the season. F1 should be unpredictable and the new engine rules have given us that, although all three races have been won by a Mercedes car so far. Hmmm... At least we can all agree that active aero has added something, with the cars able to follow one another more closely than for many seasons. I'm sure there are some dissenters out there though who think that it's not "pure" motor racing, and "it's all contrived". Here's a thought, any sport with a rule book is contrived.
Here's the timings for those of you based in the UK. Enjoy!
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