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By my reckoning in 1991 there 36 cars in the pitlane – 19 teams, but Fondmetal and Coloni only entered one car each. Of those 36 cars, 19 of them failed to pre-qualify or qualify at least once during the season, […]

“AMG” instead of Mercedes High Performance Engines, I reckon. ;)

:D

Grand Prix du Chateaubriand?
Or are they talking about Austin?

Before the V8s, V10s and V12s?… there were six-cylinder turbos. And I4s. And V8s. And flat-12s. And a few 16s.

With all due deference to the ghost of Enzo… it’s just an engine.

I’m not sure that most drivers would cite Senna as their role model. Some, of course: Hamilton, Senna, Massa, maybe Perez and Kobayashi. But Vettel looks up to Schumacher, Button and others to Prost.

Told an AUSTRIAN paper that the race might go to Portugal?

OK, call me cynical but I’ve been Bernie-watching for a while. This is a ploy to convince someone linked to Austria that they’d like the race at the […]

Undrivable.

For sure.

Wasn’t it at India that Massa’s wing was flapping about on the straight?

“Hello, Ferrari International Assistance? How can I help you?”

However team principal Luiz Perez-Sala said the team have had access to a simulator to prepare for this new circuit.

Reports that Karthikeyan and De La Rosa have been given PS3s with F1 2012 as presents were […]

Whitmarsh: “Things like DRS, which the purists would never have accepted”

Things like DRS, which purists still think is a horrible, artificial, Disneyesque contrivance to produce ‘overtaking’ although it […]

“And this was Luscious Liz…”

Ah, Mansell winning in Adelaide… the definition of an open goal :)

Mirabeau Bas.

This detail debrief just goes to prove how close to the edge of the envelope the teams are with their cars now. Three years’ stable-ish rules and they’ve wrung every last tiny drop out of the formula, to the […]

I think you’re right. Which would be an interesting development of the “world” title.

Just checked Keke Rosberg 1982 (only one win, in Dijon’s “Swiss” GP) and some of the 60s championships where only the […]

I would love it if Custard won in Monza. :D