This is a guest article by Tom Bellingham. Will anyone ever match Graham Hill’s incredible feat of winning the Monaco Grand Prix, Indianapolis 500 and Le Mans 24 Hours? Guest writer Tom Bellingham thinks not. What is the greatest achievement in motor sport? Michael Schumacher’s seven world championships? Sebastien Loeb?������s six world rally titles? Valentino … Continue reading The Triple Crown: a forgotten triumph
Two-times world champion Emerson Fittipaldi will serve as the drivers’ representative to the stewards at this weekend’s Canadian Grand Prix. Fittipaldi won the world championship for Lotus in 1972 and McLaren in 1974. He made his last F1 start at Watkins Glen 30 years ago. After that he enjoyed a successful career in Indycars, winning … Continue reading Fittipaldi joins Canadian stewards
In case you missed it the big news yesterday was not Felipe Massa extending his Ferrari contract but the F1 Fanatic Forum re-opening. In just a few hours the forum was buzzing with activity once again which is great to see. With the Canadian Grand Prix weekend drawing close make sure you enter your predictions … Continue reading F1 Fanatic round-up: 10/6/2010
F1’s return to Montreal was cheered by fans when it was announced last November. Following an exciting race in Istanbul, and with the championship battle finely poised between McLaren and Red Bull, the stage is set for one of Montreal’s typically unpredictable races.
The Circuit Gilles Vileneuve has had new tarmac laid at the places where it broke up during its last Formula 1 event in 2008. Turn two (the Senna hairpin), turns six and seven and turn ten (the Casino hairpin) all suffered a lot of damage during the qualifying session for the 2008 race. They were … Continue reading Montreal track re-surfaced after break-up
I’m very happy to announce that the F1 Fanatic Forum is back and open for you to use once again! You can read the announcement in full on the forum here: Welcome back to the F1 Fanatic Forum And you can find the forum rules here: F1 Fanatic Forum Rules Apologies for the delay in … Continue reading The F1 Fanatic Forum is back
Ferrari have announced Felipe Massa will remains with the team for the next two seasons. Massa said: Throughout my entire Formula 1 career, I have always raced with an engine made in Maranello and it is a matter of pride for me to be able to continue working with a team that I regard as … Continue reading Ferrari extend Massa’s contract to 2012
Luca di Montezemolo has repeated his criticism of the sport’s new teams, calling them “a joke” in an interview with Autocar. The Ferrari boss said: There is a need to have competitive teams. F1 is like soccer. It needs heroes and it needs big teams. You cannot equalize everything. We need to avoid having too … Continue reading Di Montezemolo attacks new teams and calls for shorter races and more testing
The Canadian Grand Prix preview is coming your way later today. In the meantime here’s today’s round-up: Links Force India rebuff Lotus over technical director (Reuters) Vijay Mallya: “Mark [Smith] will stay with us until April 2011 and we will, in due course, announce a structure that will take us to the next level of … Continue reading F1 Fanatic round-up: 9/6/2010
The Le Mans 24 Hours has been won by 64 different F1 drivers since it was first held in 1923. Last year the winning car was piloted by three former F1 racers – Alexander Wurz, Marc Gene and David Brabham. This year 1992 world champion Nigel Mansell is among the 24 F1 drivers taking part … Continue reading F1 drivers in the 2010 Le Mans 24 Hours
McLaren team principal Martin Whitmarsh believes the MP4/25 should be well suited to the next two tracks on the calendar. The Circuit Gilles Villeneuve and Valencia street track both have long straights where the McLaren excels and few of the fast corners that suit Red Bull’s RB6. Speaking during the Vodafone McLaren Mercedes phone-in he … Continue reading Next two races suit our car – Whitmarsh
Vitantonio Liuzzi will become the latest driver to change his chassis this year in a bid to resolve his struggles with the VJM03. Sebastian Vettel and Michael Schumacher have done the same earlier this year. Liuzzi will revert back to the car he used in the first four races of the season. As discussed here … Continue reading Liuzzi to switch chassis in Canada
McLaren team principal Martin Whitmarsh said the message given to Lewis Hamilton during the Turkish Grand Prix that Jenson Button would not overtake him was “wrong”. During the Grand Prix race engineer Phil Prew advised him Button would not overtake. Whitmarsh admitted that Button’s pass on Hamilton came “shortly after” that message was given. He … Continue reading Hamilton’s engineer got it wrong over Button pass, Whitmarsh admits
Formula 1 can expect warm weather for Canadian Grand Prix but with a chance of showers on Sunday and possibly also Saturday. Regional temperatures are slightly above average at the moment and are expected to climb into the high 20s over the weekend. Will any of the showers hit the track during one of the … Continue reading Showers threaten Canadian GP weekend
The Red Bull and McLaren stories from last week still won’t go away. Later today I’m going to be talking to McLaren’s Martin Whitmarsh and I’m sure there’ll be more questions about it then. Here’s today’s round-up: Links New evidence to explain Hamilton’s displeasure (BBC) “I hear another interesting fact, as well. Red Bull said … Continue reading F1 Fanatic round-up: 8/6/2010
Williams are targeting their first double points finish of 2010 in the Canadian Grand Prix – having failed to score in either of the last two races. Technical director Sam Michael said he expects top ten finishes in qualifying and the race for Rubens Barrichello and Nico Hulkenberg: The stop-start nature of the track is … Continue reading Williams target double points in Canada
Here are the details of the BBC’s live video coverage of the Canadian Grand Prix and the F1 Fanatic live blogs which will take place during all five sessions this weekend. If you would like to help run the live blogs this weekend please get in touch by emailling me, using Twitter or leave a … Continue reading Canadian Grand Prix live TV times
Renault technical director James Allison praised the performance of driver Robert Kubica for getting the maximum from the R30 in the opening races of 2010. Allison said: I don’t think Robert has made a single significant mistake so far this year. He’s locked up the odd wheel here and there, but during the races he … Continue reading Renault praise ‘faultless’ Kubica
When Kimi Raikkonen announced he was taking a sabbatical from F1 to compete in the World Rally Championship I was sceptical about whether we’d ever see him back in an F1 car. Six months on with Red Bull having confirmed their driver line-up for 2011 it’s looking unlikely we’ll see the 2007 champion make a … Continue reading Will Raikkonen return to F1? (Poll)
Mark Webber will drive for Red Bull having extended his contract with the team for 2011. He will continue to partner Sebastian Vettel, who already has a contract with the team for 2011, despite the pair differing over their collision in the Turkish Grand Prix last week.