What a season that was: an amazing late season comeback by the reigning champion against all the odds that narrowly, so narrowly, failed; an aggressive, new champion who showed little respect for history or to others (“he came right up on the inside at the last moment and I had to step immediately out of the way or we would have crashed” said the reigning …
Suddenly I realised that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was kind of driving by instinct, only I was in a different dimension. I was way over the limit, but still I was able to find even more. It frightened me because I realised I was well beyond my conscious understanding”. Ayrton Senna, qualifying nearly two seconds ahead of his team mate …
A preview to this season’s forthcoming F1 action is going to be different to a preview to last season’s action. Last year, we had a crop of talented rookies and intrigue at all top three teams: would Bottas make the grade, would new Honda engines take Red Bull back to the top, and – most enticingly of all – what would happen to the incoming …
1. The five year itch? 3rd. 4th. 2nd. 2nd. That’s Sebastian Vettel’s championship placings during his F1 career with Ferrari. It’s not just the hangover of last year’s disappointment that points to next year being critical, it’s history. Consider the difference between the record above and these two sequences of championship placings: 2nd. 4th. 2nd. 2nd. 3rd. 2nd. 2nd. 5th (crucially, missing almost half of …
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