Badgerometer: F1 Top 5 After Hungary

Following the unfortunate events in Saturday’s qualifying, we were left in some doubt as to whether we could possibly enjoy this year’s Hungarian Grand Prix. Thankfully, and despite the last 35 laps of mundane misery, Eddie, Flavio and the boys were in town…

Who needs Bono? Eddie 'rocks' Silverstone

After the festivities on the track it was time to head over to the ‘Grand Prix Party.’ Now I had seen this on the timetable of events and scornfully stated I wouldn’t be caught dead there after witnessing cringe-worthy karaoke and air guitar antics in the ‘copse e-zone’ areas (or corpse areas as one [...]

Planes, Trains and Automobiles

An early start and a dash to Luffield stand for a good spot to unfurl our camping chairs found us not to, in fact have not been early enough with the stand already packed by 9am….

Pimms, Porsches & Pretty, Old Motors

Friday of the British Grand Prix and although it looked like sun this was because a positively Arctic gale was blowing across the track and pushing the clouds away.

But me and the other badgers braved the cold (some in shorts!) and headed to the track to see the new Red Bull nose and our first glimpse of the Brawn car in the flesh [..]

A Dinner Date with Red Bull Racing

Finally the Badger goes on the road and because so much happened over the weekend, the Badgerometer is going supersize this week with a series of articles in no particular order (well actually that’s a lie they’ll be in chronological order, but no particular order of preference) and this week’s ‘miffed with’ is to be replaced by a ’stunned by’ and I will do my best to adequately describe the horrors bestowed on us by Eddie Jordan…

Badgerometer: F1 Top 5 after Turkey

Turkey, it was never not going to be exciting, Vettel in pole with a hungry Jenson behind him and a record of pole-sitter wins, history would be made if anyone but Vettel won, and it was.  And all this happening in the country that gave us musical greats such as Dana International who was the [...]

If Formula 1 were a playground

“Twenty cars going round a track fast what’s interesting about that?”
Heard that before? That and the other arguments about why F1’s bad for the environment or something about third world debt, I tend to switch off at that point realising it’s a losing battle.
Chances are you’ll know someone with this line of thought.  Do a [...]

Badgerometer: F1 Top 5 after Monaco

Ahh Monaco – playground of the rich and famous, and home to a few F1 drivers, Button included, who even prior to this season sat at 35th on the Monaco 2007 rich list, which doesn’t seem to have been updated since it states his championship chances as slim.  DC is also on the list at [...]

Badgerometer: F1 Top 5 after Spain

Formula one arrived back in Europe and is on at decent time, brilliant.  So apparently we were to see big changes as the cars got their add ons and new technologies fitted……but well we didn’t really did we.  Ok so Massa’s Ferrari was looking better than it has all season, Raikkonen’s instead breaking early on [...]

Badgerometer: F1 Top 5 after Bahrain

Bah…rain indeed, a race in the dry, and whilst it wasn’t high drama it proved the versatility of formula one, with a race being won not solely on being the fastest but on also being the best at stopping.  Ross Brawn proved what we all know; he is an amazing strategist and sorely missed over [...]