It’s time for part two of Badger’s look at pay drivers, with the best of the bunch under the microscope today. If you missed yesterday’s look at the worst ride buyers check that out here.
The teams that require pay drivers aren’t usually the type you’d expect to regularly achieve wins, podiums or even points. They’re [...]
Badger guest writer Matt Briggs is back for more, and having recently looked at the sport’s best and worst number two drivers he’s now delved in to the history of pay drivers. Like them or not they’ve been around since day one, and with teams shorter on cash nowadays they won’t be going anywhere any [...]
Yesterday’s Belgian Grand Prix could prove to be a significant turning point in this year’s world championship.
Because with Jenson Button, Sebastian Vettel, and Fernando Alonso all failing to score it could serve to turn the title battle in to a two horse race.
Lewis Hamilton now leads Mark Webber by an oh-so-slender 3 world championship points, [...]
As we eagerly await the return of Formula One action at Spa why not enjoy the concluding part of a feature that could only have come about during a four-week F1 famine: the ‘what if’ scenario of the entire Formula One field being abducted by aliens. If you have no idea what we’re talking about [...]
Our final choice of classic Belgian Grand Prix was a tough one. It was tempting to pick a race from the fifties, one won by Juan Manuel Fangio, but then that would mean not looking back at a Jim Clark victory. Such tough decisions are what dominate our days at Badger.
After some deliberation a [...]
Venezuela doesn’t have much of an F1 history, with just two drivers hailing from the South American nation having contested grand prix. The first was Ettore Chimeri, who competed in one race in 1960. He fancied more, but tragically lost his life in a sportscar race two weeks later. The other was Johnny Cecotto, a [...]
The paddock is silent. Eerily silent. The delicious Ferrari pasta remains uneaten; McLaren’s beautifully functional but painfully uncomfortable chairs remain empty; and, somewhere in the depths of the Renault motorhome, a reporter realises (after fifteen minutes of questioning) that he isn’t talking to Robert Kubica, but rather a yellow wall.
So where are the F1 drivers? [...]
Talk of glitz and glamour in F1 is usually focused on Monaco, but the Belgian Grand Prix of 1966 had a touch of Hollywood about it, with the race weekend used to film scenes from the classic movie Grand Prix. The haunting scenes where Jean-Pierre Sarti (played by Yves Montand) crashes and kills two young [...]
Here’s the scenario: aliens from a far off (but for the purpose of this piece very real) planet decide they want the greatest racing series in the universe, and so take a trip to earth, where they abduct the whole F1 grid- even Sakon Yamamoto. Not wanting to miss out on any grand prix talent [...]
In a year when the Williams team would claim a dominant constructers’ crown- and finish one-two in the drivers standings- it was no surprise to see an all-Williams front-row at the 1987 Belgian Grand Prix, with the turbo Honda-powered car of Nigel Mansell a whopping 1.5 seconds clear of teammate (and best chum) Nelson Piquet. [...]
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Webber On Top In Chaotic Spa Qualifying.
Badger’s Friday News Round-Up.
Alonso Tops the Times as F1 returns at Spa.
It’s Friday – It’s The Caption Contest Bonanza!
F1 and the Aliens – The Saga Concludes.
Grand Prix POP: Podium or Pits!
Classic Belgian Grand Prix – 1963: Clark’s Masterclass
