German GP: The Sleeping Dogs

Part 3 finds us at the wrong end of the grid with the new teams and Force India.
Force India

Qualifying: Sutil (19th – including a five place grid penalty) Liuzzi (21st)
Race: Liuzzi (16th) Sutil (17th)

This weekend was not what you’d call ideal. In fact, it was [...]

German GP: The chasing dogs…

Badger’s series of team and driver analysis: The Top Dogs, the Chasing Dogs and the Sleeping Dogs…

The second part of this week’s Hot Rod or Hot Dog sees us taking a look at the midfield runners from Germany.
Mercedes

Qualifying: Rosberg (9th) Schumacher (11th)
Race: Rosberg [...]

Out of Order? The Team Orders debate

It was the story of the German grand prix: the blatantly obvious team order radioed to Felipe Massa telling him to give the lead to team-mate Fernando Alonso.  This led to a $100,000 fine, the maximum penalty the stewards could give, and a reference to the World Motor Sport Council (WMSC), a division of the [...]

Hot rod or hot dog? The drivers’ performances analysed…(Part two)

We turn to the midfield runners now as HRHD runs into its second part…
Sauber

Qualifying: de la Rosa (9th) Kobayashi (12th)
Race: Kobayashi (6th) de la Rosa (ret)

After being really quite nasty about Sauber earlier in the season, we have to confess their recent showings have much better, no, scrap that, [...]

It’s Red Bull Rule At British GP Practice

The scene of the first ever F1 race 60 years ago, the Silverstone circuit remains one of the championship’s classics. Sure, it’s nice going to mega new facilities like Singapore and Abu Dhabi, but F1’s soul- at least what’s left of it- remains in places like this.
For 2010 it’s undergone some changes, with the new [...]

Ferrari In Focus – Can The Prancing Horse Keep Up?

Whilst Red Bull and McLaren have been the stars of this year’s world championship Ferrari- by their high standards- have struggled. Their only win, delivered to them on a silver platter by Sebastian Vettel’s dodgy sparkplug, came at the season opener in Bahrain. Since then Fernando Alonso has been on the podium just twice, Felipe [...]

Robert Kubica and the Renault Revolution

What do you get if you combine a team coming off a nightmare 2009 and a driver who seemed to have lost his early-career spark? Answer: the most impressive package of the current Formula One season.
We are of course talking about Kubica and Renault, who, after both suffering some miserable times of late, have exploded [...]

A Virgin Finally Goes All The Way As Lotus Wilt In Malaysia

There’s a pointless world championship going on at the back of the F1 grid. Not pointless in the sense that it’s not worth the effort- the winner will be in for a huge deal of praise at the season’s end- but in that the teams involved don’t score points. They’re usually just over the moon [...]

Forget the Numbers – It’s The Australia Raw Pace League Table

This is the Raw Race Pace League Table – where we rank all the teams on their raw pace, regardless of times, wins or what have you.

The Australian ‘B’ Race – The New Teams Battle On…

On the grid before today’s race BBC commentator Martin Brundle was chatting to Lotus driver Heikki Kovalainen. “You’re hoping to win the B-class of this race, the second division if you like”, Brundle said to the Finn. Slightly ruffled by this, Heikki replied by saying that “it’s still the same league for everybody. We don’t [...]