Despite the new rules mandating a two stop strategy, qualifying well at Monaco remains integral to a good result. Always an outlier in term of characteristics, given its tight, twisty turns and the lowest average speed of all the tracks … Continue reading Who will be on top in Monaco
Ferrari have struggled so far in 2025. The high expectations coming into the season, with the partnership of the trio of Hamilton, Leclerc and Vasseur have frankly not been met. There has been underperformance in many areas, some of them … Continue reading One area Ferrari are faster than everyone else
While McLaren have clearly had the quickest car on average over the start of the season, Red Bull and Max Verstappen have made a line in the sand with his dominant victory in Imola. Besting both the McLarens of Lando … Continue reading Is Piastri still the favourite to win in 2025
Haas have had an up and down start to the season in 2025. Battling unexpected car issues that revealed themselves at the first race in Australia. Their performance has fluctuated over the first seven rounds of the championship with highs … Continue reading Can both Ocon and Bearman get along at Haas
A Formula One driver’s primary point of contact with the team during a race is his engineer, so the importance of establishing a strong relationship and clear, concise communication procedures cannot be understated. It can, and has on many occasions, … Continue reading The importance of an F1 driver’s right hand man
An error monitoring track limits saw Williams driver Alex Albon unfairly bumped from qualifying. This is not the first time the FIA has made this kind of mistake in a qualifying session, similar issues occurred as recently as the final … Continue reading Another FIA mess in Bahrain
Oscar Piastri has taken a clear step forwards in 2025 so far. Noticeably improved in areas that he was clearly weaker than Lando Norris during their first two years as teammates. Many fans expected a Hamilton or Verstappen-esque rookie season … Continue reading How Piastri unlocked his potential
It’s fair to say that Ferrari haven’t had to the start of the season that was expected of them given their strong form at the end of last season. Taking back to back wins at the US and Mexican Grand … Continue reading Can Ferrari turn their season around?
In reality there are an almost infinite number of factors that could contribute to making one car harder to drive than another. Not forgetting the most important component, the driver, whose inputs could either mitigate or exaggerate a car problem … Continue reading What is the “hardest car to drive”
Lando Norris took a commanding victory at the Dutch Grand Priz over the home favourite and title rival Max Verstappen.
Does this mark a momentum shift this season as McLaren appears to have finally loosened Redbull’s stranglehold at the sharp end of the F1 grid. A grip that they’ve maintained since in the introduction of the current ground-effect rules. Continue reading McLaren the new top dog?
To say racing drivers have big egos would be a massive understatement, so for the majority of F1 history, team bosses have avoided having two fast drivers together, bar some notable exceptions (think Senna and Prost in Mclaren or Hamilton and Alonso).
However has the playbook changed in recent years, and are teams more willing to risk an implosion in the pursuit of maximising performance?
Continue reading One plus one equals a mess
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