Tag Archives: ferrari

Feb201118

Rob

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No Bahrain? Australia to start? What will Ferrari and Nico Rosberg do?

With the political unrest currently in the Middle East spreading into Bahrain over the past week the world of F1 seems set to end up making some sort of political statement. They have a scheduled test and then the first GP of the year both set to happen in the next month in a country that is beginning to show the same dissatisfaction as other Middle Eastern countries and bar Iran they have succumbed to the pressure and had to do something.
F1 will want to keep it’s hands clean in the political sphere to avoid harming and future deals with either the current or any future power holders in the country but without a swift end to the protests it can’t justify aligning itself with any faction that would be the case were the GP to be held. I suspect that the situation will have calmed down for the race [...]

Feb201107

Rob

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Full year report: Ferrari

Ferrari’s season comes in three parts, the first was the race in Bahrain. People started mentioning red wash again and it looked like the season was going to be interesting from third place down, but then they imploded and couldn’t string together a good result for much of the middle of the season. They did however keep picking up the points. Then comes Germany and they haven’t looked back since, Alonso said they needed to finish on the podium for all the remaining races and he has – sending him up the order.
Fernando Alonso has had an impressive season, Ferrari always seems a hard team to integrate with and get up to speed but Alonso managed it. He has continually put his car into the points even when it has been slower than some of the those around him, something he carried forward from his recent seasons at Renault. Ultimately [...]

Nov201017

Rob

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Vettel secures his first title with an amazing end to the season

Sebastian Vettel won the last race of the season at Abu Dhabi and in doing so took the F1 drivers title as both Mark Webber and Fernando Alonso floundered to seventh and eighth places. He becomes the youngest F1 world champion and seems to be set to build on that next year, if he can drop the mistakes then he will be very hard to unseat next year.
The race was somewhat disappointing after all of the build up and the Renaults made sure that Hamilton couldn’t challenge Vettel for the lead and that Alonso’s hopes faded as he couldn’t get past. The McLarens late season pace secured the end for Alonso and Webber as they needed the places, it will forever remain a mystery as to why McLaren didn’t have that pace for the last few races.
Vettel won this championship with a storming last part of the season, the other [...]

Nov201008

Rob

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The title goes to the wire as Vettel takes the honours in Brazil

With Vettel winning in Brazil the title goes to the next race in Abu Dhabi, the same result would see Alonso lift the crown but surely even Red Bull would switch the drivers so that they take the title, it’s not like Alonso could whinge about that.
It was a good race fro Red Bull, apart from Hulkenberg sitting on pole they had pretty much the perfect weekend, and to top that they came away with the constructors crown. Red Bull deserve the constructors title this year, they clearly have the best car and arguably have had for the last season and a half. Adrian Newey really was worth all of that money.
Webber should be pleased with the weekend, although Vettel can still win the title,  Alonso only has to finish 5th to ensure that Vettel can’t take the crown. With the Ferrari looking everybit as if it is the [...]

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