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Jun201021

Rob

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How can all of the teams improve so much?

It seems that nearly every team in the paddock has come out over the past few weeks and said that they have massive improvements for Valencia and that they’re now going to be much faster. While all very well in itself, it doesn’t really mean much unless your improvement is faster than the other teams around you. Since the start of the season all of the teams, even the new ones, have made massive strides forward in pace. It’s just that so have all the other teams and the status quo remains about the same.
The fight at the front seems the closest out and out battle but even there the track conditions and drivers seem to make more of a difference than the car – which is arguably what should be happening. It’s not that the teams are making progress, that’s great, it’s that they should make a noise [...]

Jun201014

Rob

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Amazing Canadian race sees Red Bull knocked off their perch by McLaren

The Canadian GP normally serves up a good race but this year was a special one with non stop action from the first corner until the end. It was the first time that the tyre rules really worked as they were planned to, coupled with the endless capacity that the Gilles Villeneuve track has for incidents and F1 sprang to life.
It was the first race of the year that has started without a Red Bull on pole and with the leading cars split on tyre choice the start looked exciting. It played out that way too with passing in the first few laps. Then by the time that the race had just begun to stabilise the soft tyres started to go off – this was only a few laps into the race. Hamilton and the others on the softer compound pitting to change and the Red Bulls (on the harder [...]

Jun201009

Rob

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McLaren, Hamilton, Button and Istanbul

Going home from Turkey with a 1-2 would have been McLaren’s dream result, no? Well it would have been had they not battled with each other for the lead 9 laps from the end, after the Red Bull incident it all seemed a little strange that they would be allowed to do so but neither driver showed the hot headed nature that ended Vettels race and they both carried on to finish but there were a few questions to be asked afterwards.
Both drivers had driven a good race up until that point and were heading towards 3rd and 4th, Hamilton had been fighting with the Red Bulls all the way and Button had been staying in touch and biding his time – this was the critical thing for the race as it meant he’d saved some more fuel over Hamilton – though that’s not in the most recent description of [...]

Jun201007

Rob

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Ferrari and Alonso getting on terms

Ferrari started the season with the best possible result, they beat everyone. Neither was it that unexpected, they had spent the best part of last year developing their ‘10 car at the expense of the ‘09 car, they had Felipe Massa back, and the former world champion Fernando Alonso joining to take them back to the front. Since then however it’s gone downhill and fast. We’re seven rounds in and they are only in touch because the other teams have squabbled over the wins.
So what has happened? Some of it is simple mistakes, they got in wrong in qualifying for the Malaysian GP and then add to that Alonso practice crash in Monaco and his latest error in Turkey that ensured a 6th row start and it’s always going to be hard to rack up serious points. Massa hasn’t been himself all season though whether that is Alonso showing [...]

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