Happy New Year, one and all! But let's quickly focus on 2019 just once more and dish out some awards for what was a pretty eventful season. Driver of the Year Image credit: Getty Images It is near impossible to separate Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen but, having just won a sixth title and more … Continue reading The 2019 Mostly F1 Awards
Mercedes 1st | Pts: 739 | Wins: 15 | Podiums: 32 | Poles: 10 | FL: 9 | Ret: 2 The Mercedes juggernaut steams on, crushing all in its path. Coming into this season, the dominance of the Silver Arrows looked under real threat...but then they set a record for consecutive one-two finishes from the … Continue reading 2019 teams’ end-of-year report cards
Lewis Hamilton 1st | Pts: 413 | Wins: 11 | Podiums: 17 | Poles: 5 | FL: 6 | Ret: 0 The above statistics sum it up pretty well. Whilst Lewis Hamilton was unusually lacking in pole positions this year - by his usual standards at least - he dominated pretty much every other aspect … Continue reading 2019 drivers’ end-of-year report cards
And, just to get us all through the last few days, here is a quick report card for the teams. Mercedes 1ST | PTS: 438 | WINS: 10 | PODIUMS: 19 | POLES: 8 | FL: 4 | RET: 1 The Mercedes juggernaut steams on, crushing all in its path. Coming into this season, the … Continue reading 2019 teams’ mid-season report cards
We're (just over) halfway through the season, so it seems a good time to recap the year and see how everyone has done. Lewis Hamilton 1st | Pts: 250 | Wins: 8 | Podiums: 10 | Poles: 4 | FL: 2 | Ret: 0 Lewis Hamilton just keeps on winning. Eight of the first twelve … Continue reading 2019 drivers’ mid-season report cards
As I said, I had planned to do this post on Thursday but delayed it after the news about Charlie Whiting. But with only two practice sessions gone (and Ferrari potentially keeping their true pace under wraps), I think making some F1 2019 predictions for the entire season is still probably fair game... No? Well, … Continue reading Predictions that I’ll probably regret making
In this post I will, for the most part, stick with my modus operandi of not granting the 2019 F1 testing times too much significance. But it's no fun to entirely ignore them so let's allow ourselves to read a little into them, especially when it comes to the headline news of the front-runners. Let … Continue reading Let’s act like we know what’s going on in testing, pt. 2
Every F1 publication will at this point deliver the usual caveat of pre-season testing times being unreliable, misleading and generally useless for forming opinions...and then proceed to do so anyway. In this post, I will attempt to stick to things that we can hopefully establish from this first week of 2019 F1 testing. (And then … Continue reading Let’s act like we know what’s going on in testing, pt. 1
And on we go with the 2019 car launches! Alfa Romeo don't officially unveil their latest effort until the first test tomorrow but have had an on-track shakedown (in a rather fetching Valentine's Day livery) so that will do for now. Plus, they probably revealed more of their hand with the parts on the car … Continue reading Launch season continues to kind of kick off
So, here we go. The new season is getting tantalisingly ever closer and half the teams have now broken cover! Except they kinda haven't... The launches of Haas and Williams only ever claimed to be livery launches but the others will be giving as little away as possible too. The giant, new front wings are … Continue reading Launch season kicks off! (Kind of…)
