F1’s bloody nose in Bahrain, can the “show” be fixed?

The first race of 2010 is over and the teams, packed, are moving to Australia for the next event. Along with the teams, there will be a certain amount of disillusionment that will be riding shotgun with them all the way to the Great Southern Land. The ban on refueling, qualifying regulations regarding [...]

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Button surprised at McLaren pace

Jenson Button told reporters at Sakhir that he was surprised the MP4-25 was off the pace during qualifying for tomorrow’s race.
Despite Hamilton qualifying on the second row, he was just over a second off the pace of Vettel in the Red Bull RB6, which he has decided to call ‘Luscious Liz’. Button was a further [...]

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Once fuel, now tires

In 2010, the regulation changes have banned refueling during the race. Historically the refueling strategy added a large component, often undesired, to a race weekend but no longer will teams be looking for tactical dominance in fuel strategies. This year proves to be shaping up in to an outright tire wear strategy relying [...]

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F1B Downshift #11~ Interviews Schumacher, Hamilton, Webber, Glock, Sutil and more

Join Mark Hallam and me as we share and discuss all the interviews from the recent Barcelona test. Interviews include:
Schumacher
Hamilton
Webber
Glock
Sam Michael
Hulkenberg
Fauzy
Barrichello
Sutil
As we are two days away from the start of the 2010 season, this podcast will help you get in the mood and may ust change your mind about the predictions. I hope [...]

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Lewis almost quit after ‘liegate’ and one other unsurprising story

I actually double checked the date on this piece because I thought we’d all pretty well put this one to bed. Apparently not.
It looks like Lewis Hamilton is having to re-live his Australian “liegate” affair at least one more time, perhaps — I’m sure he’s hoping — just as a pre-season story line.
And he’s admitting [...]

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