How the Monaco GP will unfold

Monaco is always a tough race to predict because of the 50% chance of a safety car. For this reason a lot of teams split their strategies, putting one car on quite a light fuel load and the other on a heavier one. That way, if a safety car comes out early and wrecks the [...]

Monaco qualifying: Vettel regrets 'missed pole'

Take nothing away from Jenson Button, that was a mighty lap this afternoon to take pole position for the Monaco Grand Prix, but Sebastian Vettel is left once again thinking about what might have been.
The German, who is the Brawn drivers’ closest rival in the drivers’ championship, felt that he had the car today to [...]

Alonso starts talking about Ferrari

There is a fantastic interview with Fernando Alonso in the Gazzetta dello Sport today, in which he gently moves closer to talking about Ferrari and his possible move there.
According to Pino Allievi, the number one writer on the paper, Alonso has moved to a house on the border between Switzerland and Italy, near Lugano. He [...]

Reactions to F1 summit meeting

Although nothing concrete came out of yesterday’s meetings it seems progress was made and there is something still to talk about. Everyone seems to have calmed down and there was no more talk of Ferrari leaving the sport following the meetings.
The boss of the Monaco Grand Prix, Michel Boeri, however did have something to say [...]

Light at the end of the tunnel in F1 dispute?

Three hours waiting in the Ferrari motorhome this evening, for a press conference which was all set up for a 5pm start, but then that slipped as the meeting between the teams, the FIA and FOM rolled on.
In the end we were told that the meeting was ‘constructive’ but inconclusive so there will be more [...]

The scene in Monaco

While we wait for the grands fromages to have their meetings and decide what kind of spectacle we are going to see next year and beyond in Formula 1, I thought a brief colour post might be in order.
For the first time in years I’m not staying in Monaco this year. I’m in Villefranche, which [...]

Will F1 pull itself back from the brink today?

This is going to be a big day. The F1 team owners meet this morning to discuss their next move in the escalating row over the 2010 budget cap rules.
By the end of today, the teams will really have to make their minds up whether they are going to put an entry in before the [...]

Alonso says driving Monaco is 'stressful'

I caught up with Fernando Alonso this afternoon at his press briefing in the Renault motorhome. He’s one of the few drivers to do this session on the first day of practice.
I was interested to hear how good it felt to be back on the streets here, brushing the barriers, feeling that unique adrenalin rush [...]

Button gets into the champion's mind set

I wasn’t surprised to hear Jenson Button saying that racing is dominating his life at the moment.
Button is like many drivers who have found themselves in with a chance of winning the world title. Presented with an unexpected opportunity to fulfill his lifetime’s ambition, Button is finding that he can think of little else between [...]

Massa clears up Barcelona fuel mystery

Two weeks ago Felipe Massa’s hopes of a podium in Spain were wrecked by a strange situation with the refuelling of his Ferrari, which meant that the team believed he was running out of fuel and was telling him to slow down in the closing stages of the race. He lost places to Mark Webber, [...]

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1	F Alonso	1h28:38.866
2	F Massa	+ 4.196
3	S Vettel	+ 5.121
4	L Hamilton	+ 26.896
5	J Button	+ 29.482
6	M Webber	+ 43.606
7	R Kubica	1 lap
8	N Rosberg	1 lap
9	M Schumacher	1 lap
10	V Petrov	1 lap

1	L Hamilton	157
2	J Button	143
3	M Webber	136
4	S Vettel	136
5	F Alonso	123
6	N Rosberg	94
7	R Kubica	89
8	F Massa	85
9	M Schumacher	38
10	A Sutil	35

1	McLaren-Mercedes	300
2	Red Bull Renault	272
3	Ferrari	208
4	Mercedes GP	132
5	Renault	96
6	Force India Mercedes	47
7	Williams Cosworth	31
8	BMW Sauber	15
9	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	10
10=	Lotus F1	0
10=	Hispania Racing F1	0
10=	Virgin Racing	0