Barcelona day 4 – End of testing shows how close it is

The official pre -season testing ended with a frantic day at Barcelona as the 11 F1 teams who have a working car got their final runs in before the freight gets sent of to Bahrain and a new season of F1 begins. Whether they will be joined there by Campos, USF1 and/or Stefan GP we [...]

Barcelona Day 3 – Mercedes faster than it looked

The penultimate day of testing at Barcelona was affected by rain, which fell during the morning and again in the early afternoon, forcing some teams to change their plans for the day and focus on what they most needed to achieve in the limited running time. The track temperature was [...]

Branson not impressed with Ferrari’s attack on “limping” new teams

Virgin Racing’s ultimate boss Sir Richard Branson dropped in to Barcelona today to see his new F1 car testing and to deliver some well chosen words in response to Ferrari’s attack earlier this week on the new teams.

The now infamous attack by the “Horse Whisperer” on the Ferrari website this week laid into the new [...]

Barcelona Day 2 – The Hulk shows his colours

Nico Hulkenberg topped the times today in Barcelona in the Williams Cosworth. The 22 year old set a time of 1m20.614, compared to Jenson Button’s pole from last season at 1m 20.527. He was fractionally faster than Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso.
The time was set on the second flying lap of a three lap run on super [...]

Barcelona Day 1 – It’s all about the wings

Today the 11 teams who have got their cars ready for the start of the new season were on track for the first day of the final official test at Barcelona.

Mark Webber set the fastest time, but the headline lap times are not really important at this stage, that will come in the later stages [...]

Final test at Barcelona should give form guide for season

The final official test starts this morning in Barcelona, with 11 teams out on track – all the teams competing this season except for USF1 and Campos.
The four day test is the final chance for the teams to test out new developments before the first race in Bahrain on 14 March.
The first two tests [...]

Max Mosley – Lunch with a retired president

Today I met up with retired FIA president Max Mosley at a restaurant in South Kensington, London. Some of the F1 writers from the British national newspapers were also there, there were six of us in total.

A month short of his 70th birthday, he looked extremely fit and relaxed, not having a full work schedule [...]

Alonso – “Put the money on me now”

Yesterday, amid all the drama around Ferrari and USF1, we had another bouncy communication from Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso. He has been speaking with Don McRae of the Guardian, who has a good relationship with Ferrari’s communications department and has done some very good pieces with Felipe Massa in recent years.

Alonso says that the bookies have [...]

USF1 troubles start to leak out

For anyone interested in the ongoing troubles of USF1, it’s worth checking out Autosport tonight. They have a well researched and thorough piece on the situation from an anonymous team insider, alleging that the whole thing has been poorly planned by team principal Ken Anderson and that the staff are uncertain whether they will be [...]

Ferrari lays into Mosley and the new teams adventure

Ferrari has launched an astonishing attack on Max Mosley, the FIA under his management and the whole new teams adventure, which has changed F1 pretty substantially in the last 12 months.

Last season we got increasingly used to feisty posts on the Ferrari site, which posted a record 300 million page impressions in 2009. Before Monaco [...]

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