Video: Night time high speed lap of Abu Dhabi and some race data

Last week I showed video of the first on-board laps of the new Yas Marina Island circuit in Abu Dhabi.
Here’s some footage from the same two seater F1 event, which I have edited up to give an idea of what the spectacle will look like on TV next weekend.
The event is set to be [...]

Spanish GP slideshow

I’ve been enjoying working with the leading F1 photographer Darren Heath this season.
He has a fantastic eye and always gets an original view on a Grand Prix weekend. We are experimenting with ways we can work together on content and this is a Flickr slideshow with my captions.
For maximum impact, expand it to full screen [...]

Where will the next F1 stars come from?

How can our sport identify and nurture the best driving talents and bring them to F1? What is the best way to evaluate a young driver?
One of the eye catching lines Bernie Ecclestone came out with recently in an interview with my Financial Times colleague Christian Sylt was a dismissal of the revived Formula 2 [...]

How to make an F1 genius

I read a fascinating article this weekend by a writer called Malcolm Gladwell, whose new book “The story of success” looks at what creates success in many walks of life.
He describes some studies by psychologists into music students and concludes that however much talent someone has at something, what makes the difference between them becoming [...]

Bernie's going for Gold

Just back from a press conference at the Landmark Hotel, London, where Bernie Ecclestone said more about the proposed “medals” scheme in F1 and announced that LG the consumer electronics group, will sponsor F1 next year. You as viewers will be very aware of this deal as you watch, because the timing graphics, which appear [...]

The comment of the week!

I’ve had a peach of a comment from AK, in response to the posting yesterday about the new BBC team.
He says: “I’ve just been pointed here by someone who said “I know none of us like James Allen as a commentator, but check this blog out anyway”. It’s won over a large number of people [...]

Thinking ahead to 2009

Back in the UK after the long BA flight from Sao Paulo. It was very quiet on the plane as almost everyone had a hangover and had had little or no sleep. The two parties were the big one thrown by Red Bull at a place called the Mausoleum and a McLaren celebratory bash, near [...]

New This Week

Check out all the new features uploaded this week, which include an in-depth profile of Ferrari’s new boss, Stefano Domenicali, I get to see what’s cooking with Robert Kubica and we test our mathematics skills with the paddock’s top strategists.


2010 F1 World Championship Standings
after Belgian Grand Prix
1L Hamilton1:29:04.260
2M Webber+00:01.571
3R Kubica+00:03.493
4F Massa+00:08.264
5A Sutil+00:09.094
6N Rosberg+00:12.359
7M Schumacher+00:15.548
8+00:16.678K Kobayashi
9V Petrov+00:23.951
10J Alguersuari+00:29.457

Driver Standings
1L Hamilton182
2M Webber179
3S Vettel151
4J Button147
5F Alonso141
6F Massa109
7R Kubica104
8N Rosberg102
9A Sutil45
10M Schumacher44

Team Standings
1Red Bull Renault330
2McLaren-Mercedes329
3Ferrari250
4Mercedes GP146
5Renault123
6Force India Mercedes57
7Williams Cosworth40
8BMW Sauber27
9Toro Rosso-Ferrari11
10=Lotus F10
10=Hispania Racing F10
10=Virgin Racing0



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