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Friday, 13 May 2016
Thursday, 12 May 2016
Inside Line F1 Podcast - Can Max Verstappen Score A Podium On His Red Bull Racing Debut?
Max Verstappen drives his first race for Red Bull Racing and Mithila and Kunal couldn't be more excited. Can Max manage a podium on his debut? And can we get a little optimistic and hope for a race win (after all, the statistics are in his favour!).
After his Pastor Maldonado-like movie in Russia, can Danii Kvyat pull off a 'Maldonado' again in Spain? That would mean winning the race - because Maldonado was a race winner here in 2012! What sweet revenge that would be.
Of course, Verstappen faces a host of challenges on his debut - but his biggest test is when he & Kvyat face the media together on Thursday. Certainly the FIA has a sense of humour!
If Renault had a sense of humour, maybe they would give Kevin Magnussen one of their new Renault trucks instead of a regular road car.
McLaren is doing their bit of social service for Formula One - they've an exclusive agreement with Honda, so thank God none else suffers with a Honda engine like them!
Carlos Sainz is patiently waiting for his turn for a promotion to Red Bull Racing (what else can he do?). It's likely that Sainz's shot at a promotion will come only when Ricciardo or Verstappen move to Ferrari. Where would that leave Kimi Raikkonen? Perhaps he is well suited to act as Formula 1's relationship manager with Vladamir Putin (in vodka we trust).
Lewis Hamilton has been racing against young karting drivers at the Barbados Festival of Speed - is he gearing up to take on a young Verstappen?
And finally, we tell you why MotoGP is cooler than Formula 1. But no, we're not going to start the Inside Line MotoGP Podcast!
Tune in!
After his Pastor Maldonado-like movie in Russia, can Danii Kvyat pull off a 'Maldonado' again in Spain? That would mean winning the race - because Maldonado was a race winner here in 2012! What sweet revenge that would be.
Of course, Verstappen faces a host of challenges on his debut - but his biggest test is when he & Kvyat face the media together on Thursday. Certainly the FIA has a sense of humour!
If Renault had a sense of humour, maybe they would give Kevin Magnussen one of their new Renault trucks instead of a regular road car.
McLaren is doing their bit of social service for Formula One - they've an exclusive agreement with Honda, so thank God none else suffers with a Honda engine like them!
Carlos Sainz is patiently waiting for his turn for a promotion to Red Bull Racing (what else can he do?). It's likely that Sainz's shot at a promotion will come only when Ricciardo or Verstappen move to Ferrari. Where would that leave Kimi Raikkonen? Perhaps he is well suited to act as Formula 1's relationship manager with Vladamir Putin (in vodka we trust).
Lewis Hamilton has been racing against young karting drivers at the Barbados Festival of Speed - is he gearing up to take on a young Verstappen?
And finally, we tell you why MotoGP is cooler than Formula 1. But no, we're not going to start the Inside Line MotoGP Podcast!
Tune in!
Monday, 9 May 2016
Barcelona Preview: No alarms and no surprises
Some Grand Prix host countries, such as Italy, hardly have changed their venue throughout F1's extended history. Others, such as France and the USA, have had several come and go. And the Spanish Grand Prix belongs firmly in the latter camp.
It's right up there in the hit-and-miss stakes. Six different circuits in Spain have hosted its Grand Prix - and you can add a seventh if you include Valencia which run under the 'European Grand Prix' moniker in fairly recent years. Moreover, again like France and the USA, for extended spells the country dropped off the calendar altogether.
In its nomadic existence first we had the attractive Pedralbes track, run through wide open avenues in Barcelona's suburbs, popping up twice in total in the 1950s before the Le Mans disaster and its safety fallout did for it. A couple of decades on there also, briefly, was the undulating, challenging and scenic Barcelona street track at Montjuic, but with its magic it also was fated and its safety arrangements were pitilessly, tragically, revealed as sub-standard in the final 1975 visit. Jarama near Madrid and Jerez in the south of the country came and went in a sporadic fashion too; both suffered from rather torturous layouts and often poor crowds.
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| The Montmelo track near Barcelona finally ended the race's nomadic existence Photo: Octane Photography |
In its nomadic existence first we had the attractive Pedralbes track, run through wide open avenues in Barcelona's suburbs, popping up twice in total in the 1950s before the Le Mans disaster and its safety fallout did for it. A couple of decades on there also, briefly, was the undulating, challenging and scenic Barcelona street track at Montjuic, but with its magic it also was fated and its safety arrangements were pitilessly, tragically, revealed as sub-standard in the final 1975 visit. Jarama near Madrid and Jerez in the south of the country came and went in a sporadic fashion too; both suffered from rather torturous layouts and often poor crowds.
Sunday, 8 May 2016
New Grand Prix Times article: Red Bull - ruthless but right
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| Photo: Octane Photography |
Some have sympathised with Kvyat. Some have said the team's got it plain wrong in its decision. But as I argue in my latest Grand Prix Times article, there's more to this than is being let on. And ultimately it's hard to argue with Red Bull's logic in doing what it's doing.
You can have a read here: http://www.grandprixtimes.com/news/id/11964
Saturday, 7 May 2016
Talking about F1's Graham Keilloh talks Red Bull and Mercedes on Radio Woking
You may be aware that I'm a regular guest on Radio Woking on its Saturday afternoon sports show, where I chat about the latest F1 goings-on with their presenter Declan McCarthy.
And I was on the show today, talking mainly about the big news of recent days that Max Verstappen and Daniil Kvyat - following the latter's prangs early in the Russia race - have been swapped by famously ruthless Red Bull with immediate effect. And we also talked about the season so far more generally and in particular the disparity of luck between Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg, as well as explored the talk of Mercedes conspiracies...
You can have a listen to our chat via the player below:
And I was on the show today, talking mainly about the big news of recent days that Max Verstappen and Daniil Kvyat - following the latter's prangs early in the Russia race - have been swapped by famously ruthless Red Bull with immediate effect. And we also talked about the season so far more generally and in particular the disparity of luck between Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg, as well as explored the talk of Mercedes conspiracies...
You can have a listen to our chat via the player below:
Inside Line F1 Podcast - Red Bull-sh*t
Red Bull Racing did post-Russia what everyone imagined they would do towards the end of the 2016 Formula 1 Season. They gave wings to Max Verstappen's Formula 1 career while clipping Daniil Kvyat's. The former World Champion team's decision evoked applause from most quarters and shock from a few. Would they have taken a similar decision had Kvyat rammed into a 'less important' driver? What if Verstappen would've committed a similar error?
While we hint of 'favouritism' in Formula 1 (well, it's human nature!), we also point out Bernie Ecclestone and Mercedes's favouritism towards Lewis Hamilton.
We reveal Nico Rosberg's ONLY issue in the recently concluded Russian Grand Prix and how Fernando Alonso is now playing 'sales agent' for the 2016 Spanish Grand Prix organisers.
Lastly, we tell you how the 'right to engine' clause will still unsettle the new regulations Formula 1 announced for 2017-2020.
Tune in!
(Season 2016, Episode 14)
While we hint of 'favouritism' in Formula 1 (well, it's human nature!), we also point out Bernie Ecclestone and Mercedes's favouritism towards Lewis Hamilton.
We reveal Nico Rosberg's ONLY issue in the recently concluded Russian Grand Prix and how Fernando Alonso is now playing 'sales agent' for the 2016 Spanish Grand Prix organisers.
Lastly, we tell you how the 'right to engine' clause will still unsettle the new regulations Formula 1 announced for 2017-2020.
Tune in!
(Season 2016, Episode 14)
Tuesday, 3 May 2016
Russian Grand Prix review for Motor Verso - It couldn't happen, but it did...
Really, what are the chances?
We know what to associate with F1 in 2016 so far. Everything, somehow, going Nico Rosberg's way. His presumptive closest challengers all having something impede them, often early in proceedings.
And surely this one, round four in Russia, would be the scene of the return to normality? Perhaps even the start of the regression to the mean? Nope. In an extraordinary case of repetition we got loosely the same again in Sochi. The upshot is Nico now has four from four and the rest have a mountain to climb.
I give my take on it all in my latest Motor Verso race review. You can read it here:
http://www.motorverso.com/russian-gp-2016-review/
Do check out the Motor Verso site too; you'll find motoring news, car reviews and features - the team on the site carry out week-long test drives of the latest cars - as well as photos and videos of the machines.
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| Photo: Octane Photography |
And surely this one, round four in Russia, would be the scene of the return to normality? Perhaps even the start of the regression to the mean? Nope. In an extraordinary case of repetition we got loosely the same again in Sochi. The upshot is Nico now has four from four and the rest have a mountain to climb.
I give my take on it all in my latest Motor Verso race review. You can read it here:
http://www.motorverso.com/russian-gp-2016-review/
Do check out the Motor Verso site too; you'll find motoring news, car reviews and features - the team on the site carry out week-long test drives of the latest cars - as well as photos and videos of the machines.
Sunday, 1 May 2016
Russian GP Report: Everything's coming up Rosberg - again
That thing we all said couldn't happen, did happen. We couldn't have another weekend in which everything would fall for Nico Rosberg, giving him an open goal in which to drive the ball home with aplomb for victory. But that's what we got. Again. Four wins from four this campaign are his.
In the Russian Grand Prix today luck didn't turn; things didn't begin to regress to the mean. Yet it would be harsh in the extreme to say that has been the entire story. Yes Nico by his own admission has had the fortune so far in 2016, but that's hardly his fault, plus there is little to say that whatever the distribution of chance thus far Nico is at anything other than the top of his form right now. Fast, flawless, nailing things when it matters, that all continued in the Sochi weekend too. And perhaps to bring emphasis to that it's not all a matter of Goddess Fortune smiling his way, Rosberg set a fine fastest lap of more than a second under the track record on his penultimate tour, long after the important matter of 25 points was framed as coming his way. Now he has a seven up of consecutive wins - only the fourth in history to do so - and probably more important a ton up in points already.
Some four rounds in we still await our straightforward weekend where we get our close fight and measure of the lay of the competitive land between not only the two Mercedes but also between the Mercedes and the Ferrari. In these regards we're not much further forward than where we were in pre-season testing. Yet in the meantime Nico is making all of the hay he can as the sun shines upon him, and going a long way to building a title with it.
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| Once again it was Nico Rosberg smiling after this one Photo: Octane Photography |
Some four rounds in we still await our straightforward weekend where we get our close fight and measure of the lay of the competitive land between not only the two Mercedes but also between the Mercedes and the Ferrari. In these regards we're not much further forward than where we were in pre-season testing. Yet in the meantime Nico is making all of the hay he can as the sun shines upon him, and going a long way to building a title with it.
Friday, 29 April 2016
No Sochi qualifying report from me...
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| "A beautiful photo on a beautiful wedding" by 9eu.it - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/ wiki/File:A_beautiful_photo_on_a_beautiful _wedding.jpg#/media/File:A_beautiful _photo_on_a_beautiful_wedding.jpg |
I will be back in place for the Sochi race when normal service will resume!
Regards,
Graham
Wednesday, 27 April 2016
Inside Line F1 Podcast - Why Bernie Ecclestone Backs Donald Trump For President
We love Bernie Ecclestone, we do! F1's CEO loves to make controversial statements and we love to extract our pound of humour from those controversies. In this week's episode of the Inside Line F1 Podcast, Mithila and Kunal tell you why Bernie Ecclestone backs Donald Trump for President. And if you're a Hillary Clinton fan, we tell you why he wouldn't back her candidature.
But this episode isn't about Ecclestone alone, we talk about Filipinho Massa's victory over our favourite, Daniel Ricciardo. Massa Jr.'s celebration skills must be applauded - mark of a true champion. Did Felipe hire Max Verstappen's PR agency though to work on his son?
Should we undergo a rule change for 2017? Why is Mercedes resisting it and why is Red Bull Racing for it? Also, what should the rule changes be? We share our perspective and tell you why the teams will always differ in theirs from us fans.
Rio Haryanto seems to be running out of money. Is F1 in BIG trouble if pay drivers run out of money too? Btw, aren't the Indonesian Govt. doing a little too much to fund his race seat? It's a Manor, after all.
In this day and age of super hero movies, it comes as no surprise to us that Super Formula > Formula 1. And are the new-age 'rocket science' F1 cars no longer attractive for the upcoming drivers too?
Finally, will Lewis Hamilton win his third consecutive Russian Grand Prix OR will Nico Rosberg leave Russia with 100 points? And apart from Vladmir Putin, who else will join the Mercedes drivers on the podium?
Tune in! (Season 2016, Episode 13)
But this episode isn't about Ecclestone alone, we talk about Filipinho Massa's victory over our favourite, Daniel Ricciardo. Massa Jr.'s celebration skills must be applauded - mark of a true champion. Did Felipe hire Max Verstappen's PR agency though to work on his son?
Should we undergo a rule change for 2017? Why is Mercedes resisting it and why is Red Bull Racing for it? Also, what should the rule changes be? We share our perspective and tell you why the teams will always differ in theirs from us fans.
Rio Haryanto seems to be running out of money. Is F1 in BIG trouble if pay drivers run out of money too? Btw, aren't the Indonesian Govt. doing a little too much to fund his race seat? It's a Manor, after all.
In this day and age of super hero movies, it comes as no surprise to us that Super Formula > Formula 1. And are the new-age 'rocket science' F1 cars no longer attractive for the upcoming drivers too?
Finally, will Lewis Hamilton win his third consecutive Russian Grand Prix OR will Nico Rosberg leave Russia with 100 points? And apart from Vladmir Putin, who else will join the Mercedes drivers on the podium?
Tune in! (Season 2016, Episode 13)
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