First up I’m English, in case you all didn’t already know that. So I should have been cheering all season for our new F1 Golden Boy but I haven’t really. I’m not a Ferrari fan either, but I do like Kimi. and Massa has done a good job of endearing himself to me too. Got [...]
The 2008 Formula 1 drivers’ Championship went down to the final two corners of the  final race in an unbelievable finish to the season. All Hamilton needed for the title was a fifth place or better. Massa needed to win to be in with his own chance. Massa crossed the line in first while Hamilton [...]
Lewis Hamilton took his Mclaren Mercedes to pole position in qualifying for the Chinese Formula One Grand Prix from Shanghai. Kimi Raikkonen will be parking his Ferrari next to him on the front row of the grid and Hamilton’s main competition for the Drivers’ Championship, Felipe Massa qualified third. Fernando Alonso, who won the last [...]
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Fernando Alonso returned to the top of the podium with Renault for the first time since winning the world championship a couple of years ago at the historic Singapore GP night race this weekend. The amazing track around the Marina Bay area of Singapore put 100,000 fans front row center for the Formula One spectacle [...]
History will be made this weekend with the first running of the Singapore Grand Prix. First up its Asia’s first GP on city streets, and secondly it’s a night race over five kilometers of those downtown roads. Pretty awesome. And speaking of awesome, check out this wicked video of Marc Webber with team mate Sebastien [...]
The story sounds familiar, Italian manufacturer with German driver wins Italian F1 Grand Prix at Monza. But the names are different—Scuderia Toro Rosso and Sebastian Vettel instead of the F car and the S man. It’s the first time an Italian manufacturer other than Ferrari has won the race since 1957. Impressive given the Minardi [...]
At a rain soaked Monza, Scuderia Toro Rosso’s Sebastian Vettel upset the order of all things Formula One by qualifying first for Sunday’s Italian Grand Prix. Vettel  also set the record as F1’s youngest ever pole sitter. More of an upset though was that Drivers’ Championship leader, Lewis Hamilton, didn’t make it into the third [...]
In what were probably the most exciting closing laps of a Grand Prix in recent Formula One history, Lewis Hamilton seized victory from Kimi Raikkonen only to be denied the top spot by race officials and relegated to third place. Raikkonen had taken the lead just moments from the start and held it for pretty [...]
On the fortieth anniversary of Bruce Maclaren’s first race for his eponymous team at Spa Francorchamps, when he qualified for pole position, Lewis Hamilton suitably repeated the performance today with what he described as a perfect lap. Sebastian Bourdais’ finally showed the speed expected as four time Champ Cars series (RIP) world champion with a [...]
We’re playing catch up on Tanner’s European vacation with Supercars Exposed after the Labor Day weekend, hence a couple of posts today. We’ll be back on the daily schedule tomorrow. After four days of playing with million dollar plus metal like the Pagani Zonda F and Lamborghini Reventon, Tanner’s producers bring him down to earth. [...]
