There were some advantages to Qatar being too rough on the tyres, it did limit the amount of pitstop nonsense. It'd be nice if we could do that somewhere that wasn't so hot people were all but passing out ( Read more... )

We were right, the Singapore Grand Prix was a one-off and Red Bull business as usual has resumed. On the other hand, if we ignore Max Verstappen, there was some fun. Some of it was racing fun, and some of it was chaos fun, and a lot of it was inter-team battles fun, which is always one for the impish ( Read more... )

Most of the exclamation marks have been removed, but a few of them are unavoidable ( Read more... )

I am aware that the Belgian Grand Prix was some time ago. I have been busy (it's a very long story ( Read more... )

The good: Ignoring first place, there was racing all the way up and down the grid.

The bad: That Ferrari. Last year we had a car that went, and a strategy team that didn't. This year, the strategy team have reached the dizzying heights of not-actively-harming-the-team, but the car has no go. Given the other two Ferrari teams make up two of the ( Read more... )

Given orange is not one of Austria's national colours, there was a remarkable amount of it about at the Red Bull Ring ( Read more... )

For the Spanish Grand Prix, a combination of the hairdressers (qualifying) and some friends visiting (via phone because one of the caught COVID) prevented me from watching the latest episode of "A Comedy of Ferrari Errors ( Read more... )

I didn't get to see any of the Monaco Grand Prix because a friend took me to see Guardians of the Galaxy 3. Given this is the third time I've missed a grand prix this season because friends or family organised something at the same time, I'm starting to think they're trying to protect me from Ferrari's continued uselessness ( Read more... )

I don't have Sky Sports so I "watch" formula 1 on the radio. That means I do tend to snatch up any opportunity I can get to watch it on the screen ( Read more... )

I didn't have "the BBC radio commentary team writes Fernando Alonso/Taylor Swift RPF live on air" on my bingo card ( Read more... )