Ecclestone: F1 needs 1,000bhp V8 engines
Formula 1 boss Bernie Ecclestone has called for a return to V8 engine format with 1,000bhp. According to Gazzetta dello Sport via AUTOSPORT, the ringmaster of F1 says the series has to do something...
View ArticleThen and Now – Driver Concentration
When F1 racing started the only means of communication between the team and the driver was via the pit board. Messages were short and usually consisted of the lap number and the gap to the driver ahead...
View ArticleNico has one option regarding Hamilton
The makeup is flaking over at Mercedes now that the team has potential competition for the 2015 season. Last year, the debate was whether to allow their drivers to race each other as they had the rest...
View ArticleTiming is everything or is it luck – Maybe it’s both
Have you ever missed out on something that you really wanted through no fault of your own? Be it just missing the bus/metro or not able to make the green light because the person in front of you was...
View ArticleHamilton close to $40m deal, #LeBronsucks
According to the BBC’s effervescent Andrew Benson, Lewis Hamilton is close to inking his new contract with Mercedes in the neighborhood of $40m per year. That’s Alonso money right there but it isn’t...
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The problem with Formula 1
In five year’s time, we may look back on 2013-2015 as the beginning of the unraveling of Formula 1. Not in a dire sense of the word but in a pushpin on a timeline sort of way that signaled a major...
View ArticleBBC drops Clarkson from Top Gear
The bombshell has been delivered and so closes another chapter of Top Gear. The show existed before Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond but the big question might be, will it exist after?...
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Dear Starbucks, F1 needs to borrow #racetogether
There’s an old aphorism that goes something like this, the road to hell is paved with good intention. In this case, who can fault Starbucks for trying to be part of the solution over racial diversity...
View ArticleDo Mercedes customers get equal engines?
In a string of Mercedes/Hamilton fan-fueled diatribes castigating Red Bull’s Christian Horner for suggesting the FIA look to equalization of the grid, I find it interesting that these voices would...
View ArticleRed Bull threatens to quit…yeah, so did Mercedes
Well, here we go again. I see two arguments over very similar things. First Red Bull boss Christian Horner says the FIA might take a look at equalizing the grid just like they did to RBR, Ferrari,...
View ArticleHypocrisy of Horner, or Hamilton…you decide
Sure, the rhetoric is fun and the counterpoints can be emotionally stirring but Red Bull’s call for regulatory equalization is not something new—the question is, is it right? Red Bull’s Christian...
View ArticleBest Car Syndrome: Lewis isn’t that good
Now let me get this out of the way right up front—Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg are terrific drivers and in Lewis’s case, a deserved world champion. Got that? You see I’m not one of those Formula 1...
View ArticleWhat’s happened to Sauber?
I have always had a lot of time for Peter Sauber. The man has been in Formula 1 since the early 90’s and I have resonated with his spirit and approach to racing. He was an incubator for terrific driver...
View ArticleWhat F1 owes society, Todt’s crusade
Things may look set to change in Formula1 by 2017 but that isn’t to say that they will completely change. The hybrid engine will still be a large part of the format if FIA president Jean Todt has...
View ArticleDefending F1, it’s heading in the right direction
Editor’s Note: Occasionally we get a nice post for an editorial piece from some of our readers and we like to share those with you in a editorial feature we call marbles. FBC reader, Mr. Daniel...
View ArticleYou can count McLaren out…sadly
Well, if you were looking for the coming of a Mercedes-pummeling McLaren-Honda dynasty in 2015, you may as well just sit down and watch something else because you can consider the folks from Woking out...
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This is the real Joey Logano
Joey Logano walked into the Shell Innovation Track area behind his teammate Brad Keselowski. Dressed in a black pull-over and slacks, the NASCAR driver looked like any other young man walking the floor...
View ArticleIt’s the age of the engine again and no one cares
After the war—the second one to be specific—there was an age of re-start for motor sport and in particular grand prix racing. Men returned from the war and the machine that created wartime products was...
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Is it time for another anti-COTA story yet?
You can accuse me of not being sensitive to Austin civic leaders or taxpayers in the state of Texas but if I never read another hatchet piece calling into question and slating the Circuit of the...
View ArticleHonda ‘annoyed’ and damn well they should be!
According to the BBC’s unflappable Andrew Benson, McLaren-Honda have queried the FIA over the announcement this week that the teams were using a loophole in the regulations in order to develop their...
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