I had fully intended to blog the all-singing all-dancing brand new qualifying format yesterday but I was a broken woman by the end of it. No one seemed to know if they were coming or going. Flying laps were aborted because drivers couldn’t beat the 90 second countdown and the only action in the second…
Season Preview: A New Hope
Four years ago I started blogging about Formula 1. As seasons go, I could hardly have picked a better year than the electrifying and wildly unpredictable 2012 season. Give or take the odd instantly forgettable race (I’m still mentally scarred from my attempts to blog any of the Indian Grand Prix races), I kept the…
Bahrain Grand Prix – The Race
Back in my angst-heavy teenage years (think Morrissey, long cardigans, Doc Martens, cider and a lot of Deep Meaningful Conversations because that’s how we rolled back in 1991) I had a diary (remember those?) with a logo saying “stop the world I want to get off”. Because clearly life was an exhausting place for a…
Bahrain Grand Prix – Qualifying
These races are coming pretty thick and fast. Apologies for being off radar last weekend for the Chinese Grand Prix. We had a last minute Easter break away and had no way of watching the race. While I was a little dismayed, the husband was almost inconsolable at missing The Big Football Manchester Derby. Holidays…
Malaysian Grand Prix – The Race
Straight in to #MartinsGridWalk (because there is a LOT to get through) and first up its Mr Jenson Button. He outqualified his new team-mate Alonso (who has returned to F1 racing after his slightly mysterious absence) yesterday and thinks they will be more competitive today. Admittedly that means the cars are still rubbish but a…
Australian GP – The Race
Not that I’m binging or anything on F1 but I’m currently on my third programme of Sky’s Australian Grand Prix coverage (Track Parade, Pit Lane Live and Live Australian Grand Prix – any more shows and we’ll have Live Start, Live First Pitstop and then where will we all be?!). Well it is Mother’s Day…
Australian GP – Qualifying
This is probably my favourite qualifying of the whole season (with Monaco a very, very close second). Why? The obvious answer really. Because after months of top secret car development, behind the scenes testing, official testing and posturing from the teams, it is finally time for the drivers to drop their trousers and show what…
The Curious Incident of the McLaren Driver in Barcelona
When the cars all line up on the grid for the first race of the season in Melbourne this coming Sunday, there will be one very notable driver missing. Fernando Alonso has been withdrawn from the Australian Grand Prix on medical grounds following his crash on the last day of the second test in Barcelona….
Testing #1 – More than smoke and mirrors?
How is it February already? Admittedly it has felt like a Narnia-length winter so far and I have taken to scrolling back through Instagram to find photos of happier, sunnier times when I wasn’t a walking advert for North Face/Michelin/auditioning to join the cast of Fortitude [delete as appropriate]. And then, all of a sudden, a…
Abu Dhabi Grand Prix – The Season Finale
I have been a bad bad blogger. Completely failed to blog about the Russian, US and Brazilian races. Actually I did write a blog for the Russian Grand Prix then never got round to posting it. How rubbish is that? I never got to see the US GP as we were on holiday livin’ la…
Japanese Grand Prix – The Race
A dark day for F1 I debated long and hard whether to still post this blog after Jules Bianchi’s terrible accident near the end of the Japanese Grand Prix but whatever happens (and we pray that Jules makes a full recovery) a motor race did take place, there was a winner, a 1-2-3 and points…
Singapore Grand Prix – Preview
Act III, Opening Scene – Downtown Singapore All of a sudden we are down to just 6 races. We are reaching the end-game. The globetrotting denouement to this fiercely contested and impossibly hard to call season will get underway in Singapore this weekend. In recent seasons this has normally heralded a run of horrifically dull,…
A Dash of Eau Rouge 