Gold beats Silver to Germany win as Vettel and Lotus fill the podium, Mercedes overcome Hungary heat, Mr Blonde / Goldfinger thrashes the field in Belgium

After the tyre problems at Silverstone, Pirelli gave the teams a different specification of tyre for the German GP only, with a view to 2012 construction and 2013 performance from Hungary onwards. Whether the tyres could hold on or not was the big question on everyone's mind, along with the relative performance changes for each team. From practice it seemed that Mercedes could have trouble coping with the heatwave at the Nurburgring, but McLaren appeared to have moved forward and Force...

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2013 British GP: Testing Times for (Pirelli) Tyres

After the tragic events both in and out of Formula 1 (the deaths of Mark Robinson and several drivers since the Canadian GP finished), the teams set up at Silverstone (although Force India are just across the road so it wasn't exactly difficult for them!). On Thursday it was announced that after months of speculation, Mark Webber would be leaving F1 at the end of 2013 to drive for Porsche in their 2014 World Endurance team. It was later confirmed that Kimi Raikkonen, Jean Eric Vergne...

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Round up and 2013 British GP Preview

Since the last post, we have seen a number of events take place. In the non-F1 motorsport category we had the BTCC both at Oulton Park (dry on the whole) and then Croft Circuit (dry to start but got very wet by the end), MotoGP (Lorenzo extended his win streak) and the 24 Hours of Le Mans, which tragically saw Allan Simonsen of Denmark die as a result of his injuries sustained in the first 10 minutes of the race. Coincidentally, the Number 2 Audi, driven by former F1 driver Allan McNish,...

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Formula 1 in 2013 so far

After a two year gap, I have decided that now is the time to resume blogging (even though I'd barely started last time!). A lot has happened in that time: Sebastian Vettel has become a Triple World Champion, Kimi Raikkonen has returned, Michael Schumacher has retired again (collecting just one podium in three years), Fernando Alonso suffered another marginal defeat in 2012 and Lewis Hamilton is no longer with McLaren. And BBC no longer has the UK television coverage to itself, until 2018...

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