If you have read my post-race analysis of the Grands Prix, you will see me going on about drivers and teams fighting for the ‘Best of the Rest’ title, which is essentially a fight for the best team and driver, minus the ‘big four’ of McLaren, Mercedes, Ferrari and Red Bull. This was just a [...]

The Bahrain Grand Prix has been dominated by Ferrari, but in this post I take a closer look at who’s hot, and who’s not. Ferrari Fernando Alonso, P1 Felipe Massa, P2 Fernando Alonso got his Ferrari career off to a flying start with a win on his debut. The Spaniard passed his teammate Felipe Massa [...]

Ferrari finishing a race in a 1-2 position may not be that shocking to many but after last year it is a staggering achievement which must be appreciated-and it wasn’t that easy for the team. The squad had to start from scratch when it became clear that last year’s car was fundamentally flawed. It was [...]

Ferrari have taken a 1-2 in Bahrain, with Fernando Alonso winning his first Grand Prix in nearly 20 starts, and Felipe Massa taking 2nd in his first Grand Prix since suffering a life-threatening injury during qualifying for the Hungarian Grand Prix. Lap 1 saw Sebastian Vettel getting cleanly away from his pole position grid slot, [...]

Bahrain Grand Prix 2010

Both Ferrari’s of Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa will have new engines ahead of the Bahrain Grand Prix. Felipe Massa, who qualified 2nd, has had his engine he used up to qualifying yesterday replaced as a completely precautionary step, as it is showing abnormal parameters. Similar abnormalities showed up in 3rd place qualifier Fernando Alonso’s Ferrari Type [...]

Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel will start on pole position for the Bahrain Grand Prix tomorrow, ahead of the two Ferrari drivers, Felipe Massa and Fernando Alonso, who qualified 2nd and 3rd respectively. Vettel’s final qualifying lap was a 1:54.101, snatching pole position. Felipe Massa was 2nd in his first qualifying session since last season at [...]

Bahrain Grand Prix 2010 – Qualifying

Nico Rosberg set the fastest lap on Friday Practice 2 in Bahrain, beating Lewis Hamilton and Michael Schumacher who were 2nd and 3rd respectively. As with in Friday practice 1, Karun Chandhok got no running in the HRT due to technical issues, and therefore does not feature in my graphs below. Neither does Toro Rosso’s [...]

Adrian Sutil set the fastest lap in Friday Practice 1. Fernando Alonso was second in the Ferrari and Robert Kubica third. HRT failed to get Karun Chandhok’s car running, meaning he didn’t set a time in FP1. Bruno Senna and Lucas di Grassi both failed to set hot laps. None of these three drivers therefore [...]