March 21st – birthday of one of the greatest Formula 1 drivers of all time: Ayrton Senna. In this post we will be looking back at the career of Senna, asking why was he so great, and rewriting some of the classic quotes spoken by the Brazilian, who would have been 50 today. Senna remains [...]

The historic Lotus name is back in F1 for the first time since 1994, but can they live up to the expectation?

Ronnie Peterson was born on February 14th 1944 in Orebro, Sweden. Petersoninherited the racing enthusiasm of his father, Bengt who made a living as a baker, but was an avid driver. In 1962 Peterson started racing karts, and rapidly reached the pinnacle of European karting. By 1966 Peterson had made his Formula 3 debut, in a Brabham-derived car [...]

Lotus have today launched their 2010 challenger – the Lotus Cosworth T127 at the Royal Horticultural Hall in London. Team Principal Tony Fernandes was joined with drivers Jarno Trulli, Heikki Kovalainen and Fairuz Fauzy to take the wraps off the car in front of a 500 strong live audience. Fernandes said: “I am extremely proud [...]

We are set for another quiet day in F1, but the Force India launch is tomorrow. Links The Bull Run is GO GO GO! Tommy B’s excellent Toro Rosso blog, Forza Toro Rosso has become The Bull Run, as it moves to focus more on both of the Red Bull sister teams: “After much deliberation, [...]

The 2010 season has been kicked off with Ferrari’s F10 being unveiled. There has been a lot of talk about design but also the livery which looks good but frankly it could be mistaken for Team Santander now. Liveries are always a big focus for fans and can repulse us or make us fall in [...]

It has been a busy day in regards to car launch announcements – here are the dates you need to add to your diary: McLaren will launch it’s 2010 MP4-25 on January 29th. Toro Rosso will not have a car launch. Renault will launch their car on the 31st of January – the same day [...]

Lotus have said that their 2010 car will debut next month at the Jerez test in mid February. With Jarno Trulli and Heikki Kovalainen driving for the team with Fairuz Fauzy at the test driver, Lotus is currently based in Norfolk, although a second facility based at Kuala Lumpur’s Sepang circuit is also set to [...]

The plans for all 2010 teams to launch their cars at the same time in a common launch have been scrapped. The issues with the possible joint launch due to be held in Valencia next month were that it was thought that certain teams would get more coverage than others, and some teams like Lotus [...]

…was the headline on the official website of the new Lotus F1 team in reaction to the challenge that has been accepted by team boss Tony Fernandes after Sir Richard Branson of Virgin Racing said that the loser in the Formula 1 stakes has to dress up as an airline stewardess on the winner’s airline [...]