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With so much media attention prior to the Singapore Grand Prix there was some apprehension about whether or not the first Formula 1 night race would live up to all the hype. After the processional Valencian Grand Prix a few weeks ago there were fears that the Marina Bay circuit…
Grand Prix Special
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Sep 29 2008
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Sep 15 2008
Grand Prix Special – Italy, by Nigel Roebuck
Twenty years after winning the Italian Grand Prix in a Ferrari, Gerhard Berger was back on the Monza podium on Sunday, but this time as the very proud co-owner of the Toro Rosso team, for at just 21 years and 74 days, Sebastian Vettel had made history by becoming the…
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Sep 8 2008
Grand Prix Special – Spa-Francorchamps, Nigel Roebuck
Let us begin with a simple fact – a simple fact this particular week, anyway. The penalty for almost causing a collision in the pitlane is a drive-through penalty. This we know because Bruno Senna was thus punished in Saturday’s GP2 race at Spa, and it cost him the race.
In…
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Aug 26 2008
Grand Prix Special – Valencia, Nigel Roebuck
In Budapest Felipe Massa lost what would have been a dominant victory when his engine let go with three laps to go, and when Kimi Raikkonen’s car smokily expired in the late stages at Valencia, all sorts of thoughts must have gone through Felipe’s mind. As it was, though, his…
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Aug 4 2008
Grand Prix Special, Hungary
After the excitements of the British and German Grands Prix, the Hungarian GP got off to a comparatively sedate start. Indeed a very quiet start when you look back to this time last year when Alonso decided he had had enough of the way McLaren was treating him and went…
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Jul 21 2008
German Grand Prix, by Nigel Roebuck
To some degree, it was a risky strategy, but in the end it worked out to perfection, and Lewis Hamilton won the German Grand Prix, thus becoming the first driver to win two on the trot in 2008.
“I’d have preferred it to be straightforward,” Hamilton smiled afterwards, “but it didn’t…
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Jul 7 2008
Grand Prix Special – Britain, by Nigel Roebuck
As Lewis Hamilton went out for his final qualifying run at Silverstone, the message over the radio was firm: ‘Don’t over-drive!’
On his previous run he had done just that, and had run off the road, and into a spin. The lurid tail-out style was wonderful to watch, but Lewis looked…
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Jun 23 2008
Grand Prix Special - France, by Nigel Roebuck
The French Grand Prix produced a Ferrari 1-2, but not in the order we expected. Until a broken exhaust slowed him, Kimi Raikkonen was comfortably in command, but just after half-distance he found himself down on power, and was obliged to let Felipe Massa through.
“Disappointing, of course,” said Raikkonen. “I…
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Jun 9 2008
Grand Prix Special – Canada, by Nigel Roebuck
A Grand Prix victory for BMW, and for Robert Kubica, had been coming a while, and in Montreal – the scene of Kubica’s horrific accident 12 months ago – it duly did. “We certainly didn’t have the quickest car,” Kubica said. “In fact, in competitive terms, this wasn’t our strongest…
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Jun 8 2008
Canadian Grand Prix, Qualifying
Lewis Hamilton looked like he had pole in the bag, but near the end of Q3 Raikkonen went one better, nudging the Briton off the top spot. Soon afterwards Kubica did exactly the same to the Finn and Hamilton dropped to third.
Having been called in and given some fresh rubber,…
