Celebrating Five Glorious Years of Heikki Kovalainen: Formula 1 in 2012

That's some crazy bullshit!

Leave Austin alone, they know what they're charging.

Peter Windsor, the man who gave us 'USF1', says swearing is bad because something to do with America: http://en.espnf1.com/f1/motorsport/story/94656.html

USFU1, amirite

u rite

Vettel on pole again; Formula 1 press writes up twenty articles asking, "is Vettel really that good? Can't be as good as Alonso!"

148,000 people the first two days. Silverstone levels of attendance thus far.

pretty decent race so far.

Yeah really enjoying it. What was Vettel complaining about with that overtake?

I think he thought Hamilton was too close to his side? If so, it's because Vettel didn't give him enough space even though he was good and got via DRS.

great inaugural COTA race.

that is an excellent track imo. are there any upcoming races in other classes on it, le mans prototypes or something?

I believe the next race is MotoGP in April.

I really dug the COTA track too. Horner was saying it's obvious they'd intentionally stolen bits of other tracks, which sounds awful but it came together really well - it feels a bit like Interlagos and looks like great fun to drive. New tracks get a lot of complaints these days but most everyone seems well pleased.

It's totally Tilke's greatest hits - bit of Turkey, bit of that. But it looks like it'll be the best Tilke track for passing, at least.

also: V8 Supercars next year

I don't "get" that part of the marketing plan.

Not sure if I enjoyed the GP as much as everyone else did (well, until the podium ceremony), possibly because it was on at 6am on a Monday morning. As good as Lewis' stalking of Seb was, I preferred PASTOOOOR's barging past B. Senna. If that didn't bring a smile to the face of Sir Frank, nothing will.

Can't get too excited about Brazil either; I want Vettel to win because OL' HAIRY EYEBROWS but it would be something of an anti-climax, if you know what I mean.

!!! SUTIL MIGHT BE COMING BACK TO FORCE INDIA !!!

http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/forc_suti_vale_2011-1.jpg

He probably won't be able to get visas for several races so it seems a weird choice.

Charles Pic moves up to the dizzying heights of...Caterham?

McLaren lock out! Nicely done.

Poor Alonso :(

yeah but red bull have a special qualifying car that is highly illegal and that is making alonso look bad (just ask any internet f1 b0ard)

oh, please let it end this way.

This is nuts

absolutely goofy.

Dammit! It was so close. Alonso is champion in my book. There is no way that car is even close to the Red Bull and yet it's only a few points that separate them at the end of the season. Remarkable.

still remember alonso in qualifying for his debut GP, melbourne 2001 - one of my pals and I went along and got a good position in a braking area with some trees throwing shade, so you could see all the cars' brakes heat up. so you could tell really easily that alonso was going in metres later than everybody else in that piece of shit minardi!

Had to wait almost a day to watch this.

Bloody 'ell.

CRAZY RAIN RACE + OL' HAIRY EYEBROWS NOT WINNING + THE HULK LEADING SOME LAPS = PRETTY AWESOME

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u mad, marussia?

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/104598

lol butthurt

<3 interlagos, what a mental race

'PETROBRAS' is one of the most awkward brand names of all time, u feel me

360-degree video from a Red Bull test run

A friend of mine has to research how Formula 1 works (teams, money, development, etc) for his job. Anybody know of any good sites/books that might give a solid rundown?

I follow a lot of F1 stuff and the only people I've found so far who really work the financial side are Buxton and Saward. Saward in particular made it clear to me how the prize money is structured as an incentive and life support, ie the race for tenth place really is life or death for teams. You'll never hear anyone on TV actually talking in depth about money, sponsorship, etc and how it affects the sport - it's mentioned in passing.

The unapproved bio of Ecclestone is interesting not in that it demonstrates he's obnoxious (we all knew that) but how brilliant he is at a. structuring deals and b. playing the media.