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Book Review: How to Build a Car
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Eight years ago, Adrian Newey published a book called How to Build a Car. This was after he had designed eleven championship-winning Formula 1 cars from the most recent 26 seasons, and before adding another four in the intervening years. After much badgering from a relative, this author finally got down to reading Newey’s…
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Gloria Garantita
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We are a little more than a week away from Sir Lewis Hamilton entering his first Grand Prix as a driver of the famous Scuderia Ferrari. The Italian team signed the seven-time world’s champion to a multi-year contract at the start of 2024, finishing his long run with Mercedes. He becomes the fifth former…
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Formula 1.0 – You Can (Not) Have a Championship Battle
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The season finale of the 2023 Stock Car Pro Series advertised itself by proudly announcing that there were no less than seven title contenders battling for the premier Brazilian motorsport title. That sounds intriguing, right? Only one minor issue with the claim: based on the points standings heading into the Super Final, it would…
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GPR Awards – 2023 Brazilian Grand Prix
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For the twentieth time, Formula 1 held a Grand Prix in 2023, and for the 17th time Max Verstappen won one. Over two seasons he has already overtaken both Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost’s win tallies, and if he keeps it up through to Abu Dhabi, he will beat Sebastian Vettel too. Despite a…
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GPR Awards – 2023 Formula 1 Dutch Grand Prix
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As Max Verstappen equalled the Ascari/Vettel record for consecutive wins, it seemed on Sunday evening at Zandvoort that nothing, not even the weather, could stop the Dutchman taking a clean sweep for the rest of the year. However, with changeable conditions came rejectdom from a few likely, and unlikely, places. For a disasterclass performance…
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Teammate Collision #13: Teammate Collisions!
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Welcome back to the Teammate Collision podcast, where this time we shock the universe by actually talking about Teammate Collisions! After FOM’s recent video detailing their own personal favourites from the vault, we thought it best to take a look at them ourselves and give some arbitrary ratings, because why not! Of course, Lennart…
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Teammate Collision #11: 2009 Reject Re-Appraisal
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Welcome back to the most insightful and mind-blowing social event since someone decided to have a conversation with another person: it’s the Teammate Collision podcast! This time we are turning our attention six years ahead of the past, still in the past, but only 14 years before the present. We shall give our full…
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2022 Season Review
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Overview 2022 was a long year to be a Formula 1 fan. When the excitement of the Max Verstappen-Lewis Hamilton duel ended in such controversy the year before, it seemed a little inevitable that the new year would be a continuation of the old. With 22 races and three sprint not-races, we were looking…
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GPR Awards – 2022 Formula 1 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix
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The final race of 2022’s Formula One season had us saying farewell to a great many drivers, some of whom we will miss and others of whom we have already forgotten. While the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix was its usual plodding self, it at least highlighted exactly who we might miss and who we…
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Teammate Collision Episode #8: Reject of the Year 2022
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Welcome back, for the final time of 2022, to Teammate Collision! In this season-end episode, Lennart and Jeremy go through every driver and team and their performances – it’s as simple as that. We have our own reject of the year podiums and we most certainly delve into those, while throwing out predictions and…
A tribute to the heroic failures of Grand Prix racing