F1 BLOG

Ron Dennis of McLaren has confirmed that he and Fernando Alonso are not speaking. It looks like it all stems from a heated discussion where Alonso said he had info that could hurt McLaren and if he didn’t get treated as the top driver then maybe he would use it to hurt the team.

Ron says that Alonso later retracted this threat but from what I can see in the end it was the Alonso emails that cost the McLaren team all it’s points this year and also cost them $100 Million dollars.

It’s looking more and more to me like Fernando Alonso can’t quite deal with the fact that his team mate Lewis Hamilton may be new to F1 but has a level of skill so high that McLaren can’t legitimately put one driver before the other.

If Alonso can’t deal with both drivers being treated equally and has to resort to childish tantrums then perhaps he needs to go join a team like spyker where he can be clearly the number one driver.

I thought it was time to post a few more nice F1 photographs. I’ve hunted through my collection and come up with these five excellent F1 photos.

First we have Ayrton Senna in Brazil in 1994.

Next we have Damon Hill and Michael Shumacher swapping some paint.

Next up we have some very hot brakes on an F1 car…

For my forth selection we have a nice pic of Heikki Kovalainen crusing around the track…

And finally we have Jenson Button showing off his motoring skills.

And thats it for this installment. I hope you enjoy them.

I thought I would put together a little “Ferrari F1″ photo collection for you all to enjoy. I’ve always loved to see how the cars have evolved over the years and how the sport has changed.

Let’s start with the beautiful 1964 Ferrari F1 Car. Not much in the way of wings!

Next We have a nice shot of a 1968 Ferrari F1 car in the rain. I wish they let us get this close to the action these days…

Up next is this huge collection of Ferrari History all neatly arranged on track

Wouldn’t you just love to have all those in your garage.

Next is a pair of Ferrari F1 engines on display to show off the beautiful engineering.

Next up we have a great shot of another Ferrari F1 car in the rain, this time being driven by Kimi

Here is a nice little shot of the Ferrari F1 Paddock as they start to prepare for the weekend ahead.

And finally a look at the amazing complexity of a modern Ferrari F1 Steering wheel.

I hope you enjoyed this little collection. If you did let me know and I’ll put together more of this type of post.

Sebastien Bourdais will be driving for F1 team Scuderia Toro Rosso in 2008. The three time champ car champion will be moving to Formula one.

Sebastien has been trying to break into Formula One for some time now and it looked as though that dream was never going to come true for the frustrated driver.

Bourdais will be driving for Toro Rosso with Sebastien Vettel as his team mate. It will be interesting to see how the french man does in the unique world of F1 Grand Prix.

ITV is reporting that their viewership for the end of the last F1 race hit 4.7 Million viewers. This figure means that 48 Percent of the entire available viewing audience was watching Lewis Hamilton race.

This is a staggering number and really shows how Lewis Hamilton has pulled in the U.K. fans. While there seems to be no shortage of opinion on how good or evil Lewis Hamilton is, no one can deny that he has done wonders for the sport/business of F1 in England.

Now if only we could find another great Canadian driver …