Formula 1 BLOG

I have only one thing to say about the return of slick tires in F1. Yes!

It’s always seemed to me a bit odd to have such a single purpose machine as an F1 race car forced to run on grooved tires. Three cheers for the return of slick tires to F1.

Bring back slick tires, get rid of traction control and drivers aids, go back to manual shifting and then maybe we’ll be back to seeing who are the really skilled drivers.

It’s official. Fernando Alonso will be driving for Renault in 2008. Fernando seems pleased to be returning to his old team. I wonder how much of that is happy memories with his two back to back championships with the team?

If Renault is not competitive next year it will be interesting to see how far into the season we get before Alonso begins to whine about something?

If Renault doesn’t put a very competitive car on the track next season I think they are in for a world of grief.

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.