Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso vanquished the opposition at the Spanish Grand Prix at the Circuit de Catalunya yesterday. Hugh Podmore looks at the biggest stories from the weekend’s action.
McLaren Win Prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise
McLaren Electronic Systems (MESL), part of the McLaren Group, have won the prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise for achievement in international trade.
The company previously won a Queen’s Award in 2009, then a recognition for its innovation in, and development of, leading-edge control and data systems.
Bahrain GP shows racing is back on the agenda
Following last week’s Chinese Grand Prix, a busload of F1 people, fans and otherwise, could be heard on Twitter bemoaning the oddly neutered racing in that race. Mea culpa here – this column also contributed to that racket. But a few things in yesterday’s Bahrain Grand Prix restored the post-2010 consensus that wheel-to-wheel action is good.
Notes between China and Bahrain 2013
Midweek between the back-to-back grands prix of China and Bahrain, 2013, and much to discuss. Here forumula1.com’s Hugh Podmore presents a run-down of the noteworthy news in F1 as it stands.
