Category: Features

“The statistics, and the points, are on Button’s side, but the run of form is not.”

Forumula1.com’s Hugh Podmore asks whether Jenson Button has it in him to fend off Rubens Barrichello in the remaining four races.  Read more... (443 words, 1 image, estimated 1:46 mins reading time)

Button most deliver in Monza, writes Forumula1.com’s Hugh Podmore.

Jenson Button today qualified sixth on the grid for tomorrow’s Italian Grand Prix, knowing that with a relatively heavy car he stands a good chance of scoring points. The Brawn driver professed himself happy with the car, and although team-mate Rubens Barrichello out-qualified him by the smallest of margins, Button will be confident of overtaking him with a long first stint.  Read more... (393 words, 1 image, estimated 1:34 mins reading time)

Why Renault probe could mean unprecedented action from the FIA.

In the next few weeks the F1 world will discover if Renault fixed the result of the inaugural Singapore Grand Prix last season.  Read more... (531 words, 1 image, estimated 2:07 mins reading time)

An Italian, driving a Ferrari, at one of the great temples of motorsport. Forumula1.com’s Hugh Podmore pre-empts the only story that matters in Monza.  Read more... (785 words, 1 image, estimated 3:08 mins reading time)

Ferrari hopeful Giancarlo Fisichella will be wondering if he shouldn’t stay put at Force India in Monza after taking the fight to Ferrari and Kimi Raikkonen in Spa.

Forumula1.com’s Hugh Podmore looks back at the action from Sunday’s Belgian Grand Prix.  Read more... (710 words, 1 image, estimated 2:50 mins reading time)

Forumula1.com’s Hugh Podmore looks at the winners and losers from Saturday’s fraught qualifying session for the Belgian Grand Prix.

Giancarlo Fisichella took an unbelievable pole position for tomorrow’s Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps today. The Force India man had been quietly confident prior to the sessions, during all three of which he was very fast. But to see Force India take their unprecedented pole position was further testament to the unpredictable nature of the Ardennes track.  Read more... (545 words, 1 image, estimated 2:11 mins reading time)

This week the F1 circus arrived in the Ardennes forest, to race their motor cars on one of the most glorious and historic stretches of tarmac on the earth, but who stands the best chance of dominating the great Spa track, quite possibly in the rain?  Read more... (372 words, 1 image, estimated 1:29 mins reading time)

“In all truth, Hamilton would have struggled to contain Barrichello even without McLaren’s pitlane mistake.”

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The spectre of a Spanish F1 race without Fernando Alonso disappeared yesterday as Renault were re-admitted to the European Grand Prix. The Anglo-French team’s appeal against the ban levied by stewards at last month’s Hungarian Grand Prix was successful. But the fact that the ban was issued in the first place, and the brace of serious accidents in motorsport recently, raise all sorts of questions about safety in open-cockpit motorsport.  Read more... (552 words, estimated 2:12 mins reading time)

FIA Presidential candidate, Jean Todt, today delivered an election manifesto which pushes for change throughout the governing body. However, as Forumula1.com’s Ewan Marshall reveals, change could come at a high price for Formula One.  Read more... (1037 words, estimated 4:09 mins reading time)