The Belgian Grand Prix, or otherwise formally referred to as the ‘2011 Formula 1 Shell Belgian Grand Prix’ took place on 28th August 2011. It was set at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps in Spa, Belgium. It is the twelfth round of the Formula 1 season and is the sixty-sixth Formula 1 event held in Belgium. This week Sebastien Vettel brought victory to the company Red Bull once again after losing the title for a few Read more…

  Otherwise referred to as the XXVII Eni Magyar Nagtdij, the 2011 Hungarian Grand Prix took place yesterday (31/07/2011) at the Hungaroring, a racing circuit near Budapest. It consisted of seventy laps and was won anomalously by Jenson Button after he started from third grid and managed to push his way through fellow competitors Sebastian Vettel (who started from pole position and came second in the race) and past winner Fernando Alonso, who one third Read more…

The 2011 German Grand Prix, or otherwise more formally known and referred to as the Formula 1 Gober Preis Santander von Deutschland 2011, was held yesterday (24th July). Being the tenth fragment of the competition itself, it consisted of over sixty laps and was won by Lewis Hamilton (who started in the second grid). In second place was fellow previous winner Fernando Alonso and proceeding his place in third was Mark Webber – who began Read more…

On (a very rainy) Sunday (July 10th) Sebastian Vettel lost the top of the lead in the championships for the Grand Prix. This week the race took place in Silverstone, Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire, in Britain and the race was explosive and thrilling. The reason the race was technically set in two places was due to the fact that the start-finish line differed from one another, thus the classifications of their geographical location were changed.  It Read more…

This year’s 2011 European Grand Prix was held in the Valencia Street Circuit in Spain. Sebastien Vettel rather unsurprisingly won the championship by starting in the first position and continued to beat Fernando Alonso and Mark Webber until the very end (with them coming second and third, respectively).   It doesn’t need to be said but Vettel has proven to be incredible this year. With Alonso being an entire ten seconds behind; he showed to Read more…

  With racers gearing up for the next race in sunny Spain, who will take first place this time. With Sebastian Vettel leading a full 44 points ahead of Lewis Hamilton, the other drivers need to prove their worth by overtaking him. Mark Webber is one of the other drivers with a chance of gaining a few more point to match Vettel, or come a very close second. Would the race in Spain be more Read more…

With 4 races of the 2011 Grand Prix down, Sebastian Vettel has taken the lead once again. Vettel completed the race in 1 hour and 30 minutes, making this his second fastest race. Mark Webber and Fernando Alonso followed in 2nd and 3rd place. Lewis Hamilton came in 4h place, a full 40 seconds after Sebastian Vettel. Fernando Alonso made a statement about the new drag-reduction system, introduced this year, the DRS system can aid Read more…

On the 8th April, the tarmac of the Sepang International Circuit will tell the positions of the racers, as they practice racing around the 5.543 km track. Back in 2004 a racer by the name of Juan Pablo Montoya finished a lap in a record time of 1.34.223, will anybody beat this record only time will tell. Will Sebastian Vettel manage to stay in the lead, or will Lewis Hamilton manage to overtake him during Read more…

After 3 days of intense racing, Sebastian Vettel was first to cross the finish line. Close behind him was Lewis Hamilton finishing 22 seconds after Vettel. Vitaly Petrov, Fernando Alonso and Mark Webber finished in the top 5. Rubens Barrichello, Nico Rosberg, Heikki Kovalainen, Michael Schumacher and Pastor Maldonado, were all retired. Sergio Perez and Kamui Kobayashi who would have finished in 7th and 8th, but were disqualified for rear wing infringements, the modifications added Read more…

Just before Christmas the governing body of motorsport, the FIA, announced a raft of changes to the rules for Formula One racing. For a start, this year the controversial rule about ‘no team orders’ is being dropped. The rule meant that a team couldn’t tell a driver to let his team-mate past and Ferrari were fined this year for doing so with Felipe Massa and Fernando Alonso at the German Grand Prix when Massa’s race Read more…