Behind The Headlines – Canada – Penalty or no penalty?

The story Canadian Grand Prix will be the battle between Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel. As they fought for the win Vettel forced Hamilton into a mistake or Vettel made a mistake, everyone will have a different interruption These are the facts – Vettel forced Hamilton to take avoiding action after running over the grass,

Behind The Headlines – Monaco – Danke Niki

This year’s Monaco Grand Prix was the race we were expecting Mercedes to face their biggest test of the season, we were wrong. Mercedes while winning their sixth race of the year appeared to have the edge throughout but failed to secure another one-two. We know that Monte Carlo was a race that Mercedes were

Behind The Headlines – Spain

Formula One returned to Europe for the last race which is always a key race for all the teams as they bring the first major upgrades of the season and where Ferrari was expected to kick start their season. However, the race was another Mercedes one-two the fifth of the season. As the weekend unfolded

Behind The Headlines – China

Shanghai was the 1,000th world championship Grand Prix, we wanted an epic fight as we saw at the 900th race where we saw action across the field. Going into the weekend we were saying Ferrari needed to step up and take the fight to Mercedes. However, it was a race where Mercedes came out the

Behind The Headlines – Bahrain

The Bahrain Grand Prix highlighted another twist in what is shaping up to be another epic season. It was a weekend where we saw Ferrari come back, but it wasn’t Sebastian Vettel emerging as the lead driver it was his young teammate Charles Leclerc. Leclerc had one of the best weekends in his career, he

Behind The Headlines – Australia

The season-opening race in Melbourne through up a number of surprises, we arrived thinking that it was that this was Ferrari’s race to lose. But like many, I was scratching my head throughout the weekend with what was going on at the leaders. After Friday’s practice sessions, I think we were all may be thinking

BEHIND THE HEADLINES – The half term report

Formula One heads off on its summer break now, with the championship fight proving closer between Sebastian Vettel and Lewis Hamilton, the remaining nine races will be pivotal in the ‘fight for five’ titles between the two greats of the current generation. Since Vettel won his first world championship and stole Hamilton’s title as the

Behind the headlines – The role and end of the gird girls

Liberty Media announced this week that the sport was banning the use of grid girls this season. The reason why they have done this is that they believe that “the practice is appropriate or relevant to Formula 1 and its fans, old and new, across the world.” I agree with Liberty, I do not see