Singapore GP 2016 -Preview
by Cato Batista, 17/09/2016 22:49:05
Ladies and Gentlemen,
The Singapore GP is coming up this weekend, 15th round of the season at the Marina Bay Circuit of the island-country. And this is one spectacular venue, gaining since its inaugural 2008
debut a reputation for being the toughest challenge in Formula 1. Raced under the floodlights, it’s a test of endurance with its 24 tight corners and very high humidity and temperatures.
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Italian GP 2016 - results - high risk, big reward for Alberto
by Cato Batista, 17/09/2016 22:48:23
Ladies and Gentlemen,
The race was decided at the start: HAM bogged off line handling a comfortable win to ROS. Not much to report after that. Ferrari settled for 3rd & 4th, RIC chased and passed BOT for 5th. VER didn’t get in trouble this time, he had a bad start too but had no problem recovering to finish in front of the under-performing Force Indias just outside the CFA points.
Only one of us took a chance reversing the expected Silver Arrows 1-2 order and he was ...
Italian GP 2016 - Race by Cato Batista, 17/09/2016 22:46:50 Ladies and Gentlemen, Without any competition, the pole for the Italian GP was a private duel between the Mercedes duo, with HAM the very dominant side. He’s got now 5 Monza poles tying Fangio’s and Senna’s record. Ferrari was unchallenged for the second row, but the red cars are half a second away from the silver ones. BOT was impressive in the Williams beating RIC for 5th by one thousandth of a second, then came VER’s Red Bull only 22 hundredths behind. The Force India duo came next but they both are very unhappy with the car balance. Pirelli has allowed ...
Italian GP 2016 - QF by Cato Batista, 02/09/2016 18:52:07 Ladies and Gentlemen, Mercedes appears very dominant, more so than usual, but Ferrari introduced a new spec engine using all their last remaining 3-development tokens and they are closing in the silver machines. Both Seb and Kimi are now into their 5th and last engine for the season. Pirelli is confident the super-soft compound will have a much longer life than in Spa, and Mercedes so far was able to do 20-lap race simulations in the red tyres. The fastest laps today were set in the super-softs (about 1.1 secs faster than the soft) except in FP1 where Mercedes was around 1 second quickest that the rest in the yellow-soft, such is their superiority. Ferrari ...