Formula 1 CFA Comments
2014 Belgian GP - QF
by Cato Batista, 23/08/2014 17:31:29
Ladies and Gentlemen,
The Mercedes boys split the lead on Friday’s sessions with Nico ahead in the first by 9 hundredths and Lewis reversing the order in the much faster second practice by a huge 0.6 seconds margin ahead of Nico. Ferrari showed up with many aero-revisions and an increment of 18hp on engine power moving ALO as the best of the rest in 3rd on both sessions. With its long straights (4 km out of the 7 km-lap) Spa was supposed to be WIlliams territory, but as is the story lately ALO shines in the FP sessions as MAS & BOT are nowhere, but then QF and Race comes and the white cars are flying. BUT’s McLaren is looking strong too as the teams with Mercedes power are taking their extra HP to good use. Not the case for Renault engines of course, RIC couldn’t get any higher than 8th (FP2) and VET had yet another failure that required and engine replacement, something that take 4 ...
2014 Begian GP - Preview by Cato Batista, 21/08/2014 19:17:19 Ladies and Gentlemen, The weekend we had been waiting for a long time is finally here. We are back in racing mode for the 11th round in arguably the greatest track of them all, Spa Francorchamps for the Belgian GP. Most relevant news in the last 4 weeks comes from the driver’s market, and if there are not big changes so far from the top team lineups the first surprise comes from Red Bull’s junior team Toro Rosso announcing they will replace Jean-Eric Vergne with 17-year old Dutch Max Verstappen. The news raised eyebrows not only for his youth but for his limited racing experience. The son of Jos Verstappen won the Kart-World Championship in 2013 and is now competing in Formula 3. That’s it. Those in the know say they had never seen a talent like him, his car control and maturity way beyond his years, but they say the same about his dad about 18 years ago. He will be of course the ...
2014 Hugarian GP - Race by Cato Batista, 26/07/2014 23:45:02 Ladies and Gentlemen, Mercedes had one car at the front and the other burned up. HAM was in control in every session until the first lap of Q1 when his ‘W05 Hybrid’ went up in flames. A passing shower made Q3 very tricky (MAG* crashed out) leaving only the drying last moments of the session to clock a fast lap. VET confirmed his ‘best of the rest’ status but WIlliams found a lot of speed as the surface gained grip to get the always improving BOT to split the Toro Rosso. A monumental bad call by Ferrari left RAI without making it to Q2, he’ll start 17th. Kimi was furious: “I questioned it but cannot go against ...
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