This season looks set to go down as one of the most, if not the most unpredictable in Formula One history. Five different winners in the first five races and four different pole sitters (albeit aided by a Hamilton penalty) paints an intriguing picture of the 2012 season so far. The races are certainly entertaining to watch, but is it still F1?
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Forget the Ides of March, if you’re an F1 driver then May is the month you need to beware. Having looked through various motorsport publications over the course of the last fortnight, I’ve been struck by the number of greats who have met their maker in the month of May. I decided to investigate a little further and pick out several of note.
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The Spanish Grand Prix marks the start of European leg of the 2012 F1 season. After four long haul races, teams come to Spain relatively clueless as to the pecking order as the first four races has seen four different winners. The important point to note from the first four races is that no team has been able to dominate.
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With Sauber announcing the forthcoming promotion of Monisha Kaltenborn to the role of team principal, Claire Williams taking the post of marketing and communication director at Williams and Maria de Villota and Susie Wolff currently fulfilling test driving roles for Marussia and Williams respectively, it finally seems as though the fairer sex are getting a fairer shot in the world of F1. So where did this start and what does it hold for the future?
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Kimi Raikkonen - 2012 Formula One World Drivers’ Champion. That sentence would have raised more than a few eyebrows before the start of the season and probably even more after qualifying in Australia. All of a sudden though, it doesn’t seem quite such a far fetched statement.
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Sebastian Vettel has been F1’s fastest qualifier and racer consistently over the last two seasons. Two world championships, sixteen wins and twenty-two pole positions from thirty-eight races is how his 2010 and 2011 stacked up. Three races into 2012 and there is a rather different picture being painted.
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The race in Bahrain scheduled for 22nd April is once again in doubt. Protests and violence seem to be the order of the day in the region with people inside and outside the sport appearing to condemn the notion of going there for the sake of a motor race. Others though, are keen for the race to go ahead. What should Bernie do?
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Ah Ferrari. The name evokes images of fast cars, wealth, Italy and flair. Many of the greatest drivers have competed for the famous marque and the majority of aspiring and current F1 drivers would love to drive for them. Sergio Perez is certainly amongst them and definitely in with a shout of achieving that dream, but is it a wise move?
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When Fernando Alonso first drove for Renault, ITV did a feature on him which involved him doing card tricks. At the time, I thought it was a gimmick, a publicity stunt – make out he’s a pleasant, affable sort of a chap who you’d like to have at a dinner party doing tricks for your guests and sell some more cars along the way. It turns out, it wasn’t a publicity stunt at all. He really is a magician.
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Yes. Once again, Australia has proven to be a great venue for the first race of the year. We had some great action, drama (although not a lot right at the front) and we had a team-driver combination other than Sebastian Vettel and Red Bull leading the way…
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