Piling on Max

Max is starting to feel the heat of the stakeholders in F1. You would expect Jackie Stewart to jump on this, and Niki Lauda never missed a chance to talk to the press, but I thought John Watson’s comments comparing him to Robert Mugabe were spot on and caught the real point: Max can fight [...]

Massa Wins In Bahrain

Massa took a well deserved win today. He drove a pretty smooth race and didn’t really put a wheel wrong more than a couple times. His pit strategy seemed designed to prevent a repeat of what happened in Malaysia. With all the Ferrari folks and even Schumi saying Massa was OK, you knew they would [...]

Pole Position

OK, so everyone and their brother has wanted to get their pun in when Pole Robert Kubica finally got a pole position. Because it was only a matter of time. Kubica has been fast since he got in the car, he doesn’t make many mistakes and he doesn’t moan to the press. The way he [...]

What is it with the FIA Presidency?

 
So, now that the claims are starting that Mad Max is the subject of witch hunt, I seem to recall some witch hunting in the way that Max got to be president in the first place, so I did some research on Jean-Marie Balestre, the last FIA president. And what do I find? A background [...]

Lack of Traction

So, the Mad Mod recently told us that Lewis doesn’t make mistakes. But he did at the second practice session at Bahrain earlier today. I must admit I like the new rules re: traction control. Bahrain is notoriously slippery with lots of sand on the track and Bernie is right, Hamilton does not make many [...]

Max The Swinger

Well, we all knew Max was a little different. And now that we know the boundaries of Max’s judgement, I find myself on the edge of my seat to see how he deals with this latest crisis. Step 1: call an emergency meeting of the FIA council. It would seem that Max is prepared to [...]