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GP Turkey

Yesterday's inaugural race in Turkey was an entertaining event. Lots of little dramas, more overtaking than usual - it made for a typical "He who is without problems, wins" race. Interesting to see that the between their two cars, Williams collected four damaged tyres, all of them the right...

Posted to Life, Universe And Everything According To Dirk (Weblog) by Dirk on 08-22-2005
GP Hungary

Yesterday's race wasn't too bad - for a Hungarian GP, that is. I'd have thought that the only interesting bit would be to see how many (or rather how few) Michael Schumacher would manage to stay out. I suspected he was very light. Turns out he wasn't that light after all, so he really...

Posted to Life, Universe And Everything According To Dirk (Weblog) by Dirk on 08-01-2005
It wasn't me, teacher, they are the culprits!

Is what basically everybody is saying about the Formula 1 Indy fiasco. The meanings of "me" and "they" are of course dependent on just who is speaking at any given moment. Come on, people! Can we please stop laying and fending off blame and start taking constructive measures to ensure...

Posted to Life, Universe And Everything According To Dirk (Weblog) by Dirk on 06-23-2005
A sad day for Formula 1 (continued)

Jean Todt has defended his stance during the Indy GP. A quote from it: There was even a suggestion that the Michelin teams would compete for no points if a chicane was installed. But Todt's reply was "would we have competed for no points? I say no. If this race would have been a race without...

Posted to Life, Universe And Everything According To Dirk (Weblog) by Dirk on 06-21-2005
A sad day for Formula 1

Yesterday's "race" was a sad event in the history of Formula 1. I'll try to skip the "laying blame" phase and try to see the larger point of view. Fact is that Michelin did not guarantee the safety of the tires that were to be used. Fact is that all rules where followed to...

Posted to Life, Universe And Everything According To Dirk (Weblog) by Dirk on 06-20-2005
GP Canada

The GP of Canada was mildly boring during the first half of the race - apart from the start, that is. Pretty impressive how both Renaults sailed past Button and Schumacher, one on the left side and one on the right side. Then the demanding circuit Gilles Villeneuve started to take its toll: Fisischella...

Posted to Life, Universe And Everything According To Dirk (Weblog) by Dirk on 06-13-2005
Should Raikonnen have changed his front right tire?

One of the big questions after Sunday's race was "Should Räikönnen have changed his front right tire?". I side with Kimi and Ron Dennis in saying "No". Had he stopped, his race would have been busted and he'd have received maybe four points for a fifth place or so. By continueing...

Posted to Life, Universe And Everything According To Dirk (Weblog) by Dirk on 05-31-2005
GP Europe

The Grand Prix of Europe turned out to be more entertaining than I expected: a first-corner incident (isn't it time for another really big first-corner pile-up like Hockenheim 2003?), some off-track excursions by the leading guys and of course Kimi's problem with his right front tire which led...

Posted to Life, Universe And Everything According To Dirk (Weblog) by Dirk on 05-30-2005
GP Europe preview

Tatjana and I attended a wedding yesterday, so we are both rather tired today. The race had better be interesting, or we'll both fall asleep watching it ...

Posted to Life, Universe And Everything According To Dirk (Weblog) by Dirk on 05-29-2005
GP of Monaco

Yesterday's Grand Prix of Monac wasn't too bad for a Monaco Grand Prix. It wasn't as thrilling as last year's race, but not as boring as the procession two years ago. Things started to get interesting towards the end, when Alonso's tyres were almost at their end, and the Williams...

Posted to Life, Universe And Everything According To Dirk (Weblog) by Dirk on 05-23-2005

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