Another year over, and I have to say it has been a fantastic year of F1 racing. Also I must say, thank you all for supporting the FF1GP site.
Who would have expected Ferrari and McLaren being down the bottom of the grid at the start of the year? And who expected Brawn to win the Constructors and Jenson Button Drivers Championship?
I didn’t that’s for sure, until after the first race. However there was the double diffuser row, which was looking to upset things, but in the end the FIA ruled it legal.
There were some unacceptable movements in F1, like the lies in Australia and the Crashgate affair where the 2008 Grand Prix in Singapore. Thankfully the right heads in those cases rolled before any serious damage was done to the sport, and for once the FIA kept their heads for the sake of racing.
Also I don’t understand why F1 management limited won’t give a Grand Prix to Britain? Does Bernie Ecclestone not know that not having a Grand Prix in the UK means zero pounds to him, compared to a few more pounds for having a Grand Prix? With respect to Tom Wheatcroft who sadly passed away on Sunday, a British Grand Prix is better than none at all?
Thats the bad points, of this year and I don’t want to get hung on it, as I said earlier it has been a fantastic year in F1.
The year started with Brawn Grand Prix who was formally known as Honda. They were on the back-foot when Honda said they are leaving F1. It was agonising for weeks, not knowing if they would compete, and also since a few of my F1 friends are Button supporters, they didn’t know if he had a race seat. I’ll let the other F1 news sites around here talk about the story on that one in detail, but the upshot was as follows. Ross Brawn brought the team, he got a Mercedes Benz engine stuck in and with 2 weeks to go before the first race in a test session, the Brawn GP car blew everyone away!
Then the Red Bulls came onto form. They came back big time at Silverstone. Then the next race in Germany, Mark Webber won his first Grand Prix.
There was some more …if you can call it that…amusing moments in F1. First of has to be Jarno Trulli completely loosing it in trying to overtake Adriain Sutil at Brazil, and then Jarno trying to blame the whole incicent on Sutil. So I thought I should give Jarno the award of completely loosing it even more award, is him trying to blame it again on Sutil in the press conference. Didn’t he figure out that getting fined by the Stewards was for him that it was his fault, and to get on with racing? I’ll say now I hope Kamui Kobayashi and Timo Glock get a racing seat next year!
Anyway. It’s time to wrap this blog up. The 2010 FF1GP seaon, will open around February or March 2010 once the teams decide on their drivers, and how good they are in winter testing.
There will be some site changes, I’ll point them out in new blogs over the next few months.
Update:
As I started writing this blog on Sunday and then I had to stop to complete a dozen other things, this blog got a little out of date.
First Toyota pull out of F1. Then Bridgestone announce they are not going to re-new their contract on supplying tyres to F1 in 2011. (They will still supply tyres for 2010 still). Then Renault have decided they may or may not continue in F1.
And also Bernie has completely lost his marbles by saying that Silverstone has 48 hours to sign a contract or forget it.
Only in F1 can you have madness like this after the season ends.