• Firstly, congratulations to Fernando Alonso who once again proved that he is the best driver on the grid. As Max Biaggi summed it up on his official twitter account - “Great Alonso is stronger than Ferrari”. He is now a championship leader, who would have thought this before the start of the season? Another congratulations also have to go to Sergio Perez who I am usually underestimating and it seems that maybe I was wrong about him.
• Great job also by Kimi Raikkonen, it’s nice to see him on points once again.
• I also have to say Bruno not-really-a-Senna obviously did a good job too, do you know how hard it is for me to admit? You have no idea!
• Also I am very happy about Jean-Eric Vergne scoring his first F1 championship points AND beating his teammate Daniel Ricciardo. Also I am happy about Vitaly Petrov beating his teammate Heikki Kovalainen.
• Who/what I am not happy about is to see my dear Romain Grosjean being DNF once again (and this time by his own fault as I heard). Come on Romain, you really need to finish the next race and preferably on points! The same goes for Pastor Maldonado(who I am starting to like even though he hit Romain in the last race) even though I heard this time the DNF wasn’t his fault.
• Special mention goes to Narain Karthikeyan who managed to “sent two world champions to pits and got TV time” (quote via @WorldRallyBlog) and I guess also thanks to him Sebastian Vettel and Jenson Button didn’t score any points which is something I am not sad at all about, let’s be honest. Also, as a bonus Narain managed to continue after those two world champion crashes and even has beaten his equally worthless teammate Pedro de la Rosa.
• Another special mention goes to Felipe Massa whose performance was so poor that even I cannot laught at him. Joke, I can and I am laughing hard. HRT next year?

tagged: f1, fernando alonso, sergio perez, kimi raikkonen, bruno senna, jean-eric vergne, daniel ricciardo, romain grosjean, pastor maldonado, narain karthikeyan, sebastian vettel, jenson button, felipe massa, my opinions

I came across many these kind of charts for this season so I decided to make one myself. And surprisingly - it was quite hard, especially to find 5 drivers I actually like enough and to pick only 5 I dislike the most. I guess I seem to be quite a negative person now, right? Well, who cares. Definitely not me.

Top 5 favourite 2012 F1 drivers:

1. Romain Grosjean - I am his fan for quite some time, it all started with seeing his photo on which he had the most awesome hair ever. He looked like some kind of “sunny” version of Sideshow Bob if you can imagine what I mean and I love him since then. Also the fact that he is French and talented (his results in GP2 proved it) helped. I hope he matured and won’t throw his 2nd F1 chance away!
2. Jean-Eric Vergne - he is charming, he is French, he looks good and he seems to be quite a bit arrogant so he definitely won’t be boring. Great combination! Also, he seems to be friend with my dear Little Seb (now we know the arrogance source), which also helps.
3. Vitaly Petrov - probably my favourite Russian. I love his accent and I love his crashes even more - the race is definitely not boring when he has his day. Also another thing which really helped me to like him - his awesome fake on twitter.
4. Heikki Kovalainen - I don’t really like him that much but I ran out of drivers I really like so.. Well, I was never his big fan but since I started to follow him on twitter I am liking him more and more and I will hope for some good results (even in that car) for him in this season. And hopefully a better drive in the next one.
5. Lewis Hamilton - Gangsta!!! Okay, I don’t even like that guy that much but he is so funny with his attemps to look like some kind of drug selling rapper from a ghetto when you can clearly see he is not that kind of a bad guy. I also like some of his comments he makes when he gets angry and of course - his crashing into Massa - that’s why I started to like him a bit in a first place.

Top 5 least favourite 2012 F1 drivers:

1. Felipe Massa - you will always be my number one in this category, dear Felipe. Okay, I admit this guy is somehow talented but obviously far from being talented enough to be in one of the stronger teams. Also I hate how anybody hates Alonso for the team orders in that team - it’s not like he didn’t behave according to them too. Also I have a strong dislike Rob Smedley and the fact everybody finds those two cute. And I am not even talking about his wife who always creeps me out because she looks like female version of Massa (really, they look almost the same!) and his kid seems to be one of the most ugly kids I have ever seen. But it may have something to do with the fact that I find high majority of little kids ugly.
2. Bruno Senna - or Bruno not-really-a-Senna. Really what kind of person changes his name to the name of his famous uncle and then moans about being compared to him? I originally liked him but I stopped after he kept saying “I am negotiating with quite a few teams and I will definitely be in F1 next year” for quite some years. Also I generally dislikes drivers who have more various photoshoots than normal racing photos and he seems to be one of those.
3. Jenson Button - another guy with more photoshoots than real racing photos. Also he seems to be so boring to me. What is the most exciting thing in his life he has ever done? Made a shampoo commercial? And another thing - I really dislike his girlfriend Jessica Michibata. For me she is the most annoying this in the paddock, far more annoying that that Nicole Scherzezezezereinger of Gangsta.
4. Sebastian Vettel - another driver I used to like far in the past but not now. Reason? His finger apart from the other things. Also, when he is celebrating he sounds like Justin Bieber. And also some of his fans are really so annoying that they just make people dislike poor Vettel. On the other hand - I have to add that I respect his driving skills greatly.
5. Daniel Ricciardo - probably. I don’t know why I dislike him that much, I don’t even know that much of things about him. But it’s maybe because I find his weird smile unsettling and hate how people go “aaaww” about him. But this 5th place was hard - there are so many adepts..

And before anybody starts sending me a hate mail - it’s just my opinion, everybody has one! It’s not that I can change it even if I really wanted to.

tagged: f1, romain grosjean, jean-eric vergne, vitaly petrov, heikki kovalainen, lewis hamilton, felipe massa, bruno senna, jenson button, sebastian vettel, daniel ricciardo, sébastien ogier, gangsta, massa slagging, vettel’s annoying finger, my opinions

Great! Because let’s face it, he can bre gorgeous as much as he wants, he is just not good enough for a F1 racing seat. And speaking about racing seats - I hope at least Vitaly Petrov will find one because I cannot bear all of my favourite 2011 F1 drivers (Jerome D’Ambrosio, Vitaly Petrov and Sébastien Buemi) not racing this year.

tagged: f1, jerome d’ambrosio, vitaly petrov, sébastien buemi

wtformula1:

There was plenty of drama during the 2011 F1 season, overtakes galore, huge crashes and thrilling final laps but there were also the funny moments, plenty of them in fact.

We’ve had to whittle them down to just ten moments, so here it is. The ten funniest moments of 2011. Enjoy.

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Great top 10! My favourite is probably that marshall at Canadian GP failing twice. :-D

tagged: f1, sébastien buemi, lewis hamilton, gangsta, sebastian vettel, jenson button, vitaly petrov, fernando alonso,david coulthard

I personally would prefer to have Kimi Raikkonen in WRC. He was quite a nice addition and I was always laughing at “And where is Kimi?” “In a ditch.” joke. Also he had nice car livery and was nice to watch him live on the stages. I am not going to say anything about his 2 years waste of time in WRC but I would very much rather wonder how he think he will squeeze his moobs into that tiny F1 car. And him having moobs is a fact. Also I wonder how he will do after being away from F1 for two years because we all have seen how Michael Schumacher’s comeback was.

Then there is 2nd driver of Renault/Lotus/whatever. There were many people speaking about Robert Kubica. I personally think that even if he will come back to F1 at some point (which is quite questionable according to me) I very much doubt he will be the same. Again there will be that time he spent away not only from F1 car and also from racing itself so I cannot see his F1 future very brightly.

There are 3 drivers who could drive alongside Kimi in Renault/Lotus/whatever. Vitaly Petrov, Bruno Senna and Romain Grosjean. I guess Vitaly has the highest chances from this trio because of money + he wasn’t so bad this season. Then there is Romain Grosjean who proved he has speed and awesome hair in GP2. And then there is Bruno not really Senna who is F1 only because of his name and I do hope Renault/Lotus/whatever will ditch him.

Really shame about that Kimi news because I was hoping for awesome Vitaly Petrov, Romain Grosjean team.

tagged: f1, kimi raikkonen,michael schumacher, robert kubica, vitaly petrov, bruno senna, romain grosjean

The lastest two drivers confirmed for Race of Champions are SWRC 2011 and IRC 2010 champion Juho Hänninen and Jan Kopecký who is a multiple champion in losing the IRC title despite the fact Škoda factory team is doing everything to help him to win it. So, the current line-up looks like this:

Team Germany:

• Sebastian Vettel - 2010 and 2011 F1 champion.
• Michael Schumacher - 7 times F1 champion (don’t want the years from me).

Team Great Britain:

• Jenson Button - 2009 F1 champion.
• Andy Priaulx - 3 times WTCC champion.

Team USA:

• Travis Pastrana - I don’t know exactly everything he has won and where he starts (I know about X-Games and rallying in USA) but he is awesome.
• Brian Deegan - according to wikipedia some X-Games ace.

Team France:

• Sébastien Ogier - 2008 JWRC champion and world champion in tantrum throwing and in the best accent ever competition.
• Romain Grosjean - 2011 GP2 champion, 2008 and 2011 GP2 Asia champion, 2010 auto GP champion, he also have Sideshow Bob hair.

Team Slavic:

• Vitaly Petrov - Russian champion in some races with Lada.
• Jan Kopecký - probably Czech champion in something but for me he is that thing I have written at the beginning of this article - multiple champion in losing the IRC title despite the fact Škoda factory team is doing everything to help him to win it.

Team Nordic:

• Tom Kristensen - multiple Le Mans winner.
• Juho Hänninen - 2011 SWRC champion and 2010 IRC champion.

Team Germany 2:

• Timo Glock - 2007 GP2 champion.
• Timo Scheider - 2008 and 2009 DTM champion.

Then there are also Matthias Ekstrom (two times DTM champion and also 3 times Race of Champions champion), David Coulthard (who may raced in F1 for centuries but he is no champion anyway but okay - if we can have Jan Kopecký and Vitaly Petrov..) and the last (so far) name is Martin Tomczyk (2011 DTM champion).

Considering there is so far 17 drivers I guess they have to quickly add at least another one so they will be able to form two teams from those three remaining drivers.

Being Slavic I shoud probably cheer for Team Slavic but no one will ever force me to cheer for any team with Jan Kopecký in it, no matter how much I love Vitaly Petrov. The chocie is clear for me - it’s Team France as every year, usually there is Sébastien Loeb and Alain Prost and his nose in it but this year they have little Seb and Sideshow Bob and I am certainly not complaining (but shame they didn’t invite Jean-Eric Vergne instead of Romain Grosjean, with little Seb they could form Team Arrogant).

Btw, I am suprised there is no Team Finland this year. Maybe the organisers grew tired of watching Finnish rally drivers being crap struggling on tarmac and never winning anything. And they probably didn’t invite Heikki Kovalainen because he would set something on fire.

tagged: race of champions, sebastian vettel, michael schumacher, jenson button, sébastien ogier, romain grosjean, vitaly petrov, jan kopecký, juho hänninen, timo glock,david coulthard, sébastien loeb, alain prost, jean-eric vergne, heikki kovalainen