Curva Grande Bravery
Sebastian Vettel’s brilliant pass of Fernando Alonso on the outside of the Curva Grande during the 2011 Italian Grand Prix at Monza (video). Read More …
Tag: Alonso
F1A&G posts tagged Alonso
Another Stunner From Seb Vettel
Sebastian Vettel’s daring outside pass of Alonso’s Ferrari at Monza’s incomparable Curva Grande is already the stuff of legend. Anyone who says there is no more overtaking in modern Formula One is now, officially, a Luddite. Read More …
Vettel Dominates Again At Italian GP
Winning from pole position, Sebastian Vettel ran away with the Italian Grand Prix at Monza, putting 16s on a field in which each of the top five classified finishers was a former F1 World Champion. Read More …
Fernando’s Big Wheel
Courtesy of BBC F1. A really well-done, gratis wallpaper of this singular moment is available from @MiaF1Design on deviantART. Read More …
Alonso Wins British Grand Prix
The Guardian’s headline called today’s Grand Prix of Great Britain “thrilling.” It surely was an interesting wet-dry race, but more properly characterized as a collection of missed opportunities, unexpected gaffes, silly penalties bad pit work and annoying team orders. Fernando Alonso won for Ferrari to commemorate 60 years since the teams first Formula One victory. Read More …
Six Youngest All-Time F1 Drivers
There’s a youth movement underway in today’s Formula One, but the historic title of F1’s youngest Grand Prix drivers includes several from the annals as well. Part of F1A&G’s “Top Sixes” feature-in-progress. Read More …
Alonso Concedes Formula 1 Title
Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso has admitted defeat in the battle for this year’s Formula One World Championship title after Sebastian Vettel’s 6th win of the season in Valencia. “If anyone thinks we can win being 8/10 of a second behind Red Bull they don’t understand Formula 1.” Read More …
Who Makes How Much in F1?
On the eve of the European GP in Valencia, the Aussie paper, Daily Telegraph, has revealed the staggering earnings of the world’s leading F1 stars. No surprise is that Fernando Alonso heads the list, Lewis Hamilton coming in second. Read More …
Out With the Old, In With the New — The Youngest-Ever F1 drivers
At the 2009 Hungarian GP, Scuderia Toro Rosso’s Jaime Alguersauri became the youngest driver in Formula One history to start a Grand Prix race. In this vignette, Formula1 officially takes a look back through the history books to profile other youngsters to have graced the F1 grid over the years…. Read More …
Wire Tap — Brazilian GP 2010
A recap of the 2010 Grand Prix of Brazil, won by Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel in dominating fashion, from the perspective of pit-to-car radio communications. Courtesy of SpeedTV. Read More …