Hello Halo
Like it or not, the Halo is here. But limiting danger to suit changing attitudes and modern sensibilities is fine as long as the measures taken do not devalue a sport so profoundly that its meaning disappears. Read More …
Tag: safety
“1” — The F1 Documentary
It’s called simply 1, and looks like it just may be the best movie about the history of Formula One ever. Read More …
Don’t Blame the Drivers
It’s just absurd that Pirelli is trying to shift blame to the Formula One drivers and teams. For a generation of drivers who have grown up with the modern safety-oriented culture of F1, their threat to boycott the “new” Nürburgring this weekend is completely understandable, and perhaps even required. Read More …
Sid Watkins Retires From F1
Professor Sid Watkins, who has been at the forefront of safety in Formula 1 for more than 30 years, has ended his full-time involvement in motorsport. The neurosurgeon has stepped down as president of the FIA Institute, but will continue in an honorary role. Read More …
FIA May Ban DRS At Eau Rouge
LIke the restrictions imposed through the Monaco tunnel earlier this season, the famous and danting Eau Rouge sequence at Spa-Francorchamps may face a DRS ban on Sunday. Read More …
Tire Wall
If you thought tire barriers were always pristine in Formula One, this shot of a tire wall at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal will dispel that illusion completely. Read More …
The Killer Years
An appropriately named, four-part documentary by the BBC on the 1960s and early 1970s in Grand Prix racing. Watching this will enlighten newer Formula One fans why F1A&G’s profile of the Six Best F1 Crashes starts with one essential criterion — that the driver walked away (relatively) unharmed — a result all too infrequent in the tragic early decades of F1. Read More …
DRS Officially Allowed At Monaco
FIA race director Charlie Whiting informed F1 teams that DRS will be allowed in the Monaco GP after all, probably on the pit straight rather than through the tunnel and into the nouvelle chicane. Read More …