This year’s highly unpredictable Formula 1 season now makes its way to Valencia for the eighth round of the championship, the European Grand Prix. The race takes place around the streets of the port area of the city, running parallel to and then crossing over the entrance to the harbour used by the Americas’ Cup […]
F1weekly podcast number 583 Special weekend interview with former McLaren mechanic Marc Priestley Marc Priestley (@f1elvis) has a wealth of experience having worked at McLaren between 1999 and 2009 as a race mechanic and member of the team’s pit crew. Marc has worked with drivers such as Mika Hakkinen, David Coulthard, Lewis Hamilton and Jenson […]
F1weekly podcast number 582 Canada review Interview with Petri Suvanto Petri Suvanto is a young man from Seinajoki in Finlandia. He is on the Heikki Kovalainen programme; very quick and always smiling. After a successful karting career, he moved into single seater racing, the Formula BMW Europe series, in 2010 with Josef Kaufmann Racing. After […]
The FIA Formula One World Championship passes now from the slowest track on the calendar to the circuit with the quickest lap time of the year; the Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve, host to the Canadian Grand Prix. A lap of the 4.361km track takes just 75 seconds on average, the quickest single lap time of the season. […]
F1weekly podcast number 580 Interview with Jungle Boy Antonio Pizzonia. From 1991 to 1996 he competed in various karting series. In 1997 he moved to Britain and competed in Formula Vauxhall Junior; Pizzonia placed second, and won the Winter Festival. In 1998, in addition to taking the Championship in F-Vauxhall Junior, he won the Formula […]
Enaam Ahmed Photos. www.enaamahmed.co.uk Smile of success. F1 Weekly is pleased to feature on podcast # 579 a conversation with Enaam Ahmed. The 12-year old is leading the British Karting Championship, and also performing well at school. Enaam caught the racing bug from a family friend. To catch up with experienced drivers he put himself, […]