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​ This weekend saw F1 head to the Saudi Arabian streets of Jeddah and here are my takeaways from this weekend GrandPrix!   Saudi Arabian GP - where there was action both on and off the circuit!   Mercedes season is over!  So I guess the first major and significant takeaway is for the Mercedes team! And last weeks Bahrain GrandPrix I highlighted the fact Mercedes could be in real trouble and this weekend confirmed all but that! their season is over - especially for Lewis Hamilton. The car is so far behind the competition it isn’t funny. When your lead driver is battling it out with Haas and Alfa Romeo for tenth position, in order to get a point, you know things are bad. RedBull Vs Ferrari and Max vs Charles?  Both Red Bull and Ferrari have got their respective cars right. And it just isn’t for their lead drivers Max Verstappen and Charles Leclerc. Both their number two drivers (which their teams don’t call them that but whatever) Carlos Sainz and Sergio Perez are also...

In a recent interview with SkyF1, Martin Brundle ex F1 driver and British co-commentator sat down with the CEO of F1 himself. Stefano Domenicali. And in the interview Stefano unveils potential plans to see a 30 race season long calendar introduced to the F1 season. In this short blog, I’m going to assess the current potential for this to happen.  In my opinion that would depend but how on earth would you organize such a long winded calendar is beyond me. Personally I think 30 races per season is stupidly ambitious and how they expect the drivers to cope let alone media, journalists, FIA, team principals and staff is the big question. With the current state of things in F1 all the teams suffer from fatigue and I’m sorry to say but I just don’t see how it can happen without probably many teams leaving the sport. I think the MOST F1 could ever expand to is 25 races per season but even my gut feeling is even that is being extreme and pushing it. I think it’s all right for the promoters...

Here are three takeaways from last weeks Bahrain 🇧🇭 GrandPrix.  Ferrari are BACK:  let’s start with the Scuderia and Ferrari’s win at Bahrain marks the end of their second longest win drought in F1. After Vettel’s last win in Singapore 2019 has seen the infamous brand of Ferrari go on a 46 race losing streak. 910 days later and Charles Leclerc ends that drought for Ferrari winning the first race of the new Era in some style having almost lead every single lap albeit for ONE. And it was no fluke! The performance has been witnessed in pre-season testing both at Barcelona and Bahrain and throughout the overall weekend was very strong showing for the Scuderia. Mercedes and Mercedes customers are in trouble?:  Mercedes all weekend struggled not just with porpoising but also with sheer pace on the straights! 6 of the 8 Mercedes cars failed to even reach the top 10. This isn’t the norm of what’s gone on in the previous seasons of the hybrid era. And whilst Mercedes did make it...