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Canadian Grand Prix 2012

June 13, 2012 By vack

Williams-Renault's Pastor Maldonado leads Ferrari's Felipe Massa
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By Pete Vack
All photos courtesy and copyright Ferrari unless otherwise noted.

Tiresome and trite, tire degradation issues are degrading our sport.

Alonso’s loss at the Canadian Grand Prix is not just a loss for the Spaniard, but a loss for the Scuderia, the engineers, the designers, the sponsors, Fiat and Formula One. His loss is also our loss, for we are all held hostage to the same idiotic tire game that is dominating, and we think, ruining the sport. [Read more…] about Canadian Grand Prix 2012

Grand Prix of Abu Dhabi 2011

November 16, 2011 By vack

By Pete Vack
Photos courtesy and copyright Ferrari Media

The look in the eyes was crystal clear despite the layers of tinted tear-aways and a full face helmet. “I can’t believe this is really happening…I can’t believe this is really happening, to me..”

The simplest form of immobility ever devised by automotive gremlins, a flat tire, had sidelined the most technically sophisticated car ever to lay rubber on a race track and disabled the hero of the German F1 fans, the kid who could practically do no wrong nor did so throughout an entire brilliant and overly long season of F1 events whose borders now far exceed the reach of the fabled British Empire.
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Canadian Grand Prix

June 16, 2010 By vack

Jenson Button, Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso

by Erik Nielsen
Photos courtesy and copyright Ferrari Media

In spite of my last article, McLaren tried to prove that it wasn’t just Red Bull’s ability to take their own cars out of contention that would lead to a desired result for the Woking based team, but that they could do it all on their own. It was Hamilton’s race to lose, and between driving a clean race and having the team’s flawless pit stops, he made it look easy. [Read more…] about Canadian Grand Prix