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Noelinho reviews Red Bull’s Spanish Grand Prix domination and looks ahead to the Monaco Grand Prix to see whether they will dominate again, or the rest of the pack have any hope of beating them.

Red Bull in Bahrain by Andrew® The Formula 1 circus hits China this weekend, for the fourth round of the 2010 F1 season. So far, we’ve had three winners, but that doesn’t tell the story of the season. Indeed, we have had three different teams win, but again, that is not an accurate reflection of [...]

After the thrills and spills of Australia last weekend, it’s Malaysia – and Sepang – this weekend. Going in to the weekend, it seems hard not to pick the Red Bulls to be the pace setters, though many are wondering if they will manage to finish the race. Eyes will also be on Michael Schumacher [...]

The Bahrain Grand Prix wasn’t the most exciting race ever seen, and many felt that, given the rule changes, the Australian Grand Prix needed to produce some good racing. True to form, it did. It produced the usual Melbourne crashes, some changeable conditions throwing things wide open, and people on different pit strategies, resulting in [...]

It is less than two weeks since the opening of the 2010 F1 season, but I struggle to remember anything memorable from it. It was the dullest race in recent memory, with only the USGP from 2005 competing. It was, perhaps, inevitable given the hype before the season started – but all the same, it [...]

I realise this review has been a while in coming. For once, it’s not because I haven’t got round to it, or because I forgot to publish. It’s because there’s very little of note to say. On the face of it, the race was set to be a cracker. Four top teams slugging it out, [...]

Early on Friday morning, probably before any of you have read this, the F1 2010 season officially kicks off in Bahrain. It promises to be a cracker of a year, with four big teams looking neck-and-neck – Red Bull, Ferrari, McLaren and Mercedes. Testing seemed to suggest McLaren and Ferrari may have a slight edge, [...]

For all the controversy we’ve had in Formula 1 over the past 3 years – Spygate, Crashgate, Liegate, the mass manufacturer pull-out, double diffusers – we’ve actually had some pretty good racing too. 2007 was a fantastic fight between the McLaren drivers and Kimi Raikkonen; 2008 featured a great battle between Hamilton and Massa; 2009 [...]

You’d have thought that with the announcement of the outcome of the FIA World Motor Sport Council’s hearing yesterday, the Singapore controversy would die down. Instead, another potentially explosive and certainly unhelpful time-bomb has been ignited with the release of the audio tapes from the hearing. The audio tapes reveal an unsettled bone of contention [...]

Today, Renault were hauled in front of the World Motor Sports Council (WMSC) as the investigation into allegations of race-fixing at last year’s Singapore Grand Prix were wrapped up. Unfortunately, the punishment dished out bore little correlation to the seriousness of the crime, and did little to draw on the context of how previous offences [...]