The Blog of G

Before the F1 new season gets underway it’s worth mentioning that there has been a few last minute changes to the rules, thankfully Grandprix.com has it covered, I think the new tyre rule might backfire (why save the softer tyre?) but we’ll all know after Saturday night/sunday morning’s race.

Over on ITV-F1 they’re talking about Kimi being outpaced by Massa in testing, that could get interesting.

Meanwhile it was announced recently that David Richards and some buddies have bought Aston Martin. Why anyone would want to sell that brand I don’t know but I’m very curious to see what will happen there.

Other things that have caught my eye recently were the report that Melbourne was considering a night race. That would certainly make things interesting for the stewards! And that Bernie seems to think that the points system needs a bit of a change, I’m inclined to agree with his thinking, but I’d love to here what other’s have to say.

It’s been a while since I had an F1 post, but then the off season is never terribly interesting there is always some rumour or other, not a huge amount of news and the odd award. So here’s a quick round up.

First off the pre-season rumours of Silverstone’s demise from the calendar are back, (did they ever go away?) this time in some sort of weird Grand Prix swap with the French??? and shure lets fire in the threat of Donnington for good measure

David Richards is a busy man, what with running prodrive, Aston Martin’s racing program, getting his Formula 1 team on it’s feet and now, apparently, he’s trying to buy Aston Martin? hmmm here’s a thought Aston Martin F1 Vantage 2008.

Over in Ferrari land, well they are not missing Michael or both there drivers would like us to believe. It’s only fair to wonder is the ould fella is maybe over staying his welcome but then who could blame him, it’s Ferrari for gods sake Still it must be nice to know the books are all good, they look good in testing and Massa is picking up the Bandini Trophy in recognition of his impressive performances for Ferrari last season. Well deserved if you ask me. It’s not all perfect though, their recent TV commercial shoot went a bit pear shaped in Australia, hopefully though it’ll be the only bad luck for Ferrari down under in 2007.

Roll on March 18th