Josh Bohn: Italian GP Review

Lewis Hamilton dominated the Italian grand prix at monza, putting him in second place in the drivers world championship! Sergio Perez took advantage of the tyres to take home the second place trophy, while the Ferraris of Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa took third and fourth respectively. My drivers of the day goes to... Lewis Hamilton and Sergio Perez. Yes that's two drivers, but I feel it would be unfair not to give the people the credit they deserve! However I feel that this race calls for a look at the stewards decisions. For example, The rules say that if a driver goes offline to defend they must stay offline and not move back onto the racing line again (Or something like that) I.E. One move! It appeared as though several drivers broke that rule, and given that Seb was given a drive through penalty for defending (Albeit aggressively) Surely action should have been taken. Or at least investigated. So Alonso still leads with Hamilton in second and, despite not having won a race yet, Raikkonen is an impressive third! In two weeks Formula 1 heads off to Singapore for... err... The Singapore Grand Prix! Get ready to yawn.

Josh Bohn: Belgian GP Review

Crash! That was the scene at the first corner of the Belgian grand prix at Spa. And it was from the first corner that Jenson Button Led to the flag, winning by an impressive margin! Good, that's the winners story covered, now for the rest of the pack. Vettel took a resurgent second place from 10th, and Kimi took 3rd. Nico Hulkenberg was a superb 4th for Force India, from 11th on the grid! Massa did well to take 5th. Although what would Alonso have done if he had finished? We will never really know. But my driver of the race (Apart from the dominant Button) Was Bruno Senna, who proved he was a man who would be hard to pass! Much like his uncle.No matter how much Vettel or Massa tried, they found it difficult to find a way past! But unfortunately a slow puncture stopped him from converting great driving into a points finish! In my opinion Williams would be stupid to sack Senna, because he is bringing the car home in one piece, and capable of winning consistently. But lets talk about penalties, as several drivers got them. Romain got a 1 race ban for dangerous driving: Fair, because he drove dangerously at the start. Pastor received two 5 place grid penalties, 1 for his jump start and another for causing a collision. both of which are fair. So at the end of the Belgian Grand Prix, Fernando Alonso still leads the drivers championship, but Vettel in second closed the gap. Formula 1 now heads to Monza, for the Italian Grand Prix. I Cant wait!

Penalty Overload??

Have the stewards gone mad?? In years gone by, things like this would go without penalty... (in the video, Andrea De Cesaris nearly takes out Mansell while being lapped!)

                                                                                     

Meanwhile, in 2012, this means a hefty fine???

I'm sorry, but I think the stewards are dishing out far too many penalties. F1 has lost a factor of excitement in that drivers are now scared to go for moves in fear of contact and a penalty. I understand that there are serious incidents that need penalised (Maldonado repeated offences etc.) but come on stewrads, give the drivers a break!

by @FakeSauber

Josh Bohn- Heikki stay with Caterham

Hello everyone and thank you for reading my 1st proper F1 Blog! Heikki Kovalainen, who currently races for Caterham, has recently been linked to Ferrari, but I feel that, while he is deserving of a drive in a top team, going back to a top team would be a shame when he hasn't yet done something he wanted to do. Get Caterham into the points. The last few seasons will have been a waste of his skills if he goes back to a top team without scoring points for Caterham. Especially to Ferrari, where as we all know, Fernando Alonso is the real number 1! Then again could this be his last shot at a top drive? No, I don't think so. He is fast enough to get a top drive in a team where he wont keep having to let his team mate past to the command "Fernando is faster than you" 

By the way I am on twitter @joshbohnf1

Josh Bohn: Introduction

Hello Fellow F1 fans and may I say thank you for reading my first blog. As this is my first blog, I thought I would use it to introduce myself. My name is Joshua Bohn, and I have been an F1 fan for about 4 years, specifically from when Lewis Hamilton Won the 2008 drivers title! I have been a Hamilton/ Mclaren fan since then. However I am also a fan of other teams and drivers, such as Jenson Button, Paul di resta, Romain Grosjean, Heikki Kovalainen, Lotus and Caterham! As you will find out over the next few months, I have opinions on many of the current F1 stories and look forward to sharing them with you! Watch this space...

post by Josh Bohn

            

Fake Andrew's Rage Box

Stressed? Angry? Let Fake Andrew Green help you with the RageBox!!

RageBox is a blog for a collection of rants and rages!! And who dosen't like that??

I've read his rants on Twitter, and they make good (and VERY amusing) reading, so head on over to http://fakeandrewsragebox.wordpress.com/ for some good ranting and random sayings!!

An Update

I am now back and (hopefully) better than ever before! Please comment on what you think, as this is helpful to me, so I know what I can do better :-)

Here's some of my ideas for the future:

Have another Twitter poll

Do an article on the teams I miss the most

Have a HUGE COUNTDOWN of some sort!!


Have an idea for this blog, want to write for us or just want to contact us? Send us an e-mail at f1street111@gmail.com!

Thanks for reading1

Twitter Poll: Top 10 Circuits

After a while of Twitter nagging people to answer this poll, the top 10 will finally be revealed!!

So here it is, in full HD (ish), the top 10 Twitter people that follow me circuits top list poll vote result!

=6 Suzuka- 4 votes

The Japanese GP destination for the last few years is the first of the (BIG) bunch at =6, we have seen some dramatic races there over the years (notably the DRENCHED 2010).

=6 Sao Paulo- 4 votes



Home to many thrilling season-ending Brazilian GPs, Sao Paolo circuit is also favored by 4 people!!

=6 Nurburgring- 4 votes



Whether it's the 13 mile Nordschleife, or the GP circuit, the Nurburgring is one of the world's finest circuits! Home to the German GP (alternate with Hockenheim, not in the top 10) and the Nurburgring 24H, it is also one of the most renowned!

=6 Melbourne- 4 votes



Ok, you're probably getting a bit bored of =6 circuits, but now we have Melbourne! The half-street circuit is home to the Australian GP, which has opened our F1 season for many years now!

=6 Le Mans- 4 votes

The last 6= (thank goodness) and the legend that is Le Mans. Home to the LM 24 hours, argubaly the toughest, best race in the world, this track is long, fast, and VERY dangerous!!

=4 Monza- 5 votes

Yep, yet more = tracks. Monza has been favored over the last bunch! Maybe because of it's history, it's thrilling races, the speed of it. Monza is a great track which hosts great Italian GPs!!

=4 Montreal- 5 votes

The other half-street circuit along with Melbourne, although this was more popular. Home to the Canadian GP, which has seen some of the best GPs of recent times!

3 Silverstone- 6 votes



Finally, a track that isn't =!! Silverstone was voted 3rd by a (mostly) British group! The British GP brings fans like no other, and a race like no other too!

2 Monaco- 15 votes



A MASSIVE leap in votes for the top 2, and the ultimate street circuit, home of the Monaco GP (my persona favourite GP) comes 2nd to...............

1 Spa- 22 votes



Yes, you have voted Spa as your favourite circuit!! With 7 more votes than even Monaco, and 16 more than 3rd placed Silverstone, it has won easily. The Belgian GP is always a fans favourite, and it's something to look forward to, after the summer break!


Thanks for reading!!

Apology For Not Posting

I apologise for not blogging for a long while. A lack of an idea, holiday and then illness means I have been inactive for a number of weeks now.

I will be starting to blog again, and my first post back will be a Twitter poll I did on favourite circuits.

I hope you will read again and I will pick up where I left off :-)

F1 Street Weekly: 19 June - 26 June

This blog is now 2 weeks old, and this this my weekly update on this blogs' happenings.

I will admit, this has been a pretty quiet week for my blog, only 2 articles coming since I did my Week 1 roundup!

Despite this, I have started a new feature for qualifying and race for every race weekend. It's called "Pick Of The Bunch", and what happens is, I pick 3 drivers to cover each weekend. Then I do a review on these 3 drivers for quali and race. I was trying to be different from the usual "wekkend reports".

Since I recieved positive feedback for this feature, I will continue for the rest of the season!

Pick Of The Bunch: Valencia Quali
f1street.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/pick-of-the-bunch-valencia-qualifiying.html

Pick Of The Bunch: Valencia Race
f1street.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/pick-of-bunch-valencia-race.html

Thanks to all my readers once again. I will keep posting. Goodbye for now!

Pick Of The Bunch: Valencia Race

Paul Di Resta- 7th


Paul made up 3 places from starting 10th on the grid. He had a very good race, running as high as 2nd in one part of the race. As well as that, it was only in the closing stages that he was overtaken by Webber and Schumacher, meaning he could have came 5th!


Mark Webber- 4th


People didn't think it was possible, but in Valencia, famed for it's lack of overtaking, Mark made up 15 places to come 4th. After his disastrous quali, he came through and got a wonderful result. One of the drivers of the day for sure!
 

Heikki Kovalainen- 14th


He could have came higher than 14th, but an incident with Jean-Eric Vergne caused him to have an unscheduled pit stop. He came 2 places lower than his Caterham team-mate Petrov. I think this race had a lot of promise for Heikki, but an incident ruined his day!
 

Pick Of The Bunch: Valencia Qualifying

New feature! Pick of the Bunch is where I'll pick 3 drivers from each weekend to review their performance in qualifying and the race. I thought I'd try something different then the normal "race reports". I hope you like it

Paul Di Resta- 10th


Both Hulkenburg and Di Resta did well to make it to Q3 this time out but Paul stood out for me when he posted a purple middle sector, and if it weren't for a 3rd sector lock-up,  he might of had a front row result! Not as good as Montreal's 8th place on thr grid, but it was great to see Paul in Q3 once again



Mark Webber- 19th


An absolute disaster of a Saturday for Mark, failing to get a lap in for FP3 due to hydraulic problems, then a DRS failure in Q1, left him with 19th place on the grid. Even though it is no fault of his own, Red Bull must do better than this.


Heikki Kovalainen- 16th


Well done to Heikki for making Q2 this time! In Q2, it didn't look like he was going to go out, but in the dying moments, he pasted a lap faster than Ricciardo's. This means he was quicker than both Toro Rossos in qualifying today, which should be quite worrying for the Red Bull support team.


I hope you enjoyed reading, and will continue to read!!

F1 Street Weekly- 12 June- 19 June 2012

Hello all,

I have decided to to a weekly review on the happenings of my blog! With a week gone by, there has been plenty that has went on already!

I had an interview with Charlotte Eyre, the BTCC hopeful going on the Ginetta Scholarship.

f1street.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/interview-with-charlotte-eyre.html

Next, I introduced people to f1etc.net, which once it is finished, is sure to be the place to go for motorsport updates and news.

f1street.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/f1-etc.html

Before the Le Mans 24 Hours, I did a preview of it, saying that it should be one of the most exciting editions ever, and I think I was right!

f1street.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/le-mans-24-hours-preview.html

I decided that people might be wondering where the 7 leavers of the 2011 F1 season had got to. So i did some research and wrote an informative article about that.

f1.street.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/f1-leavers-where-are-they-now.html

Here are some f1 fans you should check out:

KGibbsF1

Blog- kgibbs.blogspot.co.uk
Twitter-http://twitter.com/KGibbsF1

FakeForceIndia

Blog- ohfakeforceindiayoucrackmeup.blogspot.co.uk
Twitter- http://twitter.com/FakeForceIndia

TheGridWalker

Blog- thegridwalker.blogspot.com
Twitter- http://twitter.com/TheGridWalker
YouTube- http://www.youtube.com/user/TheGridWalker074

Thank you for reading.

F1 leavers- Where are they now?

7 drivers left F1 last year, some of them we are still hearing of (Barrichello, Buemi) and some are like where on earth are they?? This article will tel you what these 7 have got up to since leaving F1.

Rubens Barrichello


Everyone knows that Rubens is now in IndyCar. There was talk at first of him leaving out the ovals, but in an interview, he called that "chicken". He picked up "Best Rookie" at the Indy 500, which I was happy to see him being successful and happy.


Sebastian Buemi


Another well-known story. Sebastian moved to sportscars to compete in the WEC for Toyota. He competed in the Le Mans 24 Hours but his car was retired with problems. He seems to be happy in sportscars and could stay there if no other F1 opportunities come up.


Jarno Trulli


Trulli was going to be driving for Caterham in 2012, but was replaced late by a "pay driver" suspect. He said this was a dissapointing end to his F1 career. He has no racing seat just now, but attends F1 races in the Caterham paddock.


Adrian Sutil


Oh dear. Sutil was convicted of assaulting Genii Capital CEO Eric Lux in January. He was given an 18 month suspended prison sentence and a 200'000Euro fine to be given to charity



Vitantonio Liuzzi


After being replaced by Karthikeyan at HRT for 2012,  he joined the Superstars Touring Car Series in Italy, with a 2nd in Round 1 at Monza, and winning the 2nd round of the season.


Jaime Algersuari


Toro Rosso got rid of both Jaime and Buemi for 2012, Algersuari joined the BBC F1 team, joining James Allen on BBC Radio 5 Live, as the expert summariser.


Jerome D'Ambrosio


Popularly known as "Custard", D'Ambrosio was left without a seat at Marussia for 2012. He managed to stay in F1 as Lotus' 3rd driver though, and he joined Sky F1 to be a co-commentator for practice sessions

So now you know where they are, do you hope to see any of them back in F1??

Thanks for reading, and I hope you will continue to. :-)

What do YOU want from this blog??

Hello there,

This is just a quick article to say, I REALLY want your opinions. Please tell me what you like/dislike, if you have any ideas or advice for me, or where you would like to go with this next. :-D

You can contact me by commenting on blog posts, tweeting me at @FakeSauber, or e-mailing me at f1street111@gmail.com.

Thank you everyone for your support so far, and there will be more coming very soon so keep an eye out!

Le Mans 24 Hours Preview

Tomorrow, the greatest, toughest, racing test a driver can compete in starts! The 80th Le Mans 24 Hours looks to be one of the best in the event's history. With hybrids competing for the first time, and the "Garage 56" DeltaWing, it will have plenty of variety too.



We see some ex-F1 stars, such as Nick Heidfeld, Sebastian Buemi, Kazuki Nakajima and Sebastian Bourdais take part in their first Le Mans. It will be interesting to see how they drive the different type of car

 This year, Toyota have saved the day for LMP1. With Peugeot pulling out of sportscar development, Toyota started racing their new hybrid early, basically saving the World Endurance Championship. They have a tough fight on their hands, against Audi's R18 hybrid.


GT academy winners Jordan Tresson (Signatech Nissan) and Lucas Ordonez (Greaves Motorsport) have their Le Mans debut this year in the LMP2 class. This means they have went from Gran Turismo gamers, to Le Mans racers!


The GT fight will be as good as ever with 4 manufacturers in the field. Ferrari's 458 Italia, Chevrolet's Corvette C6.R, Porsche's 911 GT3-RSR and Aston Martin's Vantage GTE.


You can enjoy every minute of the 80th Le Mans 24 Hours live on Eurosport. I personally recommend watching it!

Hope you enjoyed reading this preview, please comment and tell me your opinions!

F1 etc

F1etc is a Twitter hashtag and website ran by Duurt Dijkman (@kolhamsterdamf1), Dennis Van Den Enden (@vandenendenf1) and Ron Kwik (@Ronf1etc). It aims to bring you the latest news quicker than anyone else, and due to it having all the latest driver/team etc. tweets, it should manage this. It is a very good site, so check here FIRST for your F1 news!! f1etc.net

I got in touch with Duurt, and he agreed to answer a few questions so that people undserstand F1etc better.



What is F1etc, and what is the idea behind it??


F1etc will become a site for F1 news but next to that we also want to inform viewers of other news from the world of motorsport. That is why the name is F1 etcetera, F1etc for short.




How did it get started??


 I (Duurt) have Facebook and thru that medium i post little things from the world of F1 that isn't on any other site. I mean things like tweets from Heikki Kovalainen telling he planned to go play golf that day, sometimes even with a picture. People asked me if i didn't want to start an own website with just that kind of things on there, but i had no idea how. By that time i became friends with Dennis and he knew someone who could help build a website. We three got together and created a medium that could become the first thing you look for before you would go to any other site. Just like the top of a pyramid. All kinds of news but then directly from the people themselves. This could be done thru twitter, so we use that as a base.


Where do you plan to go with it next??


 The idea is that for this season we stay basic and bring you the news from all drivers, teams and journo's of the world of motorsport. Next season we will try and get some sponsoring so that we, or one of us, can go to some races and give you our point of view thru an article. Of course we want to involve the viewers aswell by giving them the oppertunity to use our forum or send us their version of a race-review. If we three like it enough, we can even put in on the site. But that's the future.


How good is the teamwork between the 3 of you??


The teamwork is very good. We all know what we want and have the same vision as to how we would like it to become. Although Ron is more the "behind the scenes guy", he to is an important part of the three musketeers.


Have there been any difficult points along the road??


 I can only speak for myself but my only difficult point is the fact that Ron and Dennis live not far from each other but i live a good 2hr drive away. Thank god for phone, facebook, mail and twitter.


Thanks Duurt for being willing to do this!


Visit the website at f1etc.net
Follow the guys on Twitter,
Duurt- @kolhamsterdamf1
Dennis- @vandenendenf1
Ron- @Ronf1etc

Interview with Charlotte Eyre

You may not have heard of Charlotte Eyre now, but you might pretty soon. Her goal is to one day race in BTCC, and with a support series drive available, that goal is becoming closer.

We have asked her a few questions about her racing life (which can get quite busy)

For people who haven't heard of it (yet!), can you explain what #Charlee4BTCC is all about??

#Charlee4BTCC is my hashtag for people to get to know who I am in the world of racing. I aimed for F1 to dtart with but the opportunity came for a Ginetta seat in 2013. So i want to go into BTCC. It's also a way of sponsors seeing me I guess! I have my friends to thank for the hashtag, or as they think they are, "The Webteam"


What do you have to do to get the Ginetta seat??


I've done it in two ways. One is the scholarship programme that is being run in July. It's "cheap" and worth the money you pay. To do it the other way is I do know people within Ginetta personally so they put in a good word for me. Nothing is confirmed though.


Have you ever driven a BTCC car??


No... Never driven a car to be honest with you! But I have Paul O'Neill coaching me when he can and I have others helping me. That's why I'm wanting to do Ginetta then move up to BTCC! All fun and games!!












How important are your friends and family for support??


My family support has been great! My Dad is the one who races karts with me. My mum supports me and the rest have all been behind me! My friends on the other hand haven't been as supportive. About 8 have stayed with me. Everyone else tells me to go back to hockey. But i do both. Support is key in a persons success in my eyes!

Is it sometimes hard to find time for both sports??


It is... Most weekends I'm off playing hockey for my town team or for Staffordshire. But staying that, playing hockey helps with my fitness levels for my racing. Even though I go to the gym, I still need that extra push. I have had a weekend before where the Saturday was filled full of racing with two karting races. Then the Sunday was filled with a hockey match and practice session

Follow Charlotte on Twitter at @CharlotteEyre18
You can follow her road to BTCC at @Charlee4BTCC
There is a blog about it at www.charlee4btcc.wordpress.com

Wish Charlotte well in her road to BTCC!!

Welcome To F1 Street

My F1 Story

I started watching F1 from a very young age, but it was in 2005 that I really got into it. I was a supporter of the Renault team for a while (particularly Fernando Alonso). I've been watching it ever since. I'm a bigger F1 fan right now than I ever have been! I love it!

This Blog

I saw other F1 blogs, and was inspired by them to start one of my own. Go and read the blogs that inspired me at,

jackleslief1.blogspot.com

Charlee4BTCC.wordpress.com

katystracktalk.wordpress.com

irvinef1.blogspot.com

I will try to post regularly, mostly about F1, but sometimes about other motorsports too (BTCC, IndyCar, GP2 etc.) 

I hope you really enjoy this blog, and please encourage others to read it :-D

PLEASE COMMENT YOUR OPINIONS!!!