Honda F1 team looks like it has been saved by a management buyout headed by Ross Brawn and now it needs to be renamed and rebranded. So what shall it be called?
If we had a bit more time we could propose to the BBC that they do a reality game show to find a name, [...]
Archive for February, 2009
What shall we call the new Honda team?
Posted in Discussion, Honda, tagged F1, Honda on February 28, 2009 | 51 Comments »
More on BBC’s new head of F1
Posted in Discussion, Media, tagged BBC TV, F1 on February 28, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Following the news that Niall Sloane, executive producer of F1, has quit the BBC, I saw on the Guardian media website that the BBC has appointed Ben Gallop as head of F1.
I’ve asked around and apparently he comes from the online side of the media business rather than TV and has no F1 background. [...]
BBC F1 boss quits
Posted in Media, tagged BBC, F1 on February 27, 2009 | 14 Comments »
I was sad to see in Charlie Sale’s column in the Daily Mail today that Niall Sloane, the executive producer of the BBC’s F1 coverage has quit. Sloane is a football man, a former player in fact, who took charge of the F1 brief when the BBC won back the rights last March. He [...]
Things are moving Honda and USF1’s way
Posted in Discussion, tagged F1, Honda, USF1 on February 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I’ve written extensively about the moves afoot to bring down costs in Formula 1 over the last couple of months and talked about how the FIA intended to produce a set of rules for 2010 based on areas of non-compete on the cars to reduce costs for everyone. The key proposal is for the big [...]
Tapas and optimism from Williams
Posted in Nakajima, Rosberg, Williams, tagged F1, Rosberg, Williams on February 26, 2009 | 19 Comments »
Just had a very enjoyable day at Williams HQ in Grove where a few of us were treated to a series of briefings by the team. The drivers Nico Rosberg and Kazuki Nakajima were there, we had a talk around the car by technical director Sam Michael and then a briefing on the team’s [...]
Ferrari changes car ahead of McLaren test clash
Posted in Discussion, Ferrari, McLaren, tagged F1, Ferrari, McLaren on February 26, 2009 | 14 Comments »
With its first head-to-head testing clash with McLaren due next week at Jerez (1st to 5th), the Ferrari F60 is undergoing a major metamorphosis, according to today’s Gazzetta dello Sport.
The wings and exhausts are being revised as part of a long list of scheduled updates. This is normal and most teams will have extensive [...]
Latest quotes- Williams discuss RBS pullout
Posted in Discussion, Williams, tagged RBS, Williams on February 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Williams CEO Adam Parr has just done a conference call with the media on the news that RBS is to pull out of F1 at the end of 2010.
“It isn’t good news for the sport for a sponsor like RBS to announce it’s withdrawing. We’ve suspected for some time that there wasn’t much chance of [...]
Williams holds onto RBS until end of 2010
Posted in F1 News, Teams, Williams, tagged RBS, Williams on February 25, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Williams has just announced that RBS will stay with the team this season and next, but that the sponsorship will finish at the end of 2010.
RBS is conducting a review of all its sponsorships in light of the critical situation in the banking sector and the huge corporate losses shortly to be announced.
The partnership with [...]
McLaren welcomes USF1 team
Posted in Discussion, tagged McLaren, USF1 on February 25, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Martin Whitmarsh, who on Sunday will take over as McLaren team principal, has welcomed the USF1 initiative of broadcaster Peter Windsor and former Ligier engineer Ken Anderson.
In a spirit of togetherness and encouragement which sums up the mood of the times at the moment with all teams sticking together and backing each other, Whitmarsh said [...]
BBC trailer “mash-ups”
Posted in Media, tagged BBC on February 25, 2009 | 10 Comments »
What will the BBC use as their theme tune? Well, in case you have been wondering about the trailer that Ben G was referring to in his earlier comment … Here it is: a YouTube mash-up that uses The Chain as inspiration. There are links to all sorts of would-be BBC [...]
