my weekend, and the Turkish grand prix

Posted by: Sean | Posted on: May 30th, 2010 | 0 Comments

This weekend has been an extremely lazy weekend for me in relation to getting any work done online, most of this weekend I spent actually working in my job, and between working and sleeping I didn't have an awful lot of free time to myself. The only free time that I had was last night (Saturday) after work, which I ended up not spending at home, and watched the film Avatar, which is actually a great, film. I never saw it before and I really enjoyed it, bits of the film looked like a computer game though, but for the most part it was a great film. I think I will definitely be going out to buy the blu-ray disc of it :D.

Then onto today, since I didn't get to watch today's grand prix race live I had to set it to record, and I have just finished watching it before I started to write this blog post. Today's race was interesting and the unexpected happened, Vettel and Webber had a huge collision, just when they were in first and second position, on lap 41, CRASH!, into the side of each other, Vettel was forced to retire as his car was unfit to continue where Webber had to make a pit stop to repair the damages caused to his car. That made it great for McLaren who now had Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button in first and second position :D. It was a great race and definitely a well deserved victory for McLaren! Now the championship leader board is really close with Lewis in third, Jenson in second with Webber in first! Bring on the Canadian grand prix in two weeks time!

Spanish Grand Prix – Can't believe it

Posted by: Sean | Posted on: May 9th, 2010 | 0 Comments

Today's Grand Prix race came with a sudden twist at the end. The team I follow is McLaren and throughout the whole race they were performing really well. That was up until the second last lap where suddenly Lewis' tyre blew out and he lost control and crashed the car. I could not believe it, he was set to be on the podium again, last time in China he was up there. I would be absolutely gutted if I had completed almost the entire race and was in with a good chance of winning and then suddenly have to retire due to a tyre blow out! The race was excellent though and I did not even expect Lewis to get as far as he did, I didn't know the drivers starting positions until today as I didn't get time to watch the qualifying laps. As soon as I saw that the two Red-Bull cars were in P1 and P2 I knew that it was going to be a good race, Webber and Vettel are great drivers and you can guarantee that if they qualify in those positions then they are likely to keep them. When Lewis suddenly overtook Vettel I couldn't believe it, I was sure that the race was going to finish with the two red bulls in P1 and P2 and Lewis staying in P3 where he qualified. Lewis has definitely lost a lot of points now because of this race, and will have to pull of some incredible races over the next few races to attempt to get back into the battle for world champion. Button is doing brilliant so far this season, currently up on top, leading by 3 points, it's not a lot but if he keeps up with these steady points he is going to be in with a good chance of winning world champion for the second time in two years. The next race is in Monaco next week, and this is definitely my most favourite track out of them all, it is usually full of action and the cars are in close to each other in lots of corners as they are sharp, I think what also makes these track interesting is that it takes place out on the streets! The people in the apartments around the street where the race takes place definitely have the best seats in the house!

Lewis Hamilton – First Win For 2009 Season

Posted by: Sean | Posted on: July 26th, 2009 | 0 Comments

He finally did it, Lewis Hamilton won his first race today for the 2009 season of F1 Racing :D . It has been a long time coming but he definitely deserves it now after having such a slow and terrible start to the season.

As per usual I have only just finished watching the race, I record the races when they are on live and then watch them later. It is very difficult trying to avoid finding out who the winner is of the race for that day. I usually try to stay away from sites such as twitter on race days as I follow a lot of the formula one racers.

The new aero pack that was added to Lewis' car last week has been slightly modified this week, and it has proven to be a great success so far. Hopefully this will be the start to many more successful races for the rest of the season :D .

I have always thought Lewis was the best driver and today he has pulled through again :D . Now there is going to be a four week break until the next race :( The racing teams will all take a week or two off now to rest and no work will be done.

Then once they start back they will be preparing for their next race, and trying to get that bit of extra juice out of their cars for when the qualifying starts.

There was definitely lots of action today in the race, with wheels flying off and drivers dropping out due to mechanical problems. Also there was great head to head action for the position of 1st, second and third.

Here are today’s race results: 1st place: Lewis Hamilton , 2nd place: Kimi Raikkonen and 3rd place: Mark Webber.