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Brad's Formula 1 Blog September 2007 Archive

By Brad Spurgeon, About.com Guide to Formula 1

Interesting Order of Drivers in F1 Championship

Sunday September 30, 2007
After today's wild, wild race in Japan and Lewis Hamilton's amazing victory, the drivers' title has slimmed down to a toss up between Hamilton, Fernando Alonso and Kimi Raikkonen - ... Read More

Report on Safety in Formula 1

Friday September 28, 2007
An extraordinary report about the failure of safety measures to cut deaths and injuries in Grand Prix racing has begun to make the rounds of scientific publications and wire services. ... Read More

Stepney to Tell His Story About Ferrari

Wednesday September 26, 2007
Nigel Stepney, the "rogue employee" at the center of the McLaren Mercedes and Ferrari spy scandal, is writing his autobiography. In addition to the spy scandal story, which Stepney ... Read More

Japanese Grand Prix Weather Bulletin

Tuesday September 25, 2007
The weather is supposed to be rainy most of the weekend for the Japanese Grand Prix at the renovated Mount Fuji Speedway later this week. This gets me thinking ... Read More

McLaren Mercedes Will Not Appeal the $100 Million Fine

Friday September 21, 2007
McLaren Mercedes today announced that in the interests of the sport and moving forward with the team, it will not appeal the $100 million penalty in the spying scandal. "Having now ... Read More

FIA Announces Revised Schedule for 2008

Tuesday September 18, 2007
The FIA announced the provisional schedule for the 2008 season last July, and it has now announced a revised 2008 F1 schedule. The Belgian and Italian races have been ... Read More

McLaren Withdraws Hungary Appeal

Tuesday September 18, 2007
I haven't been talking much about the "other appeal" case in F1, since the spy scandal has dominated the news. But remember, McLaren Mercedes lost points at the Hungarian ... Read More

Colin McRae

Sunday September 16, 2007
With all of the wildness at the Belgian Grand Prix this weekend over the spy scandal, many people in Formula 1 had a hard landing on Sunday morning when it ... Read More

Alonso's move

Saturday September 15, 2007
There have been mixed reactions to the gossip circulating in the paddock here in Spa-Francorchamps about how Fernando Alonso had tried to put pressure on his team owner, Ron Dennis, ... Read More

Spy Scandals, F1 and NFL

Friday September 14, 2007
Everything is supposed to be bigger in the U.S. - but how odd it is to see that the NFL and the Formula 1 world championship have both had their ... Read More

F1 Drivers and the War in Iraq

Thursday September 13, 2007
Dan Knutson, an American F1 journalist with decades of experience, found himself rather bored by the responses about suspensions, dampers and the like given by the drivers in today's press ... Read More

A Monza Passing Festival

Sunday September 9, 2007
One of the most wonderful aspects of the Italian Grand Prix at Monza today was for me the fact that so many important passing maneouvres happened throughout the race. ... Read More

Odd Ferrari Press Release

Thursday September 6, 2007
Ferrari published a press release today saying that it would attend the World Motor Sport Council case against McLaren Mercedes in Paris next week. Fine. But it seemed ... Read More

When an F1 Appeal Becomes a New Case

Wednesday September 5, 2007
The McLaren-Ferrari spy scandal case court of appeal was all set to take place on Sept. 13, next week after the Italian Grand Prix this weekend and before the Belgian ... Read More

Renault F1 Team Gets a New President

Tuesday September 4, 2007
Once, there was Patrick Faure, a senior man at the Renault car company who acted as president of the Renault F1 projects and carried the car company through all sorts ... Read More

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