A short post to say that I’m back from the Friday practice session. Really tired. Donated blood in the morning, then headed to the circuit. Went in when the gates opened, walked around, took photos, watched Formula BMW practice, watched Vicky Cristina Barcelona (sorry, Aston Martin and Porsche races practice sessions aren’t my cup of [...]

My intrepid friend, Peter Chan, took another walk around the F1 pit garages and start-finish straight yesterday evening. (View his earlier walkabout.) Once again, he has shared his photos with me and given me permission to blog these. Here we go… Work going on at the start-finish straight. I’m imagining 20 cars on the grid, [...]

Oh yes, yesterday’s event with Darren Heath began with a screening of this video. It shows Red Bull’s Mark Webber in a digitally animated simulation of a lap of the Singapore Grand Prix. Among all the simulations I’ve seen, this one is the best. The animation and the sound are spot on. Turn up the [...]

I attended a talk – no, a gathering – with Darren Heath, a photographer who makes F1 look fantastic. Darren, whose career roughly follows David Coulthard’s motor racing journey, has been taking trackside photos for about 20 years. His interest started when he was a teenager. With the support of his father, he attended races [...]

F1 Technical has a couple of nice infographics about F1′s first ever night race: Full throttle under floodlights.