Once again, Monaco proves to be a race that plays a critical role in the championship. A hard fought win by Lewis Hamilton was perhaps his best, but it also has vaulted him into the lead in the championship. Meanwhile, another disappointing Monaco GP for Ferrari leaves the team now on the defensive. So what [...]

So it is late on the night before this year’s Indianapolis 500, and there is something about the race that continues to stick in my mind. I have been following the development of Graham Rahal as a “500″ contender and continue to be impressed. Yes, he’s young. Yes, he’s inexperienced. And yes, the Ganassi, Penske, [...]

During this week came rumblings that Renault is not only disappointed in its rookie driver, Nelson Piquet, but the team may consider some sort of driver shootout for the seat in the offseason. Does anyone remember in the 2008 offseason that Nelson himself and many experts predicted a close battle between the Renault drivers for [...]

Grand Prix DB provides each driver’s statistical rating prior to the start of the race. A rating of 1.00 is the highest possible score. Here are the Grand Prix DB Power Ratings for the Monaco GP: Felipe Massa, 0.94 Kimi Raikkonen, 0.93 Robert Kubica, 0.83 Lewis Hamilton, 0.83 Nick Heidfeld, 0.75 Heikki Kovalainen, 0.70 Nico [...]

The Turkish GP could go down as the race that Lewis Hamilton finally arrived on the F1 scene. Yes, there are all the statistical records from last year, but it was only until this race, that we finally witnessed Hamilton fighting for every last position the way we used to see Michael Schumacher, Ayrton Senna, [...]

After finishing 2nd at the Turkish GP, Lewis Hamilton stated in an Autosport news report, “My predicted race finish was fifth.” It just so happens that Grand Prix DB had the same prediction in its Turkish GP Pre-race Power Ratings. And congratulations to Hamilton for an excellent drive, one he described as perhaps his best [...]

Grand Prix DB provides each driver’s statistical rating prior to the start of the race. A rating of 1.00 is the highest possible score. Here are the Grand Prix DB Power Ratings for the Turkish GP: 1. Kimi Raikkonen, 0.93 2. Felipe Massa, 0.91 3. Robert Kubica, 0.83 4. Nick Heidfeld, 0.77 5. Lewis Hamilton, [...]

The most important note of the day is that it appears Heikki Kovalainen is pretty much OK and will likely return for the next round in Turkey. Nick Heidfeld seems to be the bellwether this year for change. First, he was at the center of the Q3 slow down lap controversy in Malaysia that saw [...]