Alvin's Formula One Blog

Now that the season is over, we are all looking forward to the next one as we do every year. Next year will be quite different though with many major rule changes including a huge change to the engines from 2.4 litre V8 to 1.6 litre V6 turbos. The turbo era is back from the 80s - Back To The Future. I'm looking forward to the changes as this will hopefully reset the grid and not allow Red Bull to bulldoze their way through the season and make it another boring one. Now I'm not really that technical in F1 although I am really a fanatic fan and I understand how most races will go by looking at free practice, qualifying, how the cars runs over time but these changes need a really experienced insider to know how they will affect the racing next year. That is why I'm sharing what Gary Anderson, BBC F1 technical analyst has to say about it. Read the full article HERE . The cars that emerge at the end of January for the start of pre-season testing will look very different ...

This is a follow up on the article I wrote yesterday called " Whos's Gonna Win It - Part 2 ". As we all know Red Bully is "Bullying" everybody now for the past 3-4 races and are destined to take both world championships..again. How did they do it? How did they become so dominant starting from Japan when at the start of this year 7 different drivers won at 7 different races? Gary Anderson, BBC F1's technical analyst, the former technical director of the Jordan, Stewart and Jaguar teams explains it from his point of view and perhaps from the information he has managed to glean from inside the paddock and the pits. "There, chief technical officer Adrian Newey has found a way to recover more of the rear downforce that was lost through the banning of exhaust-blown diffusers at the end of last season than anyone else." Read about what Gary knows here .