Gabriella

08/10/2022

A day of driver market news…

Months of intense speculation have culminated in a day with two announced confirming two of the most hotly debated seats on the 2023 F1 grid. Firstly, Alpine are having an all French (and all Normandy) lineup next year as they sign Pierre Gasly from AlphaTauri. This may cause some issues for the Alpine management through…

08/10/2022

Japanese GP Qualifying Analysis

A session that produced the expected result and had no major shocks… Red Bull – A fourth pole for Verstappen which nearly didn’t come to be after the Dutchman was summoned to the stewards for ‘driving erratically’ but escaped without penalty. Perez starts tomorrow’s race P4. Ferrari – Leclerc was tantalisingly close to pole position…

03/10/2022

McDonald’s Marvellous Promotional Material

McDonald’s, the restaurant giant that earned $23.22 billion in revenue in 2021 as the world’s largest fast food chain. Their rise from San Bernardino, California to the global behemoth they are now has been meteoric and they wouldn’t have reached the dizzying heights they have without some canny promotion. For McDonald’s there are so many…

02/10/2022

Are supermarket copycats a good or bad thing?

For many years, the budget supermarkets of this world (Aldi and Lidl) have been known for ‘copying‘ other brands’ packaging and products in an attempt to convince customers to ditch their beloved brands for their cheaper products. In principle, this doesn’t sound the worst idea in the world: customers get an idea of what they…

02/10/2022

Singapore GP Debrief

A long, long race with more incidents than you can count. Maylander certainly earned his money today in managing the mixed-up order… Red Bull – A second win of the season for Perez on a street track after superb management of the wet-dry race. Verstappen struggled at the start and throughout the race and came…

01/10/2022

What do we do about breaches of the Cost Cap?

It’s the talk of the Formula One community: who has breached the Cost Cap? Who hasn’t breached the Cost Cap? What do we do about those who have breached the Cost Cap? For those who have been living under a rock this weekend, there has been a great deal of speculation about the Cost Cap…

01/10/2022

Singapore GP Qualifying Analysis

An interesting and uninterrupted qualifying session yielded some intriguing results… Ferrari – A strong performance for Ferrari with Leclerc taking his 9th pole this season although I doubt it will lead to a win. Sainz starts P4. Red Bull – Two different stories from Red Bull with Perez taking his first front row in Singapore…

30/09/2022

Singapore GP Practice Analysis

My first Singapore GP sessions watched were very interesting, some excitement, a beautiful track and lots of things to talk about… Ferrari – A good start to the fly-aways with a 1-2 in FP2. Leclerc did suffer from brake issues but still managed to put in a time good enough for second. Mercedes – Surprisingly,…

27/09/2022

Month 1 Review

It’s now been a month of running my little website Motorsport and More and things have been going well. I’ve achieved the aims I set and have done rather well. Here’s my analysis of how I did it. In my first month of operation, I exceeded the expectations that I had set myself. My initial…