Bob Anderson

This is something I have been advocating for years because it just isn’t correct for someone who would healthily weigh 75kg to go on a diet just because the car is overweight. In the 1980s and ‘90s, the weight of the driver was not part of the overall car weight and there were no minimum cockpit length dimensions, so small and light drivers were the order of the day.But that all ...

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It’s interesting to see the FIA is taking a stand on what constitutes an aerodynamic advantage by tackling the lowering of the front ride height with steering lock in Formula 1.The FIA is using a 5mm change from lock to lock as the threshold for legality, but this is difficult to police.With the steering straight ahead, you can slide a block underneath the car that has 5mm clearance ...

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With Williams set to take Sergey Sirotkin, what's it like for those working in a team to know a driver has been taken primarily for commercial reasons? He seems to be an OK driver, but he's nothing amazing, so surely that just makes all the hard work feel like it's for nothing?David Mills, via emailWilliams is in a very difficult position for next year. It has Lance Stroll in one car ...

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At the end of the first lap, the top 10 was: 1 Valtteri Bottas, 2 Lewis Hamilton, 3 Sebastian Vettel, 4 Daniel Ricciardo, 5 Kimi Raikkonen, 6 Max Verstappen, 7 Nico Hulkenberg, 8 Sergio Perez, 9 Esteban Ocon, 10 Felipe Massa - with Fernando Alonso tagging along in 11th.Then look at the end of the race and the gaps between them:Bottas - 3.9 seconds - Hamilton - 15.4s - Vettel - 26.0s ...

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Lewis Hamilton won't have wanted to win it with ninth place in the Mexican Grand Prix, but he's a very worthy four-time world champion.After all, it's not about one race - it's the whole season that counts and he has more wins than anyone else, so well done to him.But while Hamilton has shown how well he can rise to the occasion, a look at the championship points shows that, in ...

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Sunday was a day of motorsport for me, which included watching the MotoGP race from Phillip Island as well as the United States Grand Prix. What a contrast there was between the maximum-commitment racing overtakes there and the mirror-signal-manoeuvre DRS passes that we see so often in Formula 1.From the first lap to the last I couldn't take my eyes off it, and the riders were happy ...

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The unstoppable freight train that is Mercedes running at speed, and with Lewis Hamilton driving like never before, means the 2017 drivers' and constructors' championship trophies will have a prominent place reserved for them in the trophy cabinet in Brackley.Since the summer break Hamilton appears to have matured and his confidence in himself and his consistency is undeniable. Love ...

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Malaysia was an own goal for Ferrari, and the second in two weeks. It was similar to Singapore, in that Ferrari had the car – or even the cars – to win the race, but tripped over itself. This time it was power unit problems rather than a crash at the start.Sebastian Vettel's issue at the end of practice three forced a change of V6 engine and MGU-H, and after that rush he hit a turbo ...

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