Grand Prix Diary

Bahrain, Friday: Karun Chandhok finally gets to see his HRT car

March 12th, 2010

After a day looking at an empty space in the garage, Karun Chandhok finally gets to see his HRT car and while it has a feel of home about it, he is not at all impressed.

Bahrain, Thursday: Ryanair to sponsor Kubica?

March 10th, 2010

While most F1 drivers were soaking up the sun in Bahrain today, Robert Kubica was not having such a good time. He departed as planned from Warsaw to Bahrain but had to change ‘planes in Florence and finally ended up…

Vettels California Girl

March 9th, 2010

Continuing his tradition of giving his cars ever racier girls names, Sebastian Vettel has christened his new Red Bull racer ‘Luscious Liz’. Seb has so far not divulged the inspiration behind the choice of name but we can reveal that…

F1 gets the heavy metal treatment!

March 8th, 2010

There are some things the Germans are good at, efficiency, making high quality and reliable products, penalty shoot outs and invading neighbouring countries but it has to be said, with the possible exception of Nena and her 99 Red Balloons…

McLaren sponsors PR department’s really working hard…

March 8th, 2010

Around this time last year, Vodafone came up with an amusing video which featured Lewis Hamilton and Heikki Kovalainen as taxi drivers. This year Walkers Crisps have come up with a not so amusing video featuring Jenson Button as a…

Are Force India really sad to see Ian Phillips go?

March 6th, 2010

Not if you look carefully at the URL posted on Twitter by team source @clubforce: http://bit.ly/9ICUNT >Update: Just half an hour after we published this story a very embarrassed Force India spokesman contacted Grand Prix Diary to assure us that the…