Twitter Poll: Top 10 Circuits

After a while of Twitter nagging people to answer this poll, the top 10 will finally be revealed!!

So here it is, in full HD (ish), the top 10 Twitter people that follow me circuits top list poll vote result!

=6 Suzuka- 4 votes

The Japanese GP destination for the last few years is the first of the (BIG) bunch at =6, we have seen some dramatic races there over the years (notably the DRENCHED 2010).

=6 Sao Paulo- 4 votes



Home to many thrilling season-ending Brazilian GPs, Sao Paolo circuit is also favored by 4 people!!

=6 Nurburgring- 4 votes



Whether it's the 13 mile Nordschleife, or the GP circuit, the Nurburgring is one of the world's finest circuits! Home to the German GP (alternate with Hockenheim, not in the top 10) and the Nurburgring 24H, it is also one of the most renowned!

=6 Melbourne- 4 votes



Ok, you're probably getting a bit bored of =6 circuits, but now we have Melbourne! The half-street circuit is home to the Australian GP, which has opened our F1 season for many years now!

=6 Le Mans- 4 votes

The last 6= (thank goodness) and the legend that is Le Mans. Home to the LM 24 hours, argubaly the toughest, best race in the world, this track is long, fast, and VERY dangerous!!

=4 Monza- 5 votes

Yep, yet more = tracks. Monza has been favored over the last bunch! Maybe because of it's history, it's thrilling races, the speed of it. Monza is a great track which hosts great Italian GPs!!

=4 Montreal- 5 votes

The other half-street circuit along with Melbourne, although this was more popular. Home to the Canadian GP, which has seen some of the best GPs of recent times!

3 Silverstone- 6 votes



Finally, a track that isn't =!! Silverstone was voted 3rd by a (mostly) British group! The British GP brings fans like no other, and a race like no other too!

2 Monaco- 15 votes



A MASSIVE leap in votes for the top 2, and the ultimate street circuit, home of the Monaco GP (my persona favourite GP) comes 2nd to...............

1 Spa- 22 votes



Yes, you have voted Spa as your favourite circuit!! With 7 more votes than even Monaco, and 16 more than 3rd placed Silverstone, it has won easily. The Belgian GP is always a fans favourite, and it's something to look forward to, after the summer break!


Thanks for reading!!

Apology For Not Posting

I apologise for not blogging for a long while. A lack of an idea, holiday and then illness means I have been inactive for a number of weeks now.

I will be starting to blog again, and my first post back will be a Twitter poll I did on favourite circuits.

I hope you will read again and I will pick up where I left off :-)

F1 Street Weekly: 19 June - 26 June

This blog is now 2 weeks old, and this this my weekly update on this blogs' happenings.

I will admit, this has been a pretty quiet week for my blog, only 2 articles coming since I did my Week 1 roundup!

Despite this, I have started a new feature for qualifying and race for every race weekend. It's called "Pick Of The Bunch", and what happens is, I pick 3 drivers to cover each weekend. Then I do a review on these 3 drivers for quali and race. I was trying to be different from the usual "wekkend reports".

Since I recieved positive feedback for this feature, I will continue for the rest of the season!

Pick Of The Bunch: Valencia Quali
f1street.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/pick-of-the-bunch-valencia-qualifiying.html

Pick Of The Bunch: Valencia Race
f1street.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/pick-of-bunch-valencia-race.html

Thanks to all my readers once again. I will keep posting. Goodbye for now!

Pick Of The Bunch: Valencia Race

Paul Di Resta- 7th


Paul made up 3 places from starting 10th on the grid. He had a very good race, running as high as 2nd in one part of the race. As well as that, it was only in the closing stages that he was overtaken by Webber and Schumacher, meaning he could have came 5th!


Mark Webber- 4th


People didn't think it was possible, but in Valencia, famed for it's lack of overtaking, Mark made up 15 places to come 4th. After his disastrous quali, he came through and got a wonderful result. One of the drivers of the day for sure!
 

Heikki Kovalainen- 14th


He could have came higher than 14th, but an incident with Jean-Eric Vergne caused him to have an unscheduled pit stop. He came 2 places lower than his Caterham team-mate Petrov. I think this race had a lot of promise for Heikki, but an incident ruined his day!
 

Pick Of The Bunch: Valencia Qualifying

New feature! Pick of the Bunch is where I'll pick 3 drivers from each weekend to review their performance in qualifying and the race. I thought I'd try something different then the normal "race reports". I hope you like it

Paul Di Resta- 10th


Both Hulkenburg and Di Resta did well to make it to Q3 this time out but Paul stood out for me when he posted a purple middle sector, and if it weren't for a 3rd sector lock-up,  he might of had a front row result! Not as good as Montreal's 8th place on thr grid, but it was great to see Paul in Q3 once again



Mark Webber- 19th


An absolute disaster of a Saturday for Mark, failing to get a lap in for FP3 due to hydraulic problems, then a DRS failure in Q1, left him with 19th place on the grid. Even though it is no fault of his own, Red Bull must do better than this.


Heikki Kovalainen- 16th


Well done to Heikki for making Q2 this time! In Q2, it didn't look like he was going to go out, but in the dying moments, he pasted a lap faster than Ricciardo's. This means he was quicker than both Toro Rossos in qualifying today, which should be quite worrying for the Red Bull support team.


I hope you enjoyed reading, and will continue to read!!

F1 Street Weekly- 12 June- 19 June 2012

Hello all,

I have decided to to a weekly review on the happenings of my blog! With a week gone by, there has been plenty that has went on already!

I had an interview with Charlotte Eyre, the BTCC hopeful going on the Ginetta Scholarship.

f1street.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/interview-with-charlotte-eyre.html

Next, I introduced people to f1etc.net, which once it is finished, is sure to be the place to go for motorsport updates and news.

f1street.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/f1-etc.html

Before the Le Mans 24 Hours, I did a preview of it, saying that it should be one of the most exciting editions ever, and I think I was right!

f1street.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/le-mans-24-hours-preview.html

I decided that people might be wondering where the 7 leavers of the 2011 F1 season had got to. So i did some research and wrote an informative article about that.

f1.street.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/f1-leavers-where-are-they-now.html

Here are some f1 fans you should check out:

KGibbsF1

Blog- kgibbs.blogspot.co.uk
Twitter-http://twitter.com/KGibbsF1

FakeForceIndia

Blog- ohfakeforceindiayoucrackmeup.blogspot.co.uk
Twitter- http://twitter.com/FakeForceIndia

TheGridWalker

Blog- thegridwalker.blogspot.com
Twitter- http://twitter.com/TheGridWalker
YouTube- http://www.youtube.com/user/TheGridWalker074

Thank you for reading.

F1 leavers- Where are they now?

7 drivers left F1 last year, some of them we are still hearing of (Barrichello, Buemi) and some are like where on earth are they?? This article will tel you what these 7 have got up to since leaving F1.

Rubens Barrichello


Everyone knows that Rubens is now in IndyCar. There was talk at first of him leaving out the ovals, but in an interview, he called that "chicken". He picked up "Best Rookie" at the Indy 500, which I was happy to see him being successful and happy.


Sebastian Buemi


Another well-known story. Sebastian moved to sportscars to compete in the WEC for Toyota. He competed in the Le Mans 24 Hours but his car was retired with problems. He seems to be happy in sportscars and could stay there if no other F1 opportunities come up.


Jarno Trulli


Trulli was going to be driving for Caterham in 2012, but was replaced late by a "pay driver" suspect. He said this was a dissapointing end to his F1 career. He has no racing seat just now, but attends F1 races in the Caterham paddock.


Adrian Sutil


Oh dear. Sutil was convicted of assaulting Genii Capital CEO Eric Lux in January. He was given an 18 month suspended prison sentence and a 200'000Euro fine to be given to charity



Vitantonio Liuzzi


After being replaced by Karthikeyan at HRT for 2012,  he joined the Superstars Touring Car Series in Italy, with a 2nd in Round 1 at Monza, and winning the 2nd round of the season.


Jaime Algersuari


Toro Rosso got rid of both Jaime and Buemi for 2012, Algersuari joined the BBC F1 team, joining James Allen on BBC Radio 5 Live, as the expert summariser.


Jerome D'Ambrosio


Popularly known as "Custard", D'Ambrosio was left without a seat at Marussia for 2012. He managed to stay in F1 as Lotus' 3rd driver though, and he joined Sky F1 to be a co-commentator for practice sessions

So now you know where they are, do you hope to see any of them back in F1??

Thanks for reading, and I hope you will continue to. :-)