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My brand-new #MotorSport column looks at Fernando Alonso’s now sadly compromised career endgame. Click below to read it.
www.motorsportmagazine.com/articles/sin...
A futile end to a frustrating career?
Fernando Alonso looked set to rule #F1 for years in 2006, writes @thebishf1.bsky.social
20 years on, he's still razor sharp but saddled with a car that's farcically uncompetitive
go.motorsportmagazine.com/4u...
We at Diagonal Comms are proud to be working with physician and performance coach Dr. Elina Haukipuro 👩⚕️🏎️
We will be supporting Elina, who has worked for a variety of current Formula 1 drivers and the Mercedes and Williams teams, with comms, PR, and social media management services.
#OnThisDay 30 years ago an #F1 #AusGP was run in Melbourne for the very first time. Last week I wrote a #MotorSport column about that race, comparing & contrasting ‘F1 then’ with ‘F1 now’. ‘F1 then’ came out the winner, sadly. Click below to read it.
www.motorsportmagazine.com/articles/sin...
#OnThisDay in ’91 Ayrton Senna won at Phoenix in the new McLaren MP4/6, one of my favourite #F1 cars: high-revving 3.5-litre non-turbo V12; 6-speed manual ’box; big front & rear wings but no other wings; fat slicks; brilliant, iconic but simple livery; oh... & it sounded awesome!
Yup.
#OnThisDay in 2003, in Melbourne, David Coulthard won an #F1 GP for the 13th & last time. Pic: his winning McLaren MP4-17D was a very pretty car, wasn’t it (grooved tyres notwithstanding)? #AusGP
#OnThisDay in ’97 David Coulthard won the #AusGP - McLaren’s first #F1 GP win since Ayrton Senna had won the #AusGP 4 years before, a dry spell of 1219 days - #AnorakFact. Great Kodachrome pic taken by Paul-Henri Cahier.
Pablo Birger died in a road car crash on Ruta Nacional 7 between Luján & General Rodríguez, near his native Buenos Aires, #OnThisDay 60 years ago, aged 42. He started 2 GPs, in Argentina, in Gordinis, in ’53 (pic) & ’55. He’s buried at Cementerio San José de Flores, Buenos Aires.
Maldonado’s win wasn’t the end of the drama, for a fire then broke out in the Williams garage. No-one was killed - thank god - but 16 suffered burns &/or smoke inhalation. Maldonado himself lifted his 12-year-old cousin out of the flames, since his right leg was in a cast. (2/2)
#HappyBirthday Pastor Maldonado, 41. He started 95 #F1 GPs, shunted enough to earn a reputation for it, but famously won for Williams in Barcelona in 2012. #AnorakFact: his shock #SpanishGP victory remains the only F1 GP win by a Venezuelan driver. (1/2)
#HappyBirthday Teo Fabi, 71. He drove 64 #F1 GPs, bagging 2 podiums, but he never won in F1 nor even led an F1 lap despite 3 F1 poles. He was successful in #F2 & #IndyCar. Pic: Monaco, ’86, battling the mighty Benetton-BMW B186, which pumped out around 1400bhp in qualifying trim.
#HappyBirthday Danny Sullivan, 76. He started 15 #F1 GPs for Tyrrell in ’83 - but he was an #IndyCar ace & he’s best known for his brilliant ’85 #Indy500 ‘spin & win’. Pic: 2nd for Tyrrell in the ’83 #RaceOfChampions at Brands Hatch, the last non-championship F1 race.
Brian Redman started 12 #F1 GPs, bagging one podium (Jarama, ’68; Cooper-BRM), & was hugely successful in sports cars, scoring more outright wins than I can list in 280 characters (hence the table below). He was also #F5000 champion 3 years running. The word is ‘complete’. (2/2)
#HappyBirthday Brian Redman, 89, a truly magnificent sports car driver. Warwick Brown once said: “The best I ever raced was Brian Redman. As capable as Mario Andretti & a better thinker. A British gent. Butter wouldn’t melt. But put him in a race car & he was an animal.” (1/2)
“Rights. Justice. Action. For ALL Women and Girls”
This is the UN theme for International Women’s Day 2026 and it couldn’t resonate more loudly with our LGBTQ+ community.
#iwd2026 #internationalwomensday #allwomenarerealwomen #lgbtq #racingpride
#OnThisDay in ’98 McLaren totally dominated the #AusGP - but the manner of the lead change from David Coulthard to Mika Häkkinen became an #F1 media feeding frenzy. Great pic taken by the much missed Martyn ‘Elfie’ Elford, son of the equally much missed ‘Quick Vic’.
Since today is #InternationalWomensDay, I thought I’d share the #AndColossallyThatsHistory podcast that Richard Williams & I recorded last year on the fascinating subject of the history of female racing drivers. It’s quite a tale. Click below to listen.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...
This post - & this column - aged rather well! Congrats George Russell! #AusGP #F1
Despite a complex knee operation that had left 41-year-old Graham Hill (Lotus; pic) with impaired mobility, he finished 6th - a drive that he rated as among his very best. After the race he couldn’t get out of the car by himself & had to be lifted out. (2/2)
#OnThisDay in ’70 the #SouthAfricanGP was all about 2 men in their 40s. Jack Brabham (Brabham; pic), a month shy of his 44th birthday, scored his 14th & final #F1 GP victory, while 41-year-old Graham Hill returned to F1 after a huge shunt at Watkins Glen the previous year. (1/2)
If you’d like to read my whole #MotorSport column, click below. (2/2)
www.motorsportmagazine.com/articles/sin...
In today’s #AusGP quali, Merc achieved that much coveted #F1 prize: a front-row lockout. A couple of weeks ago I wrote a #MotorSport column predicting exactly that (see attached screen-grab). Let’s see whether George Russell & Kimi Antonelli can complete the job tomorrow. (1/2)
Actually loved that Ligier-Matra JS5.
#OnThisDay in 2005 Giancarlo Fisichella drove a superb race from pole position to win the #AusGP for Renault. Team-mate Fernando Alonso was 3rd. Ferrari’s Rubens Barrichello (2nd) split the 2 Renault men. All 3 had led the race at one point.