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[cavallino]

Best F1 sites for current day Formula 1 news: There are literally hundreds of so called F1 news sites. Very few produce *any* original content, they are basically a mix of regurgitated stories from the major news sites and from FIA press releases along with ill informed commentary. The following are the exceptions:


http://www.autosport.com
The best for current breaking news, a paid subscription gets you the weekly magazine, access to pdf copies of the autosport magazine, and the ability to make small payments to success individual articles should you not want a full subscription. Not as good as it used to be but still the benchmark – although it’s debatable whether it’s worth paying for considering the resources listed below.
http://www.totalf1.c...yndication.php:
Don’t forget that TotalF1.com also has RSS feeds of ALL the F1 news.

http://www.formula1.com
A good place for facts, live timing of F1 races and other timed sessions, the place to look up rules etc.
http://www.fia.com/e.../home_page.aspx
A lot of people don’t know about this. The place to go to get your facts right – they have detailed timing information from the race, qualifying and practice – all qualifying laps by all drivers for example. The best place to go overboard with statistics to compare drivers. The content seems to get locked out after the race though.
http://grandprix.com/
Close second for F1 news to autosport, and Maurice Hamilton’s columns are always worth reading
http://www.Pitpass.com
News is same old. Editorial content and features are quality.
http://news.bbc.co.u...one/default.stm
BBC Formula 1 site, getting a lot more attention since BBC started broadcasting F1 again.
http://www.itv.com/formula1/
They may not do the broadcast any more but the site still gets some attention.
http://www.motorsportmagazine.co.uk/
Now edited by Nigel Roebuck, there isn’t much on the site which is good, because what’s there is high quality.
http://www.f1matrix.it - Full lap times for all races, with head to head comparisons between drivers, for when you can’t find it on FIA.com

Formula 1 blogs: The best blogs are the ones written by seasoned F1 journalists or by reporters who are actually at the races. Like news sites, the same problem arises – most F1 ‘fan’ blogs are just a regurgitation of press releases and big news sites with opinions thrown in that aren’t worth reading and are extremely unreliable.
http://www.jamesallenonf1.com/
One of the best F1 blogs, from his time doing commentary, James has contacts and knowledge and it shows.
http://adamcooperf1.com/
Another well known F1 journalist from Autosport
http://www.theracedriver.com/
Peter Windsor’s blog, comments on current races and a great place for F1 nostalgia.
http://joesaward.wordpress.com/
One of the old guard in F1 journalism. Can come across as a bit bitter and cynical but still has vast knowledge, and views worth reading.
http://scarbsf1.wordpress.com/
Technical F1 blog, fascinating if you are interested in F1 technological developments, especially in aerodynamics.
http://formulaone.blogs.nytimes.com/
A good F1 blog from America? Yes, really.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/formula1/
The BBC F1 blog, well worth a look.

Historical and technical information

http://www.scarbsf1.com - Craig Scarborough's site. An absolute treasure trove of technical articles from one of the best in the business. Worth spending a long time over.
http://www.racetechmag.com/
Exactly what it sounds like. High brow technical stuff.
http://www.motorsport-total.com/f1/db/
stats, lots of them. German website so open it through google translate or something similar.
http://www.f1rejects.com - Wonderful articles, interviews and biographics of the drivers who never quite made it. If you want to know which driver was disqualified from a race for being too slow and want to read his interview, look no further.
http://atlasf1.autos...h/dir.html#1995 - The atlasf1 archives, articles from the era before they merged with autosport. The great thing is that the old archives upto around the 2000 season are free. An excellent way to bring back old memories, or to find out about relatively recent F1 history and to understand how it affects how F1 is today. Take this article about the reintroduction of traction control for some instant d�j� vu

http://www.wikipedia.org - A good place to go to look for past results. Most articles are rather rudimentary, though some like the one on Senna are extensive. Mostly avoidable as a source of non factual information though.

http://www.f1technical.net/ - A site that tries hard, and succeeds in part at beign a source of technical information. Not extensive, but fairly reliable as far as it goes.

http://history.formu...wnload_eng.html (thanks to our friend kup) A program with a huge (complete?) archive of lap times. Useful when you sit down to do long nitty gritty analysis.

http://www.statsf1.com/ - Another excellent stats website.

http://www.farzadsf1gallery.com/ Some interesting video clips and other info.

http://www.ddavid.com/formula1/ - One of the best F1 history websites around. 'nuff said

http://www.tagheuer....ution/index.lbl - Tag Heuer, an evolution of F1 time keeping systems. As in title, nice read.

http://www.formula1l...ory/f1-history/ - One of the better blog sites, well worth a look.

http://www.autocoursegpa.com/ - Again a wealth of historical information. Excellent articles about drivers.

http://www.kolumbus.fi/leif.snellman/ 1934-40, The Golden Era of Grand Prix Racing. An amazing nostalgia trip, goose pimple inducingly wonderful.


http://www.miata.net/sport/Physics/ - Physics of Racing Series

http://www.nas.nasa....rodynamics.html - Aerodynamics in car racing

http://www.racefax.com - The work of a bold and very opinionated F1 journalist, covers all of recent F1. There is a 30 day trial taht is well worth a look, I am not sure if the subscription is worth it though, there isn't much that you can't get elsewhere.

http://www.concordeagreement.com - The 1997 version of the current concorde agreement that runs till 31 December, 2007.

http://www.fia.com/s...ons/f1regs.html - Direct link to FIA technical and sporting regulations.
http://www.visionf1.com – An animation of the race, not entirely accurate but still interesting.

Technical:
engineering F1 : French-based engineering resource that goes into detail about F1's technical personnel shufflings and has a listing of who's-who in the F1 technical world. When 'so-and-so' moves from McLaren to Williams, look him up here and get his education, accomplishments, bio, etc.

Photos:
motorsport.com : Current and vintage photos from almost every racing series in the world. Extensive driver photo archive and the vintage shots go back to the early 1900's.

atspeedimages.com : High-res photos from many vintage auto shows and historic races. If you want to see a vintage Bugatti's c#ckpit close-up and personal, this is your source. Many shots of F1 cars of yesteryear without engine and wheel coverings for those who like to see the details. How many of you knew that the chassis bolts on the '71 Tyrrell were purple?

Alternate racing:
grandprixmasters.com : All things GP Masters. One feature I like about this site is the interviews with the old guys. Great insight.

General reference:
how stuff works.com : Just a general information site that is basic, but it will put you on the right track if you don't know about some technical aspect. Read this first if you know nothing about a topic and you'll get a basic understanding of a concept.

Edited by cavallino, 30 May 2011 - 04:47 PM.

[jemstride]

www.itv-f1.com is by far the best F1 website for me, always has been!

www.planet-f1.com has funny features but they seem to make up their articles & i dont trust a word they publish

[Quiet One]

Great links guys! This thread should be always around as reference!

As for planetf1, I loved the Schumacher diary last year.

[krish]

thanks bro for such a good list
I like f1racing.net. I have been visiting it for almost 2 yrs  dont know why

[Autumnpuma]

Good post, Cav! This needs to be stickied. Most of your sites are the ones I use also (I've actually gotten a few of my e-mails read on F1 rejects...if you haven't listened to their podcast, you're missing a grand treat. Hilarious and relevant.) Anyway, here are some worthy sites Cav didn't list:

News:
pitpass.com : This is my first source for F1 news. Fair and ballanced reporting and very good, blow-by-blow, qualy and race reports.

Technical:
engineering F1 : French-based engineering resource that goes into detail about F1's technical personnel shufflings and has a listing of who's-who in the F1 technical world. When 'so-and-so' moves from McLaren to Williams, look him up here and get his education, accomplishments, bio, etc.

Photos:
motorsport.com : Current and vintage photos from almost every racing series in the world. Extensive driver photo archive and the vintage shots go back to the early 1900's.

atspeedimages.com : High-res photos from many vintage auto shows and historic races. If you want to see a vintage Bugatti's c#ckpit close-up and personal, this is your source. Many shots of F1 cars of yesteryear without engine and wheel coverings for those who like to see the details. How many of you knew that the chassis bolts on the '71 Tyrrell were purple?

Alternate racing:
grandprixmasters.com : All things GP Masters. One feature I like about this site is the interviews with the old guys. Great insight.

General reference:
how stuff works.com : Just a general information site that is basic, but it will put you on the right track if you don't know about some technical aspect. Read this first if you know nothing about a topic and you'll get a basic understanding of a concept.

Edited by Autumnpuma, 26 March 2007 - 06:40 PM.

[shampion]

Great thread Cav!!

[goferrarigo]

Good idea Cav, I use an RSS feed of F1-live, which has quite a few articles everyday abt F1...

http://www.f1-live.c...os/f1en_rss.xml

[ecapdeville]

Good Thread Cav!

Pinned it is...

[BradSpeedMan]

nice one Cav

thanks for all the links too, and Mike, yes Pitpass is probably also my nr 1 site..... but I find they just a tad slow...

[Autumnpuma]

BradSpeedMan, on Mar 26 2007, 11:06 PM, said:

nice one Cav

thanks for all the links too, and Mike, yes Pitpass is probably also my nr 1 site..... but I find they just a tad slow...

True, they won't get many 'scoops' but I like the content. I guess they sacrifice speed for quality.

[Shane2]

ITV-F1 is the site I use mainly for my info. Shame they removed the RSS feed

[cavallino]

Added a few.

[Raikkonen_Zn]

Check out www.visionf1.com - They provide some mild analysis on lap times for the race and also the race replays from a simple overhead view in an applet.

I'll post more as I remember.

[Player(1)]

Shane2, on Mar 27 2007, 12:20 PM, said:

ITV-F1 is the site I use mainly for my info. Shame they removed the RSS feed

http://www.itv-f1.com/rss/latest

Thats the rss feed im getting from them.
Also have autosport.com on rss, i'd would like pitpass but not sure if they got one.

http://www.formulapod.com
Their front page has a bunch of F1 news sites rss'd it seems. handy.

[Rainmaster]

Great thread!
my offering

http://www.solent.net/~f1/ - general f1 site



http://www.f1complete.com/ general f1 site



http://f1-facts.com/ f1 stats and facts



http://www.formulaf1.com/ some f1 humour



http://www.f1db.com/tiki-index.php f1 info


i know it's not exactly a ringing endorsement but apologies in advance if any of these sites are less than brilliant, i checked them out and think that all could be of some use to someone, although i usually don't stray too far away from autosport, itv and planet f1.

[admin]

Dont forget that TotalF1.com also has RSS feeds of ALL the F1 news.

http://www.totalf1.c...syndication.php

[David Adams]

Thought i'd just add some spam in here while were at it:

F1 Management Game
www.f1-tm.com

Personally im bored of it, but then I've lived it for years - im sure others are better suited to quoting whether its fun or not!

[Jenson_Rules]

I only just looked at this thread. Very good, and that thing about Al Pease... Very funny, never knew an F1 driver was black flagged for being to slow! How embarrassing!

[elgo]

One in Spanish: www.thef1.com
and www.todoformula.com for other motosports

Edited by elgo, 16 October 2007 - 09:56 PM.

[Magus Perde]

For those who like Fantasy F1 then I myself have my own site wot I wrote - it's in my sig but here you go again -

Free Fantasy F1 at www.thef1game.co.uk  

It's a new site for the 2008 season and I hope that players will feedback changes they would like to see so that I can develop the site to give players a fantasy F1 site that they really want. If you've never tried Fantasy F1, it can be fun, frustrating and ultimately, if you play it with skill and knowledge, surprisingly gratifying

[Argento Reloaded]

See also

www.Grandprixstats.com

http://www.racetechmag.com/

Edited by Argento, 21 February 2008 - 12:32 PM.

[improvateur]

What a great thread!

Not much to add, although the true physics/racing nuts among us should surely check out Brian Beckman's monumental, free, downloadable, magnum opus on the physics of racing.  If math formulae frighten you, then bother not; otherwise you might wanna take a peek at it.  It's an in-depth look at what's really involved in going around a track REALLY FAST without suddenly finding oneself in what Beckman has described as "deep kimchee".

Thanks to one Peter Ogden (who to this day harbors dreams of building something like a Lotus 7) its all available online at:

http://phors.locost7.info/contents.htm

Again thanks for all of the fine contributions here.

[improvateur]

D'oh!  I now realize that Brian Beckman's Physics of Racing is actually the very same thing referenced in the original post as:

http://www.miata.net/sport/Physics/ - Physics of Racing Series

That said, the alternate website in the previous post provides the added benefits of having 3 additional articles (bringing the total to 29), availability in PDF as well as HTML format, and includes the ability to download the whole "book" as a single DOC (1.8M) or PDF file (2.12M).

BTW, to my knowledge one hasn't been able to get the Beckman Series as a single file before today.

My apologies for not noting this in the original post.

Cheers.

Edited by improvateur, 29 April 2008 - 03:06 AM.

[King_Alonso786]

James Allen's fantastic up to date blog is worth a mention

http://www.jamesallenonf1.com/

Also.... http://f1.gpupdate.net/en/

[Jez]

  

[mikathegreat2]

King_Alonso786, on Apr 8 2009, 01:40 AM, said:

James Allen's fantastic up to date blog is worth a mention

http://www.jamesallenonf1.com/

Also.... http://f1.gpupdate.net/en/

I guess he's trying to do everything to be a commentator again!

[King_Alonso786]

mikathegreat2, on Apr 8 2009, 03:57 PM, said:

I guess he's trying to do everything to be a commentator again!

JA used to write Blogs even when he was commentating

Anyway....He is much better then Legard

[freaky2]

Is he? At least with Legard I don't have the necessity to switch off when he talks. Though I admit that he's not perfect, but still...

[The Rumble Strip]

Nowt wrong with Allen.

People didn't like his style as they compared him to Murray.

His analysis of races is usually spot on.

[Rainmaster]

freaky2, on Apr 8 2009, 08:45 PM, said:

Is he? At least with Legard I don't have the necessity to switch off when he talks. Though I admit that he's not perfect, but still...

Correct. Allen probably knows more about F1 than most, but he was a poor communicator. Legard is okay but still makes a few too many mistakes.

Eddie Jordan is the new bad guy, thankfully he is not commentating though, and we have the voice of reason DC to counteract him.