The 2012 Formula One Season’s Awesomeness In One Animated Chart

Twenty races, eight different winners, six world champions on the grid, lots of new blood on podiums: 2012 will be a Formula One season to remember. Here’s how it all unfolded, turning from a topsy-turvy first half into a grand showdown between double world champions Sebastian Vettel and Fernando Alonso, the former

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How Felipe Massa Taught Me To Race The Circuit Of The Americas

Ever since the map of the Circuit of the Americas came out, I've been wondering: What's it like to drive on that thing? When am I gonna get my chance to go through those winding corners and crazy elevation changes? When, Lord? When? When's gonna be my time?

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Watch A Record-Breaking 964 Ferraris Drive Around A Track

Formula 1 took this weekend off, so what was Ferrari driver Felipe Massa up to? Well, he wasn't flipping burgers on the grill or drinking beer by the pool. Not this Brazilian — he was too busy leading 964 Ferraris as they raced around the Silverstone Circuit in England.

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The 2011 Formula One season’s lopsided awesomeness in one chart

Here’s the points chart for the recently concluded Formula One season, total points plotted against Grands Prix. If you’ll ignore the uncanny performance of a certain blond German kid, it was a pretty close fight…for second place.

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The 2011 German Grand Prix in Crayola

The homecoming for Germany’s new world champion, joined by five other Germans in the splendid freezing German summer at the Nürburgring, against a depressed and disillusioned McLaren. What could possibly have gone wrong for Red Bull at the season’s halfway point? Then again, motor racing has a way of being about as…

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The 2011 Australian Grand Prix in Crayola

After a winter off-season extended by the cancellation of the Bahrain Grand Prix, Formula One finally returned on a windy autumn afternoon in Melbourne. Four months without a Grand Prix, it would have been a fun race even if it weren’t fun. But it was fun. Warning: spoilers.

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