F1 2011 - Blog Intro

Greetings Internet,

With only one week to go before the first race of the new season over on the other side of the world in Australia, I introduce to you another foray into the world of online communication with a blog dun dun daaaa! (or other cinematic music effect). Now people of the internet this blog is to take a somewhat alternative approach to the analysis of the upcoming F1 season.

So people, what do have to look forward to over the upcoming months, well I'd guess they will be some rather fast motor cars travelling around an assortment of circuits, and that pretty much sums it up. There will be some new gizmos for the competitors to play with, KERS will return and inevitably with it come a myriad of explanations of it's operation as the brains of average Jenkins are dissolved at the thought. To add to that we now have adjustable rear wings, where a flap opens in the wing plane to lower drag and increase speed for passing. Simple eh?.... Well this system can only be applied once you are within a one second window of the car in front controlled remotely by race control using tracking data.

Then there is the tyres, new manufacturer for the year with colour coordinated sidewall graphics - which makes perfect sense so that the audiences can work out compound is being used at any given time... Ah but the hardest two compounds are being coloured white and silver which depending on colour degradation or lighting could be indistinguishable.

So looking to the competitors, with 12 teams and 24 drivers who will be at the front - well it will likely be the same cast as last year but with the gaps between the mid-field and the front closing up. Bringing teams like Force India, Williams and possibly Sauber up to Mercedes and catching the front runners. As for those people floundering at the bottom end of the grid, hmm, looking at the pictures of the new cars some of them seem.... well... exactly the same as last year. The STR looks completely unchanged and could fall prey to the three newer teams from last year (OK two, HRT probably got the back row pre-booked).

What about the drivers, the squishy organic bit behind the wheel - that consideration brings with it certain questions:

When will Alonso start shouting at people.
Will Massa stop been dominated
How many times will the words "For Sure" be uttered.
How grumpy will Schumacher get, and will he realise he's old
Will Petrov's crash bill go down, and will he ever let Fernando past
And how many drivers will be defeated by the awesomeness of Kobayashi.
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Now how is this blog thing going to work, well the honest answer is I have no idea lots of guesswork mixed with a likely lack of punctuality and consistency. But one thing i do know for sure is that it will contain an exceptionally arbitrary bonus point championship, where I'll assign points for whatever I feel fits to anyone, the power and all. The idea behind this is purely for humorous effect, seen it done before on another site and thought it was good so I'm stealing some of that.

So people of the internet, as the season draws near, and hopefully the quality of the writing gets better with some races to report on and mad bonus points to award should be rather interesting.

Note this is the first post, so may seem a little naff, and may be inaccurate but that's blogging for you always full of crap but over the year should be humorous.