2011 Preseason Podcast Preview It's the annual Preseason preview, this year mainly apologising for stuff we have done, flame wars we have accidentally started and countries we have pissed off. We try to get information from the baffling results of the pre-season ...Read More

Hispania Racing Totally has today launched it's new car via a picture. The F11111111111 is appararently a significant step forward, I'm guessing up to five times better, but five multiplied by zero is still zero. Gone from the car is the drab ...Read More

Virgin have today lanched their 2011 F1 car and, despite this not being a techinical Formula One website by any stretch of the imgaination, even I can see that this is a boring car. It's got not fancy bits, no sweeping ...Read More

McLaren's 2011 titles hopes have been invigorated with the launch of their new MP4 slash some number car in Berlin. In a launch that looked more like a bad T-Mobile advert (sorry Vodafone) members of the public who were also actors ...Read More

Red Bull has launched their RB7 today, which uses all the words the RB6 and RB5 used. Blah Blah Adrian Newey Blah Blah Tight Package Blah Blah Scuplted Rear End. But the most talked about point of the launch is that over ...Read More

Robert Kubica, already scraping the prize for most awkward launch pic has also sailed to the top of the cutting through corporate bullshit leaderboard when asked about the Renault/Lotus sponsorship, saying: “I think Lotus is our sponsor. At least from what ...Read More

Robert Kubica has won the anotherf1podcast Awkward Launch 2011 TM award for this 'thumbs up' shot. © Julien Leroy / www.firstlap.be Upping the ante from the awkward sitting on tyre shot, the facial expression is totally at odds with the upward pointing ...Read More

Using its online Lotus notes magazine, Team Lotus have launched their new 2011 F1TM car. Calling it the T128 and continuing the numbers on from the original Lotus cars it's said to be a more agressive design than last years entry. And ...Read More

Renault have launched the R31 live on the internet today, calling the car brave and addictive. Using the JPS (not JPS) JPS Gold and Black colours that adorned the Lotus cars in the seventies are back and all the sponsors (except ...Read More

Sauber, now so Mexican it will (actually after watching last nights awkward Top Gear tirade on Mexicans, let's just skip any xenophobia) has launched the C30 (so close to the C-3PO, now that would have been a car, a lanky ...Read More