Rally Portugal Day 2 - A little bit of rain

Some action from day 2 of the Rally Portugal, it seems a lot of crews struggling and many going off the road leading to an unusual looking order.

Rally Portugal Day 1 Highlights and Loeb's Crash

Another bad to start to a rally for Loeb. Check out some highlights of the action.

Rally Portugal Qualifying Stage

A bit of action from the qualifying stage of the Portugal Rally. Before they all started throwing themselves off into the undergrowth.

BTCC - Warm up for the weekend with some classic action.

This kind of action we can expect come sunday. Cannot wait. What are your best moments of BTCC?

Vatanen Skills in Opel Manta

If i was sat in this car i would be well and truly scared. What a 5 minutes of action from old school rallying.

Check out the highlights of WTCC Rounds 1 & 2. Some close racing and more to come for the rest of the season hopefully.

BTCC Touring Car Highlights 2011

If you need a reason to watch touring cars this weekend then check out this little highlights selection from last year.

Classic Solberg In-Car

A bit of classic action from Solberg back when Subaru were in the WRC and fast. Got to love a bit of rallying in-car.

Malaysian GP - Driver of the Day

So this weekend a few drivers really stepped up in the inclement weather. None more so than my driver of the day.

Sergio Perez - No surprises here. He took that car right to the top and with a few calls made differently by the team he would have walked away with that lead. He gets a few negative marks for throwing away a victory, while I'm sure wins are in his future it may be a while before Sauber are in that position again. However you can't let detract from his performance. He was able to get the most of the tyres and the car throughout the race, his pace on the intermediates was impressive towards the end taking on world champions. So while the nerves got him a bit with the mistake he still deserves and I'm sure will be most people's driver of the day.

Bruno Senna deserves a mention. His pace on the intermediates was great while moving through traffic too. This year is proving to be as competitive as we all hoped. So many teams so close to each other.

An Amusing Look at Maldonados Aussie GP

A rather amusing look into Maldonado's day. I hate to keep mentioning him as he had a great race but this made me laugh. Enjoy!

F1 Driving Styles Revealed

For those new to F1 you will hear comparisons to driving styles of different drivers. You may well think that a car must be driven in one way to be the fastest but this is not the case. No two people drive exactly the same, the way you drive is naturally evolved as you learn and while you can make changes the correct things its difficult to completely change.

Mr Brundle will explain it all much better than i can anyway, enjoy!

Fail of the Day - F1 Round 1

Maldonado losing it on the last lap of he GP with a great position in the bag but the prospect of getting Alonso got the better of him. A great drive by him up until that point though it has to be said.

Australia F1 Drivers of the Day

Well i've been thinking about who i would put as my top driver of the weekend and its a difficult one as so many impressive performances. These are the 3 that i've picked but could have written up so many others.

Button - From start to end he didn't make a mistake and built himself up a lead. Clearly he's got a fast car but more than that he looked more than equal to Hamilton which hasn't been the case before when they are both on form. If Hamilton gets the car working he's normally far and away quicker than Button but it seemed even.

Vettel - Fought well to get up the order and deserved his place. His determination was relentless and this earnt him a 2nd place. He did get lucky with the safety car though to get past Hamilton but you have to earn luck and he certainly did that.

Perez - Great performance from Perez even though he had a dissapointing qualifying day he came through strong in the race with a 1 stop race which worked well for him. He came through in 8th. Can't wait to see how Perez and team mate Kobayashi can do this year if they have the pace to challenge Mercedes and Ferrari. Some of the old guard will get a real test from these two for sure.

Aussie Qualifying - Finally we know who's fast

So what did we learn from today. Well the biggest story arguably is Ferrari. The rumours were all true. Terrible car by the looks. The desperation to deliver a car has gone too far and it looks undriveable. Listening to the commentary there was mentioned watching them come through the pack. You would doubt that has a chance of happening as that's the pace they've got. Unless its race pace is incredible they will be pushing for a few points. The only thing that will drag the car further up the fuel is the determination of Alonso.

HRT have no pace. That's enough on them. They are becoming a laughing stock. You don't get a feeling of any determination to get performance just that they are happy to turn up. Shoul they even be there?

Good to see the Lotus has pace, whether they can mix it up in the race is another question but let's hope they keep it up and not fade away like last year.

I've not mentioned Red Bull. They haven't quite got the pace but I'm sure that will change. No doubt their aero package is up there but this circuit doesn't reflect that strength.

Aside from I think Caterham need a mention, the impression was they'd made a step towards the midfield but that doesn't look like its happened. They still seem to be off that pace and I was hoping for better.

Cannot wait for tomorrow morning. Let's hope for some action. I can see a Hamilton win but I can't help but think the Mercedes will have something to say about it.

Wait Is Over

Well for me it's been a long week after Picking up a pretty major knee injury. Having spent the week off work not able to move around its felt like a long week building up to the weekend. Hopefully plenty of memorable and wonderful moments.

Could we see some surprises on Sunday in Melbourne? Doubtful, from testing the only team out of the ordinary with some pace looks like lotus, I'm sure most will be expecting a a Red Bull win and would be no surprises. I just hope for some good racing, with Massa and Hamilton getting back on form.

In other Motorsport we have the next round of the IRC. Mikkelsen setting the pace at the shakedown and with his form in Mexico last week in WRC I would be expecting him to carry that into the weekend. He's going to be sharp and no doubt raring to go. I doubt he'll have an easy ride though and the regulars will all be challenging.

Now I'll get back to my hospital bed for another few hours before taking up permanent spot on the sofa ready for some F1, IRC and 6 Nations action. I should be in Twickenham this weekend but I'll settle for the sofa and what hopefully turns into a mega weekend. With a strong cocktail of painkillers to go with it.

Enjoy!

This is an amazing piece of work and really gives you the goosebumps when you're watching it. Some of these quotes from people who've dedicated their lives to motorsport in some form or another.

This is a truly amazing piece of work put together and really captures the imagination.