Weird (part two)

Narain Karthikeyan made history at the European Grand Prix when he became the first ever F1 driver to be classified 24th.

Weird (part one)

More than two weeks after the Canadian Grand Prix, there's still no race edit available at http://www.formula1.com/video/race_edits/. I'm trying to come up with some sort of conspiracy theory that might explain this... but alas! I can't. If you can, please let us know.

Quote of the day

"If Lewis wins by 50 seconds, it's not down to the exhausts regs or the fact that he can't change the differential by a bee's dick."

A "bee's dick"? A real gem of a quote, even by Mark Webber's high standards.

And now not for something completely different

Hands up if you thought that the FIA's ban on engine mapping changes between qualifying and the race would finally bring an end to Red Bull Racing's run of nine consecutive pole positions. Yeah, me too. And once again we have an all-Red Bull front row for tomorrow's European Grand Prix.

Double DRS zone may be here to stay

F1 race director Charlie Whiting today revealed that the FIA plans to continue experimenting with double DRS zones for the remainder of the season, despite the fact that neither he nor the drivers believe that the format worked as expected at the last Grand Prix in Canada GP two weeks ago.

And now for something completely different?

Red Bull Racing has had a car on pole position at every one of this year's Formula One Grand Prix. This statistic is impressive enough (or depressing enough, depending on your point of view) and it becomes even more so when you consider that, over the first seven races of the 2011 season, the average difference between the RBR pole sitter's Q3 lap time and that of the nearest non-Red Bull car is more than half a second (0.536 seconds, to be precise).

Engine clampdown to start in Valencia

Formula One teams will no longer be able to either change or tinker with their engines between the start of qualifying and the Grand Prix itself, a letter sent to them from the governing body the FIA has revealed.

Valencia debut for Pirelli's new medium tyre compound

This weekend's European GP will see Pirelli's new medium tyre compound, the PZero White, make its 'prime' debut. The PZero Yellow soft has been chosen as the 'option' tyre.

Single DRS detection point for European Grand Prix

The FIA has confirmed that this weekend's European Grand Prix at Valencia will have two DRS zones

For sure

We're only a third of the way through the F1 2011 season and I'm already approaching every Thursday press conference, every post-qualifying press release and every post-race driver interview with a sense of trepidation. Why? Two words: "for sure".