Formula 1: We're All Going on a Summer Holiday - The Top 5

Let me just reach out for my BIG dictionary and hit you with some definitions before we get cracking, something to think about if you will, now try to concentrate:

• Impetus [Im-pit-uss] Noun

1. An incentive or impulse.
2. (Physics) The force that starts a body moving or that tends to resist changes in its speed or direction once it is moving.

[Latin – Attack]

• Momentum [Moh-men-tum] Noun

1. The impetus to go forward, develop, or get stronger.
2. The impetus of a moving body.
3. (Physics) The product of a body’s mass and its velocity.

[Latin – Movement]

Source – The Collins Essential English Dictionary – 2^nd Edition 2006, HarperCollins Publishers 2004, 2006.

Hopefully that has cleared a few things up before I crack on and will prevent me from having to explain my wording.

After 11 rounds, 708 laps and over 17 hours of fast-fueled racing, we are now in what I am calling the ‘Summer Holiday’ for F1. It’s a three-week break until the next race, which will be held at the brand-new street circuit in Valencia.

The purpose of my article is to investigate the teams that are going into the break with some momentum and others that maybe have the impetus to gain some momentum. Are you with me so far? I hope so.

So we leave Hungary with some occurrences that leave us thinking about certain teams and just where they stand right now, especially given the fact that any testing to be done over the summer holiday will have to be done using computer models and wind tunnels. No track tests are permitted until the next testing meeting, which is in Monza  on Aug. 27.

Let’s take a look at the current Top Five teams:

Scuderia Ferrari

I am going to start with my old friends Scuderia Ferrari, for all you Tifosi reading, this could get rough, but I will be gentle, I promise.

Ferrari have had somewhat of a lacklustre time as of late and haven’t really been producing.

As a direct result, they have seen their lead in the constructors championship cut down to just 11 points, given the recent gain in form of ‘so called’ No. 2 driver Heikki Kovalainen alongside the ever-threatening Lewis Hamilton, this could be a worrying margin.

The last race saw some tough times, as the McLaren was a much faster car in both practice and qualifying, so much so that McLaren had a front-row lockout.

Come race day, the Ferraris all of a sudden found some pace, I have no idea how, but they were on it, and in lap one Felipe Massa managed to leapfrog from third on the grid up to first in the space of one corner.

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