1999

EA Sports forgotten F1 1999 title

In 2021, EA Sports purchased Codemasters and re-acquired again the rights to design Formula One games. Indeed, re-acquired because EA Sports is well known by a lot of gamers from the past. In 2000, the company published their first F1 2000. The game was buggy and after a couple of patches they started working on […]

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charm

The charm of the 2000 season

Do you remember the 2000 season? Or were you yet to be born? Yep, it is 24 years ago when we all sat in front of the television in the early morning for the Australian Grand Prix. We all survived the millennial bug as we shut-down all our computers at home. The start of a […]

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Riccardo Ferrari

Riccardo Ferrari was not Minardi’s saviour

During the 2000 season the Minardi team came in serious financial troubles. It is really interesting to read all the articles and reports from those days about the team. There were many people, companies and investment groups that were interested to take over the Minardi team. Eventually Paul Stoddart would save the Minardi Team. However, […]

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2000

Unraced projects of the 2000 season

As there are over 650 Unraced F1 projects from the period 1885 – 2020 I decided before to publish articles of unraced projects per year. This is easier for you to see which attempts happened a specific year. Of course, it is easier for me as well as researching and writing an article takes a […]

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Rumour

The old rumour mill; Benetton – BMW V12

Welcome to the second episode of the Old Rumour Mill of Formula One. A special blog dedicated to the old rumours of Formula One. Many rumours appeared during the years. Some were just silly “Alain Prost to move to Benetton in 1992”. Others were just amazing to read “Pedro Diniz to move to Ferrari in […]

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