In the past season or two I've come accross the blogs listed above. I found the NY times blog first and found it great, but Joe Saward and James Allen have really put him in the shade. They've also done a great job in passing along F1 news days head of a mention by Autosport.com and have assisted me in dropping my subscription (the news is free anyway and features are weak).

So what say you? Which f1 blogs do you find the most informative? Of course, you are free to vote "other" but please list the blog and a link. Non-english is acceptable, too of course. A descrpition of who the blogger is would be nice as well.

Joe Saward: http://joesaward.wordpress.com/ (Grandprix.com)
Brad Spurgeon: http://formulaone.blogs.nytimes.com/ (NY times)
James Allen: http://www.jamesallenonf1.com/ (Former much loved ITV commentator, FT and Reuters contributer).

Voted for Allen.
Saward.... I can´t stand that biased "journalist".
Spurgeon? I´ve never read his blog.

James Allen's site by miles

Joe Saward's site seems to be a lot of self indulgent whingeing about how tough life is as an F1 journo plus the odd scoop but Allen's is the best easily

There are some good fan blogs too but they don't get exclusives like Allen does for instance

Never heard of Brad's one, it looks good

Will Gray at Eurosport
http://eurosport.yahoo.com/formula-1/will-gray/

Spurgeon=Bullshit filter.

Both he and Allen take our comments into account.

Any of them members here?

Does Ed Gorman's column count as a blog ? if so I always read that too

F1 Fanatic is pretty good too. The dude writing it now does it full time, I believe.

Jean-Louis Moncet and James Allen are both very good. Of the fan-run sites, noikeeeonmotorsport.wordpress.com, with F1 Fanatic and confidential-renault.fr being somewhere between the two and both very good.

Edit: between the other two types of blog, I mean.

James Allen is top class. Has a huge amount of his own contacts in the industry which he has a huge passion for. Great writing style also.

Good site but he doesn't have his own sources, it is recycling existing news

He doesn't get exclusives as he doesn't have paddock access, that site while good is a fanzine really, can't compare with the likes of Allen who go to the races

Nigel Roebuck's column in Motorsport is one I never miss. Although not strictly an F1 column (it's about much more) he always seems to entertainingly precis current matters in F1.

James Allen is good, but he's not at Roebuck's level yet.

I like both james allen and joe saward equally. Although i agree joe does nag on about how hard life is. If i read 'make a living' once more i think i'll scream. As pointed out above Ed Gorman's blog is worth a read too.

I quite liked Ted Kravitz' race notes from the ITV days. It's a shame the BBC doesn't fully utilise him..

Always forget to read it, but this is probably the best site. James Allen tends to conflate supposition and fact into fact (something he was guilty of as a commentator too).

Obviously my awful one!


But seriously, James Allen. I despised his commentating like everyone else, but damn can that man ever write!

Hm, I knew I was forgetting quite a few Blogs but since "other" has recieved only two votes I don't feel bad.

You think any of them would want to hang around with us bunch of miseryguts?!!

Joe, by a looong mile. I've tried reading Allen, man those were long posts, and I learnt nothing new. He's just so mainstream, some thought he was on ITV commentating because he's like a football guy and was good for the masses - his blog is the same, good for the masses, but nothing interesting.

I like http://timesonline.typepad.com/formula_one/ but James got my vote.

There's also Will Buxton's blog...

http://willthef1journo.wordpress.com/


And Joe Saward seems to have improved lately. There's still that odd post or two about him bitching about how tough life is as an F1 journalist or some post which is just a rant aimed at someone in the F1 paddock that didn't treat him like a king or whatever. Sometimes he can come off as a raving lunatic but not as bad as Mike Doodson on grandprix.com in many occasions.

James Allen's blog, though, kills them all. There's usually insider information delivered in a unbiased post which really just doles out the facts for the readers. There's never a post about his personal life (it's, after all, an F1 blog. Not his personal "personal" blog.) or how tough it must be as an F1 journo etc. etc.

Problem I have with James Allen's blog is that it has gone from being a genuine opinion piece, to just rehashing whatever news stories are about with the odd exclusive here or there.

I find Saward ok in dribs-and-drabs. He does come across as a bit of a grumpy journalist stuck in his ways a bit too often though.

It would be totally remiss of me to not shamelessly plug my own blog here F1TailPipe.com and associated Twitter feed! I can offer half-hearted apologies for doing this

As for other that I read - James Allen's is a cracking set up, and I really like his writing style and the way news is presented. Joe's blog is different, but there are still some good nuggets in there.

One of the things I enjoy a lot are the 'Aside With Joe' podcasts produced by Sitepodcast who in themselves have a cracking site with a great community supporting it.

And another point RE: F1Fanatic - I believe Keith's now gone full time on the site and yeah, whilst he doesn't get exclusives at the moment, the potential for growth is there.

If he could swing accreditation for an event or two things could snow-ball very quickly...

I believe he's due to attend the McLaren launch this Friday.

This one tracks technical developments ONLY: http://www.f1technical.net/development/?si...d0e1ed4d8445234

James Allen's blog is informative and looks like well researched in comparison to the others ones!

'the cock' certainly has a good blog. With an obvious bias to Schu though.

lol thanks, but mine's nowhere near of being around the best. It's just something I started this month for when I'm bored, figured it's better to compile my opinionated nonsense all in a blog rather than dispersed around forums like these.

Of the professionals, I like Allen and Saward the most, they usually have some bits of info I can't see anywhere else. Don't always agree with them but they write well.

Merci pour ça.. bookmarked.

He is indeed, on both counts. Unfortunately, it seems to be down.

Patronise F1 is a really cool site if I don't say so myself. *cough*

(It's not often a thread comes up where you can adverstise for free you know!)

I noted that one a while ago and I find it far above the rest.

Yeah, too bad he only updates once a decade.

Those are the three F1 blogs I visit most often. NYT is extremely well written and well sourced but it's not as quick on the take or as comprehensive as the other two. I prefer Saward to Allen -- it feels like you're sitting at the bar chatting with him about F1 -- but Allen is probably more of a "must read." Saward drops odd hints of breaking news but Allen does it all the time and runs a more professional operation (granted, Saward's primary focus is writing that actually makes money!). Neither of them is a particularly good writer, which is a shame.

Not a blog but Martin Brundle writes for the Sunday Times every Sunday during the GP season.

He's an excellent read.

I just discovered this one...

http://www.formula1blog.com/

Uh, seems... ok? I don't know. Anyone read this? It's apparently been around since May 2005.

There are people that didn't vote for James Allen??

Autosport hack Adam Cooper's launched his own blog recently: http://adamcooperf1.com/

Keith Collantine of F1-Fanatic absolutely gets my vote, too. He's now a fulltime F1 writer, indeed.

Scarbsf1's Blog

Someone needs to sort their formatting out!

Yes another shout for Patronise. F1Fanatic too not just because of the great content but also because Keith is such a nice guy.

Blogwise I like Saward's uncensored and no BS approach, I get the feeling sometimes that Allen's blogs come across a little more stale in comparison. Good to see Buxton, Cooper and Scarbs (not Scrabs, people!) onboard now too.

And for something a little different, I never miss reading Gordon McCabe's 'McCabism' blog. It's "The only philosophy-physics-motorsport blog in the world!" you know.

I'm only an RSS subscriber - not affiliated - but I recommend it highly! The F1 content is often great food for thought and it's a great read.

Someone reading the forum?

Glad to see Scarbs is going to be posting more detailed information than his Twitter updates. I really hope he can get a publishing deal, as I've always enjoyed his writing and pictures.

It's getting a little 'me too' with the blogs with Adam Cooper the latest to join the bandwagon. How long until Jon Noble has one up? I bet before the start of the season.

What will be interesting is how these guys keep up with the blogging. It's one thing to have a blog, it's quite something else to write engagingly and to interact with commentators, since that is really what a blog is about.

Me, I think James Allen's is the best since it mixes news and views with analysis and he does interact with those that post in response to his pieces. It's a much more popular site now, and that's taken a little bit away from it. I still enjoy Ed Gorman's writing actually, although it is palpable his growing disillusionment with the whole circus. What is good about Gorman is that he's gone from outsider to insider in a short period of time and we've seen him and his views develop 'in the online age'. I think the nature and tone of his coverage this year will be quite interesting.

I don't really subscribe to his views very often, but I do enjoy reading Saward as well. I guess I just like reading things that piss me off. He's got a London gathering on the 26th of Feb and I'm going to that. Should be interesting... :-)

I was semi-interested in attending that, but I think £35 (plus travel costs etc) to hear a freelance journalist speak his mind just seems a bit too steep for my liking, and I don't see how that it's in the interest of us 'fans,' more another avenue for him to fund his yearly jaunts across the world.

Could spend the equivalent on Goodwood!

Yeah, that seems kinda sketchy. Why would anyone pay for that? It would have been nice if it was just a free 'hey, come on down and spend some time' but I don't think some freelance journalist's time is worth 35 GBP a head. And, yeah, kar I know what you mean. I read Saward's blog and it pisses me off a lot of times cause he writes from such a jaded, such a cynical point of view it's insane. It's like F1 has shafted him somehow and he'd rather go off and do something else but he's invested so much time in his life into it that he can't. Bleh.