Welcome to Tomi's Formula One blog

This will be a blog about Formula One and perhaps some other topics as well.I am an author of books on mobile telecoms, digital converence and social networking.

I have a blog about those topics together with Alan Moore, at www.communities-dominate.blogs.com and my business/professional website is at www.tomiahonen.com

So this blog will have none of those boring "work" topics. This will only be occasional postings about one of my passions, Formula One racing.

And a bit about me. Mika Hakkinen, Kimi Raikkonen, Tomi Ahonen - yes, the pattern fits - I am from Finland. I am certainly not impartial. My final loyalties are to Finnish drivers (as we have no F1 team anymore, the only Finnish F1 team existed very briefly in the 1970s) which currently means the reigning F1 champion Kimi Raikkonen on Ferrari, and the just-transferred Heikki Kovalainen who joins McLaren from Renauilt where he was a rookie driver last season.

But I do my best to try to be honest and fair. Much as I did not like his style and demeanour, and knowing he was the chief rival to the most successful Finnish F1 driver of all time (Mika Hakkinen) - I do begrudgingly admit that Michael Schumacher was the greatest F1 driver of all time. Ayrton Senna might have been even better had he not died mid-career. So expect me to try to be fair and impartial.

I am 47 years old so I remember older drivers too, from the Fittipaldis and Mario Andrettis and yes, first Finnish F1 world champion Keke Rosberg. But I'm not old enough to remember the early legends.

I live in Hong Kong and have a very hectic life in my consulting business so I may not always find time to update this blog. I don't have any internal contacts to any teams or other related organizations, so don't come to this blog expecting any breaking news.

But I like numbers, I like F1, and I like to give my private pundit views on miscellaneous F1 happenstances. So expect the occasional rant and rave here.If you are a reader of the blog, please do comment on something I've written and tell me who you like and don't like, why etc.

Lets have some dialogue. I love talking about F1 and if you've managed to find my blog, I'm sure you love F1 as well.