The controversial events surrounding the current safety car period at the European Grand Prix in Valencia at Ferrari make for great excitement. For Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso drove directly behind the other, as Hamilton was violating the safety car rule, but afterwards he gave his improper behavior, the much better result. For while Alonso [...]
Jun.18 (GMM) Red Bull is bidding to return to dominance on the streets of Valencia next weekend by using an F-duct system. With Red Bull earlier looking set to walk the 2010 title, McLaren crept onto the pace in Turkey and then leapt to the top of the championships with one-two victory in Canada last [...]
Jun.18 (GMM) Red Bull’s Mark Webber has led more laps this season than any of his competitors. In total, drivers on the 2010 grid have led 491 laps in total at the eight grand prix venues. Australian Webber has led 210 of them, a full 93 more than his highly rated teammate Sebastian Vettel. It [...]
McLaren team boss Martin Whitmarsh would even be disappointed if the new parts on the McLaren “We would not be a big step further forward.” The goal was, in every race for a quarter-second to be faster. Compared to ‘Reuters’ he gave on record that he certainly does not underestimate Red Bull, but “we have [...]
Jun.13 (GMM) Red Bull suffered two gearbox problems in Canada on Sunday. With McLaren now leading both the drivers’ and constructors’ championships with victory at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, it has emerged that Sebastian Vettel struggled to the chequered flag with a gearbox problem. His Red Bull teammate Mark Webber, who finished behind Vettel in [...]
Jun.10 (GMM) Emerson Fittipaldi will be the race steward presiding alongside the three FIA officials at this weekend’s Canadian grand prix. 63-year-old Brazilian Fittipaldi won his two F1 world championships in 1972 and 1974, before winning the Indy 500 twice and becoming the Indycar title holder in 1989. In formula one, he won his first [...]
Having arrived with a dominant car and leading both world championships, Red Bull has departed Turkey in crisis. “They step on their tails too often,” said BBC commentator Martin Brundle, after Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel crashed while running one-two at Istanbul Park. Crash and loss of tempers aside, the team’s management then misled the [...]
Luca di Montezemolo on Thursday revealed he resisted the urge to invite Michael Schumacher to play at a football game. The seven time world champion is Ferrari’s most successful ever driver, winning five world championships during his 1996-2006 tenure. But after retiring four years ago, the 41-year-old returned to the grid this year with Mercedes, [...]
Lewis Hamilton has revealed that he intends to leave formula one with a better legacy than Michael Schumacher’s. Despite showing a reluctance to wade into the rekindled ‘Rascasse scandal’ of 2006, the McLaren driver admitted in Monaco that Schumacher’s reputation as a cheat is not one he wants to emulate. “When I think about history, [...]
May 4 (GMM) Christian Horner thinks Mercedes could be in a winning position in Barcelona — but his Red Bull colleague Helmut Marko doesn’t agree. While Horner is awaiting the success of Mercedes’ much-vaunted big technical step for the Spanish grand prix, Marko warns that F1′s fastest car is about to get even faster. “Based [...]
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