Formula 1 Thread

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#152
You will NOT be disappointed! :rock2:

All kinds of stuff happening all throughout the race.

I'm thinking you probably TiVo'd today, but if not, it will re-air this coming Wednesday at 12:30PM EST on Speed channel.
 
#153
#153
that wreck was nasty. i'm honestly suprised he's alive. just goes to show the levels of safety F1 has achieved since they lost Arton Senna.
 
#154
#154
Silly beavers.

Briton Anthony Davidson blamed a collision with a beaver for costing him a possible first Formula One points finish in Sunday's Canadian Grand Prix.

"It's such a shame about the beaver," Davidson said in a team review of the race. "It had it in for me for sure.

"I couldn't even see it at high speed and I could not understand why suddenly I locked up the front tyres."
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autosport.com - F1 News: Davidson blames beaver for wrecked race

:lol:
 
#155
#155
Q&A with Super Aguri's team manager which sheds light on some of the logistics of F1.

The first sea shipment goes to Australia, the second to Malaysia and the final one goes to Bahrain. Obviously they have to leave at different times and so we have three different sets of kit distributed to these areas. The one that then comes back first you turn around and send out to Canada.

The one that comes back to the UK from Malaysia gets turned around and sent to the US. And then later in the year, for Japan and China, you pack the freight that you need from the one that gets back from Canada and then do the same with the one from the US.
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autosport.com - F1 News: Q & A with Super Aguri team manager
 
#156
#156
Kubica hopes to race this weekend in Indianapolis and a decision will be made tomorrow.

"As you see I'm quite in good shape and I'm hoping (to be) going to Indianapolis if the doctors will say OK for my driving," Kubica told reporters outside Montreal's Sacre-Coeur Hospital.

"I feel very good. I was very lucky - big accident, but fortunately nothing hurt,"

The Pole will have a mandatory fitness test at Indianapolis on Thursday before being allowed to compete in the US Grand Prix, but the team were confident he would be racing.
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autosport.com - F1 News: 'Lucky' Kubica hopes to race at Indy
 
#157
#157
The Speed Channel will be airing a live special tomorrow at 1PM EST from IMS where all 22 F1 drivers are expected to appear on stage for an interview of sorts. Apparently it's going to be like NASCAR's Trackside show that is held every race weekend.
 
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#158
The three oldest drivers in F1 look to remain there for 2008.

Formula One's oldguard of Rubens Barrichello, Giancarlo Fisichella and David Coulthard all look set to be re-signed for another season in the sport, autosport.com has learned.

The three men are the oldest on the grid but, despite the huge impression being made by young rookie Lewis Hamilton, the trio have impressed their bosses enough to be tipped to keep their jobs for 2008.
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autosport.com - the Daily Grapevine: F1: Veteran trio set to get new F1 deals
 
#159
#159
tidwell said:
The Speed Channel will be airing a live special tomorrow at 1PM EST from IMS where all 22 F1 drivers are expected to appear on stage for an interview of sorts. Apparently it's going to be like NASCAR's Trackside show that is held every race weekend.
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And I freakin' missed it. Re-airs tonight at 12AM EST on Speed.
 
#160
#160
Kubica feels great...

"I feel like nothing happened, I want to be back in car," Kubica told a news conference ahead of the United States Grand Prix. "I am looking forward. Canada was very unlucky for me, problems on Friday, starting with fuel leak, and then from then not good.

"I was 100 per cent the first day. I am like brand new. I am really lucky and I am really positive for myself. It's very important for myself to come back as soon as possible, but I have to wait for the FIA to say I'm okay but I feel like nothing happened."
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autosport.com - F1 News: Kubica feels 100 per cent ready to drive

...but won't be allowed to race this weekend.

Robert Kubica will not be allowed to race at the United States Grand Prix following his massive crash in Canada last Sunday.

The Pole will be replaced by BMW Sauber's test driver Sebastian Vettel, who will make his Grand Prix debut this weekend at the age of 19.

He was rejected on grounds of fears of another impact that could cause him another concussion so soon after his previous one.

He will undergo further checks in France before he is allowed to compete again.
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autosport.com - F1 News: Vettel to replace Kubica at Indianapolis
 
#161
#161
Alonso ain't happy...

World champion Fernando Alonso has revealed he has not been feeling totally comfortable at the McLaren team since he joined the British squad earlier this year.

"I have a British teammate in a British team, and he's doing a great job and we know that all the support and help is going to him and I understood that from the beginning.

"But I'm not complaining. I've won two races out of six and I've finished on the podium four times and I have those 40 points that will allow me to fight for the title in the end"
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autosport.com - F1 News: Alonso not totally comfortable at McLaren

Ron Dennis, of course, downplays the situation.

"However I can categorically state once again that both drivers have equal equipment, equal support and equal opportunity to win within the team, and both Fernando and Lewis know and support this.

"Fernando's comments when read carefully are correct; he hasn't been with the team long and the relationship can only continue to develop. The team is not going to do anything to jeopardise this positive and growing partnership."
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autosport.com - F1 News: Dennis reiterates equality for his drivers

Former F1 winner John Watson thinks Alonso should just shut up and grow up. :lol:

"I think Alonso is missing being the centre of attention," Watson told The Sun newspaper. "He has been the centre of attention at Renault and in Spain but obviously he's not anymore. He feels that because he's in a British team Lewis is getting favouritism. That's bollocks.

"The only thing that is happening is Lewis is generating so much excitement at the moment that Alonso doesn't know what is happening. It's not Lewis' fault he's doing well and Alonso isn't.

"He just has to stop, take a breath, move on and grow up.

"I think Ron Dennis will be disappointed. He'll want to talk to Fernando right away and find out what he meant by it. It's disruptive and negative and Alonso needs to explain it."
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autosport.com - F1 News: Watson tells Alonso to 'grow up'

Hamilton, not so surprisingly, was surprised by Alonso's remarks:

Hamilton admitted Alonso's comments took him by surprise, the Briton adding that he did not agree with the Spaniard's views.

"I doubt he was expecting me to do as well as I am, but I don't know if that is why he is saying what he is saying," Hamilton added.

"Coming into the team ... he is a two-time champion, he has not really been challenged. He's had some challenges, but not someone as close as me and as good a friend off the track. So it is a very difficult situation."
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autosport.com - F1 News: Hamilton surprised by Alonso's comments

Alonso comes back with this:

"There is no civil war," Alonso told Spanish reporters at Indianapolis. "I never said anything against the team. In fact I said I had a competitive car, good enough to win my third consecutive title. What I said was that I was not totally comfortable.

"To be totally comfortable with the team there are things missing that I've talked to them about, and I think they are necessary to be comfortable, and things need to be done the way I think they need to be done. It's things such as strategy, testing, sharing telemetry.

"But there are things that I thought would be different and it's not that way. That's the way I think and there's nothing more to it; it starts and ends there.

"The team have their reasons, their philosophy to prepare qualifying and the race. I can agree with it or no. I prefer to keep my opinions to myself."
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autosport.com - F1 News: Alonso says no 'civil war' at McLaren
 
#162
#162
IMS hopes to host the US GP for many years to come:

The Indianapolis Motor Speedway owners are meeting Bernie Ecclestone this week with a view to securing a long-term deal to keep the US Grand Prix.

There had been uncertainty over the event's future in the wake of the controversial 2005 race in which only the six Bridgestone runners took part, and because Formula One was still struggling to catch the American public's imagination.
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autosport.com - F1 News: Indy hopes for long-term GP deal

Ecclestone doesn't seem to care. :lol:

"It is not vital to Formula One to be in the United States," the 76-year-old told Britain's Daily Express newspaper on Thursday, three days ahead of this season's U.S. Grand Prix.

"There are bigger markets for us to be in other parts of the world. We could be in India soon instead of the United States. We don't have a lot of sponsors from the U.S., no American teams and only one driver," he added.
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autosport.com - F1 News: Ecclestone: US GP 'not vital' for F1

Speaking of India...

India has been made a conditional offer to stage a Formula One Grand Prix in 2009, Indian Olympic Association president Suresh Kalmadi said on Thursday.

"We have received a letter in this regard from Bernie Ecclestone, CEO of Formula One. The IOA will be the promoter and the first event will be held in 2009," he told a news conference.

"We are planning to hold the race around New Delhi and we are looking to identify suitable land for a track."

However, a letter from Ecclestone to Kalmadi dated June 1, 2007, a copy of which was given to the media later, listed tough conditions including various commercial agreements that needed to be signed before the race becomes a reality.
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autosport.com - F1 News: India offered place on 2009 calendar
 
#163
#163
Along with the special they aired today (and re-airing at 12 midnight EST tonight), Speed will have wall-to-wall coverage of the F1 weekend in Indy beginning tomorrow morning at 10AM EST with the first practice session. The second practice session of the day will come on the air at 1PM EST.

Saturday practice/Qualifying coverage will begin at 11AM EST.

The race will be on Fox again this weekend starting at 1PM EST. Unfortunately, it looks like there won't be a pre-race show again this weekend, nor much of the post-race ceremonies/press conferences, televised anyway.

US GP Preview: The Official Formula 1 Website
 
#167
#167
Night racing in Singapore next year still on course after a test session Thursday night in Indy.

Formula One's hopes of holding a night race next year are firmly on course, autosport.com has learned, after the FIA's first test of dark running delivered better than expected results.

Late on Thursday night, using a lighting set-up at the first few corners of the Indianapolis circuit, the FIA conducted a surprise hour of testing with safety cars to evaluate whether a night race was feasible.

"It went very well - better than we anticipated, in fact," an FIA source told autosport.com. "We didn't see any problems and it helped us understand a few things.

"Marshals were out there – just with normal flags and, if anything, they were more visible than they are normally."
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autosport.com - F1 News: Night race test a success for FIA
 
#168
#168
More on the pending IMS/F1 deal...

IMS President Joie Chitwood says the future of the United States Grand Prix should be clear by next month.

"They are exploring ways to get to a long-term agreement, and we expect to make an announcement no later than July 12.

"If we are going to have a US GP in 2008, we know that we need to make the announcement and start working on the event by the second week of July."
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autosport.com - F1 News: Indy sets July deadline for new deal

Ecclestone not happy, imagine that, about the promotion of the US GP at IMS:

"They haven't done anything to really get behind it have they?" Ecclestone told Reuters on Saturday when asked if he was satisfied with the race at the Brickyard.

"We arrive in town, what do we get? We get banners saying the Indy 500. Not really the way to promote Formula One," added the Briton.

"We're talking to everybody," said Ecclestone when asked if he was looking at other American venues. "We were speaking with (IMS owner) Tony (George) yesterday, we'll chat to him next week and see what we come up with."

Competing with the US Open and Tiger Woods for attention this weekend, the Grand Prix has received limited coverage in the United States.

It ranks a distant third among the big three events staged at the Speedway behind the Indy 500 and NASCAR's Brickyard 400, but is important to the city with foreign tourists pouring some $100 million (USD) into the local economy
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autosport.com - F1 News: Ecclestone: Indy not promoting F1 enough
 
#169
#169
Another flawless race by Lewis Hamilton. It's starting to get scary as he'll only get better...

He didn't just run away with this one like he did in Montreal however. Managed to fight off Alonso at the start and another charge in the middle of the race. If not for a minor (or major, depending on how you look at it now) slip off the track before the final pit stop, Alonso might have got around Hamilton through the pit sequence... alas, he did not.

US GP Results & Updated Drivers and Constructors Championship Standings: autosport.com - F1 News: Hamilton leads McLaren 1-2 at Indy
 
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#170
Pretty hairy start for Vettel, but he kept on it and ended up in the points in his first F1 race. Not too shabby.

Germany's Sebastian Vettel became the youngest Formula One driver to score a point when the 19-year-old finished eighth for BMW Sauber in the US Grand Prix on Sunday.

The previous youngest driver to score a point was Briton Jenson Button, aged 20 years and two months when he finished sixth for Williams in the 2000 Brazilian Grand Prix.
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autosport.com - F1 News: Vettel replaces Button as youngest scorer
 
#172
#172
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I really believe the media is just trying to make something out of nothing concerning a Alonso vs. Hamilton rivalry. After the race yesterday, Alonso pretty much said he was beat fair and square and didn't seem to have any problems or a bad attitude about anything...

Hamilton has become the man of the moment while Alonso has been pushed out of the limelight to the point where they arrived in Indianapolis amid talk of cracks appearing in their relationship as teammates.

"Do I expect more speculation about our guys and their relationship? Yes," said McLaren chief executive Martin Whitmarsh after the team's third one-two of the season. "The reality is both our guys are winners, they want to win.

"If Fernando got out of the car and said he was delighted Lewis beat him today, I would be very worried. It can be a distraction but at the moment it isn't. But when you have two competitive drivers they're always going to have a go at each other," he added.

"There's a lot a pressure on Fernando to have someone as young and as confident and seemingly invincible as Lewis is. Fernando is a phenomenal competitor and it's still a long season and he's still aiming to win the world championship."
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autosport.com - F1 News: Hamilton win fuels rivalry with Alonso

Example of making something out of nothing, just read the title of this article. :lol: Of course, it's nothing if you want to trust Alonso's word... although Martin Whitmarsh seems to think it was frustration, and he doesn't seem to think it's a bad thing according to the first article.

McLaren's insistence in allowing both their drivers to race fairly for victory at Indianapolis almost certainly caused Fernando Alonso's frustrated swerve towards the pits halfway through the race.

That is the view of McLaren managing director Martin Whitmarsh, who thinks that the move was simply of expression of frustration at not being allowed a free route through to take the lead from Lewis Hamilton.

Alonso played down the situation afterwards, half smiling to journalists when he explained that he had simply been trying to clean up his overalls and car.

"I followed the other car [Hamilton's] for so many laps my overalls and everything were so black because the carbon brakes were coming into me every braking point," said Alonso.

"I think my brakes were hotter, all my car was hotter than normal, so I tried to pull away from the slipstream sometimes just to cool the car."

When asked what message Alonso was sending out by his swerve, Whitmarsh said: "He was sending it to Lewis. Drivers do that from time to time.

"I'm sure any driver would like to - if they were in a position where they felt they're driving a quicker car at the time – be given rite of passage to the front. We were running absolutely fair programmes for both drivers."
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autosport.com - F1 News: Alonso shows frustration with swerve

Alain Prost's two cents on the McLaren rivalry and the current state of F1:

Former world champion Alain Prost believes McLaren could regret having allowed both their drivers to fight in equal conditions this season.

Four-time champion Prost, who had a spectacular falling-out with teammate Ayrton Senna in 1988 and 1989 when McLaren dominated the sport, reckons the situation could hurt the team.

"I think now having two equal cars within the same team is a mistake. In the end it will hurt them because it generates too much tension," Prost told El Pais newspaper in an interview on Monday.
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Fifty-two year-old Prost, who retired from the sport in 1993, admitted he is not happy with Formula One's current status, and he believes too much technology is ruining the racing.

"Now it's not the same. Back in my days, the driver was more important than the car; now, it's technology first and then the driver's hands," Prost said.

"The cars are so equally matched because of the limitations and the technological advances that make overtaking so hard.

"The races are decided in the pits. The strategies are decisive in Formula One, the only thing that the teams can't take into account is driving errors."
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autosport.com - F1 News: Prost warns McLaren about driver tension
 
#173
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tidwell said:
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I really believe the media is just trying to make something out of nothing concerning a Alonso vs. Hamilton rivalry. After the race yesterday, Alonso pretty much said he was beat fair and square and didn't seem to have any problems or a bad attitude about anything...

autosport.com - F1 News: Hamilton win fuels rivalry with Alonso

Example of making something out of nothing, just read the title of this article. :lol: Of course, it's nothing if you want to trust Alonso's word... although Martin Whitmarsh seems to think it was frustration, and he doesn't seem to think it's a bad thing according to the first article.

autosport.com - F1 News: Alonso shows frustration with swerve

Alain Prost's two cents on the McLaren rivalry and the current state of F1:

autosport.com - F1 News: Prost warns McLaren about driver tension
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Yeah, I have noticed that with the British media in particular. They will ask Alonso a loaded question, Alonso responds in a respectable manner, but the media will take a small portion of that response to make it appear he is pissed off. Not that that is atypical of the media in any country or persuasion.

I'm just happy that McLaren is winning. It's been too long, really. And I am happy that McLaren is allowing two guys to fight for it, something Ferrari robbed us of for years when Schumacher was there.
 
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tidwell said:
IMS hopes to host the US GP for many years to come:

autosport.com - F1 News: Indy hopes for long-term GP deal

Ecclestone doesn't seem to care. :lol:

autosport.com - F1 News: Ecclestone: US GP 'not vital' for F1

Speaking of India...

autosport.com - F1 News: India offered place on 2009 calendar
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Ecclestone is just posturing for a better deal, as is his modus operandi. He's doing the same thing with France and Australia, and has done it in the past with Silverstone, Spa, Italy...

While I have no doubt he sees the green in India, he would be foolish to write off the U.S., especially considering there are only 3 GPs in the Western hemisphere.

I do think F1 would be better served to run in Long Beach, where there is probably a bigger market for Formula One.
 
#175
#175
Godfatha said:
It's been too long, really. And I am happy that McLaren is allowing two guys to fight for it, something Ferrari robbed us of for years when Schumacher was there.
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Can you elaborate on your robbed by Ferrari comment? If you mean Barrichello, he competed a couple times with Schumacher but never consistantly drove at Schumi's level. And also, the rules on team orders have changed in the last couple years.
 
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