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Jun 14, 2007 19:55:11 GMT
Post by schumi on Jun 14, 2007 19:55:11 GMT
India is to hold its first Formula One GP in 2009: India will host its first Formula One grand prix in two years' time, it has been announced.
The announcement, which was made by Indian Olympic Association (IOA) president Suresh Kalmadi, came on Thursday morning after months of negotiations with F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone.
"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.
Kalmadi added that financing for the event would be raised through either government or private funding.
"Once we move ahead (put all aspects in place), a regular contract would be signed," Kalmadi added.
"We are planning to hold the race around New Delhi and we are looking to identify suitable land for a track." From: www.planet-f1.com
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Jun 15, 2007 6:00:31 GMT
Post by schumi on Jun 15, 2007 6:00:31 GMT
Found this tagged on to the bottom of an interview with Lewis on www.bbc.co.uk Meanwhile, F1 ringmaster Bernie Ecclestone has warned that the USA could lose its Grand Prix. "It is not vital to Formula One to be in the United States," the 76-year-old told the Daily Express newspaper.
"There are bigger markets for us to be in other parts of the world.
"We don't have a lot of sponsors from the US, no American teams and only one driver."Reading between the lines it could be that this is the race to make way for India. Something's got to go. I'd also imagine Scott Speed will find himself out of a race seat at the end of this year or next. He did okay in the A1 GPs but isn't impressing at all with the big boys. I wonder what Narain Karthikeyan is up to these days? Also think the American public still haven't forgiven the Michelin debacle, so Bernie's threatening to get rid of it to purge the bad feeling from the sport, so to speak.
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Jun 15, 2007 19:23:04 GMT
Post by donsking on Jun 15, 2007 19:23:04 GMT
Narain Karthikeyan is now on the test team at Williams and competing in A1GP, but I bet someone will be pressing hard to get him an F1 seat in time for 2009!
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Jun 15, 2007 22:40:33 GMT
Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2007 22:40:33 GMT
Meanwhile, F1 ringmaster Bernie Ecclestone has warned that the USA could lose its Grand Prix. I never understand the obsession with trying to push certain sports in an already saturated US market. There's more appreciation of F1 elsewhere in the world, and the US already has Champ Car and IRL, not to mention the dreadful NASCAR thingy.
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Jun 15, 2007 23:39:21 GMT
Post by donsking on Jun 15, 2007 23:39:21 GMT
Meanwhile, F1 ringmaster Bernie Ecclestone has warned that the USA could lose its Grand Prix. I never understand the obsession with trying to push certain sports in an already saturated US market. There's more appreciation of F1 elsewhere in the world, and the US already has Champ Car and IRL, not to mention the dreadful NASCAR thingy. And Bernie Ecclescake clearly agrees with you, as he said in the rest of the quote, "It is not vital to Formula One to be in the United States," the 76-year-old told the Daily Express newspaper. "There are bigger markets for us to be in other parts of the world. "We don't have a lot of sponsors from the US, no American teams and only one driver."
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Jun 18, 2007 6:15:34 GMT
Post by schumi on Jun 18, 2007 6:15:34 GMT
Latest post-Indianapolis news from www.planet-f1.comSuper Aguri's Takuma Sato claims that he did not overtake illegally at the American Grand Prix - and instead shifted the blame to Jenson Button.
The race stewards found the Japanese driver guilty of performing an overtaking manoeuvre under waved yellow flags.
The former Honda driver spun out of the race on lap 14 and the penalty has been deferred to the next grand prix in France where Sato will lose 10 places on the grid.Harsh? I'd say that's going to put him right at the back of the grid.
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Jun 19, 2007 16:56:27 GMT
Post by schumi on Jun 19, 2007 16:56:27 GMT
Two newsworthy pieces today, both from www.planet-f1.comBMW team boss Mario Theissen is confident that Robert Kubica will be fit to race in the French Grand Prix...
..."Robert will have another check-up in Magny-Cours," Theissen told his team's website. "Without wanting to pre-empt the doctors, I'm expecting it to be positive.
"As soon as we get the all clear from the doctors, Robert will be straight back in the driving seat." Ron Dennis fears Britain's Lewis Hamilton could be forced to move abroad if his new-found celebrity status prevents him from having a private life in the UK.
The 22-year-old Hamilton, who currently lives in Hertfordshire, has won back-to-back F1 races in Canada and the United States to claim a 10-point lead in the Drivers' Championship in his rookie season.
He is fast becoming one of Britain's top sports stars but Dennis fears he may have to leave the country if the attention begins to interfere with his racing.
He told The Sun: "The invasion of his privacy will become a big issue. It is something we will avoid at all costs.
"If there is a continuous invasion of his privacy then he will have to find somewhere to live to avoid that. If it happens, it will not be driven by something fiscal.
"I don't know if he'll be able to continue to do things as before." I do wonder if the media attention would die down a bit if Ron stopped shielding him from it all.
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Jun 20, 2007 11:07:43 GMT
Post by schumi on Jun 20, 2007 11:07:43 GMT
The FIA is considering a radical plan to allow flexi wings in Formula One should teams reject its plans to push for a standard chassis.
The FIA is adamant that it wants more road-relevant, energy efficient engines, with talks currently being held to frame regulations from 2011 onwards.
The FIA is also keen on a wholesale overhaul of car regulations, with a standard chassis central to their vision of reducing costs and improving competition.
Meetings are set to take place after the British Grand Prix where the FIA hopes to discuss their plan and, should the teams be unhappy, come up with some alternate proposals.From: www.planet-f1.comA ploy to help the struggling Ferrari team? They managed to make good use of them before they were banned.
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Jun 22, 2007 14:30:39 GMT
Post by schumi on Jun 22, 2007 14:30:39 GMT
Ferrari have reportedly started legal proceedings against performance development chief Nigel Stepney for undisclosed reasons.
Stepney, who joined Ferrari in 1992 and played an instrumental role in their rise to the top of F1, revealed at the start of the season that he was unhappy with the team's management structure.
He even went as far as to say he is open to offers from other teams once his Ferrari contract expires at the end of this season.
Stepney subsequently changed roles within the team and was put in charge of the team's performance development.
However, the relationship between the two parties appears to have taken a turn for the worse, with Ferrari revealing that they have started court actions against Stepney.
The team, though, refused to say why.
"Nigel Stepney is still an employee but we have brought an action against him," a Ferrari spokesman told Reuters.
"It is not related to any event, it is related to his behaviour."
The legal proceedings will take place in Modena, Italy. From: www.planet-f1.com
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Jul 1, 2007 12:00:01 GMT
Post by schumi on Jul 1, 2007 12:00:01 GMT
Three people were killed and two seriously injured in a helicopter crash yesterday, with personnel from Japanese tyre manufacturers Bridgestone understood to have been involved. The helicopter was en route from Magny-Cours, venue for today's French Grand Prix, to a chateau in Charité-sur-Loire. The crash took place shortly after 10pm yesterday in the Raveau forest north of Nevers, according to police. The two injured were taken to a nearby hospital, while police have started an investigation into the cause of the crash. From: www.planet-f1.com
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Jul 3, 2007 17:36:39 GMT
Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2007 17:36:39 GMT
Seems somebody at Ferrari has been a wee bitty greedy and got caught flogging secrets to McLaren . Mind you the McLaren bloke got his jotters as well - wonder if they were two mates and this was a scam they concocted down the pub one night . ;D
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Jul 3, 2007 18:20:29 GMT
Post by schumi on Jul 3, 2007 18:20:29 GMT
Ferrari have fired Nigel Stepney amidst allegations that he tried to sabotage the team earlier this season. According to reports, Stepney is under investigation in Italy after claims were made that he sabotaged the Scuderia's cars in the days leading up to the Monaco Grand Prix. A suspicious white powder was found on parts of the F2007 prior to the grand prix weekend. Those parts were replaced and the powdery substance was sent to police leading to an investigation being launched. However, although Stepney has proclaimed his innocence, as has his lawyer, the Englishman has now been sacked by Ferrari. A team spokesman told Autosport: "An internal disciplinary procedure has been completed and Nigel Stepney is no longer an employee of Ferrari." Stepney, who is currently away on holiday in Philippines and therefore was not present at the disciplinary hearing, is set to a hold a press conference in the near future in order to try to clear his name. However, Ferrair's now former performance development chief did recently protested his innocence to the British media. "I have confidence I'll be cleared by the legal process that is now taking place." he told The Times. "It is just part of a dirty tricks campaign and everything is in the hands of my lawyer, so we'll wait and see what happens." From: www.planetf1.com
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Jul 3, 2007 18:29:54 GMT
Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2007 18:29:54 GMT
A suspicious white powder was found on parts of the F2007 prior to the grand prix weekend. Those parts were replaced and the powdery substance was sent to police leading to an investigation being launched. hehehe sounds like somebody had a wee party on the eve of the GP .
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Jul 4, 2007 8:34:16 GMT
Post by schumi on Jul 4, 2007 8:34:16 GMT
Incriminating evidence discovered during a police raid on the Surrey home of Mike Coughlan is reported to have resulted in the McLaren desinger's suspension and sparked the most sensational case of F1 espionage in recent memory. Having already launched legal proceedings against Nigel Stepney, the team's British-born mechanic, after accusing him of sabotaging their own cars, Ferrari applied for a search warrant through the British courts, claiming that 'a large amount of technical information' had been stolen from their Maranello factory. The raid on Coughlan's home, near to McLaren's Woking base, is reported by The Times to have uncovered 'documents belonging to Ferrari'. "We have proof that Stepney had been supplying technical information to a McLaren employee and we found evidence of that fact in his [the employee's] home," a Ferrari spokesman declared. "This is a very serious situation. We are talking about a lot of information being given to a prominent McLaren engineer. We are not talking here about rumours or speculation." In a separate statement, McLaren confirmed that they had suspended 'a senior member of its technical organisation' after learning 'that this individual had personally received a package of technical information from a Ferrari employee at the end of April.' From: www.planetf1.com
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Jul 4, 2007 18:38:05 GMT
Post by schumi on Jul 4, 2007 18:38:05 GMT
This is really big news and could change last year's results: As F1 grapples with the incredible developments of Stepneygate, which culminated in McLaren suspending their chief designer on Tuesday after Ferrari documents were allegedly uncovered at his home, a nightmare scenario looms over the sport: the World Championship being won and lost in the courts. Having already launched legal proceedings against their mechanic Nigel Stepney, Ferrari's claim of espionage took on a sensational dimension on Tuesday when a police raid, made at their behest, allegedly found 'technical information' stolen from their Maranello base at the home of Mike Coughlan, McLaren's chief designer. Announcing that they had presented 'a case against Nigel Stepney and an engineer from the Vodafone McLaren Mercedes team with the Modena Tribunal, concerning the theft of technical information', Ferrari pointedly ruled out further legal redress. 'Ferrari reserves the right to consider all implications, be they criminal, civil or of any other nature, according to the applicable laws,' it declared in a statement. "We have proof that Stepney had been supplying technical information to a McLaren employee and we found evidence of that fact in his [the employee's] home. This is a very serious situation. We are talking about a lot of information being given to a prominent McLaren engineer. We are not talking here about rumours or speculation." As a mood of crisis threatened to envelop the sport on Tuesday night, the FIA confirmed that, "We have received information on this matter, which we are examining." The governing body will be powerless during any criminal investigation either in Italy or Britain, but it is already being speculated that Ferrari could launch a separate case that would determine the victors of both the Drivers' and Constructors' World Championships in the courts. Their case would be advanced if they could prove a correlation between performance and the alleged 'dirty tricks'. Tellingly, the discovery of a mysterious white powder in the fuel tanks of both Felipe Massa and Kimi Raikkonen's cars just before the Monaco GP, which prompted the internal enquiry that resulted in Stepney's sacking, coincided with a sudden regression by the team's chargers. Having won the previous two races in dominant fashion, Ferrari then failed to challenge for victory in the next three. Meanwhile, with McLaren admitting that 'a senior member of its technical organisation personally received a package of technical information from a Ferrari employee at the end of April', The Guardian reports that 'Ferrari believe that the improvement in McLaren's performance after the Spanish Grand Prix on May 13 is consistent with the apparent leaks at the end of April.' From: www.planetf1.com
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