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Oct 5, 2007 5:16:30 GMT
Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2007 5:16:30 GMT
I notice another reason to deduct points from Hamilton has been found . Apparently somebody ran into somebody else , but this has been blamed on Hamilton and he could possibly lose points . So with this and his silver Ferarri being quicker than the normal Ferarri's - there seems to be a lot of opposition to him actually winning the title amongst the other teams .
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Oct 5, 2007 11:56:55 GMT
Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2007 11:56:55 GMT
Apparently somebody ran into somebody else , but this has been blamed on Hamilton and he could possibly lose points. In any form of motor racing I'm aware of, the onus is on the car behind to maintain a sufficient gap when proceeding in formation.
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Oct 5, 2007 12:44:15 GMT
Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2007 12:44:15 GMT
Lewis Hamilton will not be punished for alleged erratic driving at the Japanese Grand Prix says the BBC
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Oct 5, 2007 12:56:41 GMT
Post by schumi on Oct 5, 2007 12:56:41 GMT
And Vettel has had a 10-place penalty on the starting grid for Sunday's Chinese GP replaced with a reprimand.
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Oct 5, 2007 22:07:04 GMT
Post by donsking on Oct 5, 2007 22:07:04 GMT
Finally, for what seems to be the first time this season, common sense and sanity have prevailed, unless of course some bright spark finally twigged that anything other than this course of action would just be seen as a cynical attempt to fit up a grandstand finish.
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Oct 6, 2007 21:45:44 GMT
Post by donsking on Oct 6, 2007 21:45:44 GMT
And Alonso guarantees his exit from McLaren.............
Alonso: I deserved more from McLaren
By Pablo Elizalde Saturday, October 6th 2007, 12:00 GMT
World champion Fernando Alonso thinks he deserved to have been treated better by McLaren this season, as he angrily hit back at criticism from team boss Ron Dennis ahead of the Chinese Grand Prix.
Having already conceded that his championship hopes were finally all but over, and clearly feeling his chances will not be compromised by attacking the team, Alonso launched an extraordinary outburst against his treatment by McLaren when speaking to Spanish reporters after qualifying for the Chinese Grand Prix.
"I was expecting a lot more, we all were," Alonso said. "From the outside, the team had a different image: serious, but very professional. And I arrived here after two titles; I improved the car as much as I could.
"Last year they were fighting to make it into Q3 and this year they are going to win the championship, and the truth is that the treatment has not been very good."
When asked if the treatment he received was that deserved by a two-time champion, Alonso said: "Not a double champion, but a normal person."
Alonso was also clearly unimpressed by claims from Dennis from earlier in the weekend, when the McLaren boss said he was disappointed by the Spaniard's failure to defend the team against suggestions of favouritism.
"It's better to be silent than to lie, that's for sure," said Alonso about Dennis' remarks. "And that's something he should do more often and I think the team would do better. Many of the scandals McLaren have been involved in off the track this year have been created by his things.
"Each one has his own philosophy, he has his, and we all understand it. I have spoken a lot with (David) Coulthard, with (Juan Pablo) Montoya, with Kimi (Raikkonen), and they have all left the team and found a lot of happiness. There must be a reason."
The double world champion, whose future at McLaren is already in doubt, was also critical of Dennis's policy of equality at the team, although the Spaniard made it clear he had not been promised preferential treatment when he joined the team.
"He (Dennis) didn't promise me anything," he said. "You are always hearing about that so called equality in the team, but tell me what you brag about and I'll tell you what you are lacking.
"It's impossible to have equality in a Formula One team, there's always a better engine, a better lap to stop in, there's always a better option.
"I'm not saying it's not equality, because sometimes it's one driver's turn and other times it's the other's, but you always hear him talk about that or promising things, and it's not like that."
Alonso, who has a contract with McLaren for the next two years but is increasingly unlikely to see out the deal, confessed he is unsure if he will be at the team in 2008.
"I don't know. What happens next year is another matter. All I know is that I have a contract here and we will see next year. There are 10 teams that could be interested in me.
"I'm ready to do the best I can, to help the team, to have a good car and try to win races. But they ... things like what they say or do, or days like at Spa, or all the lies that they leak to the press, both British and German, to go against me. That, inside my own team...They have to do something to improve the situation."
The double champion conceded, however, that teammate Lewis Hamilton will be a worthy champion if he becomes the first rookie to win the title.
"I think so, I think he deserves it if he wins it in the end," Alonso added. "I think you have to know how to win and how to lose, and if I don't win this year it's because someone has scored more points than me, and if that's the case it's because he has done a better job."
Alonso will start tomorrow's Chinese Grand Prix from fourth place while Hamilton secured his sixth pole of the season. The British driver needs to finish ahead of Alonso and Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen to clinch the title.
courtesy of autosport.com
What a bitter little man he is!
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Oct 9, 2007 7:43:00 GMT
Post by schumi on Oct 9, 2007 7:43:00 GMT
Williams driver Alex Wurz has confirmed his retirement from Formula One with immediate effect. The 33-year-old Austrian will therefore miss the final race of the season in Brazil on October 21, with his team set to make an announcement on his replacement on Tuesday. From: www.planetf1.com
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Oct 10, 2007 7:07:52 GMT
Post by schumi on Oct 10, 2007 7:07:52 GMT
Williams have announced that their test driver Kazuki Nakajima will take the place of Alexander Wurz for the final Grand Prix of the season in Brazil.
The 22-year old Japanese driver is the son of Satoru Nakajima, who raced for the Lotus and Tyrrell teams in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
From the BBC.
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Oct 20, 2007 20:34:08 GMT
Post by donsking on Oct 20, 2007 20:34:08 GMT
Spyker to be named Force India in 2008
By Jonathan Noble and Biranit Goren Saturday, October 20th 2007, 14:39 GMT
The Spyker Formula One team will be renamed Force India F1 next year, the team's new owners revealed today.
Spyker F1 were bought out earlier this month by Indian billionaire Vijay Mallya and Dutch businessman Michiel Mol.
The owners already obtained approval for the name from Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone, and the remaining Formula One teams are expected to approve the change.
The new name will also require the approval of the FIA's World Motor Sport Council on Wednesday.
"I have applied to the FIA to change the name of the team to Force India F1," Mallya said at Interlagos today. "It's now an internal process for the FIA."
Mallya further revealed that the team already has a logo prepared, in the colours of the national Indian flag.
"The logo is decided," Mallya said. "It will be the in the colours of the Indian flag.
"The livery of the car will obviously be determined by the sponsors we'll have - because a sponsor wants the colours of the car to also be compatible with their own branding.
"But the Force India logo with the Indian flag will obviously feature quite prominently."
courtesy of autosport.com
Apparently there is no truth in the rumour that the company song will be 'Papadom Preach'........................
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Nov 8, 2007 15:50:22 GMT
Post by schumi on Nov 8, 2007 15:50:22 GMT
Renault have been summoned before Formula One's governing body to answer a charge of possessing confidential McLaren technical information.
McLaren were fined $100m (£47.5m) and thrown out of the constructors' championship after being found guilty on a similar charge in September.
Renault are to appear before the FIA world motorsport council on 6 December.
The information included "the layout and critical dimensions of the McLaren F1 car", an FIA statement said.
The FIA made the announcement on the day it emerged that its inspectors had visited McLaren as part of their investigation to ensure no Ferrari ideas would be on the 2008 McLaren car.
An FIA statement said Renault were accused of "unauthorised possession" between September 2006 and October 2007 "of documents and confidential information belonging to McLaren".
That, it added, included "but [was] not limited to, the layout and critical dimensions of the McLaren F1 car, together with details of the McLaren fuelling system, gear assembly, oil cooling system, hydraulic control system and a novel suspension component used by the 2006 and 2007 McLaren F1 cars."
The charges levelled against Renault - the first hints of which emerged in September around the time of McLaren's punishment - are remarkably similar to those McLaren faced.
FIA president Max Mosley said at the time that the accusations against Renault revolved around an employee who had left McLaren to join Renault and taken the information with him.
A Renault spokesman told BBC Sport: "Ever since the matter was brought to our attention, we have acted with complete transparency towards McLaren and the FIA and we will continue to do so."
A McLaren spokeswoman said the team would not be commenting on the matter.
Renault won the Formula One drivers' and constructors' titles in 2005 and 2006, but failed to win a race in 2007 following the departure of world champion Fernando Alonso to McLaren.
The Spaniard is now tipped for a return to the team where he enjoyed his greatest success, although Red Bull are also in the frame to sign him.
From the Beeb
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Nov 12, 2007 8:34:18 GMT
Post by schumi on Nov 12, 2007 8:34:18 GMT
Former Ferrari technical director Ross Brawn is expected to be unveiled as Honda's new team boss later today. Brawn has been out of Formula One for just under a year now after opting to take a sabbatical away from Ferrari and the sport as he considered his options for the future. And although the was talk of him returning to Ferrari at the end of this year, rumours claimed that depended on whether or not Jean Todt remained at the helm of the Scuderia - a position Brawn wanted. However, with there being little sign of Todt retiring, Brawn has reportedly agreed to take up the role of new Honda team boss, with his unveiling expected later today. The Daily Telegraph reports that 'Honda will unveil the former Ferrari technical director, Ross Brawn, as team principal of their Formula One team today. The spectacular coup will see Nick Fry, who nominally held the role, continue in the post of chief executive.' The arrival of Brawn, who is rated as one of the most sought after engineering gurus in F1, is likely to also put an end to Jenson Button's threat of leaving the team. From www.planetf1.com
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Nov 12, 2007 14:29:45 GMT
Post by schumi on Nov 12, 2007 14:29:45 GMT
Okay, Ross Brawn confirmed at Honda, but also Jean Todt is going to be replaced in January by Stefano Domenicali at Ferrari. It hasn't yet been announced whether Todt will still have a place in the team.
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Nov 13, 2007 20:39:23 GMT
Post by schumi on Nov 13, 2007 20:39:23 GMT
A bit of fun: Seven-times world champion Michael Schumacher has set the fastest lap in testing for Ferrari in Barcelona. The German, who insists he has no plans to return to Formula One, has slipped out of retirement to assist Ferrari for whom he works as a 'technical advisor'.
The 2007 champions are tapping into Schumacher's experience of cars without electronic driver aids ahead of the ban on such systems for next year.
"It looks as though he's got talent," quipped Red Bulls David Coulthard. ;D From the BBC.
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Nov 13, 2007 22:01:07 GMT
Post by Genghis on Nov 13, 2007 22:01:07 GMT
A bit of fun: Seven-times world champion Michael Schumacher has set the fastest lap in testing for Ferrari in Barcelona. The German, who insists he has no plans to return to Formula One, has slipped out of retirement to assist Ferrari for whom he works as a 'technical advisor'.
The 2007 champions are tapping into Schumacher's experience of cars without electronic driver aids ahead of the ban on such systems for next year.
"It looks as though he's got talent," quipped Red Bulls David Coulthard. ;D From the BBC. I bet King Kimi (able to do in 2007 what Schumacher was unable to in 2006!!) slowed down to give the old man a chance. ;D ;D
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Nov 13, 2007 23:13:57 GMT
Post by donsking on Nov 13, 2007 23:13:57 GMT
A bit of fun: Seven-times world champion Michael Schumacher has set the fastest lap in testing for Ferrari in Barcelona. The German, who insists he has no plans to return to Formula One, has slipped out of retirement to assist Ferrari for whom he works as a 'technical advisor'.
The 2007 champions are tapping into Schumacher's experience of cars without electronic driver aids ahead of the ban on such systems for next year.
"It looks as though he's got talent," quipped Red Bulls David Coulthard. ;D From the BBC. I can't seem to find out if he did his time in a car without the driver aids, but what is significant is his best time was only 5 10ths off Massa's pole time for this year's GP; not bad for someone who has barely sat in an F1 car for a year.
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