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ROSBERG ON POLE FOR BAHRAIN
Nico Rosberg has taken a surprise pole position in Bahrain, fending off Championship favourites Sebastian Vettel and Fernando Alonso. Rosberg looked feisty in his Mercedes all weekend, but the half-second gap between him and teammate Lewis Hamilton was an unexpected, to say the least. "It's a fantastic result, it's great for tomorrow," said Rosberg. 'I think as a team we worked really last night to improve the car, as yesterday we were really struggling." "Tomorrow is going to be a tough race for sure, with rear tyre degradation especially." "We're not going to be as quick as we were in qualifying compared to everybody else. I think it'll be much closer tomorrow on race fuel - but you just have to wait."
Continue reading...VETTEL WINS RACE, LOSES RESPECT
Sunday, March 24, 2013
Sebastian Vettel has fought tooth-and-nail to come home the victor of the 2013 Malaysian Grand Prix. In a race marred by internal team tension, Vettel supposedly broke team orders to hold station behind his teammate and challenged for the lead, forcing himself past Mark Webber. 'It was obviously very close,' said Vettel of his scrap with Webber. 'Wheel to wheel racing, there wasn't much room for either of us.' 'Maybe I was a little bit too keen too soon. For sure we both enjoyed that. I'm standing in the middle [of the podium] now, so I probably enjoyed it a little bit more.' As the fighting became increasingly tense, Vettel was implored to slow down, at one point being told by team principal Christian Horner his behaviour was 'silly'. On his warm down lap, Vettel was congratulated on his team radio before being told 'there'll be some explaining to do'.
Continue reading...MELBOURNE: THE ICE MAN COMETH
Sunday, March 17, 2013
Kimi Raikkonen has scythed up the grid to take the first win of the F1 season at the Australian Grand Prix at Albert Park. Raikkonen's Lotus was only thereabouts in qualifying, starting the race from seventh on the grid. A solid start put him into the top five, and he fought his way up from there. 'I was a bit disappointed this morning after qualifying,' explained the Finn. 'It was more about timing than maximum speed for all the cars, so not an ideal starting place [in seventh].' 'I knew that my car was quite good, it was feeling good all weekend. The secret to Raikkonen's controlled victory was the Lotus' supreme tyre use, which enabled him to run a two-stop strategy. 'In a way I was very confident, but of course you have to get through the start and the first lap, and it's the first race so you never know what's going to happen. 'We got it exactly right. We followed the plan and it worked out perfectly for us. It was one of the easiest races I've done, to win the race.'
Continue reading...RED BULL FRONT ROW LOCKOUT AS VETTEL TAKES POLE
Sunday, March 17, 2013
Sebastian Vettel has taken the first pole position of the year at Albert Park after rain washed out yesterday's first session. Vettel made driving in the tricky damp conditions look effortless, despite the guessing game as to when the track would be ready for slick tyres. Hamilton and Rosberg looked threatening, and the Briton set the first quick time on intermediates. Vettel, predictably, had an answer to every challenge, and responded with increasingly unbelievable lap times. Button decided to sample the supersofts and it proved to be the tyre to be on, the 2012 Melbourne winner temporarily going faster. But once the rest of the field cottoned on, the McLaren was quickly outclassed.
Continue reading...DROUGHT BREAKS FOR F1 QUALIFYING
Saturday, March 16, 2013
Qualifying for the 2013 Australian Grand Prix has been postponed until Sunday after rain lashed the track, making the circuit undriveable. While Q1 was run this afternoon Q2 and Q3 have been shifted to 11AM tomorrow morning, with the race to go ahead at 5PM. The weather bore down on Albert Park early in the afternoon, affecting mot of FP3, and continued to soak the circuit for the two hours before qualifying. For what was to be a highly anticipated session, Melbourne managed to keep the world in suspense for an extra thirty minutes while the FIA allowed the track to dry before giving qualifying the green light.
Continue reading...VETTEL ON TOP AS McLAREN STRUGGLE IN MELBOURNE
Friday, March 15, 2013
Sebastian Vettel has opened the 2013 season with a Friday cleansweep, topping both practice sessions comfortably at Albert Park. A truck arrived overnight filled with upgrades for his RBR9, which the team went about testing throughout the day - Vettel seeming unperturbed by the modifications being made to his car. Further down the pit lane, however, McLaren had an afternoon to forget as serious problems in the MP4-28 hampered the day's running. Speculation throughout pre-season testing that the largely redesigned McLaren wasn't up to scratch seem to be proving true, with the team struggling to understand its own new concept. McLaren team principal Martin Whitmarsh admitted that taking the team In a new direction was risky, but believed it would ultimately pay off.
Continue reading...NEW AUSSIE GP SPONSORSHIP JUST IN THE NICK OF TIME
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Some race good new from the Albert Park bunker as the Australian Grand Prix announced that iconic watch maker Rolex will sponsor the 2013 Australian Formula One Grand Prix. The announcement comes as Rolex becomes the global timing partner of Formula One. Victorian State Premier and colourful man about town Lord Ted of the Toorak Village, staggered briefly into the sunlight to announce the wonderful news to an expectant, hangover and mostly hostile media contingent. “This is an incredibly exciting announcement for Melbourne and our state. It highlights the attention and respect Melbourne, as the season opener, commands internationally. There are few sporting events in Australia that have the global visibility of Formula One,” Mr Baillieu said.
Continue reading...GP2 ANNOUNCE 11 RACE SERIES BUT STILL NO AUSTRALIAN ROUND
Thursday, December 20, 2012
The 2013 GP2 Series calendar has been announced with 11 races making up the series. All races will be held as support events of the official Formula One World Championship. The ninth season of the GP2 Series will open in Sepang, Malaysia on March 22-24, meaning that once again Australia will miss out. The second round will see the cars racing in Bahrain before heading back to Europe with a race at Barcelona on May 10-12 and Monte-Carlo two weeks later. The action will then resume in Silverstone on June 28-30. July will host two race weekends, first in Nurburgring on the 5th, 6th and 7th, and then in Budapest on the 26th, 27th and 28th. After the summer breather, the Series will set-up camp in Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium on August 24th followed by the Italian round at Monza two weeks later. The Series will return to Singapore on September 20th, 21st and 22nd. The season will be wrap up on the first weekend of November in Abu Dhabi at Yas Marina Circuit.
Continue reading...WELL F¨&% ME! KIMI WINS IN ƒU©!Ng ABU DHABI
Monday, November 5, 2012
Kimi Raikkonen has taken the first win of his comeback in a surprisingly exciting Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Raikkonen who pulled his way up to second on the first lap after starting from fifth on the grid, inherited the lead when Lewis Hamilton stopped on track with a fuel pressure problem on lap 20. The Finn didn't have it easy, however, with the closing ten laps characterised by intense pressure from Ferrari's Fernando Alonso in second place. 'I'm happy, but there's nothing to jump about. I'm just happy for everybody in the team.' he said. It was the first win since Japan 2008 of the team based in Enstone. Alonso made up four places from his starting position for the opportunity to challenge for the win, but his late charge fizzled on the final lap, Raikkonen pushing slightly faster and evading the Spaniard's DRS reach. 'I'm very happy,' started Alonso. 'I think we were not super competitive this weekend. 'We had to fight all through the race. We had some good overtaking and very good strategy that gave us the opportunity to fight for victory. 'Second, I think, was the maximum for us today.' Most surprising, however, was Sebastian Vettel in third place, after starting from the pit lane.
Continue reading...VETTEL ON TOP AS RED BULL RETURN TO FORM
Saturday, October 6, 2012
Sebastian Vettel has scored his one millionth pole at Suzuka after a dominating qualifying session for the German. Vettel put together a lap of 1 minute 20.839seconds, more than two-tenths faster than his team-mate, and half-a-second than the rest of his rivals. ‘Yeah, not bad,’ quipped the German. ‘Very happy with today’s result.’ ‘I think we had a [...]
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