Posts Tagged ‘F1’

Fisichella Finishes Second At The Belgium Grand Prix

Posted on August 30th, 2009 by by admin

Following his first ever pole position for the Force Indian formula 1 team, Fisichella went on to finish second place at the Belgium grand prix today. Fisichella in the process also helped Force India team score their first ever championship points in the F1 world champioships.
The closely fought race was won by Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen [...]

Fisichella Gives Force India Its First Ever Pole Position In Belgium GP

Posted on August 30th, 2009 by by admin

At last some good news for the Force India Formula 1 team. Giancarlo Fisichella drove a perfect lap to give the Force India team its first ever pole position in Formula 1 grand prix at the Belgium circuit.
Fisichella finished ahead of Toyota’s Jarno Trulli who was the second fastest and BMW Sauber’s Nick Heidfeld in [...]

Michael Schumacher To Pocket 1 Million Euros Per Race

Posted on August 5th, 2009 by by admin

It helps to be Michael Schumacher! The seven time world Formula 1 champion will get 1 million Euros per race according to reports coming out from Germany.
Ferrari currently pays Michael Schumacher around 5 million Euros per year for his non-driving advisory role which is set to extended  beyong the end of the year 2009. In [...]

Ferrari: Guess Who Opposed The Test With F60?

Posted on August 5th, 2009 by by admin

Ferrari has lambasted its rivals Williams and Red Bull racing after the teams said they were opposed to Michael Schumacher testing the injured Brazilian Felipe Massa’s F60 car.
Ferrari earlier this month announced that seven times world champion will come back from retirement to fill in for the injured Massa while he recovers from his unfortunate [...]

Report: Alonso Will Drive For Ferrari In 2011

Posted on December 30th, 2008 by by admin

Fernando Alonso has an agreement to switch to Ferrari according to Italy’s La Gazzetta Dello Sport reports. The double world champion may shift to Ferrari as early as 2010 as a replacement for Kimi who performed rather dissapointingly during the last season, the newspaper said.
The double world champion currently drives for Renault and the contract [...]

Mexican Billionaire May Rescue Honda F1

Posted on December 29th, 2008 by by admin

The world’s second richest man, Mexican Billionaire Carlos Slim, might come to the rescue of the beleaguered Honda Formula 1 team.
Honda are up for sale after the Japanese manufacturer announced that they are pulling the plug on F1 in wake of the ongoing global financial crisis, earlier this month. Honda F1 team’s senior executives Ross [...]

Ferrari F1 Scuderia To Be The First To Unveil 2009 Car

Posted on December 27th, 2008 by by admin

With the last few days of the year 2008 remaining, the news is coming in that Ferrari F1 team would be the first one to unveil their car of the F1 season 2009.
According to reports in the Italian press, La Gazzetta dello Sport claims that the maranello based team will reveal their challenger for the 2009 season [...]

FIA PROPOSES NEW COST CUTTING REFORMS FOR F1

Posted on December 12th, 2008 by by admin

 
FIA’s World Motorsport Council met today (friday) and rubber stamped a number of cost cutting measures for F1. Notable one’s among the new proposed rules are
* 18,000 rev limit to increase the engine life
* A total of 8 engines per driver for the whole season plus four for testing making it a cap of 20 engine per [...]

Honda Pulls Out Of F1

Posted on December 8th, 2008 by by admin

 
The latest victim of the subprime crisis or the credit crunch, Honda Motor Company has confirmed that it is exiting from competitive racing of F1 ahead of the 2009 season.
Honda Motor Company Chief Takeo Fukui confirmed the news on Friday in Tokyo. He blamed the prevailing conditions in the automotive sector throughout the world for the [...]

F1 CALENDER FOR 2009 RELEASED

Posted on October 8th, 2008 by by admin

 
FIA has released the calender for 2009 Formula 1 world championship today. 2009 F1’s seasons finale will happen at new venue, Yas Island in Abu Dhabi, a role which the Brazilian Interlagos circuit played since 2004 with one exception.
The new Yas Island circuit is a unique blend of street and permanent road course with a mixture [...]