Archive for March, 2011

  • Formula One Fantasy – Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel

    F1 Interviews 31/03/2011 18:31 no comments

    If you’re being paid to travel the globe whilst racing some of the world’s most technologically-advanced cars many would say you are living the dream.

    But if you’re already a Formula One driver, and have firsthand experience of the glitz, glamour and…

     
  • Lotus’s Tony Fernandes receives CBE honour

    F1 Headlines 31/03/2011 14:37 no comments

    Lotus team principal Tony Fernandes has became a Commander of the Order of the British Empire after receiving the award from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in a ceremony in London on Thursday. Fernandes, who also runs airline AirAsia and the Tune Group…

     
  • Lotus demonstration to wow Malaysia ahead of Grand Prix

    F1 Headlines 31/03/2011 12:32 no comments

    Ahead of next weekend’s Malaysian Grand Prix, Lotus will whet the appetites of Formula One fans in the Asian country with a street demonstration in administrative capital Putrajaya. The showcase, which will be held on Saturday, has been organised in co…

     
  • Nick Heidfeld’s “luck”

    Nick Heidfeld’s “luck”

    Chit Chat 31/03/2011 11:51 no comments

      Well for many of you including me think that the Australian GP of Nick Heidfeld was a very poor one, I for one I had expected more, but after the race a few things were said about why he had such a poor performance. In the qualifying he had [...]

     
  • Lewis Hamilton Q&A: McLaren are relentless – we never sit still

    F1 Interviews 30/03/2011 17:10 no comments

    Although nobody went so far to as to write off McLaren, the team’s winter test form had led many to question whether they would be viable rivals to Red Bull this year. But at the season-opening Australian Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton was the only driver …

     
  • Jenson Button Q&A: MP4-26 has plenty of untapped potential

    F1 Interviews 30/03/2011 17:09 no comments

    Fourth on the grid, a slow start, a difficult to overtake Ferrari, a drive-through penalty and a sixth-place finish – on paper at least, the Australian Grand Prix was one to forget for McLaren’s Jenson Button. In reality, however, Button is remarkably …

     
  • Super Visor – Formula One helmets become even safer

    F1 Features 30/03/2011 13:21 no comments

    Black, mean and no-nonsense – the helmet pictured here is the zenith of driver head protection. A mere 1,200 gram carbon-fibre shell that can withstand the crushing force of a 55-tonne tank without deforming, and an 800 degree Celsius fire for 30 secon…

     
  • Will Hispania Survive 2011?

    Will Hispania Survive 2011?

    F1 - News 29/03/2011 19:35 no comments

      Hispania’s has made an in auspicious start to the 2011 season. For the second year in a row the team failed to complete any pre-season testing mileage and entered the first race of the season woefully unprepared.   Things went from bad to worse when the team fell foul [...]

     
  • Sauber will not appeal Melbourne disqualification

    F1 Headlines 29/03/2011 18:14 no comments

    Sauber have decided they will not appeal their disqualification from Sunday’s Australian Grand Prix. Drivers Sergio Perez and Kamui Kobayashi lost their seventh and eighth-place finishes after post-race checks by the Melbourne race stewards revealed th…

     
  • Sam Michael Q&A: There’s more to come from Williams

    F1 Interviews 29/03/2011 17:52 no comments

    After all the pre-season hype, Williams disappointed at Sunday’s Australian Grand Prix, with transmission problems forcing both Rubens Barrichello and Pastor Maldonado to retire. But technical director Sam Michael isn’t feeling too gloomy. In fact, buo…

     
  • Alonso: My Australian race was far from disastrous

    F1 Headlines 29/03/2011 12:45 no comments

    Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso is confident he will quickly reemerge as a championship contender, despite his relatively poor showing at the Australian Grand Prix on Sunday. Alonso is not too disappointed with his fourth-place finish in Melbourne and is det…

     
  • Australia analysis – attack the best form of defence

    F1 Features 28/03/2011 12:46 no comments

    The best way to defend your world title? Attack with maximum ferocity from the off. That’s exactly what Sebastian Vettel and Red Bull did in Melbourne, from the German’s crushingly dominant pole lap, to his equally imperious race drive.

    Against testin…

     
  • Sebastian Vettel Q&A: Everything worked perfectly

    F1 Interviews 27/03/2011 15:01 no comments

    Sebastian Vettel’s Australian weekend started slowly as he sheared a sheep in far from record time, but once at the wheel of Kinky Kylie his normal speed returned, resulting in a stunning pole position and an equally imperious win. It was an impressive…

     
  • Saubers disqualified over technical infringement – updated

    F1 Headlines 27/03/2011 14:19 no comments

    Sauber’s Sergio Perez and Kamui Kobayashi have lost their seventh and eighth places in Sunday’s Australian Grand Prix after both were disqualified for technical infringements on their cars.

    Following post-race checks, the Melbourne stewards decided th…

     
  • FIA post-race press conference – Australia

    F1 Headlines 27/03/2011 14:02 no comments

    Drivers: 1 – Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull), 2 – Lewis Hamilton (McLaren), 3 – Vitaly Petrov (Renault).

    Q: Sebastian, pole position and victory. It looked under control, was it?
    Sebastian Vettel: Yeah, obviously, it was a good race. In the end, things ca…

     
  • Hamilton: We’ll challenge Red Bull even more in Malaysia

    F1 Interviews 27/03/2011 13:22 no comments

    After the trials and tribulations of McLaren’s rocky winter, driver Lewis Hamilton is delighted to have scored second place – and 18 points – at the season-opening Australian Grand Prix. And while Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel may have ultimately dominat…

     
  • Perez thrilled with flying start to Formula One career

    F1 Headlines 27/03/2011 13:20 no comments

    As the highest-finishing Formula One debutant of Sunday’s Australian Grand Prix, Sauber’s Sergio Perez is leaving Melbourne with a big smile on his face. Perez wowed in the quick-looking C30, converting his 13th on the grid into seventh place in the ra…

     
  • Race – invincible Vettel wins with ease in Melbourne

    F1 Headlines 27/03/2011 11:44 no comments

    Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel got his world championship defence off to the best possible start in Albert Park on Sunday evening. The German beat Lewis Hamilton’s KERS-assisted rush as they had a drag race to the first corner, and thereafter that was all…

     
  • Australian Grand Prix – selected team & driver quotes

    F1 Headlines 27/03/2011 11:28 no comments

    Sauber’s Sergio Perez on his sparky debut performance which clinched him seventh; Renault’s Vitaly Petrov on securing his first-ever podium finish; Williams’ Rubens Barrichello on his eventful race; Mercedes GP’s Michael Schumacher and Nico Rosberg on …

     
  • Paddock Postcard from Melbourne

    F1 Features 27/03/2011 07:29 no comments

    After the longer-than-expected winter break, the paddock was in an excitable – and impatient – mood as it reconvened in Australia. And Melbourne yet again welcomed the Formula One fraternity to Albert Park with its usual grace and panache.

    In the buil…