The Spaniard was more or less satisfied to complete he’s testing program but does not dare to assess the performance of the new Ferrari F2012 . Fernando Alonso was very cautious talking about the performance of the Ferrari F2012: "We still do not know much about how competitive [...]
About one week ago we asked if the new Mercedes W03 will be something special and also we pointed out that many people were convinced that the silver arrows will have something truly unique in the nose or on the front of the car, only to learn from GMM [...]
Busy day again at Circuit de Catalunya with no less than 5 teams breaking the 100 laps barrier. Nico Hulkenberg wanted to make everyone understand that he’s second best time from yesterday was not a coincidence and at the end of he’s 112 laps he managed to set the [...]
Montmeló was in for a busy day today as Mercedes were about to present their brand new W03 just before the start of the second official pre-season testing session. All teams were present at Circuit de Catalunya this morning with one exception HRT, and as soon as the light [...]
Mercedes AMG Petronas has become the last top team to unveil it’s 2012 challenger, but this was not our first glimpse at the car since it was shaken down last week in Silverstone. Team Principal Ross Brawn said about the new W03: “The F1 W03 is a car [...]
Tomorrow at 9:00 CET, the new F1 cars will hit the asphalt and start the second round of the Formula 1 official winter testing, the Montmeló based facility will fill up with engine roars and emotions while the teams are going to test new bits and pieces of the [...]
Red Bull thinks that the new Mercedes single-seater W03 will bring an innovation which could be easily copied by it’s rivals, being the only top team to delay the unveiling of it’s challenger until the second pre-season testing which will start tomorrow 21st Feb and will end on Friday [...]
This Friday Vitaly Petrov was confirmed as the second official pilot for the Caterham team replacing the only Italian left on the grid Jarno Trulli and according to he’s manager the contract could go beyond the 2012 season. To be perfectly honest Petrov’s new deal is less than [...]
Mercedes AMG Petronas has made it’s new W03 shakedown this Thursday in Silverstone just before to pack up and head for Barcelona where it will take part in the second official preseason testing which will start on 21st February. The new W03 made 100km on track, using a [...]
Kobayashi was extremely confident in the fact that the reliability problems that he’s team has had during the first official tests are nothing more than a normal stage in the development process and they are nothing to worry about. Considering that in the 1st day at Jerez track [...]
Following the first Formula1 official testing and considering how much the cars were running on that circuit we thought that it would be fun to put everything on paper and see what the teams and drivers did in those 4 days of tests. This first days times are [...]
HRT is the surprise team I think, after failing it’s first two crash tests with FIA and announcing that yet again they might lose the testing season and will fly to Australia with the car half build they have released a press communicate that now they also have a [...]
2011 was a season less than stellar for the 36yo Australian who only got one victory in than last race of the season and this one was mainly because of the gremlins from Vettel gearbox. Even that Mark Webber never said when he want’s to retire from F1 [...]
Technical director Pat Fry has become the 3rd man within the Scuderia Ferrari who openly admits that they have problems with the 2012 challenger. While testing the car in Jerez the technical team has identified numerous problems in cornering and overall performance as well. “I’m not happy with [...]
Last testing day at Jerez track has ended, with some teams being upbeat about their cars and others let’s say not happy at all with the progress made, among them the “unbeatable structure” who in all fairness got it’s first beating right here in Spain. Here are the complete times [...]
here is a short video introduction into the Formula1 tyre world, you can find more information here about the new Pirelli F1 Tyres:
The last year unconfirmed news over the Mercedes W03 was that they managed to incorporate an passive F-Duct into their front wing, this wing will in theory allow the air to enter from there and then be channeled down to the wing struts and further out under the floor. [...]
After last year race cancelation in Bahrain one would thought that the political situation in such a small country will be resolved in one year time, but it seems that are still problems there and all the Formula1 team bosses are expressing concerns about the situation there, but there [...]
As silence came down overt the Jerez track, the computers did their job and have presented us with todays best times, and even if we all know that you cannot read nothing into this numbers they are always fun to watch, and lets not forget the long distance runners of [...]
todays fastest drivers were as follows: Pos. Driver Team Time Laps 1. Kimi Raikkonen Lotus 01:19:670 75 2. Paul di Resta Force India F1 01:19.772 101 3. Nico Rosberg Mercedes Grand Prix 01:20.219 56 4. Mark Webber Red Bull 01:20.496 54 5. Daniel Ricciardo Scuderia Toro Rosso 01:20.694 57 [...]
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