Posted in Race Weekend, tagged F1 News, Geoff Willis, Red Bull Racing, Sebastien Bourdais on July 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Geoff Willis, the technical director of Red Bull Racing has left the team, with barely half of the season gone.
The exact reasons for his departure are not known as yet but Sebastian Vettel confirmed it in an interview with BBC Radio 5 Live’s Holly Samos this afternoon. Vettel added that the team would not be [...]
Posted in Race Weekend, tagged F1 breakaway, F1 News on July 8, 2009 | 39 Comments »
It took Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier several high profile bouts to settle their differences and it seems that we are in for a rematch of Max Mosley’s FIA vs Luca di Montezemolo’s FOTA; a heavyweight showdown, just when we all thought things had been sorted out.
There may not be a catchy title to this [...]
Posted in Race Weekend, tagged F1 News, British Grand Prix on June 21, 2009 | 47 Comments »
Sebastian Vettel put in a peerless performance today to win the British Grand Prix, his second victory of the season and the third of his brief career. He turns 22 next week.
Red Bull Racing have made a big improvement to their car, but there is no doubt that the circuit and the conditions played to [...]
Posted in Race Weekend, tagged F1 News, F1 breakaway on June 21, 2009 | 18 Comments »
FIA president Max Mosley said today that he was ready to start negotiations with FOTA to try to get F1 back on track after the teams opted to start a breakaway series.
“We are talking to people all the time,” he told BBC’s F1 programme. “It will all be back to normal, it’s just a question [...]
Posted in Race Weekend, tagged F1 News, F1 breakaway on June 21, 2009 | 9 Comments »
There is a fantastic atmosphere here at Silverstone today, with over 100,000 people looking forward to a great day’s racing. We had 85,000 here on Friday, which is more than most Grands Prix get on raceday.
Bernie Ecclestone’s comments yesterday that we will be back at Silverstone next year if Donington isn’t ready have been well [...]
Posted in Race Weekend, tagged F1 News, Vijay Mallya on June 20, 2009 | 9 Comments »
A bit of light relief from Silverstone this evening.
I was passing the Force India motorhome when I spied a crowd inside all cheering. On closer inspection I found team boss Vijay Mallya with three darts in his hands taking on Bobby George, twice runner up in the Darts World Championships.
The pair were warming up [...]
Posted in Race Weekend, tagged F1 News, British Grand Prix on June 20, 2009 | 7 Comments »
The fuel weights have been published for the British Grand Prix and Sebastian Vettel is in even better shape than he looked after qualifying. The Red Bull has taken a huge step forward this weekend and Vettel took the pole with four laps more fuel in the car than Rubens Barrichello’s Brawn. Vettel will stop [...]
Posted in Race Weekend, tagged F1 News, Sebastian Vettel, Silverstone on June 20, 2009 | 26 Comments »
Sebastian Vettel took his third pole position of the 2009 season today with a stunning lap on his final qualifying run at Silverstone.
He and Red Bull team mate Mark Webber had been trading fastest laps all weekend, indicating that the Red Bull is now clearly the fastest car in F1. What is impressive about the [...]
Posted in Race Weekend, tagged F1 News, F1 breakaway on June 19, 2009 | 94 Comments »
The row between the FIA and FOTA entered a new phase this afternoon as the FIA put out a statement saying that they were preparing legal action,
“The FIA’s lawyers have now examined the FOTA threat to begin a breakaway series. The actions of FOTA as a whole, and Ferrari in particular, amount to serious violations [...]
