Posts Tagged ‘Ferrari’
Calls to improve Formula One show after BahrainGP
If this would have been an ideal F1 world, we would have been discussing the pecking order in detail after the Bahrain GP. After all, this was the topic that had us consumed all winter - ever since the new cars were unveiled and testing began. We ought to be discussing how Ferrari look unmatchable and that Red Bull might be the only one who could [...]
2010 Bahrain GP: Alonso takes maiden Ferrari win
Fernando Alonso kicked off his 2010 campaign in style, taking victory on his Ferrari debut at the Bahrain Grand Prix (full results). Kimi Raikkonen did so in 2007 and that year he went on to win the championship. The kind of form that Alonso displayed in today’s race does indicate that he will be a tough competitor all year along. There were [...]
2010 Bahrain GP Qualifying: Vettel takes pole
Red Bull’s Sebastien Vettel took the first pole of 2010 for the season opening Bahrain Grand Prix. He slotted his car, christened Luscious Liz this year, at 1:54.101 in Q3 - only 0.141 seconds ahead of Felipe Massa’s Ferrari. Massa upstaged team mate Fernando Alonso by another 0.4 seconds and that is quite an achievement for the Brazilian who [...]
Bahrain Grand Prix 2010: Friday Practice
The first Friday practice of the season turned out to be on expected lines. You can call them two sessions ‘mini-me’ versions of pre-season testing if you want, for nothing much different could be said about the times racked up by the teams and drivers. Nothing different from what we saw in those four tests atleast except maybe the odd [...]
Hispania Racing needs mileage: Karun Chandhok
When the Bahrain pit lane is opened for the first time in the 2010 season on Friday, a mega Formula One season awaits us. It is going to be a vintage year and that has been confirmed by the four pre-season tests, which paradoxically didn’t really reveal much. All they helped us do was speculate and anticipate what is going to happen in nineteen [...]
McLaren rear wing to be inspected in Bahrain
The McLaren MP4-25 rear wing, which kick started a mini controversy last week when Red Bull and Ferrari complained to the FIA, will now only be inspected at the first Grand Prix of the season in Bahrain. McLaren had invited FIA delegate Charlie Whiting to come and inspect the rear of their car before freight containers were shipped out for the [...]
Lewis Hamilton seeks new management
McLaren’s 2008 F1 World Champion Lewis Hamilton will no longer be managed by his dad Anthony Hamilton. For the father-son duo, the reported decision means that for the first time since young Lewis took to racing karts, he will have professional help guiding his interests on and off the track. Under his umbrella, Anthony Hamilton has seen his [...]
Red Bull deny Raikkonen link
The 2010 Formula One season is one day closer now and Red Bull owner Dietrich Mateschitz has just upped the stakes a wee bit, claiming that nothing short of a world championship would be satisfactory for his team this season. This particular statement is an obvious one. For the simple reason that it is the next step in their evolvement as a top F1 [...]
Last day of pre-season F1 testing
Lewis Hamilton in his McLaren notched up the fastest time of the Barcelona test on the last day of pre-season testing for the 2010 season. His 1:20.472 was the quickest time of the last four days the teams spent at the Circuit de Catalunya. He was just 0.032 seconds quicker than Mark Webber’s Red Bull who clocked 1:20.496. In fact the top [...]
Are Mercedes GP sandbagging?
On the penultimate day of the Barcelona test, Nico Rosberg notched up the fastest time at the Circuit de Catalunya with 1:20.686. Now that maybe just 0.072 seconds off the pace set by Nico Hulkenberg’s Williams on day two but nothing can be read out of it just as yet, except of course that Nico – the Mercedes one – was on a qualifying [...]
