Posts Tagged ‘Nico Rosberg’
2010 Australian Grand Prix: Jenson Button takes thrilling win
World champion Jenson Button took a thrilling win in the 2010 Australian Grand Prix, in what was only his second start in the McLaren. Robert Kubica in the Renault showed that his Friday form wasn’t a flash in the pan as he came in a deserved second ahead of Felipe Massa’s Ferrari in third (full results). The race on a whole was in direct [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
