Source: http://adamcooperf1.com/2012/06/24/why-schumacher-escaped-drs-yellow-flag-penalty/
Desire Wilson Justin Wilson Vic Wilson Joachim Winkelhock Manfred Winkelhock
zaterdag 30 juni 2012
Why Schumacher escaped DRS yellow flag penalty
Michael Schumacher was investigated for speeding through a yellow flag zone in the closing laps of the European GP after Mark Webber ? who was behind him ? saw that his DRS flap was open. Webber reported back to his … Continue reading
Eric Boullier: ?Kimi took all the opportunities that he could?
Lotus has logged strong podium finishes in 2012, but a first win continues to elude the Enstone team. In Valencia Romain Grosjean was behind Fernando Alonso and potentially in a position to challenge the Ferrari when he retired with an … Continue reading 
Source: http://adamcooperf1.com/2012/06/28/eric-boullier-kimi-took-all-the-opportunities-that-he-could/
Archie Scott Brown Piero Scotti Wolfgang Seidel Gunther Seiffert Ayrton Senna† Bruno Senna Dorino Serafini
Ferrari reduce their performance gap by more than half | 2012 F1 season
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Ferrari have more than halved their deficit to the front runners since the beginning of the season, analysis of the teams' lap times show.
Ferrari reduce their performance gap by more than half is an original article from F1 Fanatic. If this article has been published anywhere other than F1 Fanatic it is an infringement of copyright.
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Johnny ServozGavin Tony Settember Hap Sharp Brian ShaweTaylor Carroll Shelby
WAG Weekly: Jessica Michibata
Jenson Button isn?t having the best of season?s on the track, but at least he can go home to the beautiful Jessica Michibata. The McLaren driver has been dating the Japanese fashion model for two-and-half-years, and she can frequently be spotted in the paddock on race days. Michibata, 27, was born to an Argentine father [...]
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Stephane Sarrazin Takuma Sato Carl Scarborough Ludovico Scarfiotti Giorgio Scarlatti Ian Scheckter Jody Scheckter
vrijdag 29 juni 2012
'69 Dodge Question
Would the headliner on a '69 Super Bee with white interior have been white, or (like some other cars with white interiors) black? Just spent almost an hour google-imaging and can't find a definitive answer, the closest pic I found suggested black but I couldn't be sure.
Thanks in advance!
Source: http://cs.scaleautomag.com/SCACS/forums/thread/1022396.aspx
Dorino Serafini Chico Serra Doug Serrurier Johnny ServozGavin Tony Settember Hap Sharp Brian ShaweTaylor
Why Michael Schumacher Could Win The 2011 World Championship
Michael Schumacher?s 2010 comeback was somewhat abortive.� The results, the driving standard and the overtakes were well below par for the former champion.� He even let his team mate beat him for the first time in his career.� So why can Schumacher, the fallen Ferrari hero, win the world championship for an 8th time? It?s [...]
Gunther Seiffert Ayrton Senna† Bruno Senna Dorino Serafini Chico Serra Doug Serrurier Johnny ServozGavin
Marussia Virgin Racing Launch Their 2011 Car
Marussia Virgin Racing have launched their car to take on the 2011 world championship in a lavish London ceremony. The Marussia name now preceeds Virgin following a major tie up with the Russian sportscar manufacturer and the team at the end of 2010. �It has led to the new car being designated as the MVR-02. [...]
Source: http://f1fanatics.wordpress.com/2011/02/07/marussia-virgin-racing-launch-their-2011-car/
Michael Schumacher Ralf Schumacher Vern Schuppan Adolfo Schwelm Cruz Bob Scott Archie Scott Brown Piero Scotti
Ferrari reduce their performance gap by more than half | 2012 F1 season
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Ferrari have more than halved their deficit to the front runners since the beginning of the season, analysis of the teams' lap times show.
Ferrari reduce their performance gap by more than half is an original article from F1 Fanatic. If this article has been published anywhere other than F1 Fanatic it is an infringement of copyright.
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Wolfgang Seidel Gunther Seiffert Ayrton Senna† Bruno Senna Dorino Serafini Chico Serra Doug Serrurier
donderdag 28 juni 2012
Are They Here To Stay?
Formula One has got a new sensation in 2012, a team which has taken the paddock by surprise and stunned many of the doubters. That new revelation is Lotus-Renault, and they could have some big things to come in the future, if the 2012 Championship is anything to go by. It might sound like we’ve [...]
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Hap Sharp Brian ShaweTaylor Carroll Shelby Tony Shelly Jo Siffert
Stone, Woods, and Cook Willys
Here's a couple pics of he build I did this weekend.
Thanks for looking.
Corey
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Michael Schumacher Ralf Schumacher Vern Schuppan Adolfo Schwelm Cruz Bob Scott Archie Scott Brown Piero Scotti
All good for revitalised Webber
"All good, mate," is probably Mark Webber's favourite phrase. It's a fair bit more loaded with meaning than it sounds, and it sums up the way he will be feeling after the Monaco Grand Prix.
The Australian's second win in three years in Formula 1's most prestigious race, and his first of the season, had been coming for a while and it confirms Webber's return to form after a difficult 2011.
It will have been particularly sweet as it came at another race in which he has had an edge on team-mate Sebastian Vettel, whose romp to the world title last year was probably harder on Webber than anyone.
When a driver takes 11 wins and 15 pole positions in 19 races, as Vettel did last year, most of his rivals can console themselves with the thought that he has a better car than they do. Not so his team-mate, who suffered through 2011 with dignity and largely in silence.
Mark Webber (right) is congratulated by Prince Albert II (left) of Monaco after winning the Monaco Grand Prix. Photo: Getty
This season, though, has seen a Webber more like the one who led the championship for much of 2010 before falling at the final hurdle.
There was virtually nothing to choose between the two Red Bull drivers for most of that season - and this year Webber is back to that position.
Although it has taken until Monaco for Webber to draw level with Vettel on points, the qualifying score is four-two in Webber's favour.
It would almost certainly have been five-one had Red Bull not erroneously decided not to send him out for a second run in the second session of qualifying in Spain two weeks ago, thinking he had done enough to make it through to the top-10 shoot-out.
Out-qualifying Vettel so comprehensively again in Monaco, on a track where all the drivers admit the man in the cockpit can make that bit more of a difference than on more mundane tracks, will have been particularly sweet.
The two Red Bull drivers have been more evenly matched in races this year, but while it took until his Monaco victory for Webber to draw level with Vettel in the championship, that is not necessarily an accurate reflection of their relative pace.
Webber scored four consecutive fourth places in the first four races as Vettel took a win, a second and a fifth. But only in Bahrain was Vettel demonstrably faster - and Webber would almost certainly have taken the second place his team-mate did in Australia had it not been for a pit-stop delay.
A win in Monaco, to become the sixth different driver to win in the first six races of the year confirms - as if confirmation were needed - that Webber is a major contender for the championship again this year.
He admitted after the race in Monaco that "last year was a little bit of a mystery; the gap was sometimes really, really extreme". One imagines Vettel feels very much the same about this season.
Monaco was another example. There was Webber on the front row while Vettel was back in 10th having used up all his 'super-soft' tyres just getting into the top-10 shoot-out - exactly as had happened in Spain.
Red Bull have been struggling comparatively in qualifying all year, but their race pace has been strong almost everywhere. So it was again in Monaco, where Vettel, on a different strategy, suddenly became a factor for victory mid-way through the race.
"That wasn't in the plan," Webber joked afterwards, admitting he had been a little nervous about his team-mate's progress. Eventually, though, the tyres on Vettel's car cried enough - and he had to settle for fourth.
Team boss Christian Horner could not explain after the race how Vettel was so competitive in the race in the same car in which he had struggled in qualifying. But the answer will almost certainly lie somewhere in the behaviour of the Pirelli tyres, the secrets of which are proving elusive to the teams so far this season.
It says something for Red Bull's professionalism and competence as a team that although aspects of their car's performance are flummoxing even a man as brilliant as their designer Adrian Newey, they find both drivers tied on points just three off the championship lead.
Equally, it speaks volumes for the quality of Fernando Alonso's driving so far this year that he is the man they are chasing, despite being in a car that has not yet been fast enough to set a pole position.
The Spaniard was in impressive form again in Monaco. From fifth on the grid, he made another great start and ran fourth to the first pit stops, when he jumped Lewis Hamilton's McLaren thanks to a stunning in-lap, on which he set the fastest times of the race until that point on both the first sectors.
Alonso and Ferrari team boss Stefano Domenicali both admitted afterwards that he could potentially even have got ahead of second-placed Nico Rosberg and perhaps Webber, too, had he stayed out a little longer. But, as they said, you only know this in hindsight.
Still, third place was enough to vault him past Vettel into a clear championship lead. No wonder Horner said after the race: "Fernando has driven very well. He's going to be a key factor all the way through this championship for sure."
He wisely added that it would be wrong to rule out McLaren, despite another lacklustre performance in Monaco, and the same should also be said of Mercedes.
Mercedes bounced back with a bang in Monaco after a dip in form in Bahrain and Spain following Rosberg's dominant win in China last month.
And after a difficult start to the season, it was Michael Schumacher who stuck the car on pole, which he lost as a result of the five-place grid penalty he earned for running into the back of Williams's Bruno Senna in Spain.
Schumacher was unlucky in the race, tagged by Lotus's Romain Grosjean at the start, and then retiring with a fuel pressure problem after running seventh for a while.
It will take a few more performances like that to convince everyone that the veteran German can be a consistent force at the front, and he is almost certainly too far behind to be a factor in the championship battle.
But his presence at the front, should it continue, will add an intriguing dimension to an already fascinating season.
"All good," as Webber would doubtless say.
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/andrewbenson/2012/05/andrew_benson.html
Chuck Stevenson Ian Stewart Jackie Stewart Jimmy Stewart Siegfried Stohr Rolf Stommelen Philippe Streiff
A London GP? How about one on Mars?
It is no great surprise that on the morning after the sentencing in Germany of Dr Gerhard Gribkowsky to a lengthy prison term for accepting a bribe in the sale process of the Formula One group – and the obvious questions that arise from that verdict – there is a story in the English newspapers, [...]
Source: http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2012/06/28/a-london-gp-how-about-one-on-mars/
Nino Vaccarella Bob Veith Jos Verstappen Sebastian Vettel Gilles Villeneuve Jacques Villeneuve Jacques Villeneuve Sr
woensdag 27 juni 2012
Could Any Of These Drivers Be At Red Bull Next Season?
At the end of this�enthralling Formula One season, It looks as if a relatively successful stint at Red Bull will come to an abrupt end for Mark Webber, as the rumours have begun to circulate around the Australian’s future. Despite being relatively successful across his�period with the current Constructor? Champions, Webber has been linked with [...]
Siegfried Stohr Rolf Stommelen Philippe Streiff Hans Stuck Hans Joachim Stuck
Alonso Claims Victory In Unpredictable European Grand Prix
Fernando Alonso powered home to win an enthralling European grand prix in front of his joyous home support on Sunday afternoon. In an unusually riveting and exciting spectacle at the Valencia circuit, Alonso delivered a masterclass in the art of the modern-day Formula 1 Champion. Starting from 11th�on the grid, the Spaniard displayed no lack [...]
Ludovico Scarfiotti Giorgio Scarlatti Ian Scheckter Jody Scheckter Harry Schell Tim Schenken Albert Scherrer
Vettel?s Valencia pace worries Ferrari
Vettel’s Valencia pace worries Ferrari is an original article from F1 Fanatic. If this article has been published anywhere other than F1 Fanatic it is an infringement of copyright.
In the round-up: Ferrari wary of Red Bull pace ? Hamilton "didn't do anything different with Maldonado" ? Horner hopes for better luck
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JeanLouis Schlesser Jo Schlesser Bernd Schneider Rudolf Schoeller Rob Schroeder Michael Schumacher Ralf Schumacher
Robert Kubica Hospitalised Following Rally Accident
UPDATE ON KUBICA’s CONDITION: �http://wp.me/p3uiu-11K Renault Lotus F1 driver Robert Kubica has been airlifted to hospital following a car accident while competing on a rally. The incident, described as a high speed accident, left the Pole injured and he had to be airlifted to hospital. �His co-driver Jakub Gerber was uninjured in the incident. While [...]
Source: http://f1fanatics.wordpress.com/2011/02/06/robert-kubica-hospitalised-following-rally-accident/
Sam Tingle Desmond Titterington Johnnie Tolan Alejandro de Tomaso Charles de Tornaco
dinsdag 26 juni 2012
Hamilton decision-making under the microscope
 Lewis Hamilton has come in for criticism |
Source: http://blogs.espnf1.com/paperroundf1/archives/2010/09/hamilton_decisionmaking_under_1.php
Gabriele Tarquini Piero Taruffi Dennis Taylor Henry Taylor John Taylor Mike Taylor Trevor Taylor
Robert Kubica Could Be Ruled Out For At Least A Year Following Accident
Polish racing driver Robert Kubica will spend at least one whole year recovering from a rally crash he suffered this morning, according to his surgeon. Kubica, who races for Renault Lotus crashed the Skoda Fabia rally car this morning and was airlifted to hospital suffering serious injuries. He has spent many hours in surgery, with [...]
Tony Shelly Jo Siffert Andre Simon Rob Slotemaker Moises Solana Alex SolerRoig Raymond Sommer
FIA confirms Glock can start if he?s fit
The Marussia team will have to wait until Sunday morning to see if Timo Glock is fit enough to start the European GP. The German was suffering with a stomach bug all weekend, and having run in FP3, he did … Continue reading 
Source: http://adamcooperf1.com/2012/06/23/fia-confirms-glock-can-start-if-hes-fit/
John Surtees Andy Sutcliffe Adrian Sutil Len Sutton Aguri Suzuki Toshio Suzuki Jacques Swaters
Golf & Motor Racing? A Match Made In Heaven?
You may think that Golf and Motor racing are worlds apart, but prepare to witness the two merge in one fantastic clip. Former racer, now BBC F1 pundit, David Coulthard gets behind the wheel of Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Roadster with the aim of catching the furthest golf shot in a motor vehicle. With the help [...]
Ricardo Zunino Pedro de la Rosa Keke Rosberg† Nico Rosberg Mauri Rose
Bull wins fight in Spain.
Sebastian Vettel took pole position in Valencia, three-tenths of a second ahead of Lewis Hamilton, with Pastor Maldonado third for Williams. Fourth and fifth places belonged to the Lotuses of Romain Grosjean and Kimi Raikkonen with Nico Rosberg sixth, ahead of Kamui Kobayashi, who may be penalised for an incident in Q1 with Nico Hulkenberg. [...]
Source: http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2012/06/23/bull-wins-fight-in-spain/
Albert Scherrer Domenico Schiattarella Heinz Schiller Bill Schindler JeanLouis Schlesser Jo Schlesser Bernd Schneider
Five hours and 20 minutes after the race ? an 80-page e-magazine
Why wait days for your F1 coverage? Produced from the F1 circuit at Valencia, GP+ is a PDF electronic magazine that gives you the full story from the European Grand Prix weekend. In this issue we look at Fernando Alonso’s amazing victory… We talk to Felipe Massa… We look back at Spain’s version of Enzo [...]
Jo Schlesser Bernd Schneider Rudolf Schoeller Rob Schroeder Michael Schumacher Ralf Schumacher Vern Schuppan
maandag 25 juni 2012
Why Schumacher escaped DRS yellow flag penalty
Michael Schumacher was investigated for speeding through a yellow flag zone in the closing laps of the European GP after Mark Webber ? who was behind him ? saw that his DRS flap was open. Webber reported back to his … Continue reading
Source: http://adamcooperf1.com/2012/06/24/why-schumacher-escaped-drs-yellow-flag-penalty/
Ludovico Scarfiotti Giorgio Scarlatti Ian Scheckter Jody Scheckter Harry Schell Tim Schenken Albert Scherrer
Hamilton's new 'headspace' wins admirers. And races
Lewis Hamilton was almost overcome with emotion after winning the Canadian Grand Prix and taking his first victory of the season at the seventh time of asking. Which is ironic, because one of the most impressive aspects of his performance was its control.
The McLaren driver admitted he too often let his emotions get the better of him in 2011, and he went away for the winter intending to reset his mental state. His performance at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve on Sunday was the final confirmation that the world is seeing a new, more potent, Hamilton in 2012.
His change of approach has been apparent from the start of the season. He has remained calm in the face of much adversity when last year he might not have and has never once deviated from his determination that consistency is what will win him the title this season.
Until Sunday, there had been questions about whether he could marry that approach with winning races in the same spectacular style that has earned him such a huge following - not least because winning was exactly what he had not done.
Lewis Hamilton celebrates winning the Canadian GP with McLaren chairman Ron Dennis (left). Photo:Getty
But he drove a superb, perfectly judged race in Montreal to take the 18th victory of his career and the world championship lead – albeit by only two points from Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso.
Hamilton talked in Canada about the difference between last year and this.
“I think I’m driving the same,” he said, “but last year, every year, I’m able to drive fast, but to remain in the right headspace and remain focused this year is not an issue.”
This new “headspace”, it seems, finally contains room for a skill he has shown only rarely before.
The headlines – and much of the attention – will focus on the exciting last 20 laps in Montreal, when Hamilton dropped to third following his second pit stop and had to make up 15 seconds on Alonso to win the race.
But more impressive was Hamilton’s coolness and awareness of what was going on around him before that.
There have been times in Hamilton’s career when he seemed to look to the team for answers that other great drivers have tended to be able work out themselves.
Brilliantly skilled as his driving is, planning a race had never seemed to be one of his strongpoints. But on Sunday all that changed.
As he led the race during the second stint, he was told by his engineers that Alonso and Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel were on the same two-stop strategy as he was. He questioned it, saying: ‘Are you sure they’re not doing a one-stop?” He was right; they were wrong.
It was the sort of leading from the cockpit that is more usual from Alonso, Hamilton’s great rival. But on Sunday it was the Spaniard and Ferrari who got it badly wrong, and Hamilton and McLaren who called it exactly right.
“When the guys were behind me,” Hamilton said. “I kinda had a feeling that Fernando would be doing a one-stop, so I knew I had to make a gap while looking after the tyres.
“I was able to make a gap and then hold it, even though Fernando started to pick his pace up. It was one of the best stints I’ve had for a long, long time.”
The final, winning, stint was spectacular to watch. But with the tyres on the cars of Alonso and Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel fading fast, and Hamilton lapping as much as two seconds faster than them, it was obvious from pretty soon after the McLaren driver’s second stop that he was going to win.
And so, in a moment, the narrative of Hamilton’s season has turned full circle.
Before Canada, the talk was all about how McLaren had taken the fastest car and thrown away their advantage through operational errors – several pit stop problems and the refuelling error in qualifying that cost Hamilton almost certain victory in Spain.
Those criticisms remain valid, and Hamilton did have hiccoughs at both his pit stops in Canada, but the win has finally come – and in a style that suggests strongly it will not be his last.
“I’m definitely not going to change my approach, but I think it’s working reasonably well so far,” Hamilton said.
“I probably definitely had to be more on the limit today to catch the two guys ahead, perhaps a little bit more risky than in the past but it is about consistency this year.
“It’s unbelievable to see just how close it is. We got a win and 25 points and I only have a two-point lead and I think it will stay that close throughout the year. Again, it just highlights how important consistency is.”
On the other side of the McLaren garage, things are not as rosy.
Jenson Button sounded like a broken man after struggling to 16th place, saying he was “confused and very lost” about his lack of pace – which has been a problem since Bahrain four races ago.
“I couldn’t look after tyres, I didn’t have any pace, there was nothing there,” he said, cutting a forlorn figure as Hamilton celebrated.
Why do you think you were so slow, he was asked? “Haven’t a clue,” he replied.
Button started the season with a dominant win in Australia, where he made Hamilton look pretty ordinary, and after a lacklustre race in Malaysia, Button again beat Hamilton in finishing second to Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg in China.
At that point, Button looked like the favourite for the title. But since then he has scored two points in four races.
Clearly something is going very wrong somewhere in the set-up of Button’s car for as he put it himself: “I’m not two seconds slower than Lewis and I don’t know what’s going on.”
He is now 43 points behind Hamilton in a season that looks, for all its unpredictability, as if it is distilling down to a battle between Hamilton, Alonso and Vettel, the three finest drivers in the world.
Unless McLaren find some answers soon, Button will be reduced, like the rest of us, to watching it from afar.
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/andrewbenson/2012/06/hamilton_1.html
Consalvo Sanesi Stephane Sarrazin Takuma Sato Carl Scarborough Ludovico Scarfiotti Giorgio Scarlatti Ian Scheckter
Could Schumacher Be Number Eight?
He may have only two points to his name from seven races so far this season, but Michael Schumacher heads to this weekend’s European Grand Prix with realistic ambitions of claiming his first win of 2012. Seven different winners of the seven Grand Prix?s thus far is unprecedented, much like the situation the seven time [...]
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Bruno Senna Dorino Serafini Chico Serra Doug Serrurier Johnny ServozGavin
zondag 24 juni 2012
Another Ford 4x4 Pickup...
Just finished my third. It started life as an AMT F-350. I sectioned the bed and shortened the wheelbase to F-250 dimensions. It's painted Model Master dark green metallic. As with all my recent builds, this one is built as a stock 75 "high-boy". Again, my pics are small but I'm limited by Photobucket. Sorry.
(Pay no attention to the 747 crashing above the truck)
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Jody Scheckter Harry Schell Tim Schenken Albert Scherrer Domenico Schiattarella Heinz Schiller Bill Schindler
Button mushrooms
Jenson Button set the pace in the third practice session in Valencia, on a bright and sunny morning. It was interesting to see the Lotuses of Romain Grosjean and Kimi Raikkonen second and third, ahead of the Force Indias of Nico HUlkenberg and Paul di Resta. Sergio Perez was sixth ahead of Michael Schumacher, Lewis [...]
Source: http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2012/06/23/button-mushrooms/
Ernie de Vos Bill Vukovich Syd van der Vyver Fred Wacker David Walker Peter Walker Lee Wallard
1953 Studebaker Starliner Coupe WIP; Finished, Outdoor Pics!
I had previously painted this model with some Kustom Kolor Aqua enamel. I started to rub out the spits of paint (I thought) which is usually not a problem and I was using 12000 polishing cloth. Somehow, the spot wouldn't come out without rubbing a white hole in the paint which means I probably didn't get enough paint on this rear quarter. Other areas rubbed out OK without leaving white spots but this fender had a few.
Now i am out of paint so I called Coast airbrush that sells HOK paint and although these paints have been discontinued I bought 4 oz. of Aqua enamel pinstriping paint and hope that it will be close. I'll re-tape and repaint the fender then I'll try to blend it in if it is close or reshoot the entire body and hood since I should have enough paint and I am trying to avoid the brake fluid pool. Off to a rough start.
Hey, SFD, tell me what color interior would go good with what is close to Chippawa green (this Aqua). Also it looks like the engine block should be a military green. Is that right? Thanks for looking!
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Lee Wallard Heini Walter Rodger Ward Derek Warwick John Watson Spider Webb Mark Webber
Five ways to improve F1
 Emerson Fittipaldi in his heyday |
Source: http://blogs.espnf1.com/paperroundf1/archives/2010/11/five_ways_to_improve_f1.php
Noritake Takahara Kunimitsu Takahashi Patrick Tambay Luigi Taramazzo Gabriele Tarquini Piero Taruffi Dennis Taylor
zaterdag 23 juni 2012
F1 2011 Launch Catch Up ? McLaren, Mercedes, Red Bull, Sauber, Toro Rosso, Renault?
Catching up on the launches in one mega post. �Here in you’ll find quick interviews with senior members of the team and photos from the Red Bull, Sauber, Renault Lotus, Toro Rosso, Mercedes and McLaren launches. Apologies for being somewhat late, the whole blog isn’t running at full power until the season starts again. Red [...]
Tim Schenken Albert Scherrer Domenico Schiattarella Heinz Schiller Bill Schindler JeanLouis Schlesser Jo Schlesser
European Grand Prix Preview
This weekend sees race eight of the 2012 Championship, and the annual visit of the European Grand Prix, in Valencia. With seven winners from the same amount of races already this Championship, records have been broken. Last time round current World Champion Sebastian Vettel managed to hold off Ferrari?s Fernando Alonso on the Valencia Street [...]
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Syd van der Vyver Fred Wacker David Walker Peter Walker Lee Wallard Heini Walter Rodger Ward
vrijdag 22 juni 2012
Ferrari Launch Their 2011 Car The F150
Ferrari have become the first team to launch their 2011 Formula One car – named the F150. Thw F150 name comes from the fact it is 150 years since Italian unification, the flag bearer for the nation decided it was important to increase exposure of the major event in the country’s long history. �The cars [...]
Source: http://f1fanatics.wordpress.com/2011/01/31/ferrari-launch-their-2011-car-the-f150/
Brian ShaweTaylor Carroll Shelby Tony Shelly Jo Siffert Andre Simon Rob Slotemaker Moises Solana
1969 Chevelle SS 396
Hello ...
I have bought the used AMT 69 chevelle kit from ebay.When I opened the box I have seen that there is no front hood.
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Hap Sharp Brian ShaweTaylor Carroll Shelby Tony Shelly Jo Siffert Andre Simon Rob Slotemaker
Red Bull under the spotlight
 Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel celebrate with Red Bull boss Christian Horner on the podium |
Source: http://blogs.espnf1.com/paperroundf1/archives/2010/11/red_bull_under_the_spotlight.php
Bruno Senna Dorino Serafini Chico Serra Doug Serrurier Johnny ServozGavin Tony Settember Hap Sharp
The right race in the wrong place?
Sebastian Vettel gave this already fascinating Formula 1 world championship another huge twist at the Bahrain Grand Prix with his first victory of the season.
What looked for a while like it might turn into a carbon-copy of so many of the Red Bull driver's wins on his way to the title last year - pole, blitz the start, consolidate lead - turned into a fascinating battle with the Lotus of Kimi Raikkonen.
The Finn showed all his old skill and consistency as he climbed from 11th place on the grid to take second place. In so doing, Raikkonen finally delivered on the potential of a car that has looked capable of this sort of result since the start of the season and proved he has lost nothing in his two years away in rallying.
The result, and a nightmare race for McLaren, leaves the championship finely poised going into a three-week break before the Spanish Grand Prix, with Vettel leapfrogging from fifth overall to first and only a handful of points covering all the top five.
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All of this, though, has been completely overshadowed by the situation outside the track, and the controversy over F1's decision to return to Bahrain despite ongoing civil unrest in the Gulf state.
The race has dominated the news agenda over the weekend and, for those involved in the sport, it has not been pretty.
Most people could see the situation F1 has found itself in this weekend coming from miles away, but if the sport's bosses did, they are doing a good job of hiding it.
Last year's Bahrain Grand Prix was cancelled following the violent suppression of protests which were part of the Arab Spring that swept across much of the Middle East.
Troubles have continued, despite promises by the ruling royal family to instigate reform following a critical independent report last November, which detailed human rights abuses, including wrongful arrests and torture. Amnesty International says the situation in Bahrain is "not much different" from a year ago.
Yet F1 chose to return, FIA president Jean Todt and commercial boss Bernie Ecclestone believing the claims of the authorities that the situation was much improved and that they could guarantee security.
It did not take long for that last claim to be exposed. Returning from the track on Wednesday evening, down the main highway into the capital Manama, four Force India mechanics were caught between protestors on one side of the road and riot police on the other.
The protestors were throwing petrol bombs at the police, who were responding with tear gas. Petrol bombs flew over the car, and one landed worryingly close.
The whole incident lasted no more than two or three minutes, but it clearly spooked those involved - and the rest of their team, who subsequently chose to skip second practice on Friday so they could return to their hotels before dark. A decision made despite an intervention by Ecclestone.
Most F1 personnel encountered no trouble. But the unrest continued throughout the weekend, and on Friday night a protestor was killed.
Vettel, who had described the controversy over the race as "hype" when he arrived on Thursday, was forced to think again. "It's always dreadful when someone dies," he said after qualifying on pole position.
For all the protestations from Todt and Ecclestone about sport staying apart from politics, the grand prix has become part of the argument in Bahrain.
The protests are not specifically directed at the race, but it is seen as a legitimate target because it is so closely identified with the ruling Sunni royal family, who set it up as a global promotional tool for the country and by extension their regime.
The race organisers - effectively the royal family themselves - have overtly politicised the event by promoting it with posters using the F1 logo in the middle of the slogan "UniF1ed", in a country that is clearly anything but.
Protests have targeted Formula 1 both inside Bahrain and across the world. Photo: Getty
Ecclestone's and Todt's responses to this - that they cannot control how people promote their races (Ecclestone) or that the slogan can be interpreted in lots of ways (Todt) - are debatable at best. Some have called it sophistry.
If F1's bosses thought they could go to Bahrain, pick up the huge pay cheque for the race, and get out without any damage to their or the sport's reputation, they have been disabused of that notion in the starkest terms.
On Saturday, Mercedes team boss Ross Brawn - who, behind the scenes, has been one of the senior figures most opposed to holding the Bahrain race - said F1 "with proper judgement of what happened and what we saw needed to come to a conclusion".
I am told by senior insiders that the many of the sport's bosses have been staggered by the extent to which the sport's name has been dragged through the mud this weekend, as well as the focus on it by major global news organisations.
Quite apart from the obvious moral and personal safety issues involved, this is clearly a commercial concern. F1 is selling a dream and an aspiration. But the dream has this weekend become a nightmare - and there has been nothing aspirational about the image the sport has presented to the world.
F1 being what it is, if anything will make them wake up to the potential consequences of racing in Bahrain, that will be it.
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/andrewbenson/2012/04/the_right_race_in_the_wrong_pl.html
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donderdag 21 juni 2012
Alonso the new favourite
 Fernando Alonso is the new favourite for the title |
?He is the man with the momentum and, on the same basis that I backed Mark Webber to win the title before Korea, is now my favourite to claim the world title in Abu Dhabi on Nov 14. ?When the cars are so evenly-matched you have to back the man in possession. Especially when that man is a two-time world champion and arguably the finest driver of his generation.?The Mirror?s Byron Young drew comparisons between Alonso and seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher as the Spaniard bids to become the sport?s youngest ever triple world champion.
?Like Schumacher, Alonso accepts no opposition within his team. Ultimately he fell out with McLaren over their refusal in 2007 to bring Lewis Hamilton to heel. ?He returned to Renault on condition he was No.1, only to be at the centre of the Singapore cheat scandal - engineered to hand him victory. ?The Spaniard has always denied involvement but at the German GP in July he was brazen enough to radio Ferrari to rein in team-mate Felipe Massa so he could start the winning streak that has taken him to the brink of history.?
Source: http://blogs.espnf1.com/paperroundf1/archives/2010/10/alonso_the_new_favourite_1.php
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McLaren drivers out of title race
 Is it now a three-way battle for the title? |
?Focus and concentration will be of paramount importance and there is none stronger in this regard than Ferrari?s Fernando Alonso.?The Guardian?s Oliver Owen thinks that it is Mark Webber?s title to lose now, and that this may be the Australian?s last realistic chance of winning the title.
?He has driven beautifully. Monaco and Silverstone spring to mind. He has been an uncompromising racer, not giving Vettel or Lewis Hamilton an inch in Turkey and Singapore respectively. Most importantly, he has largely avoided the bouts of brain fade that can wreck a season ? his on-track hooning in Melbourne when racing Hamilton being the only exception. But there is a feeling that for Webber it is now or never, that a chance of a tilt at the title may never come again. He is certainly driving as if that is the case and that has been his strength.?According to The Mirror?s Byron Young, both McLaren drivers are now out of the title hunt after their fourth and fifth place finishes in Suzuka.
?McLaren's title hopes died yesterday in a weekend from Hell at Suzuka. Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton finished fourth and fifth in a Japanese Grand Prix they had to win to have the remotest chance of keeping their title bid alive."The Sun?s Michael Spearman was of the same opinion, saying ?Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button's title hopes were in tatters after a shocker in Japan.?
Source: http://blogs.espnf1.com/paperroundf1/archives/2010/10/mclaren_drivers_out_of_title_r_1.php
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