Sebastian Vettel won for Red Bull with team mate Mark Webber in second place at the first Abu Dhabi Grand Prix at Yas Marina. It was billed as a procession; a meaningless final race to the topsy-turvy 2009 F1 season. And in a sense it was. Sebastian Vettel managed to best Lewis Hamilton in the […]
Abu Dhabi F1 Grand Prix Yas Marina – The Track +video
We have video of a lap of the new Yas Marina track in Abu Dhabi, setting for the final F1 Grand Prix of 2009. All the real meat has now gone from the Formula 1 season after Jenson Button won the world championship in Brazil last Sunday. But there is one more treat left for […]
Button & Brawn – World Champions
Jenson Button drove a great race to finish fifth in the Brazilian Grand Prix and secure his world championship and that of Brawn GP. It’s looked less and less certain that Jenson Button would secure the world championship that seemed to be his from the first race of the Formula One season. But one thing […]
David Couthard Speeding fine for 160mph in a 30mph limit
David Coulthard – driving a Red Bull F1 – has been fined for speeding at 160mph in a 30mph zone at an event in Mumbai. On the face of it the headline does suggest that DC was being a little careless getting nicked for doing 130 mph over the speed limit. And you could reasonably […]
Volkswagen to enter F1?
VW are considering entering a team in to Formula One if the costs of participation continue to fall. Audi F1? Bugatti F1? Porsche F1? We’ll see. Volkswagen are on a world domination quest at the moment. Despite the economy, just about all their brands are performing ahead of the market, and they have recently wrestled […]
Vettel wins for Red Bull in Japan
Sebastian Vettel has won the Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka to keep his world championship hopes alive. So much for the chance that Jenson Button could sew up the driver’s championship at Suzuka. The start grid was not what we expected after Q3 on Saturday, after a raft of speeding under a yellow flag penalties […]
McLaren F1 to buy BMW F1 Engine ops
McLaren are poised to buy BMW’s F1 engine building operation in a move to end the relationship with Mercedes. The relationship between Mercedes and McLaren has been a successful one. For almost fifteen years they have collaborated with great success both in F1 and with the Mercedes McLaren SLR. But the marriage has been one […]
Hamilton wins Singapore Grand Prix
Lewis Hamilton managed to convert his pole position at Singapore in to a win for McLaren, but the biggest winner of the day was Jensen Button. It always looked as if McLaren’s late-season renaissance would continue at Singapore, and world champion Lewis Hamilton didn’t disappoint his team as he drove to his second successive Grand […]
Renault gets suspended ban
Renault has received a 2 year suspended ban from F1 over race fixing in the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix. Briatore banned from F1 and Symonds for 5 years. It looks like they got off lightly. The FIA, meeting in Paris today, has handed out a suspended ban from F1 for Renault over the race-fixing debacle and the […]
Renault F1 – Briatore & Symonds resign
Renault F1 boss Flavio Briatore and chief engineer Pat Symonds have resigned over the Piquet accident fixing allegation. Oh, dear. The accident fixing allegations surrounding the Renault F1 team and their former driver – Nelson Piquet Jnr – have rumbled on over the past days, with Briatore declaring he was suing Piquet – and his […]