F1 Testing – Continues Tomorrow In Barcelona

F1 testing continues tomorrow at the Circuit De Catalunya in Spain
8 of the 11 F1 teams will be there
It is estimated 35,000 fans will turn up this weekend to watch the testing
Lewis Hamilton and Gary Paffett for McLaren, Lewis will be there for all 3 days. Heikki Kovalainen will take over from Paffett on days [...]

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Renault – R28 Is Launched

 

The Renault F1 team has today launched their new R28 car.
The car was unveiled in Renault’s Communication headquarters in Paris.
The drivers for 2008 will be double world champion Fernando Alonso and rookie Nelson Piquet. Alonso returns to the team after a year at Mclaren. He has tested twice with the team this month, setting fastest [...]

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F1 Qualifying & Race Times

The FIA has released details for this years qualifying and race start times, confirming the times for Singapore’s night event as well as confirming that the season opening Australian Grand Prix will not get underway until 3:30 pm, an hour and a half later than usual. 
The complete timetable is as follows :

Saturday

14:00

Qualifying Session For [...]

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Jenson Button Interview

 

 Q: What is the new car like to drive? 
The 30 laps that I drove at Valencia was all system checks and reliability checks. The basic car itself to me feels a lot more predictable which is the important thing. But it is still the basic car. The car in front of me here is actually [...]

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Justin Wilson – Signs To Newman / Haas Champ Car Team

 
Ex F1 driver Justin Wilson who used to drive for the Jaguar Racing Team has become one of the favourites to win the 2008 Champ Car World Series.
He has signed a contract to race for Newman/Haas/Lanigan Racing, the team that has taken Sebastien Bourdais to titles for the last four seasons.
He will team up with [...]

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Gil De Ferran – Back In The Cockpit In USA

Gil de Ferran the Ex Honda F1 Sporting Director will drive with his own team in the 2008 American Le Mans sports car series.
The CART and Indy 500 winner, who left the Honda F1 team six months ago, will drive his own Acura ARX-01b prototype in the LMP2 class this year.
His new team will be [...]

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Honda – The New RA108 Is Launched

The new Honda RA108 was unveiled in Brackley, UK this morning.
Alex Wurz was given the task of driving the new RA108 into the arena where the media were given their first look at the new car.
The new car features a globe on the engine cover, with 2 green stripes down the centre. It’s back to [...]

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Honda – Ross Brawn & Nick Fry Their Views

The new Honda RA108 was unveiled in Brackley, UK this morning.
Below are the comments about the new car from Ross & Nick
Ross Brawn – Honda Team Principal said :
“The RA108 car is a wholly different concept to its predecessors, in terms of its aerodynamic layout and mechanical structure. The design philosophy has been developed to allow [...]

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Mclaren – Lewis Hamilton Tests MP4/23 In Menorca

 On Monday Lewis Hamilton drove the MP4/23 in Menorca.
He took over from Kovalainen who also did a test run on Sunday
The Mclaren team did a 2 day test at the Royal Mahon Flying Club. The private airstrip has been used by many F1 teams in the past.
Lewis practiced manual starts and braking with no electronic [...]

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Silverstone – New Pitwall Almost Completed

 Work started in December on a new pitwall at Silverstone
The new pitwall is being built for safety reasons. The new wall will be able to withstand a crash of 250 km/h
Work is in the final stages now, and should be completed very soon now, so racing and testing can commence.

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Torro Rosso – New STR3 Car Won’t Be Ready For The Start Of The Season

Torro Rosso F1 team have confirmed that is new STR3 will not be ready in time for the 1st race in Melbourne in March
The team will instead use a revised version of the 2007 STR2 car, Sebastian Vettel believes they may have an advantage over the other teams
Last week in the Valencia testing, Vettel and [...]

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Mclaren Testing MP4/23 In Menorca

 
A few days after the finish of testing in Valencia last week, Mclaren were back in action at the weekend.
Mclaren were conducting a private test at the Royal Mahon Flying Club in Menorca, Spain.
Kovalainen was behind the wheel of the MP4/23 to test for straight line speed, and aerodynamics tests. Mclaren wanted a private low [...]

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Force India – Launch Date Confirmed

 
Force India have today announced they will launch their new 2008 car in Mumbai, India on the 7th February.
Force India who used to be Spyker last season , was bought out by Indian billionaire Vijay Mallya.
The 2008 car will be the same as the Spyker – Ferrari car from the 2007 season, but will have [...]

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Take A Virtual Lap Of The Valencia Street Circuit

You can now take a virtual ride in an F1 car around the brand new Valencia Street Circuit
This new F1 venue will take place on the 24th August 2008

This video originates from elmundo.es

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Kimi Raikkonen – My F1 Career Will End At Ferrari

Kimi Raikkonen has told a spanish newspaper, he thinks he will finish his F1 career at Ferrari.
“I see no reason to leave this team, I have two years remaining on my contract, but in any case I believe that, whatever happens, this will be my last team.
The one certainty is that one day I will [...]

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F1 Registeration Number Sells For £375,000

 
The UK registeration number F1 has sold for a record price of £375,000
The previous record for a UK registeration number was £331,ooo for M1
The owner of the new registeration number is Mr Afzal Khan, who owns a car conversion company in Essex, UK
Mr Khan said: “I am privileged to have such a prestigious plate.”
The money [...]

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Valencia Day 3 – Raikkonen Finishes Fastest

Kimi Raikkonen has finished fastest at the end of the day. there have been quite a few dramas on track today.
There was a spin caused by Lewis Hamilton, and a spin caused by Nelson Piquet Jnr.
Sebastian Bourdais caused 2 incidents aswell, and Giancarlo Fisichella’s force india car stopped on track, just before the end of the [...]

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Jenson Button – First Drive Of The New RA108

 
Jenson took his first drive of the new Honda RA108, this morning at the Valencia test.
Its not looking too good for Jenson at the moment. In the morning test session, he was only 16th fastest,  so far he has done 30 laps and is the same position as Barrichello at the end of Wednesday’s test [...]

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Mark Webber – Drives The New RB4 For The First Time

 
Mark Webber gopt behind the wheel of the new Red Bull RB4 today.
David Coulthard has already driven the new car last week in Jerez, and again yesterday on day 1 of this weeks test.
“I’m happy with the new car,” said Mark Webber at the end of the session. “Today has been encouraging and, so far, [...]

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Valencia Test Day 2 – Kovalainen Finishes Fastest

 
On day 2 of the Valencia test, Heikki Kovalainen has ended up fastest at the end of the days session. Barrichello was a disappointing 16th on his 1st day in the new RA108, alongside Honda test driver Kogure who finished last. Lets hope Honda’s times improve, or it may end up being another bad season for them.
Williams were [...]

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Jarno Trulli – Is Very ‘Suspicious’

Jarno Trulli says now electronic aids have been banned from this season, it could lead to cheating. He suspects that some teams are already using illegal forms of launch and traction control in pre-season testing.
“I’m not saying someone’s cheating, even though we’ve received some conflicting information at Toyota,” Trulli, 33, said.
“But having analysed the behaviour [...]

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Flavio Braitore – ” I’ll Leave When Alonso Leaves “

Flavio Briatore today said he will stop being Renault’s F1 boss when Fernando Alonso also leaves the team.
Flavio’s renault contract runs out at the end of 2008, and he revealed he would like to take a rest from F1 after 20 years in formula one.
If reports are to be believed, Alonso has signed a 2 [...]

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Rubens Barrichello – Tests The New Honda RA108

 
Rubens Barrichello drove the new 2008 Honda RA108 in testing at Valencia this morning, bearing its plain white interim livery
The RA108 left the garage in plain white with no sponsorship details
The new car features a much higher nose , different air intakes and a very heavily revised rear end.
Honda will run the car in Spain for [...]

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BMW Sauber – New Front Nose Tested Again Today

 BMW Sauber showed off a new front nose design while testing at the Valencia circuit on Tuesday.
The new design features wing looking flaps that are joined to the upper nose cone of the F1.08
The same design is also being used today on the F1.08 driven by Robert Kubica

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35,000 Fans Attend Valencia Test

A record 35,000 spectators turned up today to watch the Formula One test.
Most of them were for Spain’s two-time world champion Fernando Alonso
Managers of the Ricardo Tormo at Cheste, near the eastern city of Valencia, said they had never seen such a crowd for Formula One testing.
“Never in history have there been so many people [...]

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Valencia Test Day 1 – Massa Finishes The Day Fastest Again

Ferrari duo Felipe Massa and Kimi Raikkonen led the way on the first big test with new cars on Tuesday, Massa and Raikkonen continued development work of their F2008 at Valencia in Spain, and Massa’s best effort put him more than half a second clear at the end of the day
But it was the early [...]

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Max Mosley – Any Team Spying Will Be Thrown Out

FIA president Max Mosley has revealed that any Formula One team caught spying in the future faces expulsion from the championship.
McLaren were fined £50m and kicked out of the 2007 constructors’ championship by the FIA’s World Motor Sport Council in September after they were found guilty of being in illegal possession of Ferrari technical data.
However, [...]

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Valencia Test Day 1 – Massa Fastest In Morning Session

 
 
Testing resumed this morning in Valencia, with a total of 16 drivers venturing out on-track. Following yesterday’s mixed conditions, the weather has improved for day 2, with sunshine now bathing the track. At the top of the timesheets by the end of the morning session were the two Ferraris, with Felipe Massa dominating proceedings, a [...]

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Jenson Button – Girlfriend Hired By John Lewis

Jenson Button’s girlfriend has hit the headlines today,  it was announced that she has been hired to model for the British department store chain John Lewis. 
Florence Brudenell-Bruce, who descended from Britain’s earls of Cardigan and began dating Honda driver Button last year, was hired to help “sex up” the John Lewis brand, a spokesman said.

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Renault & Williams Run Their 2008 Cars

Two-time world champion Fernando Alonso wrapped up Renault’s first day of work with their new car at Valencia, where the Spaniard and Williams’ Nico Hulkenberg were the only two drivers in action.
Following a thick fog which delayed the start of testing, Alonso finally took to the track around noon and began checking systems in the [...]

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