FIA Formula 1 World Championship 2011

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F150...really?

http://www.ferrari.com/English/Formu...lled_F150.aspx

Ferrari’s new Formula 1 car to be called F1501.25.2011

Maranello, 25 January – F150: that’s the name of the new car which will compete in this year’s Formula 1 World Championship and which Ferrari will unveil this coming Friday at Maranello, as part of an event which will be broadcast live on RAI 2 and on Ferrari.com.

The choice of name stems from Ferrari’s desire to pay tribute to this year’s one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Unification of Italy. The placement of the “Tricolore” Italian flag as part of the car livery will therefore have even more significance in 2011.

“Ferrari is an expression of Italian excellence, talent and creativity,” declared President Luca di Montezemolo. “All the men and women who put so much effort and passion into their work at Maranello share the pride and responsibility of representing our country around the world and it is in this spirit that we chose to dedicate this car to an event that is so important for the whole of Italy.”

The news was announced in advance this afternoon, to the President of the Italian Republic, Giorgio Napolitano, who expressed his appreciation of the initiative. He also took the opportunity to wish the Scuderia the best of luck for the forthcoming season.

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Sayang...he was one of the better drivers this coming season...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/moto...ne/9389513.stm

Renault defend Robert Kubica over rally decision




Renault have defended Robert Kubica's decision to participate in a rally so close to the start of the Formula 1 season, which begins on 13 March.

Kubica, 26 had surgery on Sunday after his right hand was partially severed and he suffered arm and leg fractures in a high-speed rally crash in Italy.

"He loves rallying. We knew the risks and so did he," Renault team boss Eric Boullier told Italian news agency Ansa.

"We didn't want a robot or a corporate man for a driver. It was agreed."

Pole Kubica crashed after his car hit a church wall as he approached the start of the Ronde di Andora rally on Sunday morning and it was reported that his Formula 1 career could be at risk as a consequence of the injuries.

The 26-year-old, who finished eighth in the drivers' table last season, was in an induced coma overnight after seven hours of surgery and described as being in a serious but stable condition.

Boullier, who is due to visit Kubica on Monday along with the driver's team-mate Vitaly Petrov, told the BBC on Monday: "When you have a big crash like Robert suffered on Sunday, doctors always predict the worst case scenario.

"Definitely he took seven hours in the surgery room to repair his hand and his arm.

"This morning it was really fine - they needed 24 hours to make sure he recovered completely and it looks like this morning they are all happy.

The operation took place at the Santa Corona hospital near Genoa, where Kubica was airlifted after reportedly being trapped in his car for more than an hour while specialist cutting equipment arrived at the scene of the crash.

Surgeon Mario Igor Rossello said after Sunday's operation that he was "moderately satisfied" and expected the driver to recover "enough functionality for him to resume his activity".

While initial fears he would have to have his hand amputated were cooled, potential recovery time has been put at around 12 months though this is entirely dependant on the limb showing signs that surgery was successful and the coming days will be pivotal to this.

"The hand is warm and this means the operation went well," surgeon Mario Igor Rossello told reporters at the Santa Corona hospital near Genoa.

"We need at least six days to check if the circulation of the blood in the limb responds as it should."

Immediately after the surgery, which required two teams of doctors to work on setting the bones and reattaching veins, tendons and muscles, Rossello said: It was a very complicated procedure and there was the risk he would lose his hand.

Renault are waiting for a more exact prognosis of how it will take for Kubica to recover before they decide who will replace him during his absence.

The former driver for the BMW Sauber team regularly competes in rallies and was driving a week after a successful testing session in the new Renault car in Valencia , ahead of the season's opening grand prix in Bahrain.

He had been due to lead the Renault team alongside Russian Petrov, who has a long-term contract after signing for the 2011 and 2012 season during the winter.

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R.Kubica car can be seen at 3:23...

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALbxMiwf4nw]Camera car Rally Andora 2011 (Moreno - Bonato) i primi a soccorere il pilota di F1 KUBIKA [/ame]

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I hope it is not going to be a career-ending accident... Probably hoping beyond hope....

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The car viewed from another angle. The barrier went through the car...



Computer simulation of the accident...

http://www.gpupdate.net/en/videos/75...ca-s-accident/

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wow astig!

yung ferrari parang simple lang, parang walang pinagbago... pero sabi ni costa eh magbabago parin raw bago mag bahrain grand prix pero siguro minimal lang... i was hoping and expecting na mas innovative as in me iintroduced na kakaiba ang ferrari compare sa mga kalaban nila pero i was left diss appointed jan sa bagong car nila... sana nalang sa performance eh okay pag race day na...

dun ke kubica eh sayang, sayang talaga... me time dun sa unang test na sya yung nag top sa fastest time... hopefully maka recover sya at makapag karera pa sa F1...

Ferrari sana manalo ng constructors at si alonso ang sa drivers... pero parang mahihirapan sila gaya ng last year... but i can only hope na maging dominant sila dis coming season

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Basa yung tarmac...will an interesting race for a boring track.

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Galing Hamilton, pressured SV to a mistake. Now pulling away...

[ChunkyLover]

Hehehe... can you imagine it if kung natuloy yung prinopose sa f1 na lahat gawing 4 cylinder engine nalang

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Daming overtaking, and some of the best teamate vs teamate racing....Button leads!!!
Hamilton has gone from hero to zero...spinning, pit stopped twice for tire change, and penalty drive through.

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After 70 of 70 laps

Position Country Driver Team
1 Great Britain J Button McLaren
2 Germany S Vettel Red Bull
3 Spain F Alonso Ferrari
4 Great Britain L Hamilton McLaren
5 Australia M Webber Red Bull
6 Brazil F Massa Ferrari
7 Great Britain P Di Resta Force India
8 Switzerland S Buemi Toro Rosso
9 Germany N Rosberg Mercedes
10 Spain J Alguersuari Toro Rosso
11 Japan K Kobayashi Sauber
12 Russian Federation V Petrov Renault
13 Brazil R Barrichello Williams
14 Germany A Sutil Force India
15 Mexico S Perez Sauber
16 Venezuela P Maldonado Williams
17 Germany T Glock Virgin
18 Australia D Ricciardo Hispania
19 Belgium J d'Ambrosio Virgin
20 Italy V Liuzzi Hispania
21 Finland H Kovalainen
(ret.) Lotus
22 Germany M Schumacher
(ret.) Mercedes
23 Germany N Heidfeld
(ret.) Renault
24 Italy J Trulli
(ret.) Lotus

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Looks ike Mclaren and Ferrari are indeed at the heels of RBR but SV just reaffirmed his position to take B2B championships!

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Jenson Button has Historic Win at 2011 Hungarian GP

It's a historic occasion because this was his 200th ever Formula One race, and the Hungaroring was the site of his first ever victory in F1, many years ago.

Jenson Button started this race in third place... the McLarens being strong at this track since the start of practice. While there was a very clear line between the "number one" and "number two" drivers of McLaren, Ferrari and Red Bull mid-qualifying, the end of Q3 was a surprise result, with Button and Massa punching above their weight.

Sebastian Vettel did a superhuman lap in his Red Bull to secure pole position from Lewis Hamilton in the other McLaren, as the Red Bull doesn't seem suited to these conditions, and, indeed, with Sunday starting wet, Vettel soon lost his lead to the charging McLarens.

From then on, it was a topsy turvy race. Vettel, Alonso, Hamilton, Webber and Massa all had their moments in the rain, but it seemed like Lewis was the master of all, with a pace at the start on intermediate wet tires that no one could match. He had a moment that allowed Button to catch and pass him, but he took that place back when Button went a bit wide a lap later. It was very wet out on track.

It all went horribly wrong for Lewis mid-race as the rain came pouring down yet again. McLaren decided to keep Lewis out a little bit longer on the super-soft slick tires, in order to give him breathing room on the last stint, but that backfired as he spun out on track. As he tried to bring the car back around, he almost collided with Paul di Resta's Force India car. He finally came in, lead lost, and switched back to intermediate tires. A move that puzzled all, as Mark Webber at Red Bull had come in for intermediates, and was posting lap times that were awfully slow.

Immediately Lewis lost position to Alonso's charging Ferrari. Soon, he had to pit again for tires, this time the "prime" slicks. Then he had to serve a drive-through penalty for his unsafe re-joining in front of DiResta (a move which he apologized for later). His race was finished. His only consolation was that his natural pace enabled him to leapfrog Massa and Webber and end up back in fourth place.

Vettel and Button, on the other hand, had got the tire strategy right, with Button leading Vettel in the closing stages of the race. Vettel managed to get within three seconds of the McLaren, but then Button put down the hammer and pulled out an impressive nine second lead to seal the race victory.

And it was a scrappy victory. He'd had to overtake Lewis twice, Vettel once, and he'd been pushing so hard that he lapped most of the field twice. Vettel did a fine job recovering from an early race spin to maintain second, and Alonso was a distant third, probably disappointed that he wasn't closer to the front, given the natural pace of the Ferrari.

Hamilton did a good job to salvage something out of that disaster of a race, while Webber's disastrous stint on intermediates nearly cost him everything. Massa's race was one to forget. His Ferrari never seemed in contention compared to the other cars in the top six.

Other notable events were Paul di Resta's amazing drive to seventh on a wet and wild Sunday. He just missed out on making Q3 in qualifying, and he was on fire during the race, leapfrogging Renaults, Torro Rossos and Mercedes GPs in his Force India car. It was not such a great day for Renault's Nick Heidfeld, who really was on fire after a long pit stop caused his car to overheat and go up in flames right at the pit exit. As the stewards tried to put it out, a hydraulic reservoir exploded, showering one steward with shrapnel. It's a fair bet that the FIA will be investigating and possibly banning Renault's innovative and controversial forward facing exhausts over the summer break.

Going into that break, Vettel extends his lead in the championship. It's unlikely anyone will catch him now, but with McLaren and Ferrari in resurgence, it's a sure bet the racing itself will stay as exciting as these past three races have been.

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One of Schumi's great victories was in Spa 1995. He won after starting from 16th.

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One of his greatest loss also came from Spa. Spa 2000 against Mika Hakkinen with that brilliant overtaking by Hakkinen using a backmarker to hinder Schumi from defending his position...

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One of his greatest loss also came from Spa. Spa 2000 against Mika Hakkinen with that brilliant overtaking by Hakkinen using a backmarker to hinder Schumi from defending his position...

Even worst loss was also in a rain-soaked Spa 1998, when he crashed into Coulthard's Mclaren while leading the race. He then returned to the pits with 3 wheels and charged into the Mclaren garage.

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Vettel wins action packed Belgian Grand Prix

The expected rain didn't show itself on raceday, but it didn't need to in order to add to the excitement of the race here at Spa. The rain of the past few days prevented the track from "rubbering up" properly, which has caused blistering problems on the softer rubber for many teams this week.

The drama started, really, long before the race, with Mercedes GP's Michael Schumacher failing to record a qualifying lap and McLaren's Jenson Button missing out on Q3 due to a poor pit call by the team. And a qualifying clash between Lewis Hamilton and Pastor Maldonado, wherein the Williams driver took a swipe at Lewis's McLaren on an in-lap in retaliation for his overtake on him during a flying lap cast a pretty big shadow over qualifying, and resulted in a reprimand for Lewis and a five place penalty for Maldonado.

A huge fracas on the first corner ruined the race for Lotus Renault's Brunno Senna, Nick Heidfeld's replacement, after a great 7th place qualification yesterday. It also dropped Red Bull Racing's Mark Webber far back in the lead pack. Nico Rosberg stormed to a short-lived lead, his (literally) smoking Mercedes GP jumping everyone else at the start and overtaking championship leader Sebastian Vettel on the very first lap. The Ferraris, traditionally good on tire wear, both showed good form on the first stint on soft tires and took places from Hamilton and Rosberg, who lost his lead to Vettel after just a few laps, unable to match the Red Bull's blistering pace.

Button and Schumacher were the only runners to start on the prime medium tires, and this allowed them to make up a huge number of places later on. But was Hamilton who seemed best placed amongst the top cars to win, as he managed to make his soft tires last longer than even the Ferraris. Unfortunately, he underestimated Kamui Kobayashi. After overtaking him right before the DRS zone at Eu Rouge, he used his DRS and KERS to build up a lead over the Williams. Unfortunately, that lead never quite came about. Kobayashi managed to get a fantastic tow up the hill behind him and pulled out to pass. Lewis pulled back onto the racing line, they came together and Lewis was out. Lewis later apologized to Kobayashi for the incident. Though Kobayashi went on, he finished just one place out of the points.

Fernando Alonso seemed to have things well in hand early in the race, but Ferrari dropped the ball, as Hamilton's huge shunt brought out the safety car and sent everyone else but Alonso diving for the pits. After a fantastic drive, he only managed fourth, nursing the car home on very worn tires.

Given the McLaren's uncharacteristically good tire preservation here, Button managed to make his soft tires last longer than even Lewis did, and a late race charge saw him go all the way to third place. With all positions gained on-track, via overtaking. One wonders, if he'd had better luck during qualifying, if he could've won this race.

Mark Webber's early stint on medium tires gave him an advantage over Alonso, despite not pitting either during the safety car period, and gained him second after he passed Alonso's ailing Ferrari. He finished just 4.2 seconds behind Vettel.

But the Vettel train seems well and truly back on track. He scrapped for position where he had to, overtook where he had to, and put in (literally) tire-blistering laps to maintain the pace needed to stay in contention and out in front. Well deserved win for him, and the celebratory flying hug with the team as left the car was priceless.

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Outside the top four, Schumacher managed to go from 24th to 5th, overtaking team-mate Rosberg for position near the end. A fantastic drive from the seven-time world champion, and proof positive that the fire is still there. Rosberg did a solid job of coming in 6th, but he'll be disappointed to have not won that race after such a fantastic start. In the end, tire and fuel issues meant that he didn't have enough left in the car to hold off his team-mate.

Force India's Adran Sutil yet again does a solid and quiet job of making 7th, 8 places up from where he started... Lotus Renault's Vitaly Petrov does the business, too, making 8th... and finishing with just enough fuel to finish his cool-down lap, parking the car right after the start/finish line. Team-mate Senna salvages 13th from a disastrous start, but it'll be a while before he lives down that move on Algesuari.

Ferrari's Felipe Massa in 9th can't be happy with that result, as he spent too much time jockeying for position with Pastor Maldonado and Kamui Kobayashi, despite being in an arguably superior car.

10th place is something of a vindication for Maldonado after that disastrous qualifying incident.

All-in-all, a very exciting race, though the results would have you believe otherwise. Drive of the day is split between Schumacher and Button. While Schumacher gained more places, but Button's drive is more memorable due to the quality and sheer number of overtakes he performed. Both men showed today the drive that made them world champions in seasons past, but it seems as if there's no stopping Sebastian Vettel from wrapping up the Driver's Championship within the next few races, as he's a hundred points clear of the pack.

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I hope SV won't be as dominant next year... F1 might get boring.

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Vettels engine tune was way different from Button, Webber, Alonso,and Hamilton. Iba humiyaw sarap.

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Vettels engine tune was way different from Button, Webber, Alonso,and Hamilton. Iba humiyaw sarap.

Bro.,- Renault ang makina ni SV. How did it 'sound' compared to that of Petrov and Senna of Lotus-Renault?

Ibang-iba rin ba?

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