Brawn GP vs. Red Bull in Hungarian GP
Friday, July 24th, 2009
Yes, it’s all about Brawn GP and Red Bull now.
The 2009 Formula 1 season has developed into a fascinating battle between Brawn GP and Red Bull. At one point Brawn’s Jenson Button appeared to be running away with the championship, but Red Bull’s Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel are closing in on the Englishman as we approach Hungary.
The 2009 F1 Hungarian Grand Prix should see a titanic battle between Brawn GP and Red Bull. Mark Webber should be riding high with confidence after scoring his maiden F1 win last time out.
The Hungaroring offers plenty of challenges to not only Red Bull, but all the drivers and engineers alike. The circuit features no high-speed corners, leading the team to run the highest possible downforce levels, while the primary concern for the engine team is ensuring good cooling in the usually hot conditions. The high summer temperatures also make life difficult for the drivers, who need to be in peak physical condition to cope with a race that gives them very little respite over its 70-lap distance.
The Red Bull team will be on a high with Mark Webber winning his first Grand Prix in style at the Nurburgring. He will be keen to follow up his success with another race win no doubt.
Webber’s Red Bull teammate Sebastian Vettel is surely happy for Webber being a nice young whipper-snapper but will need to drive his nuts off ASAP if he wants to kick this aussie’s behind back to the down-under.
As far as Brawn GP is concerned, it’s been…
Brawn GP, the team to beat in F1?
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
If they are, then it wouldn’t hurt if they do a little trash talking right?
After two races into the 2009 F1 season, Brawn GP has two victories. Jenson Button won the Malaysian Grad Prix after winning the first race of the season in Melbourne.
The team once known as Honda, Brawn GP has made a lot of adjustments to give them the hot start they have now while usually competitive teams like Ferrari and McLaren have been struggling.
Team boss Ross Brawn reckons that Ferrari and McLaren are paying for last year’s success while his Brawn GP team is benefiting from a dismal campaign last season. Brawn says because both Ferrari and McLaren were focused on winning the championship, they were not able to turn their attention to this year’s vastly new designs.
That’s why instead of dominating the first two races of the season, McLaren has only scored one point while Ferrari has yet to score anything.
‘’It is a reflection of what has gone on in the last year or two,’’ Ross Brawn said. ‘’McLaren and Ferrari had a Championship to fight over and I can understand that it was very difficult for them to say ‘Look, we’ll stop pushing this year and put our effort into next year’.’’
Brawn on the other hand had most of last year to work on the new car as it quickly became apparent that the 2008 Honda could not be a success.
‘’For us it was a very easy decision. It wasn’t a clever one, just a very easy one. We didn’t have a very good car so why waste time on it?’’
Brawn GP, along with Toyota and Williams…
BMW Sauber boosts past Ferrari in the F1 trial runs
Tuesday, February 17th, 2009
The BMW Sauber test driver Christian Klien was faster than Ferrari Driver Kimi Raikkonen as car testing resumed in Bahrain after the weekend. Fornula One Team Ferrari, Toyota and BMW continued their Formula One 2009 season preparations in virtually perfect conditions, with Christian Klien being the fastest Formula One Driver with 1:32.544 than handing over the baggage to grand prix driver Nick Heidfeld.
“Today was a very productive day,” Christian Klien said in completed 131 laps “We collected a lot of data and I even did a long run at the end of the session. Again we didn’t have a single technical problem, which is very encouraging.”
Team BMW Sauber concentrated on the mechanical statistics and aero set up of the Formula 1 car, team BMW Sauber also tried out different tire compounds and similar to most of the Formula One teams have finished with several start simulations.
Kimi Raikkonen of Team Ferrari set a best lap time of 1:32.804 after spending time on the track for 116 laps and assessing set up configurations and the Bridgestone tire types for all situations.
Jarno Trulli of team Toyota tested…
NASCAR and Formula One are in economic trouble
Friday, February 6th, 2009
As the world’s economy plunges into uncertainty, the Motor Sports industry is likewise affected just by the sheer turmoil every industry is experiencing at this moment.
NASCAR itself has seen it’s share of backdrops while Motor Sports giant F1 is also looking towards implementing further cost cutting measures that would save the series money up to 2010. the FIA otherwise known as the governing body of Formula One has noted that the shocking departure of Team Honda from Formula One would mark as one of the biggest downturns so far and is sighting unsustainable costs that ultimately gave the go ahead signal for Honda Corp. to pull out.
Dutch Bank ING has also seen its side of the inconceivable economic unrest that also has brought them to make a decision of slashing millions of Dollars to its Formula One sponsorship programs. Credit Suisse, a Swiss Banking giant has also dropped its sponsorship of Robert Kubica and Nick Heidfeld of BMW Sauber who last year was one of the more competitive Teams in Formula One. Going on to the United States, who are by far the country that has its economy in a twist concerning motoring, has also seen a trend that would keep up most likely if the global economy keeps slipping into total chaos.
Early into this NASCAR season we already have…
Will Ferrari lineup behind Massa?
Thursday, September 4th, 2008
They could, because at this point of the season, Massa is showing Ferrari why his team should do just that.
Much to everybody’s surprise, Felipe Massa has overtaken his more popular Ferrari teammate, Kimi Raikkonen, in the race for the drivers championship this 2008 F1 season with only six more races to go.
After playing second fiddle to Michael Schumacher and then Kimi, Felipe Massa has come to his own this year with 64 championship points to Kimi’s 57. And although Lewis Hamilton is still in first place, leading the two Ferrari drivers with 70, Massa definitely has a better shot of winning this year’s title than Kimi, despite the fact that Kimi still is THE defending champ.
That’s probably why the Ferrari team should start lining up behind Massa now or they could see their run for the drivers title end up with nothing.
We all saw that last season when McLaren – Mercedes let Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso settle for themselves who’s going to take home the title. It backfired when Kimi came out of nowhere to steal the drivers championship away from the two competing McLaren stars.
It’s ironic that Kimi Raikkonen finds himself in the same position and it’ll be up to him if he wants to cooperate with Massa or just go all out and try to compete with his teammate for the title.
Ferrari legend Niki Lauda believes that the 2008 championship is set to be a down-to-the-wire battle between Ferrari and McLaren. Although Massa only has a slight edge in total points over teammate Raikkonen, the Austrian, who won the drivers’ championship with the Scuderia in 1975 and 1977, has more trust in Massa than Raikkonen going to the 13th race of…
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