2008 Formula 1 Season Countdown - 40 Days To Go
The time passes so fast… I can’t believe 60 days has already passed since the launch of these countdown posts. Well, we are 40 days from Melbourne and things are slowly starting to shape up.
Max Mosley aired his concerns about the future of Super Aguri. At the same time news of an Indian consortium lead by Spice Group CEO Andaleeb Sehgal talking to Super Aguri also surfaced. Investment in return for a seat for Narain Karthikeyan was the message that Super Aguri’s elder cousins at Honda did not like that much … Takuma Sato at last revealed some car and testing related information today:
“We were supposed to go to Valencia last week with the SA07B with some upgrades, but that was cancelled. Next week we’ll go to Jerez and then after that we should have two consecutive three-day tests at Barcelona, so that will be a total of nine days testing. We’ll be using an interim car to start with, and we probably won’t have the fully updated car until the last Barcelona test. Then I hope we can bring along the whole new package to Melbourne for the first race, the Australian Grand Prix.”
Singapore GP schedule has been released and as all the F1 sessions are in the late afternoon and evening on all 3 days, the program is set - beach in the morning, grandstands in the afternoons, party time in the night. Can’t wait 
Honda had their 2008 car launch in Brackley. The livery looks better than in 2007, the car, despite being completely new, seems to a complete dog of a car again, at least at this stage of the development. The initial optimism quickly disapeared after the Barcelona test…
Renault also held their launch in Paris. Their livery, unlike Honda, does not look better than in 2007. The car however, unlike Honda, does seem to be progressing quite well, maybe we are seeing the famous 6 tenths from Fernando Alonso in action again
Eight teams spent their weekend in Barcelona testing and Red Bull cars were given a fin. Some people spent the weekend abusing Lewis Hamilton and should have had their backsides kicked hard.
With the Australian GP getting closer, Bernie Ecclestone sent strong message down under, that F1 may not want to go to Australia in the future.
Christian Klien and Marko Asmer were hired as testers by BMW Sauber, Sakon Yamamoto by Renault.
The 2008 Formula 1 Season Countdown will be back in 10 days.
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February 5th, 2008 at 2:13 am
What about the European Grand Prix? Any news form Valencia???
February 5th, 2008 at 7:31 am
Thank you for your wonderful work to keep us up to date!
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February 5th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
I admit I haven’t checked too much about the Valencia’s European GP preparation progress recently … I do plan to go for the race though but as other people are responsible for organizing the trip I am just waiting for the news
February 5th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
singapore will be a great race. caint wait. 40 days is even closer to me tham you probably bc im going to cancun for 10 days so that will go by quick.
btw what ever happened to the cancun race plans?