I was browsing through the photos on my hard driver and stumbled upon images of this nice little aircraft. Back in May Honda announced it began taking orders for its small executive jets – the HondaJet. They also revealed name of their first European customer – Honda Formula One driver Jenson Button. Button placed orders [...]
2009
PSA Peugeot-Citroen F1 – The rumour and the denial
The Global Rumour Manufacturing agency quoted yesterday anonymous source telling one Belgian publication that PSA Peugeot Citroen is a thinking about buying the F1 team from Honda.
The speculations connecting Sebastien Bourdais and even Citroen WRC driver Sebastien Loeb with the drive in the new British based French F1 team running Italian (Ferrari) or English [...]
2009
Some more of the cost talk – How Formula 2 compares with Formula 1 ?
Red Bullog had a post on Red Bull’s junior driver Robert Wickens signing up for the 2009 Formula 2 championship. The first thought I had was how can Red Bull afford yet another open wheeler series. So, I did some quick math. I used the 2008 Red Bull F1 budgets as listed by Keith, the [...]
2008
2008 F1Wolf’s Driver Of The Year Award – And the winner is …
The voting for the 2008 Driver of the Year has ended. There were total 1093 votes in the poll and 24 more votes below the award post with top 3 drivers. The bonus points for top three made the margins at the top a bit bigger but at the end they haven’t affected the final [...]
2008
The Formula 1 Off Season News Round Up – Part 6
The entire last week was about cost saving and testing. Fortunately Sunday night also provided some great fun.
Early last week rumours started to circulate that all four independent team plus Renault are to sign up for the budget Cosworth engine from 2010. There was a Thursday deadline for the teams to make up their minds. [...]
2008
2008 Race of Champions Live Video (now highlights)
The annual Race of Champions is on today at Wembley Stadium. You can (could) watch the live video here, now you can see the highlights:
2009
Force India F1 confirms 2009 drivers, yet again
Only few days after Vijay Mallya casted doubts on job security of his current drivers the Force India F1 team confirmed (yet again) that Giancarlo Fisichella and Adrian Sutil will keep their race driver seats for next season. Vitantonio Liuzzi will continue as a test driver.
2009
What FIA’s WMSC meeting last Friday did not decide on
The Formula 1 cost saving measures agreed on by FOTA were rubber stamped by the World Motor Sport Council last Friday in Monaco. But let’s look at few things that either were not discussed or were not decided on:
1) 2009 Formula One Calendar
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Felipe Massa’s F2008 1:18 Die Cast Model by Mattel now available
Fans of Lewis Hamilton have had their chance to get Lewis Hamilton 2008 World Championship die cast presentation for several weeks already. Now the 1:18 scale die cast model of Felipe Massa’s Ferrari F2008 is available too.
2008
2008 FIA Prize Giving Gala – Few photos
A lot was going on in Monaco on Friday the 12th. World Motor Sport Council was busy rubber stamping the cost saving measures, the winners of 2008 championships were busy collecting their trophies. Here are few photos from 2008 FIA Prize Giving Gala. I think Hamilton is wearing exactly the same outfit he had on [...]
2009
How the money will be saved – FIA FOTA deal
So, now we know what the “the most successful meeting on Formula 1 matters which any of the participants can remember” brought. Here is the list of agreed cost saving measures for 2009 season and those proposed for 2010 and beyond with few comments:
2009
Force India to consult McLaren about 2009 drivers, Sutil and Fisichella not yet safe for 2009
Things can change very quickly in Formula One …
October 17, 2008, Shanghai, Vijay Mallya
“I’ve made it pretty clear that I am happy with both our drivers Adrian (Sutil) and Giancarlo (Fisichella) and they will continue with us in 2009.”
December 11, 2008, Vijay Mallya to BBC:
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