A year ago Takuma Sato finished 6th and scored 3 points in Canada. His overtaking maneuvre on Fernando Alonso was one of the highlights of the entire 2007 Formula 1 season. Following that race team’s managing director Daniel Audeto was full of confidence predicted a race win for the team in 2008 …

“I am very happy because three points for us is a fantastic result. Now finally people will believe what I said before: that next year we are going to win our first Grand Prix. The team we have are very professional and very motivated. They work in the same direction, with no politics, no bureaucracy and no bullshit. We have had a team principal that really understands our business and we have a really good driver line-up.”

This is all of Super Aguri that I could see in Canada a year later at 2008 Canadian GP:

What a difference a year makes, 365 little days …

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Formula 1 is about to begin its weekend of glamour in Monaco. Before getting into some serious Monaco related posts, let’s have a look where the teams and drivers stand after 5 races and compare it with where they were a year ago. Rememeber that last year the 5th race of the season was Monaco, this year it was Turkey. So 2007 point tally is after Monaco, 2008 is before Monaco.

First the drivers:

Drivers points - Comparison 2007 and 2008 after 5 races

Only drivers that took part in 2007 and are still involved in 2008 season are included in the table. For some the stats may be a bit misleading. It is hard to compare Fernando Alonso’s results in 2007 in top of the field McLaren with his 2008 midfield Renault run for example. But it is interesting to look at drivers like Kimi Raikkonen, Lewis Hamilton, Felipe Massa, Mark Webber, Robert Kubica, Nick Heidfeld.

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The lucky winner of the 2007 F1 Photobook lucky draw is the F1 Wolf email subscriber sunilctw. Congratulations ! I will be getting in touch once the new lot of books arrives.

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The response to the 2007 Formula 1 Photobook has been much better than I expected. I will be doing the lucky draw for 1 lucky winner tomorrow so you have one more day to enter the competition. Everybody who ordered the book either through comments or email or in person and at the same time is a subscriber to F1Wolf by email will be in the hat.

I want to thank Shaun of The Biker Place and Keith of F1Fanatic for mentioning this book on their blogs !

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This year I went a bit photo crazy. Few F1 races, new Nikkon and result is over 2000 photos on my hard disk. You can see some of them in the Race Photos galleries here, some I selected and made available for download in high resolution. Then I found the Blurb website and realized that it is very easy today to turn photos into a book. And that is what I have done. I selected 120 photos from my 2007 Formula 1 collection and arranged them into a 50 pages hardcover book.

I did it mainly for myself and for friends but it is available for anybody who might be interested.

This book is printed to order, piece by piece, but still at reasonable cost for a hardcover (otherwise I would not have printed it ). The format is 10 x 8 inch (25 x 20 cm) and the book includes:

1) Photos of all the teams and drivers - always 4 small and one large photo - examples you can see attached. Only guy missing is Winkelhock. Sorry, I did not go to Nurburgring and missed his 5 minutes of fame.
2) Extra photos of the top 4 drivers - Raikkonen, Hamilton, Alonso and Massa
3) Cockpit close ups
4) Few “did not finish” cars
5) Photos of Barrichello’s colour changing helmet in 3 different colors
6) Photos of several drivers out of their cars
7) Few paddock and pit lane faces
8 ) Several photos from the pit lane
9) Few photos of cars after the race

Front cover features Kimi Raikkonen, back cover shows Kimi Raikkonen and Lewis Hamilton
(more pictures inside the post)

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During the past month I published series of posts with the high resolution photos of all the teams and all the drivers (well almost, one driver is missing) of 2007 Formula 1 season for download.

For those who missed it, here are all the links:

Kimi Raikkonen
Lewis Hamilton
Fernando Alonso
Felipe Massa
Nick Heidfeld and Robert Kubica
Giancarlo Fisichella and Heikki Kovalainen
Nico Rosberg, Alex Wurz, Kazuki Nakajima
Mark Webber, David Coulthard
Jarno Trulli, Ralf Schumacher
Sebastian Vettel, Scott Speed, Vitantonio Liuzzi
Jenson Button, Rubens Barrichello
Takuma Sato and Anthony Davidson
Adrian Sutil, Christijan Albers, Sakon Yamamoto

Screensavers are also on the way. If you do not want to miss out, subscribe to F1 Wolf via RSS Feed or E-mail

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It took 17 races and 1065 laps to complete the 2007 Formula 1 season. Fernando Alonso leads the table of drivers with most completed laps:

1039 - Alonso
1037 - Hamilton
1025 - Heidfeld
1023 - Kovalainen
982 - Raikkonen
965 - Rosberg
951 - Massa
948 - Barrichello
923 - Sato
902 - Trulli

The last place in this table belongs to Marcus Winkelhock, completing 13 laps in his only race (European GP). He however also lead that race…

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Here comes my first 2007 Formula 1 screensaver. With all the teams (McLaren, Ferrari, BMW Sauber, Renault, Toyota, Honda, Red Bull, Williams, Toro Rosso, Spyker, Super Aguri) and all the drivers (Alonso, Hamilton, Massa, Raikkonen, Heidfeld, Kubica, Kovalainen, Fisichella, Schumacher, Trulli, Button, Barrichello, Webber, Coulthard, Wurz, Rosberg, Liuzzi, Speed, Albers, Sutil, Davidson, Sato).

2007 Formula 1 Screensaver No 1

You may have to add the *.scr extension to the file name after downloading it.

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The season officially starts tomorrow with free practice in Australia, so let’s do some summary of what we know and what I expect.

We know what the cars are going to look like – here can see each teams’ 2007 F1 livery, including the newly launched Super Aguri SA07

We know how will the helmets look like – here are all the F1 race driver 2007 helmets.
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All new 2007 liveries:

McLaren - Mercedes

Renault

Ferrari

Honda
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