New season, new drivers helmet designs. Here is the collection of 2010 F1 drivers helmets (click on the thumbnails to enlarge the images). Most of the returning drivers seem to have selected to stay with their traditional designs (or switch back back to them like Jenson Button). The most obvious changes are related to team [...]
2010
2010 Winter Testing – Jerez February 11 – with images
The 2010 winter testing continues with the second day of action in Jerez. The weather is expected to be a bit better than on Wednesday. Michael Schumacher and Robert Kubica will replace Nico Rosberg and Vitaly Petrov today, the other eight teams will continue with same drivers as yesterday.The drivers in action today are:
2010
2010 Winter Testing – Valencia February 3 – With Images
Today is the last day of the first 2010 pre-season test in Valencia. Michael Schumacher and Pedro de la Rosa will be back for Mecedes GP and BMW Sauber. Then there are the debuts – Jenson Button for Vodafone McLaren Mercedes, Fernando Alonso for Ferrari and Vitaly Petrov for Renault. Nico Hulkenberg has tested for [...]
2010
Fernando Alonso new helmet in Ferrari colours
Time to start catching up with things after my 2 weeks break. It is also time to start getting used to new looks of F1 drivers in their new team colours. Here is Fernando Alonso sporting Ferrari red and his new helmet. Well, the helmet design is similar to his 2009 one with few Ferrari [...]
2010
Official – Alonso replacing Raikkonen in Ferrari
What has been rumoured for months was confirmed today. Fernando Alonso has signed three year deal with Ferrari starting in 2010. Felipe Massa stays on.
“We are very proud to welcome to our team another winning driver, who has demonstrated his amazing talent by winning two world championships in his career to date. Of course, we [...]
2009
Renault – The crashgate verdict
The World Motor Sport Council handed suspended lifetime F1 ban to Renault (suspended for 2 years), life time motor sport ban to Flavio Briatore (it appears to include driver management as well) and 5 years ban to Pat Symonds. The WMSC concluded that Fernando Alonso was not in any way involved in Renault F1’s breach [...]
2008
Piquet asked to crash or was it his idea ? – Updated
Less than 2 weeks before the WMSC hearing Autosport came up with more details on the Singapore-Renault-Piquet-Alonso story. Here are the main points of the article:
A meeting took place between Nelson Piquet, Flavio Briatore and Pat Symonds few hours before the 2008 Singapore race. The tactics for the race was discussed. That is where the [...]
2009
Links: Renault has a date with WMSC
On Friday FIA announced that representatives of ING Renault F1 have been requested to appear before an extraordinary meeting of the FIA World Motor Sport Council in Paris on Monday, 21 September 2009.
The team representatives have been called to answer charges, including a breach of Article 151c of the International Sporting Code, that the team [...]
2008
FIA investigates 2008 Singapore GP crash by Piquet
Bizzare, bizzare … And I am not talking about the pole position or podium for Force India. FIA confirmed that an investigation is underway regarding the crash in Singapore last year by Nelson Piquet that resulted in above pictured safety car period that seriously contributed to the unexpected and lucky race win the Renault driver.
“The [...]
2010
Teams, drivers and GP rumours
With F1 back from the summer hiatus we also have some fresh news, rumours and speculations coming out of the paddock. Here is a summary of today’s F1 news, tweets and speculations.
Sebastian Vettel extended his contract with Red Bull until the end of 2011 season. Red Bull Racing also has an option for Vettel’s services [...]
European GP
Renault fined but will race in Valencia
FIA Court of Appeal overturned Renault’s one-race suspension today. Instead the team was fined $50,000. This means that Fernando Alonso will be able to race in front of Spanish fans this weekend in Valencia.
Renault hasn’t officially confirmed yet who will be their second driver at the European GP. Romain Grosjean is expected to fill the [...]
2009
Stewards decisions – No penalty for Raikkonen, Renault suspended from European GP
Kimi Raikkonen escaped without penalty following the investigation of an incident at the start of the race. While I do not wish any driver loosing his podium finish I would welcome some explanation from stewards while this incident was investigated after the race while two weeks ago similar incident involving Mark Webber was investigated right [...]
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