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 [...]
European GP
Renault fined but will race in Valencia
2009
Update on Felipe Massa – Doctors believe full recovery possible
Earleir yesterday there were some reports suggesting that Felipe Massa might have sustained serious (and perhaps career threatening) eye injury. However later on yesterday there were more optimistic news coming from Colonel Dr. Lajos Zsiros, the chief surgeon of the Hungarian Defence Forces.
According to the doctor Massa has woken up and the doctors had no [...]
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 [...]
2009
2009 Hungarian GP – Race result – Win for Hamilton, P2 Raikkonen, P3 Webber
Lewis Hamilton won his first race of the season ahead of Kimi Raikkonen and Mark Webber. Jenson Button only managed 7th place, Sebastian Vettel retired. (Kimi Raikkonen will be investigated after the race for the incident after race start.) The rookie Jaime Alguersuari came home in 15th, 1 place ahead of his team mate Sebastien [...]
2009
2009 Hungarian GP – Post qualifying weights
The Hungarian GP post qualifying weights have been released by FIA. Fernando Alonso is very light with. Jenson Button on the other hand is quite heavy probably also because of his limited running in Q3. It looks pretty good for Red Bulls if they can keep Hamilton with his KERS behind …
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2009
Statement from Ferrari on Felipe Massa’s condition
Ferrari team issued statement on the condition of Felipe Massa who crashed heavily after being struck by a piece of flying debris from another car during the qualifying for Hungarian GP:
“After the accident during the qualifying session of the Grand Prix of Hungary, Felipe Massa was airlifted to the AEK hospital in Budapest. Felipe was [...]
2009
2009 Hungarian GP – Qualifying – Pole for Alonso
Fernando Alonso claimed his first pole position of the season, Sebastian Vettel qualified 2nd and Mark Webber 3rd. There were bizzare scenes in the pitlane after qulaifying. The timing screens went off and nobody had any idea how the qualifying ended for quite a while …
1. F. Alonso – 1:21.569
2. S. Vettel – 1:21.607
3. M. [...]
2009
2009 Hungarian GP – Saturday practice
Lewis Hamilton finished the final practice session on top ahead of Nick Heidfeld and Nico Rosberg. McLaren cars were fastest in all three practice sessions this weekend. P9 and P10 for Red Bulls and P13 and P17 for Brawns makes it quite tricky to predict the qualifying …
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2009
Video – Interview with Jaime Alguersuari
Jaime Alguersuari is making is F1 racing debut this weekend in Hungary. Here is Jaime’s first full interview since securing his race drive in Formula 1. The youngest ever Formula 1 driver speaks about the aims for his first race, beginning of his career, new team and expectations for the rest of this season.
Get the [...]
2009
2009 Hungarian GP – Friday Practice
The Hungarian GP weekend kicked off with Friday practice. Busiest driver in the morning session was (as expected) the rookie Jaime Alguersuari with 42 laps to his name. He did reasonably well on his first proper F1 outing, setting time only 2 tenths slower than his team mate Sebastien Buemi. The fastest lap of the [...]
2009
Nelson Piquet stays on, will race in Hungary
The immediate future of Nelson Piquet seems to be in F1 with Renault. The Brazilian driver will race in Hungary next weekend. This has become obvious from ING Renault F1 press release ahead of Hungarian Grand Prix. In it the team discussed the upcoming race with both their drivers Fernando Alonso and Nelson Piquet. Here [...]
2008
2008 Hungarian F1 GP – Wolf’s Race Review
2008 Hungarian GP was not as dull as it often is. Unfortunately most of the excitement came in form of refueling fire and technical problems of the front runners. The only real racing for positions I could see (except the race start) was between Barrichello and Button in the very early stages of the race. [...]
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