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Friday, April 3, 2009

Formula 1 - what makes a World Champion?

FIA: McLaren instructed Hamilton to let Trulli pass

Lewis Hamilton (GBR) McLaren in the FIA Press Conference. Formula One World Championship, Rd 2, Malaysian Grand Prix, Preparations, Sepang, Malaysia, Thursday, 2 April 2009 Martin Whitmarsh (GBR) McLaren Chief Executive Officer in a media scrum following the disqualification of Lewis Hamilton (GBR) McLaren from the Australian GP. Formula One World Championship, Rd 2, Malaysian Grand Prix, Preparations, Sepang, Malaysia, Thursday, 2 April 2009

The FIA have revealed details of the new evidence that prompted stewards to strip McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton of this third place in the Australian Grand Prix and hand the place back to Toyota’s Jarno Trulli, who had originally been penalized for passing Hamilton under the safety car.

According to the FIA, in the original enquiry into the incident, both Hamilton and McLaren stated that they had not deliberately let Trulli pass. However, in interview footage recorded immediately after the race - and not originally seen by stewards - Hamilton says he was instructed to move over for the Italian.

Furthermore, the FIA say that McLaren radio recordings contain ‘two explicit orders’ given to Hamilton to let the Toyota pass. Based on this new evidence the stewards ‘felt strongly that they had been misled’ by the driver and team, resulting in their decision to disqualify the world champion.

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I think that a big apology is due to Jarno Trulli from both Hamilton and McLaren in public this weekend on the television

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

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Sunday, March 29, 2009

The race was deservedly won by the 3 week old team Brawn GP with Jenson Button leading from start to finish. Rubens Barcichello (second on the grid) had a bad start with the clutch control pushing him back to 10th place and having to drive the first part of the race with a damaged front wing. The incident between Vettel and Kubica moved him up from 4th to 2nd in the closing stages. Another lucky man was Lewis Hamilton who moved up to third after Jarno Trulli., who had started from the pit lane due to rear wing problems yesterday, finished third and was demoted after the race by the stewards:(

Jarno Trulli has lost his third place after stewards penalized him for passing under the safety car in the closing laps. He had runn off the road near the end of the race, losing a place to Lewis Hamilton, but then repassed the world champion once he rejoined the circuit. Soon after Hamilton suddenly slowed down and pulled over to the side of the road and Trulli thinking that he had a problem, overtook him. This erro cost the Italian a 10-second stop-go penalty as a result, but since the offence happened within the flast five laps he was given a 25-second penalty added to his race time dropping him to 12th.

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Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel has been given a 10-place grid penalty for next weekend’s Malaysian Grand Prix following an incident during the closing stages of todays race. Vettel collided with BMW Sauber’s Robert Kubica when the Polish driver attempted to overtake him. Following a post-race investigation, stewards decided to penalise the young German for 'causing a collision and forcing a driver off the track’.

For all the information go here
http://racingdriver.oilpatch.com/australiangp2009.html

Saturday, March 28, 2009

Melbourne Australia Formula 1 Brawn Button & Barichello

Melbourne Australia Formula 1 Brawn Button & Barichello

Yes the 3 B´s against all odds pulled it off in Australia this afternoon.

Brawn GP (previously Honda) during the winter thought at any time that they would have to join the Credit crisis and shut their doors. I believe that Ross Brawn purchased the company for one pound sterling (($1.40).

Niko Rosberg has set the fastest practice this morning making it 3 fastest practices in a row. This afternoon it was Jenson Button and Rubens Barichello (remember him being ordered by Ferrari in an Austrian GP to pull over and let Michael Schumacher win?) fighting
it out until the last minute as to who would take the honours for pole. In the end it was the Brit from the Brazilian. It was only several days ago that Rubens knew that he had a drive for 2009

Richard Branson climbed on board the new team as a Sponsor with his VIRGIN brand name for Brawn GP

Why not check out the other drivers times at http://racingdriver.oilpatch.com/australiangp2009.html

Where did Lewis Hamilton come? 15th

Friday, March 27, 2009

Melbourne Australia Formula 1 practice

Surprise - look who is heading the tables today!

Practice 2 (Friday Afternoon)


Pos	No	Driver	Team	Time/Retired	Gap	Laps
1	16	Nico Rosberg	Williams-Toyota	1:26.053		36
2	23	Rubens Barrichello	Brawn-Mercedes	1:26.157	0.104	38
3	9	Jarno Trulli	Toyota	1:26.350	0.297	42
4	14	Mark Webber	RBR-Renault	1:26.370	0.317	30
5	22	Jenson Button	Brawn-Mercedes	1:26.374	0.321	38
6	10	Timo Glock	Toyota	1:26.443	0.390	42
7	17	Kazuki Nakajima	Williams-Toyota	1:26.560	0.507	33
8	15	Sebastian Vettel	RBR-Renault	1:26.740	0.687	19
9	20	Adrian Sutil	Force India-Mercedes	1:27.040	0.987	29
10	3	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	1:27.064	1.011	35
11	4	Kimi Räikkönen	Ferrari	1:27.204	1.151	32
12	7	Fernando Alonso	Renault	1:27.232	1.179	28
13	21	Giancarlo Fisichella	Force India-Mercedes	1:27.282	1.229	32
14	6	Nick Heidfeld	BMW Sauber	1:27.317	1.264	34
15	5	Robert Kubica	BMW Sauber	1:27.398	1.345	36
16	11	Sebastien Bourdais	STR-Ferrari	1:27.479	1.426	36
17	2	Heikki Kovalainen	McLaren-Mercedes	1:27.802	1.749	35
18	1	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes	1:27.813	1.760	31
19	8	Nelsinho Piquet	Renault	1:27.828	1.775	35
20	12	Sebastien Buemi	STR-Ferrari	1:28.076	2.023	33

Practice 1 (Friday Morning)


Pos	No	Driver	Team	Time/Retired	Gap	Laps
1	16	Nico Rosberg	Williams-Toyota	1:26.687		19
2	17	Kazuki Nakajima	Williams-Toyota	1:26.736	0.049	21
3	4	Kimi Räikkönen	Ferrari	1:26.750	0.063	24
4	23	Rubens Barrichello	Brawn-Mercedes	1:27.226	0.539	21
5	2	Heikki Kovalainen	McLaren-Mercedes	1:27.453	0.766	15
6	22	Jenson Button	Brawn-Mercedes	1:27.467	0.780	12
7	3	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	1:27.642	0.955	24
8	10	Timo Glock	Toyota	1:27.710	1.023	24
9	20	Adrian Sutil	Force India-Mercedes	1:27.993	1.306	20
10	7	Fernando Alonso	Renault	1:28.123	1.436	16
11	6	Nick Heidfeld	BMW Sauber	1:28.137	1.450	20
12	9	Jarno Trulli	Toyota	1:28.142	1.455	21
13	5	Robert Kubica	BMW Sauber	1:28.511	1.824	22
14	21	Giancarlo Fisichella	Force India-Mercedes	1:28.603	1.916	16
15	12	Sebastien Buemi	STR-Ferrari	1:28.785	2.098	27
16	1	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes	1:29.042	2.355	18
17	14	Mark Webber	RBR-Renault	1:29.081	2.394	7
18	8	Nelsinho Piquet	Renault	1:29.461	2.774	25
19	11	Sebastien Bourdais	STR-Ferrari	1:29.499	2.812	21
20	15	Sebastian Vettel	RBR-Renault	1:32.784	6.097	4

Pre race comment - no commet - a bit controversial!

A date has been set for the FIA International Court of Appeal hearing over the diffusers on the Brawn GP, Toyota and Williams cars. It will take place in Paris on April 14 in the week prior to round three of the championship, the Chinese Grand Prix.

Stewards passed the cars of all three teams in Melbourne on Thursday, prompting protests from rivals, who believe their diffusers may be illegal. Those protests were rejected, a decision that was subsequently appealed by Ferrari, Red Bull Racing and Renault.

This means that these 3 teams could loose any points scored this weekend and the next GP if Ferrari, Red Bull and Renault are successful with their appeal

What is your opinion? Why not leave a comment about it?

Monday, March 16, 2009

Pension funds to sue RBS for losses & who is looking after the retail insvestors who were mislead in the £12bn rights issue

that Sir Fred Goodwin put his name to Mr Brown?

American investors also have a class action against the bank