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Qualifying at Malaysia
2008-03-22 08:19:00 The Ferrari ’s looked good in qualifying. Both of the Scarlet cars are on the front of the grid, with Massa taking the pole spot. The McLaren’s looked slower all qualifying session, so it seems that they may have put a little more fuel in the cars, and went for the second row, which they got. ... More About: News , Malaysia , Qualifying , Heikki Kovalainen
Final Practice
2008-03-22 05:18:00 Why ITV does not show this session I don’t know, but looking at the timing screen it’s a strange layout in the times. David Coulthard and Mark Webber where on track, and both finished the session, so it looks like the car has been cleared for qualifying at least. The BMW in the hands of Nick Heidfeld ... More About: News , Malaysia , Practice , Final
Ferrari still with car issues?
2008-03-21 03:57:00 Just watching the Live coverage of the test session 1, and it looks like Kimi has again been forced to leave his car out on track, and walk back to the pits. Have Ferrari still got the same issues as they did in Australia? it is another hot session in Malaysia . Kimi seemed to loose drive, ... More About: News , Issues , Laren
F1 Live Stream
2008-03-21 02:58:00 Just a quick reminder that the Practice sessions, Qualifying and the Race will be streamed live through the ITV-F1.com site. Also have a look at my previous post’s on the streaming, as people outside the UK can get it Oh, and here is the Direct Link to the video feed. UPDATE - I’ve tried out a couple ... More About: News , Malaysia , Live , Stream , Live streaming
F1 goes Home to BBC
2008-03-20 12:59:00 The BBC have announced a 5 year deal to show the Formula 1 show on the BBC. The deal that starts next year, and give the fans what their crying out for, F1 without the bad timed adverts. The Beeb also get the right’s for online broadcasting and keep their radio licence as well, so all ... More About: News , Home , Motorsport
Malaysia Preview
2008-03-19 15:30:00 The second of our 2008 fly away opening races is upon us, just one week after the Australian GP. This one is again a difficult, hot race, and cars that had heat issues last week will probably have more of the same. Sepang is also a challenging circuit for the engines, even if the heat is ... More About: News , Malaysia , Preview , Ferrari , Schumacher
For those that cannot get it
2008-03-17 21:11:00 ‘I’m uploading the ITV-F1 stream of the highlight’s. This has all the bumps and bangs, including the Timo Glock accident. For those that want the DivX version, download it here Copyright © 2008 F1-Blog. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in ... More About: News , Australia , Raikkonen , Coulthard , Massa
Australia a full runthrough
2008-03-17 18:49:00 After having a few hours nap, then watching the GP again as it was repeated, then napping. I thought it about time to do my full race synopsis. The race for various reasons has to be one of the best in the resent past, and I have had quite a few comments from ‘non F1′ ... More About: News , Australia , Ferrari , Review , Race
Australia Result
2008-03-16 07:30:00 And it’s a result for Lewis Hamilton, and McLaren. Lewis drove a start to finish winning race, however the news is the Ferrari cars. None of the Ferrari powered cars managed to finish the race, with two engine failures (Kimi and Bordause). It was also nice to see the BMW and Williams on the podium, Heidfeld ... More About: News , Australia , Honda , Race
Pole for Lewis, but that?s not the surprise
2008-03-15 05:38:00 Lewis popped his McLaren onto the Pole position, but the surprise is who is in second. We already know that Kimi is starting 16th, so it was expected that the second Ferrari would be lining up next to him. That did not occur though, and it was not Lewis’s team mate Heikki either. Nope hat’s off to ... More About: News , Australia , Lewis
Kimi to start from 16th
2008-03-15 04:45:00 Kimi will start the first race of his 2008 season from the 16th spot as his car stopped out on track during the end of the Q1 session at Melbourne. It seems that his fuel pressure regulator has given up on him (the team suffered the same issue Friday). So the team that had one ... More About: News , Ferrari , Start , Failure , Kimi
Mike Coughlan Gone
2008-03-14 15:13:00 It seems that McLaren have sacked the suspended ex chief designer Mike Coughlan. A McLaren spokesperson said: “The company has now terminated his employment.” It is certain he had nothing to do directly with this years championship contending McLaren, so it looks like the team will not miss him too much. Copyright © 2008 F1-Blog. ... More About: News
Australia practice 2
2008-03-14 05:46:00 It looked for a long time that the local boy Mark Webber was going to set the fastest session time in the Red Bull, however it was not to be, as Lewis came out towards the end of the session and smashed the time Webber set by nearly a second. Again we saw quite a few ... More About: News , Australia , Practice
Session one
2008-03-14 01:59:00 The first session from Australia has just come to a close, and interesting it was. The times do not really indicate on the first session, as the fastest driver is 2 seconds shy of the 2004 lap record and a second off Kimi’s qualifying time from last year. No the interest comes from watching what the ... More About: News , Results
ITV Streaming issues
2008-03-14 01:01:00 It seems the live stream of the practice sessions has gone well, too well in fact, the ITV website is struggling under load. Perhaps ITV will take this as a sign of the fact that they should broadcast it on the telly, even if it’s on ITV4 or ITV4! UPDATE - It seems now that LimeLight ... More About: Video , News , Issues , Proxy , Streaming
ITV do something right for F1
2008-03-13 18:33:00 Wow, ITV have been put down in the past for their haphazard broadcast of F1, however it seems times are changing and the company have announced that they will broadcast the Friday practice and the races online! Here’s a list of the new features over at www.itv-f1.com Premium video footage, including a post-race highlights package containing all ... More About: News , Coverage
The Sand Bagging debate
2008-03-13 18:20:00 There has been a lot of talk recently that BMW Sauber have been sand bagging during testing, and as of yet we have not seen the actual test times for the car. People have said that when they have been testing with the other teams that they ran high fuel runs, whereas the other ... More About: News , Australia , Ferrari , Debate , Sand
Australia Preview
2008-03-10 14:46:00 With the first race of the season looming large, we shall have a quick rundown of the event from the Toyota Drivers. For those that are having issues with the Flash version, then download the WMV here Copyright © 2008 F1-Blog. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in ... More About: News , Australia , Preview
Williams Reveal
2008-03-03 18:09:00 The Williams team have unveiled their 2008 colours. As you can see, the FW-30 looks quite nice in the dark/light layout. This should certainly look good under the light’s in Singapore. Copyright © 2008 F1-Blog. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the ... More About: News
Where did Toyota come from?
2008-02-28 18:55:00 Or day three of the Barcelona testing, as it should be titled. Toyota - The surprise of the third day of testing at Barcelona was without a doubt the TF-108 with Jarno at the wheel. Jarno set the fastest time of the day in the car saying , “That was another positive day. We made some progress ... More About: Test
Fantasy F1
2008-02-27 17:56:00 Righty oh, for those that like this sort of thing I have setup a Fantasy F1 League for you to join, and beat me at. To start your team click here and sign up for a Fantasy F1 Team of your own. Now click on the F&E button for your team, and join the 270 League. Go ... More About: News
Barcelona Testing
2008-02-27 17:15:00 First and foremost, apologies on the lack of updates, right now that’s over with, on with testing news. McLaren - The Woking team have been showing serious pace at Barcelona . Both days of testing so far have had the McLaren Mercedes team showing their form. The fastest man on the track, squashing talk that he would not ... More About: News , Testing
Has Dennis been bumped?
2008-02-27 14:04:00 Rumour has started to circulate in the MotorSport world that Ron Dennis has been bumped off the top at McLaren . It seems that Mercedes may have ‘asked’ Dennis to step down, with Martin Whitmarsh taking over the day to day running of the Woking team. This would be a sad day for the team, and the ... More About: News , Fired , Sack
Valencia Testing
2008-01-28 16:39:00 Looks like Ferrari and McLaren are again the teams to beat if last weeks testing in Valencia is anything to go by. That said there are a few things worthy of speaking about besides the times that the teams set. BMW - After showing the F1.08 off at it’s launch, with sveldt lines, and one ... More About: News , Roundup , Testing
Before we go testing for the second week
2008-01-21 15:37:00 Let’s round up all the news from over the weekend. Honda - The Honda F1 team have finally announced their testing plans. The team were absent from last weeks testing, and look to be coming to this weeks Valencia session to make up for it. The team will initially run a modified RA107 car, and use ... More About: News , Renault , Roundup , Testing , Week
Has ?mad? Max finally made a sensible decision?
2008-01-18 13:09:00 The FIA have circulated a letter to the F1 teams this week. It basically sums up the recent talks the teams had about budget caps, and engines. The letter says that the FIA are going to go ahead and introduce the budget caps in 2009, and also details what will be exempt from the cap. So ... More About: News , Decision , Made , Finally , Engines
Jerez Day 3 Testing
2008-01-17 15:19:00 A Surprise fastest time today, from not only a team that is not expected, but from one of the new boys as well, Timo Glock put’s the Toyota on the top spot of the time sheets for the final day. The surprising thing was not that he set the fastest time, but who he beat ... More About: News , Testing , Jerez , Erez
Red Bull RB4 Launch
2008-01-17 13:45:00 Red Bull Racing have today unveiled their 2008 car, the RBR4. This car is the first one to be completely overseen by design guru Adrian Newey. The car was launched at the second day of testing at the Jerez circuit, in Red Bull ’s usual low key style. This car continues ... More About: News , Launch
Jerez Testing Day 2
2008-01-17 13:03:00 Day 2 of testing at Jerez saw Fernando Alonso take the fastest time. The Spaniard said that he enjoyed the day, and showed that the Renault did have some pace in the right hands. Fernando also showed off a new helmet design, stating it was so the other drivers could follow it. Pedro de la ... More About: News , Testing , Erez
Jerez day one roundup
More articles from this author:2008-01-15 17:55:00 Testing from a lot of the teams (9 of the 11) started in earnest yesterday at Jerez in Spain. It was a mixed bag weather wise, and this caused some of the teams to run a reduced test day, and others seemed to take advantage and try running different wet weather configurations. The day seemed to ... More About: News , Roundup , Testing , Times , Monday 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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