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The Williams Testing
2008-01-15 00:54:00 Here are some pictures of the Williams FW-29B running in the first of the celebration colour schemes. The 500 is clearly visible on the cars, and the black paintwork does a good job of hiding the fact that the FW-29B is certainly not running in the same aero ... More About: News , Testing , Black , Iams
BMW Sauber F1.08
2008-01-14 21:22:00 BMW Sauber showed their 2008 challenger off today at their Munich offices today. The car is quite obviously a very highly developed version of their 2007 car, showing significant aero modifications from the F1.07. As you can see in the images below, the car has a sculpted aero profile over the front a rear (as is ... More About: News , Launch
Budgets and Engines
2008-01-14 16:06:00 It seems that the FIA have finaly cottoned onto a proper way to limit the spending in F1, and that is to limit the spending in F1 (about time geniuses) The FIA have proposed to limit team spending to 150 million dollars a year, and to reduce the engine freeze to only 5 years, with the ... More About: News , Budget , Engines , Budgets
Williams 30th
2008-01-14 15:56:00 Happy 30th birthday Williams F1. Yup they have been in the sport for 30 years now, and therefore are celebrating. Over the next couple of months during testing they will run the car (FW29B) in 6 colour schemes to reflect their history. The team will compete in their 500th GP this season (at Turkey this year), ... More About: News , Iams
Toyota Launch Pics
2008-01-11 11:18:00 Here are a few more hi-res pictures from the Toyota launch event. It’s interesting, the car is certainly a Toyota, however it’s quite different to the 2006/2007 car, and reminds me more of their more successful 2005 one, albeit in an updated for the hi-aero efficiency times. I’m quite looking forward to the ... More About: News , Launch
Force India announce lineup
2008-01-10 13:41:00 Force India have finally announced their driver lineup for 2008. The drivers are Giancarlo Fisichella and Adrian Sutil, with Tonio Liuzzi taking the third seat duties for the season. The two main drivers were widely believed to be the ones in the cars, however the interesting announcement is Tonio in the third seat. It will certainly make ... More About: News , Force , Force India , Lineup
Toyota Launch the TF108
2008-01-10 13:26:00 The TF108 has been launched today, and from the images and press information, seems to be a complete departure from their previous cars. The car has a complete change to the layout of both the front end and rear of the car. The obvious changes are Aero based (like the McLaren nose copy), but this car ... More About: News , Toyota , Launch
McLaren First Day Testing
2008-01-10 12:51:00 A couple of shots from the first testing day for McLaren at Jerez . You will notice that the Aero Bridge on the nose of the car is back, even if it was missing from the car at the launch event. How much of the actual 2008 car is on show is anyone’s guess, you do however ... More About: News , Testing , Test
Control Electronics Debate continues
2008-01-09 13:01:00 BMW have added the voice of concern to the already vocal Renault and Ferrari worries about the M.E.S Electronics that all the teams have to run this year. I can see there reason for concern in it’s most basic way, however the system is jointly developed with Microsoft , and McLaren Electronics are only supplying just that, ... More About: News , Debate , Control
Last one for the evening
2008-01-08 01:27:00 This is the video of the Fiorano test of the F2008. 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 site you are looking at is guilty of copyright infringement. Please message us at http://www.f1-blog.co.uk/contact-us/ so we ... More About: Video , News , Ferrari , Evening , Shakedown
McLaren MP4-23 Launch event pictures
2008-01-07 23:12:00 Following the Ferrari shakedown picture’s, here are the McLaren launch pictures from today (Quick warning, some of the images are quite large 2+Mb when opened). More pics after the jump. 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 site you are ... More About: News , Pictures , Event , Formula
Ferrari F2008 Shake Down Pictures
2008-01-07 22:22:00 Here’s some pics from the F2008 Fiorano Shakedown. There is a bunch more shots after the jump. 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 site you are looking at is guilty of copyright infringement. Please message us at http://www.f1-blog.co.uk/contact-us/ so ... More About: News , Pictures , Ferrari , Test
McLaren launch the MP4-23
2008-01-07 17:12:00 McLaren are the second team to launch their F1 challenger for 2008. The car has been in design/wind tunnel since May last year, and like the Ferrari is more of a super tweaked version of the 2007 car. The car will have to be good this season, as it’s been pawed over by the FIA and ... More About: News , Launch , Clar
Ferrari F2008
2008-01-07 02:06:00 Ferrari launched their 2008 car this weekend, and from what I can see, it’s a sculpted update to the 2007 car. We can see that the sidepods are one of the largest changes to the 2008 car, they are very finely sculpted. Those along with the changes to the front end (the front wing is ... More About: News , Ferrari , Launch
Merry Christmas
2007-12-24 18:21:00 Just want to say Merry Christmas to all of our readers out there. It’s been a decent year for F1, in both good and bad ways. We had a great world championship battle for drivers, and a mess of one for teams, but that did not make it less interesting, more so in fact. We’ve also had ... More About: News , Merry Christmas
Race Of Champions 2007
2007-12-17 21:36:00 I attended the Race of Champ ions yesterday, and a good day out it was. I wont go into the negatives (have a look on my personal blog later for that). Here are a few photo’s of the event. Wembley stadium From the heats and finals of the country events. Stig Blomqvist in the Group ... More About: News , Photo
Roundup
2007-12-17 16:52:00 Ok, so I have to apologise for not posting for a while, but this is the silly season, and I have been caught up in family and work. That said, it’s also been a good off season so far for F1 news, so with that in mind, lets break it all down, let’s start with the ... More About: News , Renault , Roundup , Laren , Nico Rosberg
Ferrari stiring the waters again?
2007-11-16 16:33:00 I know I should steer clear, and not have my say about the McLaren appeal against BMW/Williams. But hey I want to so I will…. Yes I don’t think the championship winner should be changed, Kimi won, with Lewis second, and that result should stand. However I can also see why McLaren did appeal, they have ... More About: News , Ferrari , Court , Waters
Renault complain about the electronics
2007-11-14 22:44:00 Bob Bell (Renault ’s Technical Director) has complained about the new FIA sanctioned ‘Standard Electronics Unit’. He is stated as saying "The system has lower performance," Bell insisted. "Its capacity, complexity and functions are not on the same level." Now Bob, is that not the point of the new system? It’s designed to stop the hidden ‘clever’ code that ... More About: News , Microsoft , Laren
Other significant moves
2007-11-13 12:47:00 Besides the Fernando to Ferrari piece we ran earlier, there are also some other significant staff moves to note. Ferrari have replaced Juan Todt at the head of the F1 team by Stefano Domenicali, who will take over the running of the team from January. This shows that Todt is obviously under an increased load with ... More About: News , Honda , Jean Todt , Moves
Fernando to Ferrari?
2007-11-13 00:52:00 If Nicky is correct in the comments then it seems that Fernando may have signed for Ferrari in 2008! If this is correct it’s going to throw a whole spanner in the works of the driver market in F1. Lets see who has got this scoop! Its now 21.30 hours GMT on Monday ... More About: News , Drive , Scoop
The Last sting in the tail?
2007-11-08 18:28:00 It seems that the Renault team may be the team to get the sting in the tail of the 2007 season. The Renault team have been called in front of the FIA, allegedly having breached the Article 151c ruling. Yes that’s the same article that cost McLaren the constructors title, and 100million dollars in the Stepneygate ... More About: News , Cheat , Sting
Fernando Alonso
2007-11-04 14:35:00 Ok, so we know now that Fernando (as expected) will not be at McLaren next year. So where will he go? Well it’s no secret that Flavio would like him to return to Renault, openly stating as much, however Fernando has said that Renault is not his first choice. Ferrari have got their driver lineup sorted ... More About: News , Williams , Fernando Alonso , Alonso
10 year engine freeze
2007-11-01 17:45:00 It seems that the FIA have proposed a 10 year freeze on engine designs to start from 2008. Now I can see the point in trying to make the sport ‘greener’ and ‘cheaper’, however this is F1. If a large manufacturer has 500million to spend in a season, HE IS GOING TO, most of the smaller ... More About: News , Engine , Freeze , Year
Max finally gone mad?
2007-11-01 17:23:00 Max Mosley has spouted again, it’s not enough to put down one of the finest names in F1 history (Stewart), he has now said that Lewis Hamilton’s success is bad for the sport, wtf? Yes I too am a little sick of the over importance the British press has heaped on Hamilton’s shoulders, but this? "If ... More About: News , Finally
F1 to move from Sony to EA?
2007-11-01 16:31:00 I t seems that the young Brit Lewis Hamilton has signed a $10 Million deal with gaming Giant Electronic Arts (EA Sports). This has lead to speculation that if the EA brand has invested so heavily in an F1 heavyweight for marketing of a game, then they are also in talks to purchase the F1 right’s, ... More About: News , Formula , Sony , Game
Season 2008
2007-10-22 16:09:00 Let’s leave the 2007 season behind us, let’s rather look forward at what may be the highlights of the 2008 season. First lets speak about the new team next year. After a battle for the last team place on the grid, Pro Drive won, and the rumor has been that they will run McLaren cars, ... More About: News , Formula , Season , Prodrive
Will fuel decide the title?
2007-10-22 14:44:00 And more to the point, should it? This season has had it’s fair share of FIA judgments that have impacted the sport in a negative way, will the fuel irregularity be the last sting in the tail for the 2007 season? I’m actually glad that Kimi took the title (as it currently stands), he drove well ... More About: News , Fuel , Title
Kimi takes both top spots
2007-10-21 21:04:00 Kimi Raikkonen is tonight crowned as the new world champion of the F1 world. He takes the title that Fernando Alonso held last year. The race was not all that interesting from the Ferrari point of view, the two Ferrari’s where by and away the fastest cars on the track. No all of the interesting things ... More About: News , Championship , Formula , Spots , Interlagos
Chinese GP Results
More articles from this author:2007-10-07 09:51:00 At the end of the Chinese GP, we have the following results. Kimi Raikkonen - Ferrari Fernando Alonso - McLaren Filipe Massa - Ferrari (Fastest Lap) Sebastien Vettel - Scuderia Toro Rosso (F1-Blog driver of the day) Jenson Button - Honda Vitantonio Liuzzi - Scuderia Toro Rosso Nick Heidfeld - BMW David Coulthard - Red Bull Heikki Kovalainen - Renault Mark Webber - Red ... More About: News , Formula , Results 1, 2, 3, 4 |
