GP2: Maldonado powers to fifth win
Jul.31 (GP2 Series) Pastor Maldonado has extended his series lead with yet another crushing display to take his fifth victory of the season, claiming the lead following a string of start problems for his rivals to easily lead home Christian Vietoris and Sergio Perez in this afternoon’s feature race in Budapest. The Venezuelan’s job was [...]
Super Vettel on pole as Red Bulls dominate
Jul.31 (YallaF1.com) Sebastian Vettel did the inevitable during qualifying for the Hungarian Grand Prix in Budapest, he took pole position in dominant style. No one had an answer for the German’s pace around Hungaroring. Not even team mate Mark Webber who gave it his best shot, as usual. The whole weekend has been all about [...]
Practice 3: Who can stop the Red Bulls?
Jul.31 (YallaF1.com) If the truth be told Red Bull Racing should by now be on the final throes of crowning one of their drivers World Champion. Such has been the dominance of the Adrian Newey penned RB6 that had the team the experience in matters of title winning it would by now be a foregone [...]
Berger not interested in return to F1
Jul.31 (GMM) Gerhard Berger has admitted he is not currently interested in returning full-time to the formula one paddock. After retiring in 1997, the ten-time grand prix winner returned to F1 as BMW’s joint boss until 2003, and three years later bought half of Toro Rosso. The 50-year-old Austrian sold his share back to Red [...]
Race is on to develop flexi front wings
Jul.31 (GMM) Red Bull and Ferrari’s rivals will need to move fast to design flexible front wings for their own cars. That is the claim of Renault boss Eric Boullier, who believes F1′s most competitive teams at present are enjoying a big benefit from the innovation. Although flexible wings are illegal, the designs currently raced [...]
Ferrari removes F-duct for Budapest
Jul.31 (GMM) Ferrari has joined Red Bull in opting to remove the F-duct from its car in Hungary. Red Bull was the first to deduce that the efficiency of its conventional rear wing layout was better at the tight and twisty track, where the only significant straight is located opposite the pitlane. On Felipe Massa’s [...]
Cypher out of running for 2011 F1 team
Jul.31 (GMM) The American outfit Cypher Group has pulled out of the running to race in formula one next year. The group had applied for the 13th 2011 team entry and was reportedly in talks with American driver Jonathan Summerton and possibly also Nelson Piquet Jr. It had also emerged that former Brawn engineer Steve [...]
Ron Dennis hits out at McLaren drivers
Jul.31 (GMM) In a rare rebuke by the McLaren group chairman, Ron Dennis has criticised the F1 team’s drivers. In comments carried by British newspapers, the Woking based company’s shareholder and former long-time F1 principal publicly scolded Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button for criticising the qualifying pace of the MP4-25. Title leader Hamilton on Friday [...]
Piquet says Massa is slower than Alonso
Jul.31 (GMM) Felipe Massa should speed up if he wants to avoid being Fernando Alonso’s number two. That is the interesting perspective of Nelson Piquet Jr, who was Alonso’s number two at Renault in 2008 and the first half of last year. The Brazilian was then ousted by the team, triggering the so-called crashgate scandal [...]
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