Suzuka Day 1: Virgin Racing review
Oct.8 (Virgin Racing) The first two Free Practice sessions for Sunday’s Japanese Grand Prix took place in sunny and dry conditions at the Suzuka Circuit today, with all three drivers completing their planned programmes. Jerome D’Ambrosio stepped into car 25 for the first session as part of his evaluation programme, completing a total of 23 [...]
Suzuka Day 1: Force India report
Oct.8 (Force India) The FIA Formula One World Championship returned to the Far East this week for round 16 of the 2010 series, the Japanese Grand Prix. Force India’s preparations at the classic Suzuka circuit got off to a promising start with Adrian Sutil recording the fourth quickest time of the opening practice session and [...]
Suzuka Day 1: Hispania Racing report
Oct.8 (Hispania Racing) Both Hispania Racing, HRT F1 Team cars were reliable and performed well today in the first two practice sessions of the Japanese Grand Prix. In the morning, Sakon Yamamoto and Bruno Senna did the most laps, covering 54 between them. The Brazilian finished 23rd (1.38.814) and the Japanese, who is running at [...]
Suzuka Day 1: Lotus report
Oct.8 (Lotus Racing) Team and drivers review the first day of the Japanese Grand Prix weekend at suzuka. Heikki Kovalainen (Chassis T127-01) FP1: 25 laps; 19th place; best time 1.36.949; best sector times S1 34.882 (19th), S2 43.606 (19th), S3 18.421 (20th) FP2: 37 laps, 19th place, best time 1.36.095; best sector times S1 34.590 [...]
Suzuka Day 1: McLaren report
Oct.8 (Vodafone McLaren Mercedes) Team and drivers review the first day of the Japanese Grand Prix weekend at Suzuka. Jenson Button: MP4-25A-01 “This morning was pretty tricky; I couldn’t get a balance with the car at all, and was really struggling with understeer through the first sector. You give away so much time when you’ve [...]
Suzuka Day 1: Sauber report
Oct.8 (Sauber) Kamui Kobayashi and Nick Heidfeld both used the first two free practice sessions ahead of the Japanese Grand Prix for many comparisons. On the time sheet Kobayashi ended up in 12th, while Heidfeld was 15th. Kobayashi is using a special helmet design for his home race. The helmet’s basic colour is white, which [...]
Kobayashi attracts sponsors for home race
Oct.7 (Sauber) Sauber Motorsport gets extra support from Japan for Kamui Kobayashi’s home race next weekend in Suzuka. Planex Group and MJ Co. Ltd. will be sponsoring the team for the Japanese Grand Prix. Furthermore, Scalp-D, the manufacturer of hair care products, is expanding its presence on the C29 race cars. The MJ logos will [...]
Former Renault boss Bob Bell departs team
Oct.6 (GMM) Former team principal Bob Bell has left Renault, the formula one team announced on Wednesday. Bell’s role as managing director, assumed after Flavio Briatore was ousted and banned last year in the crashgate scandal, will be taken over by current team boss Eric Boullier. “We would like to thank Bob Bell for his [...]
Bottas unlikely to step up to 2011 F1 seat
Oct.6 (GMM) Williams reserve driver Valtteri Bottas has put his hopes of stepping into the team’s race cockpit on hold until 2012. The 21-year-old Finn, third in the F3 Euroseries standings, admitted recently that British team Williams was “not likely to change” its current driver lineup for 2011. “The next step would be GP2,” Bottas, [...]