Singapore Day 1: McLaren report
Sep.24 (Vodafone McLaren Mercedes) Team and drivers review the first day of the Singapore Grand Prix weekend at Marina Bay Circuit, Round 15 of the FIA Formula 1 World Championship. Jenson Button, MP4-25A-01 “We got some reasonable running during P2, and the car is working quite well. There are still some improvements we need to [...]
Christian Klien replaces poisoned Yamamoto
Sep.24 (Hispania Racing) Austrian reserve driver, for Hispania Racing, Christian Klien is going to replace Sakon Yamamoto for the Singapore Grand Prix after the Japanese driver was struck by food poisoning on the eve of the race weekend. Colin Kolles, Team Principal: “It looks as if Sakon Yamamoto has a food poisoning, and he doesn’t [...]
Massa: We have new things on the car here
Sep.24 (Ferrari) At a time when drivers would usually consider heading back from the race track to the hotel, Felipe Massa settled down to meet the media here at the Marina Bay paddock, as even the Thursday of the Singapore GP runs to a night time schedule. The Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro driver did not have [...]
Petrov not worried about Renault seat
Sep.23 (YallaF1.com) One of the most coveted seats in Formula 1 is Vitaly Petrov’s in the Renault F1 team. Speculation has a dozen or so drivers angling for the Russian’s spot in the French team for 2011, including most recently an interest expressed by 2007 F1 world champion Kimi Raikkonen. The rumours have apparently not [...]
Alonso: We need podium finishes in all races
Sep.23 (Ferrari) As the floodlights brought an artificial brightness to the Marina Bay paddock, Fernando Alonso faced the press for his usual Thursday meeting and, just like every other race Thursday for the past few races, the first question concerned his title aspirations. “I think we can have a quick car everywhere in the remaining [...]
Heidfeld: I always believed I would be back
Sep.23 (YallaF1.com) Nick Heidfeld makes a welcome return to the Formula 1 grid starting with this weekend’s Singapore Grand Prix. The German replaces under-performing veteran Pedro de la Rosa in the Sauber team. After a 14 race lay off, since his last F1 race at Yas Marina last November, Heidfeld was back in the FIA [...]
Webber: I am here to try and win the race
Sep.23 (YallaF1.com) Mark Webber arrived in Singapore ahead of this weekend’s Grand Prix leading the F1 world championship standings. The Aussie has not had the best of outings at the Marina Bay Circuit, but this weekend he is determined to change his fortunes on the street circuit under floolights. He spoke at the FIA drivers [...]
Schumi: You won’t get rid of me that easily
Sep.23 (GMM) Michael Schumacher on Thursday swiftly dismissed rumours he is considering returning to retirement at the end of the 2010 season. Given the seven time world champion’s disappointing return to formula one this year, the latest rumours had been spurred on by Eddie Jordan, who said he sensed a flurry of paddock activity at [...]
Sauber unimpressed with de la Rosa
Sep.23 (GMM) Pedro de la Rosa lost his race seat because he was not consistent enough.
In Singapore on Thursday, photographers clamoured around the Spaniard’s replacement Nick Heidfeld, who is well known to the Swiss team after two separate tenures i…