Boullier: We have made good progress
Jul.05 (YallaF1.com) Eric Boullier has been in charge of a Formula 1 team for only nine races, but he has done a solid job leading the Renault F1 team, from the doldrums of 2009, to a force to be reckoned with in a short space of time. Boullier reflects on the first half of the [...]
Fairuz to drive Lotus in Friday practices
Jul.05 (YallaF1.com) Lotus Racing has today confirmed that Fairuz Fauzy will be driving in Friday Practice for the team at four more races in 2010, adding to the mileage he already has under his belt from the pre-season tests at Jerez and Barcelona, and the excellent contribution he made in FP1 at the Malaysian Grand [...]
Lotus look to hire more staff for F1 team
Jul.5 (GMM) Lotus is eyeing a few more staff for its burgeoning formula one team. An employee joked to Germany’s Auto Motor und Sport that the factory in Norfolk is “about as big as the McLaren canteen!”. But it houses 160 staff, with 45 more employees working for Lotus at the Italian Aerolab wind tunnel. [...]
Williams to make battery powered KERS
Jul.5 (GMM) Williams will run its own battery-powered KERS system in 2011, technical director Sam Michael has announced. The Grove based outfit runs its own hybrid systems company, and developed an unique flywheel system that is now used by Porsche in GT racing. But Sir Frank Williams revealed recently that the flywheel system is so [...]
Sauber need to solve car pace riddle
Jul.5 (GMM) Sauber must improve its qualifying pace, team boss Peter Sauber insists. The two C29s qualified poorly at Valencia a week ago, but in the race Kamui Kobayashi featured strongly and his teammate Pedro de la Rosa also finished in the points. “So the crucial question for our team is: why is the car [...]
Glock says proximity wing idea dangerous
Jul.5 (GMM) Timo Glock has joined a group of F1 drivers who think the ‘proximity’ wing idea is a bad one. FOTA chairman Martin Whitmarsh has admitted that the proposal, with chasing drivers able to press a button and boost straightline speed next season, might not see the light of day. “I think it’s highly [...]
Kovalainen happy and comfortable at Lotus
Jul.5 (GMM) Heikki Kovalainen has admitted he feels more comfortable at Lotus than he did in the last two seasons with McLaren. The Finn took a big backwards step down the grid with the new Malaysian backed team in 2010, but he told Holland’s formule1.nl magazine that he is not complaining. “Here at Lotus everything [...]
British GP: Toro Rosso preview
Jul.05 (YallaF1.com) After the arriviste venue of Valencia, we now move to the British Grand Prix, which along with the Italian race, shares the honour of being the longest standing fixture on the Formula One calendar. Jul.05 (YallaF1.com) Both races have been run 60 times, but Monza holds the record of staging its national race [...]
British GP: Mercedes GP preview
Jul.05 (YallaF1.com) Round 10 of the 2010 Formula One World Championship, the British Grand Prix, takes place next weekend at the remodelled Silverstone circuit in Northamptonshire. Venue for the first World Championship Grand Prix held sixty years ago in May 1950, Silverstone will be the second home race of the season for Mercedes GP Petronas [...]