Tester Klien to drive Hispania in first practice
Jun.25 (GMM) Christian Klien will be back on track for the new Spanish team HRT at Valencia. The Austrian test driver also drove on the Friday morning in Barcelona, before his Japanese colleague Sakon Yamamoto took at turn at the wheel in Turkey. “In Montreal I was unavailable due to my obligations in Le Mans,” [...]
Optimism prevails in the Red Bull camp
Jun.24 (YallaF1.com) With all the big teams, their main rivals, copying their trend setting exhaust system with derivatives to be seen this weekend at the European Grand Prix in Valencia, Red Bull’s drivers are optimistic. As Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel prepare to do battle, their thoughts turn to the team’s recent form, the track, [...]
Sauber to drop BMW name after 2010
Jun.24 (GMM) F1′s Swiss team will keep the ‘BMW’ in its name until the end of the season. After the F1 Commission meeting on Monday, it emerged that the BMW Sauber F1 Team had applied to change its name to simply Sauber Motorsport. The next step was the approval of F1′s governing body, who met [...]
Mercedes not dropping 2010 car says Brawn
Jun.24 (GMM) Mercedes is still working on its current car but has started to design the W01′s successor, team boss Ross Brawn has revealed. Michael Schumacher, who is 75 points behind the championship leader Lewis Hamilton, said in Canada that his attention is now turning to 2011. But while not denying that the next Mercedes [...]
European GP: Mercedes GP preview
Jun.24 (YallaF1.com) The European Grand Prix sees Formula One’s second visit of the season to Spain and takes place around the city streets of Valencia on Sunday 27 June. The Valencia Street Circuit follows the water’s edge around the Juan Carlos I Marina, the base for the 32nd America’s Cup in 2007, using a specially [...]
European GP: Virgin Racing preview
Jun.23 (YallaF1.com Formula 1 returns to Europe this weekend for Round 9 of the FIA Formula 1 World Championship – the European Grand Prix in Valencia, Spain. This is the second of two Spanish races on the 2010 calendar and the first of a six race stint that constitutes the second European leg of the [...]
McLaren to debut new exhaust in Britain
Jun.23 (GMM) McLaren on Wednesday confirmed reports a Red Bull-style exhaust layout will debut on the MP4-25 at Silverstone. Several teams are embarking upon a similar approach, with designers working to install low-mounted exhausts that allow air to flow more efficiently into the double diffuser. The benefit, with also the fast-moving exhaust fumes channelled through [...]
Red Bull may change Vettel’s gearbox
Jun.23 (GMM) Christian Horner is not ruling out a five-place grid penalty for Sebastian Vettel in Valencia. Vettel’s Red Bull teammate Mark Webber lost his front-row starting place in Canada due to needing a precautionary gearbox change prior to the race. And Vettel finished the Montreal race with a different gearbox problem, meaning that if [...]
Alguersuari happy with Toro Rosso
Jun.23 (GMM) Jaime Alguersuari is happy with the performance of his formula one employer. Toro Rosso is just eighth in the 2010 world championship with 8 points, ahead only of Sauber and F1′s three new teams. But rookie Alguersuari, who made his debut at short notice to replace the struggling Sebastien Bourdais mid last year, [...]