European GP: Day 1 McLaren report
Jun.25 (YallaF1.com) Vodafone McLaren Mercedes report on their first day of practice for the European Grand Prix in Valencia. Lewis Hamilton: “The first session looked quite good for us. But it was always going to be interesting to see how quickly the blown-diffuser cars could get up to speed – and they looked very competitive [...]
European GP: Day 1 Mercedes GP report
Jun.25 (YallaF1.com) The first of the practice sessions for the European Grand Prix got underway today at the Valencia Street Circuit in Spain. Driving the track for the first time, Michael Schumacher and team-mate Nico Rosberg, who has taken part in the two races previously held at the Marina circuit, had their first opportunity to [...]
European GP: Day 1 Virgin Racing report
Jun.25 (YallaF1.com) Virgin Racing’s European Grand Prix got underway in Valencia today with the first two Free Practice sessions for Sunday’s 57-lap race on this 5.419km street circuit. The opening practice session began on a dusty track in bright sunshine and with an ambient temperature of 25°C. It was a positive morning of running for [...]
European GP: Day 1 Lotus report
Jun.25 (YallaF1.com) A special day in Valencia for Lotus Racing as the cars of Jarno Trulli and Heikki Kovalainen took to the track for Friday practice sporting one-off engine covers bearing the “500 Races” logo, celebrating the 500th Grand Prix the Lotus marque has taken part in. The team ran exactly 100 trouble free laps [...]
Red Bull boss not too confident in Valencia
Jun.25 (YallaF1.com) Red Bull team principal Christian Horner is not terribly confident that the narrow confines of the Valencia street circuit will suit the team’s RB6. Speaking to the BBC during the opening practice session of the European Grand Prix he said, “I think Valencia will be a bit like Montreal, there are lots of [...]
Red Bull boss says reliability is priority
Jun.25 (GMM) After focusing on the speed of the RB6 early this season, Red Bull is now turning more of its attention to boosting reliability. Despite dominating the laptimes at many venues so far in 2010, the Austrian team is not leading the world championships after a spate of issues. The latest reliability glitches were [...]
No F-duct for Renault in Valencia
Jun.25 (GMM) Contrary to rumblings in the Valencia paddock, Renault will not be debuting an F-duct system on its R30 car this weekend. It is known that the French team is ready with the Red Bull-style low exhaust layout in the Spanish port city. But as for rumours an F-duct is also ready, team boss [...]
Ferrari designer Tombazis future uncertain
Jun.25 (GMM) Ferrari has denied that Nicholas Tombazis is being replaced. Athens born Tombazis has been the Italian team’s chief designer since joining from McLaren in 2006. But it emerged this week that Ferrari has signed McLaren’s joint chief engineer Pat Fry to work alongside technical director Aldo Costa beginning next week. A Ferrari spokesman, [...]
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,” [...]