With Montreal dropped From F1 2009 Calendar, for next year’s 2009 Formula 1 Race Schedule the FIA will introduce Abu Dhabi as the the season’s final race!
This new state of the art Formula 1 track will be designed by Hermann Tilke and will be located on YAS ISLAND and will be called “YAS MARINA CIRCUIT”.
In qualifying, things got off to another fantastic start for the team, with Lewis Hamilton capturing his seventh pole of the season and his teammate Heikki Kovalainen starting back four places in fifth. From the onset of the race, things went equally well for both drivers, with Lewis rocketing to an immediate lead and Heikki maintaining his position in fifth.
The Michael Schumacher World Champion Tower was recently unveiled at Cityscape Dubai by a fresh new Architecture firm called LAVA (Laboratory for Visionary Architecture). They integrated Formula 1 Technology in their design and drew further inspiration via collaboration with Michael Schumacher himself! It is set to break ground early 2009.
With the unfortunate and recent cancellation of the 2009 Montreal F1 Race, I am left sitting pondering which race I am going to have to attend in place of going to Montreal for our annual boys only F1 weekend extravaganza.
One of Bernie Ecclestone’s 3 daughters Tamara Ecclestone, 25, has enjoyed piggy backing on Daddy’s powerful F1 Boss status, to develop a modeling career and has apparently become an F1 TV host. Somehow this busy young lady devotes her free time to raise awareness for PETA (people for the ethical treatment of animals).
It was just announced that the Canadian Grand Prix which takes place in ‘hot as hell’ June in Montreal, QC (Canada) has been removed from the 2009 F1 Season Circuit. This was just announced today Tuesday October 7, 2008, by the International Automobile Federation. This will be the first time since 1987 that Canada will not host a Formula One race!
This weekend was a historic one in F1 racing, as it was both the inaugural Singapore Grand Prix and the first night race in Formula 1 history. Holding on to a slight lead over Ferrari's Felipe Massa in the driver's rankings, it was also a vital race for Vodafone McLaren Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton. So how did Lewis and the rest of the team fare?
A lazy lap around the Jerez circuit is maybe what she was expecting, but he had something a little faster in mind. No understanding of Italian required in this video ...
F1 Corse Clienti at Le Circuit, Mont Tremblant prior to one of their track runs. Taking place during a select number of Challenge weekends, the Corse Clienti program allows owners of these F1 cars to drive their cars on the track with full factory technical support.
Photos from Ferrari of Quebec dealership where Kimi Räikkönen and Felipe Massa spoke briefly before a small Ferrari owners only crowd! Cars include several Enzo Ferrari's including the EDO Competition Enzo owned by ZR AUTO, Ferrari F430, Ferrari 430 Scuderia, Maserati MC12, 599 GTB, 612 Scaglietti and more!
This year the two main Mercedes-McLaren drivers Lewis Hamilton and Heikki Kovalainen will race with two very special helmets sporting a Forevermark diamond encrusted Steinmetz logo and the drivers signature on top of the helmet are lined with hundreds of handcrafted diamonds.
Lewis Hamilton has been promised a $4 million McLaren supercar for free - if he wins the world titles this year. The 23-year-old British driver told The Sun newspaper that he first clapped eyes on the ultra-rare McLaren LM in the team’s F1 factory ten years ago.
odafone McLaren Mercedes drivers Heikki Kovalainen and Lewis Hamilton finished the Malaysian Grand Prix at the Sepang Circuit in third and fifth positions respectively. After 56 laps (310.408 kms), Heikki came home 38.4sec behind winner Kimi Räikkönen
Giorgetto Giugiaro has set to work on a concept car which will both be less environmentally harmful yet still delviver some serious power. The Italian design house used Toyota’s Hybrid Synergy Drive to power their idea of a futuristic super car employing state-of-the-art F1 technology.
In 2008, world champion Fernando Alonso is going back to Renault! Alonso has signed a 2 year, $50m per season to deal to drive once again for Renault. But check out how hot the two F1 babes are.
FIA approved the Singapore Grand Prix to take place at night time on 28 September 2008. The first night time F1 race will take place on the streets of the Asian city.
Kimi Raikkonen has become the 2007 Formula One World Champion. In a hectic race where each of the top three could have won it, it was Raikkonen who led his team mate over the finish line to win his first Brazilian race and his first world champion.
The techies over at RTL, Europe’s largest TV, radio and production company that broadcasts the Formula One events, put together this cheap low quality low budget three-dimensional re-creation of the crash. The action is slowed down to a crawl so that your grandmother can follow the crash frame by frame.
Gordon Murray is a renowned designer of Formula One race cars and the famous McLaren F1 supercar.
With the recent formation of his own company, Engineering Guru and Automotive ROCKSTAR, Gordon Murray, is turning his attention away from sound barrier travelling hypercars and towards radically packaged cars for everyday use….. for now, not forever.
Carbon fibre is a life-saving material. This was demonstrated most recently in dramatic fashion at the Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal on June 10 of this year, when one of the drivers suffered a horrific accident. Despite hurtling into a solid concrete wall at over 250 km/h, the driver survived the crash in his race car made from carbon-fibre composites virtually unscathed.
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