March 2007 Archives - 3/8 - F1 Fanatic archive
Video: Shell & Ferrari’s £2m F1 TV advert 22nd March 2007, 23:23
Here is the full video of Shell’s fantastic two minute long Ferrari F1 advert, “The Circuit”. It features six decades of Ferrari Formula 1 cars blasting through Rome, New York, Monte Carlo, Rio de Janeiro and more: Share this with your friends: Tweet
Banned! Four wheel steering
Of all the exotic technologies to be banned from Formula 1 through the years, four wheel steering could perhaps be the only innovation to have been developed after it was outlawed. The FIA made clear early in 1993 that ‘driver aids’ would be banned for 1994. A range of technologies were included in that all-encompassing [...]
Debate: Your verdict on Max Mosley
On 9th October 1991 Max Mosley defeated incumbent FIA President Jean Marie Balestre by 43 votes to 29. In the 16 years that have passed with Mosley at the helm the sport has changed dramatically in character. But has it changed for the better? Has Formula 1 been efficiently and professionally managed under Mosley’s stewardship? [...]
The Ben Evans Column: Musings on Melbourne 21st March 2007, 19:49
After the months of anticipation the opening shots of 2007 were fired in what was a very ordinary Australian Grand Prix. There was little ‘racing’ to speak of and the front-of-field positions running the same form as they did at the end of 2006 – apart from Honda. Despite the absence of on-track excitement there [...]
Australian Grand Prix 2007 Statistics & facts 20th March 2007, 9:00
Which team took their best ever qualifying position? Which rookie took his team-mate to the cleaners? And just how far ahead are Ferrari. All the stats and facts from the first race of the year are here. Share this with your friends: Tweet
Debate: Should F1 cars have cockpit covers? 19th March 2007, 9:00
The collision between David Coulthard and Alexander Wurz in yesterday’s Australian Grand Prix left me wondering what direction F1 car safety might take in the future. In the years since Ayrton Senna’s death we’ve become accustomed to seeing every conceivable safety flaw being pounced on immediately by the governing body. Only last weekend the run-off [...]
Hamilton makes history 18th March 2007, 14:57
After months of hype Lewis Hamilton delivered first time out with a sensational podium finish in his first Grand Prix. Yes, he had the benefit of a competitive McLaren Mercedes in which to make his first Grand Prix start – something the likes of Michael Schumacher and Hamilton’s own team mate Alonso never had. But [...]
“Motor Racing’s Strangest Races” (Geoff Tibballs, 2001)
What’s the weirdest race you’ve ever seen, or heard of? I would have to nominate the round of the F3000 championship at Enna-Pergusa that was abandoned when the cars happened across a knot of frogs with predictable and gruesome results for the poor amphibians… Although that particular anecdote is sadly missing from “Motor Racing’s Strangest [...]
Australian Grand Prix 2007 race review
Kimi Raikkonen got his world championship bid for Ferrari off to the best possible start with a clinical victory in the Australian Grand Prix. But upstaging Raikkonen’s fine start for Ferrari was Lewis Hamilton – storming ahead of team mate Fernando Alonso at the start and taking a podium finish on his debut. With a [...]
The ‘backwards’ Indianapolis configuration revealed 17th March 2007, 21:33
This is the planned revised configuration for the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course that Formula 1 may visit in the near future. Among the changes the F1 cars will race the circuit in the opposite direction to present use. This would mean them circulating anti-clockwise, as the cars in the annual Indianapolis 500 do on [...]
