Your questions: Team mate crashes and more
Here’s a selection of F1 questions I’ve been emailled recently – and my attempts at answering them.
If you’ve got a question do email it in and please help out with any of the requests below if you can…
Ian wrote in with this question:
Has Fuji the next few years hosting the GP – or is it to go back to Suzuka (and when)?
The Fuji Speedway will host the Japanese Grand Prix again this year but it will return to Suzuka in 2009. After that the two venues, Fuji owned by Toyota and Suzuka by Honda, are expected to rotate hosting the Japanese Grand Prix. Suzuka held the Japanese Grand Prix from 1987-2006.
Bongs asked:
Does anyone know when the tickets for the Valencia GP will be released? and where is the best place to buy them from?
Tickets for the 2008 European Grand Prix at Valencia go on sale at the end of this month. They’ll be priced between €200 and €500 (£149-£372) and you can get them through the official Circuito Urbano Valencia website.
Daniel Oduber wants to know about inter-team crashes:
Hi! Excellent page! I saw the crash between teanmates, but I have a question, who’s the driver that crashed more times with his team mate?
I’ve not got any statistics on it by I’d put money on it being Andrea de Cesaris. The Italian had a lot of incidents in his 214 appearances at a Grand Prix weekend, one of the most memorable was his collision with team mate Alex Caffi at Pheonix in 1989. Caffi was running third when de Cesaris put him in the wall as Caffi tried to lap him…
Mike Gaston asks:
Could you tell me where to look for comparative pre season practice times from 2007? I’m finding this stage of the season quite frustrating since I can’t remember which teams were doing what at this time last year.
I use Autosport.com’s subscription service – as well as having their own testing centre you get access to the comprehensive Forix database, both of which have testing data going back several years. It’s not free, but it’s worth it.
Finally can anyone help out with this difficult question from Bruce Miller:
I am trying to find a web site where I can watch the 2008 season. I am now in a remote jungle location, but with satellite Internet but no access to TV or the Speed channel. Is that a web site where one can subscribe in order to watch the races during the season? Cheers from the jungles of Belize.
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More of your questions
Alianora La Canta said on 18th February 2008, 22:53
I’ve gone through the statistics I can find, and still don’t know who crashed into their team-mate the most in the history of F1. However, I have found out how many intra-team collisions resulting in at least one driver retiring from the race the current grid has been involved in:
Fisichella: 5 (Monaco 1996, Spain 1996, Europe 1997, Canada 2001, Europe 2002)
Webber: 3 (Brazil 2004, Brazil 2005 and Brazil 2006 – I detect a pattern there…)
Barrichello: 3 (Spa 1998)
Heidfeld: 2 (Austria 2000, Brazil 2005)
Trulli: 2 (Spa 1998, Italy 2000)
Coulthard: 2 (Portugal 1996, Spa 1998)
Rosberg: 1 (Brazil 2006)
Raikkonen: 1 (Indianapolis 2006)
Sato: 1 (Europe 2002)
Button: 1 (Canada 2001)
Alianora La Canta said on 18th February 2008, 22:59
Sorry, I missed one. Fisichella’s race-ending intra-team collision total should read 6, because I somehow forgot to put the Argentina 1997 one in. I know it looks like a high total, but in his defence three of the six intra-team collisions ending in a retirement for at least one of the cars involved a rookie team-mate…
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine) said on 18th February 2008, 23:02
Nice job Alianora. One query: Coulthard wasn’t involved in Hakkinen’s crash at Spa ’98?
Eric M. said on 18th February 2008, 23:22
“DC and Hakkinen collided in Austria (1998?),”
I think that was 1999. Coulthard punted Hakkinen off on the first lap. As if that wasn’t bad enough, Coulthard then failed to prevent Eddie Irvine from taking the lead, allowing Eddie to take maximum points, while Hakkinen had to settle for third in a race he could have easily won.
Coulthard was really on his “A” game that day, lol.
teamorders said on 19th February 2008, 2:49
1989 Suzuka comes to mind.
Robert McKay said on 19th February 2008, 11:01
“I think that was 1999.”
Right enough, well remembered. 1998 was a Mclaren one-two at the A1-Ring.
tom said on 19th February 2008, 12:49
Bruce. Streaming Video in a jungle may be a problem. try http://www.formula1.com/ then register for viewing the live timing page. this is the screen available in the pit lane shows lap time and track possitions. the guys in F1.com run a typed update to proceedings as well.
:-) Tom.
Steven Roy said on 19th February 2008, 13:56
Suzuka 1989 was a minor accident involving Prost and Senna.
Eric M. said on 20th February 2008, 6:19
“Suzuka 1989 was a minor accident involving Prost and Senna.”
It almost went unnoticed, didn’t it? ;)
Alianora La Canta said on 25th February 2008, 22:14
Sorry about the Hakkinen/Coulthard thing – I must have misread a source…