2010 April archive
F1 Fanatic round-up: 14/4/2010 14th April 2010, 0:12
Entries for the fourth round of the F1 Fanatic Predictions Championship are now open for those of you who want to get in early. Remember you have until 4am (BST) on Saturday to enter your predictions so you can wait until after Friday practice. Enter your predictions here: F1 Fanatic Predictions Championship Also, there have [...]
FOTA consider new 2011 downforce cuts 13th April 2010, 12:37
The Formula One Teams’ Association is considering further restrictions on how much downforce F1 cars can generate as the 2010 cars are already producing almost as much downforce as they were in 2008. The changes introduced last year at the urging of the Overtaking Working Group have not succeeding in reducing downforce levels. FOTA is [...]
Ride height ruling no concern for McLaren
McLaren say they won’t have to make any changes to their car after the FIA clarified the rules regarding ride height adjustment. Speaking during the Vodafone McLaren Mercedes Phone-In engineering director Paddy Lowe said the team hadn’t developed ride height-adjusting technology as far as some other teams had: We were aware over the last few [...]
Fans help teams beat China’s Twitter block
In the past year F1 fans have enjoyed increased coverage of the sport on Twitter from F1 teams and media outlets posting live updates from the races. But that service could be disrupted this weekend as China blocks its citizens from accessing Twitter. China’s notoriously strict regime of internet censorship, dubbed the ‘Great Firewall of [...]
Chinese Grand Prix in doubt for 2011
The F1 teams are on their way to Shanghai for the seventh Grand Prix in China this weekend. But with no deal in place for a race next year, could this be F1′s last visit to Shanghai? Share this article with your friends: Tweet
Ferrari to use Bahrain engines in China
Ferrari will use the two engines it removes from its cars in Bahrain for the Chinese Grand Prix, having concluded they are fit to be used. The team say they are not concerned about the reliability of their engines despite the failure suffered by Fernando Alonso and the Sauber drivers at Malaysia, and both Ferrari [...]
F1 Fanatic round-up: 13/4/2010
If you haven’t already done so, make sure you enter the competition to win Stuart Codling’s new book “Art of the Formula 1 Race Car” – there’s five copies to be won. Here’s today’s round-up: Links The Mallya Collection (The Racing Geek) Pictures of Vijay Mally’a car collection including a couple of F1 machines. Lex [...]
Cool weather and chance of rain in China 12th April 2010, 17:56
We could see our third consecutive rain-affected F1 event this weekend. Weather forecasts for the Shanghai region this weekend indicate Friday and Saturday will stay dry but there’s a chance of light rain on Sunday which could affect the Grand Prix. It’s expected to stay cool in Shanghai with temperatures below 20C. Friday could be [...]
Briatore and Symonds accept three-year F1 ban in Singapore crash settlement
Flavio Briatore and Pat Symonds have agreed not to pursue further legal action against the FIA over the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix scandal. In exchange for the FIA dropping the case the pair have agreed not to have any “operational role” in Formula 1 until the end of 2012, or any other FIA competition until [...]
Renault aim to beat Mercedes in China
After a stronger than expected start to 2010 Renault hope further upgrades to their R30 in China will allow them to challenge Mercedes. Technical director James Allison said: I think we can [beat Mercedes]because at the moment they’re only just ahead of us on qualifying pace, whereas we seemed to have the edge on race [...]
