2010 August archive
Adrian Newey hospitalised in crash (Video) 8th August 2010, 14:11
Adrian Newey has been taken to hospital for precautionary checks following a crash at Snetterton The Red Bull technical director was competing in a Ginetta G50 race supporting the British Touring Car Championship at the Norfolk circuit. The race was red-flagged after his crash in which two other cars made contact with his G50. He [...]
From the stands: Nikolai Vogler watches two races in one week
German F1 fan Nikolai Vogler went to his home race at the Hockenheimring and the back-to-back round in Hungary one week later. Here’s his view from the stands. While the F1 teams had to handle two races with just one week in between, me and a group of friends decided to follow them to the [...]
F1 Fanatic round-up: 8/8/2010
As some of you will know from last week’s Hungarian Grand Prix live blog, I’ve got a very special event coming up soon – I’m going to be married next Saturday. After that I’ll be taking a week and a half off to go on honeymoon with my wife-to-be. In the meantime the site will [...]
Ecclestone asks Hungarian President “Was your crown made in China?” 7th August 2010, 9:45
The Hungarian Grand Prix organisers marked the 25th anniversary of their first F1 race this weekend. They put on a lavish ceremony attended by F1′s top drivers, Formula One Management CEO Bernie Ecclestone and the new Hungarian President Pál Schmitt. The video below from Hungarian news site index.hu shows some highlights from the event including [...]
F1 Fanatic round-up: 7/8/2010
What are you doing with your first of three consecutive F1-free weekends? Let us know below. Here’s today’s round-up: Links Video: Engineers Turn Giant Robot Arm Into An Awesome F1 Simulator (PopSci) “Players sit in a cabin on a robot arm about 7 feet off the ground and drive a Ferrari F2007 car around a [...]
Kovalainen: Spa is great, but not the chicane 6th August 2010, 12:04
Looking ahead to the next round of the world championship at Spa-Francorchamps, Heikki Kovalainen enthused about the track but reserved some criticism for the slow chicane added to the circuit in 2007: I think Spa is one of the circuits where it’s still possible to have a big accident. It’s little more risky than some [...]
How close is the 2010 F1 championship? Top five covered by just eight points*
Right now we are enjoying one of the closest championship fights between multiple drivers Formula 1 has ever seen. The change in the points system this year makes it easy to overlook just how closely-fought the title race is at the moment. Apply last year’s points system to this year’s championship and we’d have the [...]
Lotus to run 16-year-old Malaysian in test
Lotus are to conduct an aerodynamic test with a 16-year-old driving. Malaysian kart racer Nabil Jeffri will drive their T127 in Britain next month. The team have not revealed the venue for the test. Jeffri currently races in the Formula BMW Pacific championship, where he lies fifth after six of the season’s 15 rounds. He [...]
F1 Fanatic round-up: 6/8/2010
If you’ve not had a look at the comment thread from yesterday’s post on Mark Webber’s crash, check it out, it’s a great read. Here’s today’s round-up: Links “I was preparing myself for a big shunt” (ESPN) “As [Schumacher and Barrichello] came into view I started firing off the shots and was preparing myself for [...]
Top ten… First lap crashes (Video) 5th August 2010, 11:40
First lap collisions are an occupational hazard for F1 drivers. When it all goes wrong, it goes wrong in a big way – as you can see in this selection of ten of the most spectacular first lap pile-ups.
