Archive for March, 2006
Jacques Villeneuve will incur a 10-spot penalty on the starting grid for this weekend’s Australian Grand Prix after his team elected to change the engine prior to Saturday’s qualifying session.
“Our investigations into the breakages after Bahrain and Malaysia revealed that some components have not met their required production tolerances,” said BMW motorsport chief Mario Theissen.
“Our short-term reaction has been to build new engines with hand-selected components that best met these rigorous requirements. We have two of these revised engines here.
“One is already installed in Nick’s car, and Jacques will get the second in time for qualifying after Saturday’s morning practice session. As a result he will lose 10 positions on the grid.”
“That’s a pity,” said Villeneuve about the engine change after finishing 12th in Friday’s practice session. “The balance of the car is very good, and I’m really happy with its speed.”
Villeneuve was entering the second of two race weekends with his current BMW engine.
March 31st, 2006
From the FIA:
The FIA has received applications from 22 teams wishing to compete in the 2008 FIA Formula One World Championship.
All applicants have been invited to a meeting in London on April 10, 2006.
The 22 entries include all 11 currently racing, and entries from David Richards’ Prodrive and Paul Stoddart’s European Minardi.
March 31st, 2006
Will the Minardi dream continue?
Continue Reading March 28th, 2006
A nostalgic account of the Suzuka track and the countless memories that she has given to F1 fans all over the world… may her memories live on..
Continue Reading March 28th, 2006
Team Rahal driver Paul Data died today following a two car crash during practice for the IRL’s Toyota Indy 300. Ed Carpenter, the other driver involved, was reported awake and alert in a Miami hospital.
The incident started with Ed Carpenter spinning and striking the wall. As his car was sliding to a stop, it was struck at almost full speed by Dana.
Rahal’s other entries, Danica Patrick and Buddy Rice, were pulled from the race and the race will prceed.
Paul Dana was 30. He is survived by his wife Tonya. More details may be found here
March 26th, 2006
There’s been an interesting discussion on the forums as to whether or not F1 needs Ferrari.
The consensus, even amongst the non-Ferrari fans is that Formula 1 needs Ferrari, but equally we believe that Ferrari may need Formula 1 itself.
March 26th, 2006
Jorg Bastuck, co-driver to Aaron Nikolai Burkart has been killed following an accident on an early stage of the rally.
Burkart and Bastuck left the road, but were able to climb out of their Citroen uninjured - however Bastuck was then hit by another car that left the stage at the same corner.
More details on autosport.com
March 24th, 2006
WilliamsF1 chief designer Jorg Zander has left the team for personal reasons, effective immediately. The team are not looking to replace him at the moment.
March 24th, 2006
Grandprix.com are reporting
Indy Racing League founder Tony George and Champ Car’s Kevin Kalkhoven are now finally admitting that they are talking about merging the two self-destructive championships
We won’t forgive them for the past though - maybe a warning as to the future of F1 should the GPMA come to fruition?
March 24th, 2006
A sequel to the one engine for two races rule ?!
Continue Reading March 22nd, 2006
Can I just point out to commentators on the blog that any comment that includes a URL (e.g. if you add a signature linking to your website) goes into the moderation queue and is not automatically posted. This is owing to the mountains of spam comments we receive with links to casinos and pills of various kinds. Your comment will be posted, but there will be a delay.
March 22nd, 2006
The new post-Malaysian power rankings have been published. You can view them here. Williams take a bit of a hit as it seems they can’t last 2 races, but it’s good news for Fisichella and the Beemers.
March 22nd, 2006
The famed Autodromo Nazionale might never host an F1 race again..
Continue Reading March 21st, 2006
But they have to sell MotoGP
Continue Reading March 21st, 2006
There has been surprisingly little discussion of the Malaysian GP during the week, both on our forums and on other websites. I’m not entirely sure why that was, maybe it was just lacking in a bit of controversy?
One controversy that has been bubbling away and threatening to explode in a public fashion has been the now infamous Ferrari flexing (or not) wings. The latest news from Crash.net is that Ferrari have agreed to bring revised wings to Melbourne - I wonder just how “revised” these wings will be - are we going to see 100% adherence to the rules, or are we going to see Ferrari just going far enough to get the FIA off its back. If its the latter, expect the rest of the grid to kick up a much louder protest than what we can see currently.
March 21st, 2006
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