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Power Rankings - Spain

Greetings fellow Links enthusiasts. Here is this installment of the Links power ranking. Next up is the jewel in the F1 crown, Monaco!! If you disagree with any of it, let us know in the forum.

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F1 Flashback: Spain

Taking a look back at the Spanish Grand Prix

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Nürburgring Footnotes

A couple of footnotes coming out of the European Grand Prix

* - The last Formula 1 race at the original Nürburgring (Nordschleife) took place 30 years ago at the German Grand Prix in 1976. The track was soon deemed unsuitable for Formula 1, with the cars becoming airborne at several points and being too long in length to effectively marshal. This was demonstrated by….

* - Niki Lauda’s horrific accident, during the 1976 German Grand Prix making it also the 30th anniverary of that incident.

* - 10 years ago at the European Grand Prix, Jacques Villeneuve scored his first F1 victory with Williams-Renault.

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Villeneuve penalized for engine change

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.

Add comment March 31st, 2006

IRL Driver Paul Dana dies in Miami crash

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

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Linksheaven 2006 F1 Preview: RenaultF1

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Linksheaven 2006 F1 Preview: McLaren

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Linksheaven 2006 F1 Preview: Ferrari

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Linksheaven 2006 F1 Preview: Toyota

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Linksheaven 2006 F1 Preview: WilliamsF1

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Linksheaven 2006 F1 Preview: Honda

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Linksheaven 2006 F1 Preview: Red Bull Racing

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Former drivers as team owners: Good Idea? (pt 2)

In the first part of this article, we began to examine the question of whether former F1 drivers tend to make good team owners or team principals.

Part one looked at the varying successes of drivers from A-L. In this, the second and final part, we look at more of the drivers / owners who attempted to find success as F1 team bosses (also with mixed results). Today we examine those from M to Z and also take a higher level overview to see what lessons, if any, can be learned.

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