Hot sittuation in the Pit Stop beetwen Fernando Alonso and Giancarlo Fisichella. Alonso overtakes Massa in GP of Europe 2007 in changing weather conditions.
Feb 26, 2008
Alonso vs Fisichella and Alonso vs Massa F1 2007 Championship Europe
Feb 25, 2008
Feb 24, 2008
F1.08 Grand Prix Teams Preview
A list of all the Formula One teams who will race in the Grand Prix 2008 season.
Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro - Italy
Engine: Ferrari
Felipe Massa (Brazil)
Kimi Raikkonen (Finland)
BMW Sauber F1 - Germany/Switzerland
Engine: BMW
Nick Heidfeld (Germany)
Robert Kubica (Poland)
ING Renault F1- France/UK
Engine: Renault
Fernando Alonso (Spain)
Nelson Piquet Jr. (Brazil)
Williams F1 - UK
Engine: Toyota
Nico Rosberg (Germany)
Kazuki Nakajima (Japan)
Red Bull Racing - Austria/UK
Engine: Renault
David Coulthard (UK)
Mark Webber (Australia)
Panasonic Toyota Racing - Japan
Engine: Toyota
Jarno Trulli (Italy)
Timo Glock (Germany)
Scuderia Toro Rosso - Austria/UK
Engine: Ferrari
Sebastien Vettel (Germany)
Sebastian Bourdais (France)
Honda F1 - UK/Japan
Engine: Honda
Jenson Button (UK)
Rubens Barrichello (Brazil)
Super Aguri Formula One - Japan/UK
Engine: Honda
Takuma Sato (Japan)
Anthony Davidson (UK)
Force India - Holland/UK
Engine: Ferrari
Giancarlo Fisichella (Italy)
Adrian Sutil (Germany)
Vodafone McLaren Mercedes - UK
Engine: Mercedes
Lewis Hamilton (Britain)
Heikki Kovalainen (Finland)
Feb 23, 2008
Nigel Mansell At F1 Championship At Silverstone 1990
Nigel Ernest James Mansell is a British racing driver, who was born in the heart of England on August 8th 1953. Hi won world championship in Formula One in 1992.
Nigel start his driving career from karting in the 60's. He won his first race at age 14. The psychology was in place - approach every competition believing that winning is everything and losing doesn't exist.
As Nigel's father said Karting was fun but motor racing was serious. To realize his ambition of Formula 1 racing Nigel knew he had to climb the ladder and get noticed by a Formula 1 team. The only route was via British Formula Ford and Formula 3.
Nigel invested £15 in a one day lesson in Formula Ford. It was a wise move. He was good, he won his first race and in 1977 became the Formula Ford Champion.
Nigel Mansell salvaged his F1 career by mortgaging his home, illustrating the determination that on the track earned him the sobriquet “Il Leone” from the Tifosi and the enduring allegiance of British Formula One fans.
In Formula One he take part in 15 seasons. Mansell remains the most successful British Formula One driver of all-time in terms of race wins with 31 victories, and is fourth overall on the Formula One race winners list behind Michael Schumacher, Alain Prost, and Ayrton Senna.
In 1981 Nigel became to F1 with the Lotus team. After just 5 races Ernest received his first podium.
1989 saw Nigel in the scarlet red car - number 27 FERRARI. He was the last driver to be picked by Enso Ferrari and this proved to be a wise choice for the late team owner. Nigel was nicknamed Il' Leone for his aggressiveness on the race track winning on his first time out for the Italian team in Brazil - A truly memorable race weekend.
Nigel returned to the Williams team in 1991 with the sole goal of winning the World Championship. The 91 season was successful and the following year on the 16th August - his daughter Chloe's birthday - in Hungary he won the long awaited moment: to stand on the podium as the 1992 Formula 1 World Champion. Has Formula 1 been the same since?
Feb 16, 2008
Usual car VS Rally car VS Formula one.
Here is a brilliant video from the British television show 'Top Gear'. This video displays the speeds of the Ford Cougar [driven by Jeremy Clarkson], Ford Focus (rally car) [driven by Colin McRae] and a Formula One - Stewart Ford F1. (F1) [driven by Johnny Herbert].
This program was featured in a British television show called 'Top Gear'. However it was on one of Jeremy Clarkson's DVD. This particular piece of footage I got from 'TOP GEAR' not 'JEREMY CLARKSON'S DVD'.
Holy sheiks that F1 is really fast... This video proves how good F1 cars are compared to road and other race vehicles.
The WRC rocks! Although its a very fast track the WRC shows a superb performance. But if one would like to go to the snowin' sweden or gravel roads u bet on the WRC :-D World Rally Cars are the one and only and rallying is the ultimate challenge!!!
Terrible Pit Stop Mistakes & Accidents at F1!
Karting crash: 360° degrees with the Go Kart around head!
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Formula 1 - Race, Crash, Pit Stop and Win
Lewis Hamilton Video Interview
Karting with a jet engine on it.
A race is a competition of speed. The competitors in a race try to complete a given task in the shortest amount of time. Typically this involves traversing some distance, but it can be any other task involving speed.
A car accident, sometimes called a F1 car crash or F1 car wreck, is an incident in which an car collides.
In motorsports, a pit stop is where a racing vehicle stops in the pits during a race for refuelling, new tires, repairs, mechanical adjustments, a driver change, or any combination of the above.
Winner! One who has won or often wins.
Terrible Pit Stop Mistakes & Accidents at F1!
Pit stops have become one of the most tense and exciting features of a Grand Prix, and races are frequently won and lost in this high pressure environment. In just a few seconds a huge number of actions are carried out by a Formula One pit crew. Here they are broken down.
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The job in the pits is one of the most pressured in the world of Formula One. Pit stops have become more and more important over the last years. Since overtaking moves are rarer than ever, pit stops have become the prime opportunities to gain places. A pit stop, though, is never as easy as it looks. For seven seconds, if all goes well, the drivers' changes in the race are in the hands of his pit crew.
In Formula One, cars make pit stops with the primary purpose of refueling and changing tyres, although during the 2005 season tyre changing during the race was prohibited. Teams sometimes also make adjustments to the front and rear wings and perform minor repairs, most commonly replacing the nose and front wing assembly. Pit strategies generally call for between one and three scheduled stops, depending on the course.
Lewis Hamilton Video Interview
Karting with a jet engine on it.
When the car is approximately one lap away from making its stop, the team's pit crew will set up fresh tyres and all needed pit equipment. Because of the overhead fuel and pneumatic rig, the team may have all pit mechanics in position prior to the car's arrival, with the exception of the rear jack man.
A pit stop involves about twenty mechanics, with the aim of completing the stop as quickly as possible. It lasts for six to twelve seconds depending on how much fuel is put into the car. However, if there is a problem, such as a fuel pump failing or the engine stalling, or repairs having to be made, it can take much longer. Cars are fuelled at a rate of more than 12 litres per second. This is accomplished by a fairly complex closed system that pumps air out of the car's fuel tank as the fuel is being pumped in.
Interestingly, unlike almost all other forms of racing that feature routine pit stops, Formula One rules limit teams to a single pit crew for the mandatory two cars entered. Therefore, teams must stagger their pit schedules so that only one of their two cars is in the pits at any given time. Most other racing series that feature routine pit stops permit each car its own pit stall and crew.
As refuelling is a potentially hazardous situation, the mechanics are all wearing fire-resistant multi-layer suits & flame-resistant gloves, long underwear, balaclava, socks and shoes.
The clothes of the pit crew are very much like the oufit of the drivers. All the pit crew members wear a balaclava and a helmet. They also wear a suit made of lightweight Nomex fibre to protect them from fire.
A pit stop is not without danger. It wouldn't be the first time that a car caughts fire while being in the pits. The job of front jack operator isn't without danger as well, as the car is approaching the crew at 50km/h.
Being part of the pit crew is one of the most exciting parts of a race team. It is also potentially one of the most hazardous. The mechanics get no danger money and it’s almost impossible for them to find life insurance. Yet few would swap their job in the pit lane for anything else.
Pre-programming: Once the strategists have agreed on when the driver is to make a pit stop and the intended duration of the next stint, the driver's fuel rig is programmed to deliver the precise amount of fuel required.
Timing: The driver's race engineer tells him over the radio, usually on the preceding lap, when to pit. At the same time, the team manager — listening in to all team radio communications — scrambles the driver's pit crew, who gather their equipment and tires and move from the garage into the pit apron in front of the garage. The lollipop man — a crew member with a big carbon-fibre lollipop — stations himself in line with where the nose of the car will stop and holds out his lollipop directly in the driver's path, giving him a clearly visible guide for his precise stopping place.
Pit lane entry: The driver enters the pit lane at full racing speed but brings the speed down to the pit lane speed limit of 80 km/h (60 km/h in the very tight pit lane of Monaco) before he crosses the white line that denotes the start of the speed limit area. As he crosses the line, he engages a pit lane speed limiter that electronically prevents the car from accelerating above the speed limit. Selecting the limiter automatically pops open the fuel filler flap.
Karting crash: 360° degrees with the Go Kart around head!
Distribution of power in 2008 among F1 teams.
[via - f1technical.net]
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