Aim for only the High Scoring Points - Fernandes

The first World Championship points for Caterham must be the chief goal of 2012. That is according to Team Principal Tony Fernandes, who is now taking the outfit formerly known as Lotus Racing and Team Lotus into its third season of Formula1.

In 2012, the squad moves from Norfolk to Oxford shire and retains its line-up of Heikki Kovalainen and Jarno Trulli as well as Renault engines, Red Bull-made gearboxes and stints in the Williams wind tunnel. However, rumours still linger that Trulli might be swapped by Vitally Petrov.

Caterham is the name we will race under for many years to come, but we still have the same DNA we have had since day one, back in 2009, says Fernandes. We are the same team but every day we are growing stronger; what underpin that growth is the people in our team who have been with us since the early days and the people who have come on-board and share our vision. We are still very proudly green and yellow and I think that says rather a lot about who we are.

This year however, with the people and facilities we have in the factory and the wind tunnel - and with KERS.

Ford Tries to save Its Image with a gathering of Thumb Drives

In an endeavor to release its image, Ford is rolling out enhancement to its MyFord Touch and MyLincoln finger systems, hoping the upgrades will make the systems easier to use.


The upgrades will come on a thumb drive that customers will plug into their car. About 45 minutes later, the touch-screen system that controls the radio, heater, GPS and telephone will boast an all-new look, and should profession faster.


In their charge to get MyFord Touch and MyLincoln Touch out to customers, it has seemed Ford was more enjoyed with how the system looked than how it operated. Critics have said the systems are too knotty to use, but Ford says their customer base loves the systems. Still, the industry needs to make changes. Influential exterior critics are downgrading Ford's vehicles based on the clunky, complicated designs.

Tribe Toyota concludes 2011 with Amazing Trails

Tribe Toyota, the official community of Toyota owners in Malaysia, recently held their flagship event Amazing Trails of the Thrillseekers 2011. Under the theme ‘Adrenaline’, owners in teams formed with friends and family competed for cash prizes in three different challenges.

A total of 26 teams scaled an indoor rock-climbing fall, raced go-karts, and styled themselves up at a bazaar. At the same time, all were actively engaged in social media trying to garner support from their friends on Facebook.
 

At the end, Team MySun took the title of Overall Champion by a margin of eight points, pocketing a cash prize of RM5,000. Additional cash prizes of RM2,000 were given to the winning teams of each Challenge. The winners were Team Colombiana for the rock-climbing challenge, Team Say Chye & Amigos for the go-kart challenge, and Team Forever Alone for the style challenge. Team Kitzilla won the special prize for being the Most Congenial team, accumulating the highest number of cheers from Facebook.

European Union Asks Formula 1 to go Electric

In 2006, Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth  brought global warming to the forefront of the world’s consciousness. Regardless of what end of the spectrum you stand on this issue, you have to admit that it’s real, it’s bad and if we don’t do anything it’s only going to get worse. To me and many others, it’s that simple.

So naturally we’re targeting the obvious culprits: Big Mining, Big Agriculture and Big Automotive. We’re also encouraging the average man and woman to use less and be environmentally responsible. So what about the world’s biggest and most prestigious automotive racing category: Formula 1? What are they doing to stem the tide of global warming?

In the considered opinion of the European Union: not enough. For instance, according to Formula1.com, a modern F1 car returns a far-from-green average fuel economy rating of about 75 L / 100 km (4 mpg). Even a big block V8 routed through a slovenly 4spd automatic tranny will return, at worst, around 17 L / 100 km (14 mpg). The EU’s answer? Go electric!

By asking the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile, F1’s governing body, to further incorporate electric vehicles into their race series the EU hopes to raise public awareness and generate positive interest in green(er) transport. At the moment, their plans are limited to electric cars, go-karts and single seat racers but the obvious implication is it may one day reach the Formula 1 stage.

FIA President Jean Todt explains: We want as soon as possible to have new categories with new energy. As much as we can do it all over the world, we will do it.The European Union has already loaned its consortium’s automotive industries €6bn (US$9.6bn) towards greener cars, so this is an obvious step. Not everyone is happy with the plans though, among them F1 “commercial supremo” Bernie Ecclestone.

Renault sign Romain Grosjean for 2012

GP2 champion Romain Grosjean will partner returning 2007 world champion Kimi Raikkonen at Renault for the 2012 season when the team becomes Lotus.Grosjean, 25, raced seven times for Renault in 2009 but failed to impress alongside team-mate Fernando Alonso.

"There's a big grin on my face at the prospect of getting behind the wheel of next year's car," Grosjean said.Vitaly Petrov and Bruno Senna, who drove for the team last season, are currently without a drive for 2012.Grosjean added: "To be racing alongside a former world champion - and someone who is hungry and returning to Formula 1 - will be a great experience. I'm sure it will help raise my level of performance too.
I feel that my successful season in GP2 Series has helped me mature a lot. I am a much more complete driver than I was last time I was competing in this sport."Returning to Enstone [Renault's base] as a race driver feels like coming home. I will not disappoint."

Raikkonen, who had talks with Williams about a return to F1 next season before signing for Renault last month, was drafted in to replace the team's number one driver Robert Kubica after the Pole failed to recover in time from serious injuries sustained in a rally accident in February.Petrov, Senna and the team's reserve driver Grosjean, who was born in Geneva but has dual French and Swiss nationality, were all in the frame to take the second seat.

We need to find half a second, says Alonso

Fernando Alonso says Ferrari needs to find ‘five or six tenths’ of a second to be fighting at the front of the field next season, with the two time Champion eager to return to winning ways. The Spaniard finished Sunday’s Brazilian Grand Prix in fifth place, crossing the finish line over half a minute behind winner Mark Webber.

Yet another race in which we did everything to perfection, from the start to the strategy and the work of the team, Alonso commented. The final result is more down to the performance of the others than our own, because we could not have done more.

Once again today, we got a very good start, putting a nice passing move on Button, but then, on the Medium tyres, we no longer had the speed to fend him off. I also had a problem with the DRS which would not activate: I was not fighting closely with other drivers, but it would certainly have helped me gain a few tenths while overtaking.

We need a car that is about five or six tenths quicker: achieving that won’t be a walk in the park, but I have every confidence in our engineers and in a team that dominated the last decade in Formula 1 and holds every possible record in this sport.

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