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Aim for only the High Scoring Points - Fernandes

2012-01-31T00:51:00.001-08:00

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

2012-01-25T05:20:00.001-08:00

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

2012-01-11T23:32:00.000-08:00

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

2011-12-26T22:54:00.001-08:00

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

2011-12-16T00:55:00.001-08:00

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

2011-12-07T02:16:00.005-08:00

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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2011-11-29T04:54:00.000-08:00

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2011-11-29T03:04:00.000-08:00

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2011-11-28T02:18:00.000-08:00

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Fernandes handing over Lotus title with head held high

2011-11-25T03:02:00.001-08:00

Tony Fernandes said his squad's final race under the Lotus banner would be an emotional affair, but that everyone in the team was already focused on a bright new future as Caterham.The row between car company Group Lotus and Fernandes' Team Lotus over the right to use the Lotus brand in Formula 1 lasted over a year before a recent agreement was reached.Fernandes had gained the rights to use the famous name for his new team shortly before Group Lotus decided it want to enter F1 too as a title sponsor of the Renault outfit.

Neither side was willing to back down, with Fernandes acquiring the licence to the 'Team Lotus' title always associated with the original F1 team and not the car company - and which had not been sold to Proton along with most of the Lotus business when it hit its crisis point in the mid-1990s.A court row failed to resolve the deadlock, but eventually both sides agreed that having a Lotus-backed Renault team and a Renault-engined Lotus team was a disaster for F1.Fernandes will therefore rename his team Caterham next year, having acquired the British sportscar firm, and Group Lotus is free to rebrand Renault fully as a new era Lotus team.

Lazenby to present F1 on Sky?

2011-11-20T21:01:00.000-08:00

The BBC/Sky story has been pretty quiet recently. Mark Thompson said in a BBC radio interview last week that the highlights shows for the races the BBC don't show live will be 75 minutes. No confirmation yet on whether full ace replays will be available on any platform. We know that the BBC will show the British, Monaco and Brazilian races next year. Sky get to pick the next 3 races and then the choosing process alternates 1 pick at a time. The Daily Mail reported this week that Sky are still chasing Martin Brundle for their coverage and that Simon Lazenby could be the presenter. I don't have Sky so don't know much about Lazenby but he seems to be highly rated and worked with Sky's head of F1 on their Rugby coverage. Also interesting to see that the latest follows on his Twitter account are the Ferrari and Red Bull feeds.

Motor racing-F1 rivals would welcome raver Raikkonen's return

2011-11-16T21:25:00.000-08:00

The 2007 world champion, who quit Formula One to go rallying at the end of 2009 but remains hugely popular with the fans, has been linked to a seat next season at Williams although the team have made no public comment.Raikkonen has confirmed to Finnish reporters that he has had talks while Williams shareholder Christian Toto' Wolff said this week that he was one of several options under consideration.

Some of the Finn's former rivals said at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix that they would welcome his return.
I have no idea whether that is happening or not, said Team Lotus's Finnish driver Heikki Kovalainen.
If Kimi decides to come back, I think the main difference for me will be that the parties after the races will be a little bit better.Raikkonen, so often unforthcoming and monosyllabic in news conferences, had an off-track reputation as a party animal during his stint in Formula One with Sauber, McLaren and Ferrari.

Among other exploits, he once entered a powerboat race in a gorilla suit as 'James Hunt' and was also photographed asleep on a bench with an inflatable dolphin outside a Spanish nightclub.I had a few drinks and danced. Why not? Raikkonen was quoted as saying afterwards.

Michael Schumacher, the seven-times world champion whose place at Ferrari was taken by the Finn at the end of 2006, enjoyed some memorable post-season parties with Raikkonen.The German, who made his own comeback last year after three years out, was reluctant to offer any advice but could see potential for entertainment.I would be very happy to see him back. We have had some very good times and I look forward for some on track and off track occasions -- it will be good, he said.

Getting back into the groove after a couple of years away might not be too difficult, though.In the end, you think how much can you recall your potential. How much can you drive the car to its limit. That is the main concern that was answered right away at the first test,said the 42-year-old of his own case.

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2011-11-10T03:16:00.000-08:00

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Three F1 Teams Changing Names for 2012

2011-11-10T01:24:00.001-08:00

It's not quite silly season yet, but the fun has already begun in Formula 1, with three F1 teams, including Lotus Renault, Team Lotus and Virgin Racing, planning to adopt new monikers for the 2012 season.

There has been more than a bit of confusion around Lotus, with two teams this year claiming the name of the iconic brand established by the late Colin Chapman in the 1950s.

Next year, pending approval of the World Motor Sport Council, the former Renault works team will be known as Lotus and will drop the name of the French carmaker from its present Lotus Renault GP moniker.

Meanwhile, the one called Team Lotus, which came into F1 in 2010 by taking the place of BMW after that team withdrew from competition, will shift to another name with British sports-car lineage, Caterham. Team Lotus Enterprise acquired the Caterham company earlier this year.

Another one of F1's new teams, Virgin Racing, will shed the name made famous by Sir Richard Branson's airline and other ventures using that label. The team will be called Marussia, owing to the buy-in to Branson's F1 team by the Russian auto manufacturer Marussia.

Renault Sport F1 will continue to supply engines to both teams presently using the Lotus name. The Lotus Renault squad directed by Eric Boullier will use the black and gold livery of the 1970s and '80s, made famous by drivers Mario Andretti and Ayrton Senna. The Team Lotus entry headed by Tony Fernandes will use the British Racing Green and yellow colors that became iconic with the great Jim Clark in the 1960s.

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2011-11-02T03:13:00.000-07:00

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Italian GP qualifying: Vettel chalks up another

2011-11-01T01:28:00.001-07:00

Here’s one we bet you didn’t see coming – Sebastian Vettel will start tomorrow’s Italian Grand Prix from pole position. A fairly straightforward session saw the world champion edge out Lewis Hamilton’s McLaren by half a second, with Jenson Button and Fernando Alonso putting in impressive displays to make the second row. Mark Webber and Felipe Massa have got work to do from fifth and sixth, while Petrov, Schumacher, Rosberg and Bruno Senna also made it through to Q3.

It’s all getting a bit silly now, isn’t it? With 10 pole positions from 13 races, Vettel is well on his way to pipping Nigel Mansell’s record of 14 poles in a single season. True, seasons are a tad longer these days but still – there’s a strong chance we’ll see the Red Bull driver’s name etched into F1′s history books by the end of the year.

Here’s how they’ll line up for Sunday’s Italian Grand Prix:
1. Sebastian Vettel
2. Lewis Hamilton
3. Jenson Button
4. Fernando Alonso
5. Mark Webber
6. Felipe Massa
7. Vitaly Petrov
8. Michael Schumacher
9. Nico Rosberg
10. Bruno Senna
11. Paul Di Resta
12. Adrian Sutil
13. Rubens Barrichello
14. Pastor Maldonado
15. Sergio Perez
16. Sebastien Buemi
17. Kamui Kobayashi
18. Jaime Alguersuari
19. Jarno Trulli
20. Heikki Kovalainen
21. Timo Glock
22. Jerome d’Ambrosio
23. Daniel Ricciardo
24. Vitantonio Liuzzi

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2011-10-25T03:40:00.000-07:00

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Toro Rosso to field Vergne on Friday in Korea

2011-10-25T02:05:00.000-07:00

2011 World Series by Renault runner-up Jean-Eric Vergne will be in action for Toro Rosso this weekend in Korea. Vergne, who drove for the Italian team at last year’s out-of-season young-driver test in Abu Dhabi, will take to the track in Jaime Alguersuari’s STR06 for Friday’s opening practice session.

Although the Frenchman will not put in an appearance in India later this month, he will be back in the Toro Rosso for Friday sessions in Abu Dhabi and Brazil.

Jaime sits out the session because the last time a driver was replaced on Friday morning, it was Sebastien Buemi who gave up his seat to Daniel Ricciardo, explained the team in a statement. Vergne will not drive at the Indian Grand Prix, because this is a new circuit and therefore both our race drivers will be given the maximum amount of track time.

He will return in Abu Dhabi, replacing Buemi. At the final round of the season in Brazil, whichever of the Toro Rosso drivers has the least points will give up his seat to Vergne for FP1.

The 21 year-old, who is a product of Red Bull’s young driver programme, won the 2010 British Formula Three championship after taking 13 wins and 20 pole positions. He made the step up from karts to single-seaters in 2007 and in 2009 finished runner-up in the European Formula Renault 2.0 series.

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2011-10-19T04:00:00.001-07:00

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2011-10-13T02:32:00.000-07:00

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Pirelli to change colour’s to set apart tyres in 2011

2011-10-12T05:48:00.000-07:00

Pirelli will not only bring more aggressive tiers into Formula One this year, but also ensure a more colorful method to differentiate the multitude of compounds for the 2011 season. According to Finnish newspaper Turun Sanomat, backed by several other Italian media, Pirelli has come up with a different color scheme for their F1 tyres.

Back when the International Automobile Federation asked former F1 sole supplier Bridgestone to differentiate the appearance of the soft and hard compounds, the Japanese company chose to paint a line in a middle groove of the soft options. The next season, when slicks came into play once again, Bridgestone marked the soft compound with a green circle on the sidewall.

The super-soft wording will reportedly be in red
The soft will be in white
The medium in blue
The hard in yellow

Pirelli has recently ended its last testing session prior to the first official group test of the winter in Valencia, as Pedro de la Rosa drove the TF109 test car in Abu Dhabi in wet conditions, at night. After evaluating the behavior of Pirelli's wet and intermediate compounds, the marque's research and development boss Maurizio Boiocci admitted he is yet to find out how the additional speed ensured by the introduction of KERS and adjustable rear wings will affect the tyres.

Altitudes make the Indian F1 circuit special by Race Promoters

2011-10-11T02:35:00.000-07:00

A wild 14-metre high corner and a 1.2km stretch, where cars can run at a speed of 320km/hr, will make the Jaypee race track challenging and exciting for the drivers, the promoters of the Indian Grand Prix said on Friday. India will host its first ever Formula One GP on October 30 next year at the currently under-construction circuit after being marked as the venue of the 18th race on the 2011 calendar.

The corner on turn three is 14 meters high and it will be a challenge from a driver's perspective. It's wild at that point. One mistake and you will be out of the race. There is a stretch of 1.2 kilometer which will be the fastest on calendar. The driver speed would be something around 320km per hour. From turns 10 and 11, it will be very fast and the temporary Grand Stands will be so close to the track that about 13,000 spectators.

Ferrari denies wickedness towards Hamilton

2011-10-04T06:21:00.000-07:00

The two drivers made contact at the Marina Bay race, and the controversy was fuelled further when the official highlights video posted on Formula 1's officer website included Smedley's radio message to Massa.

William Shakespeare when he stumbled across the polemical mountain made out of the molehill that was the phrase delivered by Rob Smedley during the Singapore Grand Prix,"wrote the Horse Whisperer on Ferrari's website. It might not have been the most politically correct choice of word, but it definitely carried no malicious intent, especially when you take into account that Rob is a Middles rough lad, born and bred.

It is also true that this exhortation to Felipe came at the exit to Turn 5 on lap 11 of the race, at the end of which both the Ferrari man and Hamilton were due to come in to the pits together. In other words, it had nothing to do with the collision between Felipe and Lewis that happened on the following lap.

It would not have taken much to avoid this misunderstanding, but that's what happens in the frenetic world of Formula 1. When all is said done, as the Bard of Avon himself might have put it, it was all much ado about nothing.