Posted on April 27, 2008 by toropitto
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Ferrari scored their second 1-2 finish in a row, as Kimi Raikkonen secured victory in Spain to increase his lead at the top of the Championship to nine points. Not only that, the result promoted Ferrari above BMW in the Constructors Championship
The race started off with yet another first-lap incident [...]
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Posted on April 25, 2008 by toropitto
Kimi Raikkonen set the fastest time in the second Friday Practice session. The Renault pair of Nelson Piquet and Fernando Alonso provided the big performance with the second and third fastest times. The big surprise was Williams’ driver Kazuki Nakajima who managed to secure fourth fastest. McLaren were disappointing, and both cars were outpaced by [...]
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Posted on April 19, 2008 by toropitto
Red Bull driver Mark Webber has said Max Mosley has dragged the sport into disrepute following the nazi sex scandal on Toro Bloggo, reported at the end of March.
Webber has slammed the FIA President, saying: “Whether we like it or not, all of us in F1 are role models, and F1 simply cannot have scandals [...]
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Posted on April 16, 2008 by toropitto
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Sebastien Bourdais must have been told to test his top speed during testing in Spain – as the Frenchman threw his brand new Toro Rosso into the wall.
Toro Rosso were expected to launch STR3 at the Turkish Grand Prix, but in his first outing, Bourdais went “too fast”, according to [...]
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Posted on April 16, 2008 by toropitto
Back on March 10th, Toro Bloggo announced that Super Aguri were being taken over by the Magma Group.
However, the financial backers behind Magma – Dubai International Capital – are having second thoughts, and have pulled out of the proposed take over. A statement by the team said: “It is with deep regret that Aguri Suzuki [...]
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Posted on April 11, 2008 by toropitto
The Honda F1 team have signed up a 16-year-old junior karter to their team on a long-term “driver support agreement”.
Will Stevens is one of the world’s leading karters, picking up four Championship titles in the last year, including the European Championship and the International Open Masters.
Stevens will continue to race through the ranks of junior [...]
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Posted on April 6, 2008 by toropitto
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Massa couldn’t quite do it in qualifying, but his pace was just too much on raceday, as he comfortably led almost from the very off to collect his first win, and first points of the season (pic, bottom left). He was past Kubica after a couple of corners, and Robert [...]
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Posted on April 5, 2008 by toropitto
Felipe Massa only had eyes on the pole – but didn’t take into consideration the other Pole.
BMW’s Polish driver Robert Kubica took the top grid spot in Sakhir by less than three hundredths of a second, to secure his, and BMW’s first ever pole position.
Lewis Hamilton managed to outqualify his teammate Heikki Kovalainen and they [...]
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Posted on April 4, 2008 by toropitto
Friday Practice 2 delivered the same as what the earlier session had promised – Ferrari dominance. Massa and Raikkonen once again topped the times table, finishing first and second respectively.
But, while pushing to dislodge Ferrari’s stranglehold at the top of the timing sheet, Lewis Hamilton lost control and slid at speed into the barrier. [...]
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Posted on April 1, 2008 by toropitto
Following this story that emerged last week revolving around Max Mosley’s alleged “Nazi orgy”, various sources including British ex-F1 driver Stirling Moss has called for the FIA President to step down, if the reports of his actions turn out to be true.
The main supply of resignation calls come from organisations based around the Holocaust. Karen [...]
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