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A1 GP Assets for Sale

Mar 11

Posted by Insider in A1GP

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The A1 GP World Cup of Motorsport will no longer be in 2010. Although some have hoped that the series would be revived by its owner Tony Teixeira in the near future, it was today confirmed that all the assets of the series will be put up for sale by the Administrator (A1 Grand Prix Operations Ltd) and Liquidator (A1 Holdings Ltd) of the series.

The series went bankrupt before the start of its 2009/10 campaign, as financial difficulties have cause Teixeira to put his project on hold for at least one year. In recent months, the South African businessman has tried to revive the series by buying into Campos Grand Prix Formula One team - now rebranded into Hispania Racing F1 Team - and therefore turning A1 GP in some kind of feeder series for the Great Circus.

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Lotus F1 Car is Worse than Minardi’s

Mar 1

Posted by Insider in F1, Lotus

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The last day of testing on the Barcelona track on Sunday marked the official finale of the off-season test in Formula One. Less than two weeks from now, the cars will rejoin an official race track to battle for the first points of the new season, meaning that most of the work should have already been finalized in the garage by now.

If the test on the Spanish track has been quite successful for teams such as McLaren, Ferrari or Red Bull, the newly entrants have suffered for most of the time during the month of February. Struggling with lack of spare parts and an aerodynamic package in an incipient stage, both Virgin Racing and Lotus F1 Team ended the testing in Jerez and Barcelona more than 4 or 5 seconds off the leading pace.

Talking to Finland’s Turun Sanomat, Lotus’ Heikki Kovalainen made a comparison between his new T127 model and the Minardi car he used to take to the testing track some 6 years ago. And the results are quite worrying for the Malaysian officials at Lotus.

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Mosley Think Is Amusing

Feb 25

Posted by Insider in F1, Rumors

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One already knew that the “love story” between former FIA president Max Mosley and Formula One team Ferrari was terminated during the course of last season, “thanks” to the former’s cost-cutting and new-entries policy regarding the future of the sport. However, following the latest attack on Mosley made by Ferrari, the story seems to make the headlines once again.

With Ferrari blaming Mosley for the current situation in Formula One - with two teams in danger of not making it to the 2010 Bahrain GP due to lack of finance - the former FIA president could not have sit and listen to those accusations without a proper respond. And, according to James Allen on F1, the 69-year old Brit actually found the attacks “quite amusing.”

“(He) hinted that the team had opened a can of worms here and that he had not planned to say anything rude about them before now, but that they have fired the first shot with this attack. He described Ferrari as a middle-aged woman who is jealous of the attention new beautiful women around her are getting!” said James Allen on F1.

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Special Wheel Nut From Ferrari

Feb 19

Posted by Insider in F1, Ferrari

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With refueling being banned for the 2010 season of Formula One, most teams have already started the race for quicker pit stops during the races. With the actual stop including only tire changes (and some minor adjustments to the car or driver, if that will be the case), some teams projected that pit stops will take under 3 seconds this season.

It was actually Williams F1 who did that experiment for the first time, trying to figure out how the race strategies will work this year. Ferrari, however, seem to have moved much quicker in improving the time their driver will spend in the box for tire change, as they allegedly designed a special wheel nut.

According to Spanish newspaper El Pais, cited by the GMM news agency, the Ferrari engineers have designed a “cone-shaped nut that integrates better with the wheel gun.”

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Ferrari 599XX [VIDEO Inside]

Feb 16

Posted by Insider in Ferrari, Video

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Double Diffuser Issue Once Again

Feb 8

Posted by Insider in F1, Ferrari

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Ferrari have indeed been quite quick during the first test meeting of the off-season, in Valencia, but that doesn’t mean the Italian technicians won’t pay a great deal of attention to their championship rivals in the upcoming few weeks. In fact, the Scuderia’s technical director Aldo Costa has already raised some issues regarding last year’s controversial double diffuser rules.

According to the Ferrari technical, the aforementioned car part will again be subject to many rule interpretations prior to the start of the 2010 campaign, as all teams have fitted it to their cars differently. Since the FIA rulebook on double diffusers are still very grey, Costa said it will only be a matter of time until a new saga will burst on this topic.

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Best Time of the Week in Valencia

Feb 4

Posted by Insider in F1, Ferrari

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Fernando Alonso and Ferrari are definitely on fire this Wednesday, as the Spaniard recorded the fastest time of the week on Valencia’s Ricardo Tormo circuit. Of course, we’re not really sure the fuel strategy that the Scuderia decided to run on this week, but the lap times scored by the new Ferrari F10 seem to improve by the day.

Two and a half hours into the 3rd and last day of testing on the Spanish track, the 2-time world champion stunned the audience with a whooping time of 1:11.599. The Spaniard constantly improved his time throughout the duration of the morning session and remained the only one to stop the clock under one minute and 12 seconds.

Second overall was again BMW Sauber’s Pedro de la Rosa, who was only 0.094 seconds away from breaking the 1:12.000 mark with his C29.

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Schumacher Silent on Briatore’s Jibe

Feb 4

Posted by Insider in F1, Mercedes-Benz, News, Rumors

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Michael Schumacher was not at all bothered by Flavio Briatore’s comments in recent days. The former Renault boss did not have a too optimistic opinion about the 41-year old’s return to Formula One, saying that it could turn out to be a total failure.

“If Schumacher is not competitive, it will be a disaster. It’s not his 41 years, but the three years he was away from formula one. And you don’t race faster if you color your hair,” said Briatore, according to Rai Radio 1.

Additionally, the 59-year old Italian blamed Schumacher for his decision to leave Ferrari after a massive 14-year period of time in which he was the very idol of all the tifosi, for a place at Ferrari’s biggest rivals Mercedes.

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Technical Specifications For Ferrari F10

Jan 29

Posted by Insider in F1, Ferrari

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A couple of hours ago, Ferrari Formula One Team unveiled the first pictures of their 2010 challenger on their official website. This was practically the first team in F1 to show real pictures of their new car to their fans, as Mercedes GP’s launch earlier this week included only their new livery, painted on their 2009 machine.

That being said, Ferrari also disclosed the technical specifications of their new car. While the car obviously benefits from some new aerodynamic cues as compared to its F60 predecessor, the majority of the technical specifications have remained the same.

However, two changes are quite visible. Obviously, due to the refueling ban introduced by the International Automobile Federation (FIA) for the 2010 season, the new Ferrari F10 features a larger fuel tank. Ferrari is yet to reveal the exact dimensions of its new fuel tank, but it’s quite clear it is larger as compared to 2009, as it needs to “accommodate” more fuel during the 2010 races.

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McLaren Get Ferrari Aerodynamicist

Jan 21

Posted by Insider in F1, News

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John Iley might have failed in securing Ferrari a race-winning machine back in 2009, but he seems good enough for McLaren Mercedes for the upcoming campaign of Formula One. According to a McLaren spokesman confirming to the Reuters news agency, Iley has already started work at the Woking factory earlier this month.

Iley was ousted by Ferrari midway through last season, when the Scuderia officials figured out that the F60 was a complete failure from an aerodynamic standpoint. Iley was then head of aerodynamics and wind tunnel for the Maranello based team and was held responsible for the poor results recorded by the car until that point.

The firing was made without any further explanations from the Ferrari organization.

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