Archive for the ‘f1’ tag

Vettel wins Abu Dhabi F1 GP to finish 2009 season

Once a brake problem slowed McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton, Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel had no competition in Sunday evening’s inaugural day/night race. A brilliant win cemented his second place in the drivers’ world championship behind Brawn GP’s Jenson Button, who enlivened the end of the race with a superb challenge to the second-placed Red Bull of Mark Webber in the closing stages. Continue reading »

Vettel wins 2009 Japanese F1 Grand Prix

Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel brought his world championship hopes alive again with a superb victory in Japan on Sunday afternoon, winning as he pleased and leading Jarno Trulli’s Toyota home by 4.8 seconds despite a late safety car intervention. Lewis Hamilton was third for McLaren, another 1.5 seconds adrift, after losing out to Trulli in the second pit stops. Continue reading »

McLaren-Mercedes scores as Hamilton wins Singapore F1 GP

Lewis Hamilton won the 2009 Singapore F1 Grand Prix on Sunday evening, driving a perfect race for McLaren to deliver a richly deserved triumph. Continue reading »

Brawn’s Barrichello wins 2009 Italian F1 GP

Rubens Barrichello and Jenson Button took Brawn GP a significant step closer to both world championship titles at the 2009 Italian F1 Grand Prix in Monza on Sunday afternoon, in a race rendered dramatic by a last lap shunt for McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton, as he was pushing hard in third place after Button. Continue reading »

Brawn’s Barichello wins 2009 European F1 GP

Rubens Barrichello finally has a win under the Brawn GP banner, achieving first place at the 2009 European F1 Grand Prix in Valencia with a performance that brought him home just two seconds ahead of McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton, whose pit-crew’s mistake cost him the win. Continue reading »

Hamilton scores for McLaren in 2009 Hungarian F1 GP

With Felipe Massa’s near-death experience in a serious freak accident during qualifying overshadowing the event, the 2009 Hungarian F1 Grand Prix went ahead as scheduled. Lewis Hamilton brought McLaren their first victory of the season after a surprise result in Hungary on Sunday afternoon, his dominant success also marking Martin Whitmarsh’s first as team principal and the first for a KERS-equipped car. Kimi Raikkonen was second for Ferrari, containing a challenge from Mark Webber’s Red Bull. Continue reading »

Video of Formula 2 racer’s unfortunate accident

Sometimes death can come in the most unexpected ways. This unfortunate accident in a Formula 2 race led to the death of 18-year-old driver Henry Surtees, after the tyre from an earlier crash hit him on the head, rendering him unconscious with his foot on the accelerator. He died in hospital. His father, John Surtees, was a Formula 1 racer in the 1960s. Continue reading »

Webber wins German F1 GP for Red Bull

Red Bull Racing’s Mark Webber started off from pole and went on to win this Sunday’s 2009 German F1 Grand Prix. No matter what was thrown at the Australian, including a drive-through penalty for a brush off the startline with Brawn’s Rubens Barrichello, Webber came through and delivered in devastating style. Continue reading »

FIA and FOTA to stay pals, vote Mosley off the island

An agreement has been reached between the FIA governing body and the FOTA teams to prevent a breakaway Formula 1 series. Continue reading »

Vettel wins 2009 British F1 GP for Red Bull

Sebastian Vettel launched his Red Bull RB5 into the lead of the British Grand Prix from the start itself, after clinching the pole in qualifying. In a crushingly dominant drive, which underlined the major step forward that the Milton Keynes team have made on high-speed circuits, Vettel pulled away from Rubens Barrichello’s Brawn by as much as a second a lap in a series of quick tours, and never looked remotely challenged. Continue reading »

Major F1 teams create own FOTA breakaway championship

The Formula One Teams’ Association, better known as FOTA, announced on June 19 that it is setting up a breakaway championship. Following a four-hour meeting at Renault’s Enstone factory, the eight members of FOTA, namely Ferrari, McLaren, Renault, BMW Sauber, Toyota, Brawn, Red Bull Racing and Scuderia Toro Rosso, said they had grown frustrated with the FIA’s stance on new rules for 2010, and had no option but to create a series of their own. Continue reading »

Brawn GP Button wins Turkish F1 Grand Prix

Jenson Button made it six wins out of seven races by claiming the Turkish Grand Prix in Istanbul. With his teammate Rubens Barrichello failing to score, Button now carries a 26-point lead into his home race at Silverstone in two weeks. Continue reading »

Brawn GP Button wins 2009 Monaco F1 GP

Jenson Button had no peer in Monte Carlo on Sunday afternoon. The world championship points leader snatched another full score as he grabbed the lead at the start, eased quickly away from Brawn team mate Rubens Barrichello, and romped home to a comfortable and totally convincing victory. Continue reading »

Brawn one-two as Button wins 2009 Spanish F1 GP

In an outcome that is starting to seem cliched, Brawn’s Jenson Button destroyed the field again, this time at the 2009 Spanish F1 Grand Prix, at the expense of team-mate Rubens Barrichello’s error. The championship leader took the chequered flag 13 seconds clear of the Brazilian with Mark Webber making good use of strategy to finish third in the leading Red Bull Renault. Continue reading »

Red Bull Racing’s Vettel wins 2009 Chinese F1 GP

Sebastian Vettel started from pole position at Monza last year, and won. He started from pole position in China on Sunday afternoon, and this time he led team mate Mark Webber home in a superb one-two that gave the team its first success under the Red Bull Racing colors. Continue reading »

Brawn GP wins again at Malaysian F1 GP

Jenson Button made it two wins in a row after he won the rain-shortened Malaysian F1 GP. A rain storm caused the race to be red-flagged, and then there was not enough daylight left to allow it to continue. Button found out he was the winner while sitting in the car on the grid for a restart that never came. But the top eight finishers only received half points. Continue reading »

Newcomers Brawn win Australian F1 GP

Jenson Button won the season-opening Australian Grand Prix on Sunday, giving all-new Brawn GP a victory in its first ever Formula One race. Continue reading »