Having been considered as this year’s back benchers, Royal Challengers pulled up their socks and now are in the finals of the second edition of IPL.
To be frank, I lost interest when they were on the waining way in the initial days and was not eager to watch the IPL matchs. When the news started ringing that they can be in the Semi’s is when I got on!
Say the Mallya affect. I am a fan. I love both of his teams, my first love being the Formula 1. (more…)
The news is that a new documentary is being created to honour and remember the legendary F1 driver Aryton Senna who died in a race crash. The three times world champion, Aryton was regarded as the best ever evey my Micheal Schumacher.
Asif Kapadia will direct the film and it will be written by Manish Pandey and produced by James Gay-Rees , Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner with Kevin Macdonald and Manish Pandey as its executive producers. The permission has been taken from the Senna Family. FIA also will support the documentary by providing the video clips which were never in public domain. The film is shot bu Working Title Films.
Rubens Barrichello is a happy man. So is Jenson Button, Ross Brawn and his complete crew. These very people just four months ago were having their career in trouble. Rubens was quoted saying on the Official Formula1 Website “I am happy. I have been driving okay and physically I feel fine and honestly, after four months (away), I am surprised that my neck still has contact to my head! I am happy, really happy.”
In an interesting announcement which was expected, the future of Honda Racing F1 team has finally come out. Honda Racing F1 has sold the Honda Racing F1 Team to their current Team Principal, Ross Brawn. Brawn, former Ferrari F1 team principal, put forth a management buyout of the troubled team after the sudden retirement announcement by Honda from F1.
The Press Release issued by BrawnGP website starts with the line which says: Future of the Honda F1 Racing Secured.
Brawn has retained his two drivers, the Brazilian Rubens Barichello and the Briton Jenson Button, while Brawn will remain the Team Principal.
Brawn’s new website’s welcome message reads;
On behalf of everyone at Brawn GP, welcome to our new team and our new website BrawnGP.com
I would like to take this opportunity to thank you – our fans, our partners and our media colleagues – for your tremendous support during the past few months. It has been a challenging period but we have now achieved a very pleasing conclusion to the strenuous efforts which have been made to secure our future. We have also been left in no doubt as to the level of enthusiasm for the team and our ambitions.
Our focus now is on preparations for the first race of the 2009 calendar in Melbourne on 29 March. Over the coming weeks we will bring you the very latest news and pictures from the build-up to the Brawn GP team’s debut season plus our plans for the development of BrawnGP.com
The Website is still under construction owing the sudden announcement. The Logo of the team shows good language. It reminds me of the logo BMW M3 has.
Brawn GP Official Website
The Name chosen for the new outfit seems a bit odd to me. Agreed that every race is called a Grand Prix as F1 teams have the very term “F1” in their team names. None the less, its good news coming in for Formula1. A team is not exiting the scene when the first Grand Prix is right under the nose.
Other noticeable development is the Engine supplier, and its McLaren. As the grapewine was on the Net, Mercedes Benz will provide engines to the new Team. McLaren has already agreed to be the supplier for India’s ForceIndia F1. According to FIA rules, an Engine supplier is not allowed to provide engines to more than two teams.?
In this case, McLaren is already providing engines to its own Team and FIF1. However, FIF1 Team Principal Vijay Mallya has not taken any objection, instead has given his approval to McLaren for providing the engines to Brawn GP for a period of one year, because he did not wished any team to leave the grid.
McLarens has scored a double whammy this time around, getting two deals right under the nose of FIA, while the biggest Looser is going to be Ferrari.
Good Luck Ross Brawn. Wish you a Happy Gran Prixing. Mr. Williams, do you see your past?
The new car for ForceIndia F1 has finally seen the light of the day. The car which is using the McLaren Mercedes Benz engine and KERS system is widely believed to change the fortunes of the Grove based outfit which was the only team not to score a single point last season.
For the first time in their career graph has McLaren Mercedes Benz provide a package for another F1 rival. You can call it another affect of the recession in the F1, the big daddy of motorsports. This move is beneficial to both the parties. For McLaren, it means revenues of a few million dollars more and for ForceIndia, it spells better chances of scoreing points.
What if the USA lost their chance to host the an F1 race, a new team is preparing to assault the Ferraris and McLarens of the Formula1 World. It is also rumoured that Danica Patrick, the current Indycar babe, may be on the rolls! Certainly Interesting…
The USF1 is aiming to be the part of F1 in the 2010 Grandprix season hopefully with Danica as their star driver.
The news on the net has it that Force India’s former Chief Technical Officer Mike Gascoyne is suing Force India Formula One team for terminiation of his contract a year before it was set to expire. He was fired by Team Principle Vijay Mallya due to non performance of the team and the radical reshuffle happened in the team after they signed Mercedes – Benz as the engine supplier in Novemeber Last year.
The team did not score even a single point, which outraged the Team Principle who sought to make things right by reshuffling his management team.
Gascoyne has sued FIF1 for $2 Million he was entitled to get plus damages.
The formula of F1 is changing rapidly. With the comeback of the Slicks, F1 seems to be interesting once again.
The Cars have undergone a huge change and most of them would also incorporate the Kinetic Energy Recovery System, or KERS as it is abbreviated. This system will store the energy recovered from the hard braking on F1 Cars. Drivers would then use this power when they overtake other cars, giving a much needed boost to make the sport attractive.
This years favorites for every one are McLaren and Ferrari. But the tables may change anytime this year as the underdogs may rewrite the history.
Hope the Force India atleast can achieve some points this year atleast.
Europe is F1’s biggest customer base. To help them see the races on a feasible time, the FIA has delayed the start timings of races at Australia and Malaysian GP by two hours. Europe can now view races in early mornings rather that waking up at 3 past mid night.
Europe generates the most cash for F1 in terms of adverts.