Archive | June, 2009

Formula One: Updates from Silverstone

am 19. From on 19 June 2009 at 09:39 │ Comments {1}

Today it is sometimes so forth, this is easier with the updates. Gives background information from the night in the post underneath.

  • 17:07 Don Dahlmann - Ok, I'll do the live blog now. Later still comes the preview of the NASCAR and if I manage to assess the situation in F1.
  • Anonymous 16:57 - Thanks for the class service!
  • 16:38 Don Dahlmann - Ok - that's it for now at this point. I let the live blog on even when it does something else, but probably it is the threat of legal action by the FIA ​​in the hands of lawyers. Since the FIA ​​wants to proceed particularly against Ferrari, I do not think the FOTA can still talk about. The next key date will be the Wednesday when Mosley could be voted out, but this is not very likely. Let's wait what the next hours and days still seeps can do.
  • 16:27 Don Dahlmann - Well, half an hour is ok. Otherwise you would have seen nothing.
  • 16:27 Don Dahlmann - And since breaking of n-tv. Thank you for that.
  • 16:26 Don Dahlmann - Brawn: The manufacturers supply engines to the cost.
  • 16:26 Don Dahlmann - Brawn: The doors should be closed but not completely for the manufacturer.
  • 16:25 Don Dahlmann - Brawn: I know both sides, as a producer and as an independent team. The teams have to survive without free manufacturer. But when she sells the whole is not good for the sport
  • Don Dahlmann 16:24 - Horner: It's a shame that we are all now in such problems. The positions have hardened
  • Don Dahlmann 16:23 - Horner: I support what says Whitmarsh. [FOTA blabla]
  • 16:22 Don Dahlmann - MW: If nothing had happened, would be migrated to the manufacturer.
  • 16:22 Don Dahlmann - MW: But yes, we could have done better, we want to make in the future. All have made mistakes. But we look to the future and the past few days it came down to a separation.

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Formula One: FOTA decides his own series!

am 19. From on 19 June 2009 at 01:23 │ Comments {13}

It is 01.06 clock and I really wanted to be in bed. Since bursting purely a message that FOTA has decided its own series. All FOTA teams, except for Williams and Force India will compete in 2010 in a new and especially their own series. The separation of the FIA's decision.


Update: 09:32 clock: James Allen is also the opinion that only a withdrawal of the FIA and genuflection before the FOTA could save the cause.
Update 09.19 Clock: The FIA responds as follows: The FIA is disappointed but not surprised by the inability of the FOTA a compromise for the sport to achieve. It is clear that certain elements in the FIA ​​that conclusion a long time and during the negotiations and work and it has not led the discussion honest.
The FIA ​​can not let a financial arms race in Formula One, it can still allow that FOTA has mastered the rules of Formula One.
The deadline for the expiration of enrollment without reservation for the 2010 season läufte out tonight. The list of participants of the 2010 season will be announced tomorrow Update 02:30 clock. Very exciting phone interview with David Croft on BBC 5 Live , saying that he had yesterday said a FOTA team boss that you have a number of routes "in the notebook" have.
Update 01:55 clock: FOTA statement added, including translation of key paragraphs.

I have at present no more information than the message of autosport.com. On the website of the FOTA is still nothing. autosport.com quoted only a thin explanation in which the known reasons are given. Interestingly, however, is this quote:

"The major drivers, stars, brands, sponsors, promoters and companies historically associated with the highest level of motorsport will all feature in this new series."

If this be true, so if the sponsors have also been by boat, then you can assume that the object is already running long. The FOTA did not pull or two weeks ago, only now the matter decided by, but some time ago. I guess after the Monaco GP. It takes time, if the teams want to pull all of their sponsors on their side and they will have them presented with a viable security concept. This means a market, a TV presence and rudimentary, a plan that is where you go. One could easily come up with the idea that the establishment of FOTA was focused last year on this very moment. I do not believe that to build the team a threat of force to Mosley to its knees. The FIA, for its concrete strategy to do anything else than to accept the separation. Unless Max Mosley resigns and is succeeded by the team everything they want. The statement read as follows:
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Formula one: Silverstone preview

am 18. From on 18 June 2009 at 22:50 │ Comments {0}

They say goodbye to Silverstone for the Formula One does this hold for the last time. Whether there is also a departure from Formula One is not yet out.

silverstone Do not feel like politics, I would like it if you could once again have to worry about the sport. But that is probably hard for either of the months-long dispute over the rules and the ego evaporates tomorrow, whether it is really hard. Is stable at the moment: There is a service of the FIA ​​(100 million budget for 2010, like 2009 rules, more say in the rules by the team) on the FIA ​​consults straight. But even then would have to resign from the requirement that they share a nomination with a new Concorde Agreement. For the moment, the FOTA advises at Silverstone. Let's see what comes out there. Unfortunately, the race moved by something in the background. But there are some to consider:

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Formula One: Solution or fission?

am 18. From on 18 June 2009 at 08:51 │ Comments {9}

In Formula One it is, how old in a marriage. Time talking to each other, not again. When you just talk to each other for any reason or not but then again, I do not, and probably the rest of the world, no longer comprehensible. It was in - basically - it was agreed before Turkey. There was then launched to the press report, the FOTA would think about a strike, which could provide an at least the impression that it was perhaps not quite yet fully agreed yet. Last week, when the first deadline for enrollment was expired, everything changed, because it was in line behind the scenes, come for the FOTA teams were permitted to enroll conditionally. Something that Max Mosely had previously rejected completely. As the inscription came out, were Ferrari and Red Bull / STR offense. The FIA ​​had, the three teams without reservation in the list, because, as the FIA, the teams have a binding contract. Is that the agreement with Ferrari in 2005, but at Red Bull? Some also have an extra-contract? The teams are of course completely different. As usual, it could perhaps be boring.
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Le Mans - Looking back 24 H Hour

am 18. From on 18 June 2009 at 00:42 │ Comments {7}

A little later than usual, as was unfortunately done something much more. But a little distance helps even when viewed.

audi-le-mans-13 The "epic battle" all the world at Le Mans had expected, it was then in the end not yet. On the contrary - the victory was clear and there was nothing to shake it. Peugeot had the better car, and it was mainly at almost any time go faster. But how could this happen, because it was still equal to Sebring and, above all, Audi had the advantage of being able to drive one lap longer. That the Peugeot on the long straights at Le Mans would be faster was known, but Audi, experts and my guess is the distance obtained on the brakes and especially in the fast S-bends before the start / finish line again. At the: who should be the perfect Audi team at Le Mans beat already, if not they themselves?
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Updates

am 15. From on 15 June 2009 at 19:20 │ Comments {0}

In my degree a little hut on fire in terms of the work. Le Mans and NASCAR analysis comes tomorrow night.

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What else was a week

am 13. From on 13 June 2009 at 16:00 │ Comments {0}
  • # F1 and Red Bull writes just let that one remains on the part of FOTA. http://bit.ly/Do1h8 #
  • # F1 Ferrari contradicts the inscription without reservation by the FIA http://bit.ly/qNKvG #
  • # F1 Prodrive If you're also "not amused". This reads as if the promise had already ne http://bit.ly/235AuS #
  • # F1 Lola is disappointed that no one is on the list. http://bit.ly/bdUEC #
  • Interesting. On the list, only 5 of the 10 are known as FOTA teams that are subject to it. http://bit.ly/j5hat #
  • Last tweet via @ grandprixcom in reply to grandprixcom #
  • FIA entry list: Ferrari, Toro Rosso, RBR, Williams, FORCE INDIA, Campos, Manor, USF1, McLAREN MERCEDES, BMW Sauber, Renault, Toyota, BRAWN #
  • RT @ test specimens: Very good, compact information site about the 24 Hours of Le Mans http://tr.im/ocwY # lemans #
  • Not too expensive, so an old Formula One cars. Well, the engine is missing. this could be a problem. http://bit.ly/7NK3V #
  • RT @ Jamesallenonf1: # f1 - boss of Ferrari, Toyota & RB Mosley are meeting this morning in London, 24 come before the entries for 2010 out #
  • # F1 Red Bull is on the side of the FIA? The article is something like (7th paragraph) http://bit.ly/G0bRp #
  • # LeMans Is going all right. Peugeot has launched a protest against Audi. http://bit.ly/LvfME #
  • The BBC @ 5LiveF1 reports that the team withdraw their terms for enrollment are #
  • # NASCAR worth reading, like SpeedTV, NASCAR and the decline of denying the Truck Series. http://is.gd/TIJl #
  • # NASCAR CWS d go in the lights. The reigning champion (!) Must finish the season because he will not sponsor http://is.gd/ToBk #
  • # F1 Sure, you could not in Turkey, most likely start. Spectators are not there and the organizer is Bernie Ecclestone. #
  • Could the "Times" reported that the 8 remaining FOTA teams boycott the race today. http://is.gd/RscA (via @ f1fanatic_co_uk ) #

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FIA start list published in 2010

am 12. From on 12 June 2009 at 12:14 │ Comments {3}

Only briefly, I'm certainly not here anymore, but the FIA has actually just an hour late, the list of teams released , which will go live in 2010. Since there are two surprises:

Ferrari
STR
Red Bull
Williams
Force India
McLaren *
* BMW
Renault *
* Toyota
Brawn *
Campos
Manor
USF1

The two surprises:

First Marked with the star teams have agreed only conditionally. Going through one you'll notice that only five of the ten FOTA teams have this title. After FI and Williams had already swerved, now Ferrari and Red Bull family are pushed to do so. Why is this so? Pure speculation, but with Ferrari, it was probably so that they could not for contractual reasons differently. The court decision recently confirmed once again that is expressly the agreement between the Italians and the FIA. But may also be that this was a concession of the FOTA, the FIA ​​to accept the application subject to change. So you have at least the threat of Priatenserie going on.

Second Manor Grand Prix. Anyone who does not know: this is a team of F3, the F3 Euro Series. As far as I know, the Manor has broken last winter. The founder has to be paid out and found a formula 3 under the same name on the legs, the other is in Formula Renault. Can also be that he is meant. It is the F3 team, John Booth, but with the help of F1 warhorse Nick Wirth, who was once involved in the Simtek team in the '90s was. Ironically, the partner was then calculated by Wirth Max Mosley. Simtek was also the team that Roland Ratzenberger at Imola in 1994 lost by an accident. More info at Wikipedia . Obviously Manor has not only been paid for the Cosworth engine, but also proved a viable concept.

Surprised me, because I had counted on Lola. Also missing Litespeed yes, Superfund, Euskadi and Prodrive. Although I have not seen as serious candidates only Euskadi.

The matter is still not through. The FIA ​​and FOTA still gave no firm rules and a new Concorde Agreement. This will therefore give more discussions. The FIA, the teams that are subject to change in there, if only given until 7:06 p.m.

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Le Mans - 24 hours 2009 H

am 11. From on 11 June 2009 at 21:21 │ Comments {12}

There are three races that we must win as a driver. The Grand Prix Monte Carlo, the Indy 500 and the 24 H of Le Mans.

le-mans-audi1 As of Saturday, there is therefore a third crown of motorsport. And one that is probably the hardest to reach. After a 24 H race is still a challenge that we can not simply be overcome with links. Do not already, for as with the 12H of Sebring, the race at Le Mans is more like a sprint, as an endurance race meet. Breaks should be allowed not to minor technical defects certainly do not, and if you're unlucky, it can already provide a clamping nut that you are falling behind. 24 H long, everything has to perfect: the machine, the pilot, the mechanic. The strategists who have already ausgetüfelt everything, even just watch and hope that they do not have to respond. It is an epic battle that is fought out there as of Saturday, as much as you can now say.

For those in a hurry: here the necessary links for the weekend:

The exact starting list is on the official website.
The live timing as well.

Spotters Guide .

Overview page with timing and Twitter.

Twitter accounts of Le Mans:
Audi
Aston Martin
Lola
Racecar Engineer
Spyker Squadron
JMWmotorsport
Drayson Racing
Guy Smith (BP Mazda driver)

A stream is on the website of sports € . However, costs € 5, but it will provide a stream of very good quality.

A very, very good is it live audio stream at Radio Le Mans .

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NASCAR: Pocono & Images / F1 News & Images / Le Mans 24H

am 8. From on 8 June 2009 at 23:24 │ Comments {0}

As expected, the race yesterday was a pretty boring thing that was so fun just because they could cheer on Tony Stewart.

I will not stay long with Pocono. I'm always glad when the races are there around. Pocono is a barren course, only to be boring race. After all, it was yesterday, the drama of Jimmie Johnson and Tony Stewart to see the one time somewhat shorter. And that was not bad, after all, had split Stewart in free practice his car, had to start the backup and use of the back. But as I was recently at Jimmie Johnson seems to be no great disadvantage, since Stewart seemed to have at any time in the race the best car. Within just 25 laps, he had arrived in the Top 20, then it went a little tougher, but finally he appeared to be in top 5. Who would stop him?

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