Sauber, now so Mexican it will (actually after watching last nights awkward Top Gear tirade on Mexicans, let’s just skip any xenophobia) has launched the C30 (so close to the C-3PO, now that would have been a car, a lanky awkward camp car).
After last years all-white car that lacked sponsorship, downforce and in these pre-season sandbagging tests, fuel, things are looking up for the team with a solid money base from every Mexican company chipping in, to the reckless wonderous driver of Kobayashi and new boy Sergio Perez who will be mainly buying rounds of drinks and apologising.
LIVERYWATCH: still mainly white, looks like a fridge with the eco-saving boasting sticker still on it.
The Ayrton Senna film might be wowing audiences at the Sundance film festival, but this is the only F1 related film you lovely podcast fans really need to be watching right now.
Last week me and Kevin headed down to Hingham to award the team the inaugural A.D.U.T.A. award and generally we got giddy and over-excited and forgot to use a tripod.
Yes, they let us film it in their busy (and very noisy) factory, and here is the finished result, watch how Team Lotus are genuinely a lovely (and funny) bunch of people.
(Oh, and we both got to sit in a formula one car.)
PS. Check out our podcast about this film/day – almost like a directors commentary, but three times the length.
Ferrari have gone super snazzy with their internet launch of the 2011 F150. But don’t seemed to have noticed that they’ve just re-launched last years Ferrari F10.
And this naming structure needs to go, unless there were 140 revisions of the car last year.
Pictures are up on the Ferrarif150.com website (and link on the top right of their home page ‘for fans’ is nothing short of laughable).
The rear wing, as exclusively revealed by us this week, carries the new “BLOODY ITALY” livery and the patriotism it embues is said to be worth up to a tenth a lap, even half a second at monza.
Otherwise there’s not much to report yet, aside from it looks kind of horrible.
Ferrari have announced that their new car will be used not only to contend for the Formula One World Championship but to get Luca di Montezemolo into politics.
Therefore they have given it a patriotic name: “The Bloody Italy”.
It will be emblazoned over all the livery and overalls and publications, whenever the 2011 challenger is referred to it will be “The Bloody Italy”
“Ferrari is an expression of Italian excellence, talent and creativity,” said president Luca di Montezemolo. “All the men and women who put so much effort and passion into their work at Maranello share the pride and responsibility of representing our country around the world and it is in this spirit that we chose to dedicate this car to an event that is so important for the whole of Italy.”
The engine has been tuned to play only the national anthem and both drivers will have their nationalities changed by deed poll.
And when Luca becomes president he will, like the FIA, make it illegal for Ferrari not to win every sporting championship.
Mercedes have announced that they will launch their car all over the pit lane of the first test at Valencia on 1st Feb.
In this Resource Restriction era, gone are the glitzy launches in massive arenas of old, and now Messrs Schumacher and Rosberg will only have to sit awkwardly on a tyre at a test alongside some other teams,
To ensure that he doesn’t repeat his 2010 annus shittus Schumacher is said to be determined to beat Rosberg in 2011, even if this means murder
Like a new cat being introduced to a house with lots of other cats, the BGP 001 has finally been allowed out to play and sniff the behinds of the others.
I don’t really know what that means.
but today, to prove it wasn’t just a mirage, jenson button went and drove the car that is actually real and not just made out of milk cartons and highlighter pens (despite how it looks) and actually went and set a bloody quick time. Maybe milk cartons are lighter than carbon fibre?
Obviously fuel weights and a driver so worried he hasn’t eaten since december mean the times are a little flattering. But still, despite my sarcasm, its good to have them back.
The 2009 Force India racer was launched today in jerez, Spain. Using German Mercedes engines the team hopes that its Italian and German drivers can really make india proud.
Smoby and Mclaren have teamed up to launch the MP4/ Toddler. Lewis, Ron and Hekki have been racing these bad boys around Mclaren HQ. We asked them how they felt.
Ron says that despite disappointing early wind tunnel tests
The MP4/ Toddler should be an ample match for the Ferrari pogo stick.
The RB5, Adrian Newey’s latest thing on wheels was launched at Jerez today. And Mark Webber with his new leg was back in action.
And its apparent now why Mark suffered the injury – they had to break his legs to get them to fit into the narrowest car ever. This thing is so thin that you can’t even see it head on.
Torro Rosso have finally worked out how to paint over Red Bull’s design and have launched their car in Barcelona today.
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