Formula 1 General Chat & Discussion

The Lotus has taken advantage of the Grand Prix at Monza to announce the renewal of a contract for Jarno Trulli , who will remain so even with the marque in the 2012 season . The pilot Abruzzo is happy: "The challenge I have accepted being in Lotus is becoming every day more exciting . " Tony Fernandes, the Lotus team boss said: " His experience will serve to grow our car. "
Trulli For the next will be the third season at the helm of Lotus: " 'I am very happy that we were able to confirm that my contract with the Lotus team was extended in 2012 - he said -. I am very proud of Jarno the fact that I can continue to help the team take a step forward for at least another year and I want to thank the whole team.''Fernandes said: "Trulli has brought a level of professionalism, speed, vision and contributed to accelerate our growth outside the track. The announcement will give us the benefit of his experience and knowledge in 2012, another very important year for the growth of our team.''

Here is the official result of todays race :

1. Sebastian Vettel : Red Bull Racing :1:26.207
2. Jenson Button : McLaren : + 9.590
3. Fernando Alonso : Ferrari : + 16.909
4. Lewis Hamilton : McLaren : + 17.471
5. Michael Schumacher : Mercedes GP : + 32.677
6. Felipe Massa : Ferrari : + 42.993
7. Jaime Alguersuari : Toro Rosso : + 1 lap
8. Paul di Resta : Force India : + 1 lap
9. Bruno Senna : Lotus Renault : + 1 ronde lap
10. Sébastien Buemi : Toro Rosso : + 1 lap
11. Pastor Maldonado : Williams : + 1 lap
12. Rubens Barrichello : Williams + 1 lap
13. Heikki Kovalainen : Team Lotus : + 2 laps
14. Jarno Trulli : Team Lotus : + 2 laps
15. Timo Glock : Virgin Racing : + 2 laps
16. Daniel Ricciardo : HRT : + 14 laps
Did not finish
17. Sergio Perez : Sauber : gearbox
18. Kamui Kobayashi :Sauber : gearbox
19. Adrian Sutil : Force India : not yet known
20. Mark Webber : Red Bull Racing : crash
21. Jerome D'Ambrosio : Virgin Racing : startcrash
22. Vitaly Petrov : Lotus Renault : startcrash
23. Nico Rosberg : Mercedes GP : startcrash
24. Vitantonio Liuzzi : HRT : startcrash

Safetycar : 1 time
Fastest Lap : Lewis Hamilton : 1:26.187
Pitstop B.Senna : 3


Source: F1Today + The "official F1" Website

I enjoyd the 1st 17 laps very very match ,thanks to the great drive and fighting to keep position from Michael Schumacher against Lewis Hamilton ..this is something that i would like to see more
A very good start of Alonso ..but also sad that he lost some places ,but still came 3rd
Also good start of Felipe ..but ofcourse with the incident that he had with Webber he lost a lot of time ,but fighted back to 6th place
Overal it was a nice race to watch

Kind Regards
Shaky-Schumi

Update : Vitantonio Liuzzi is bin penalized ..he resieves a 5 places grid penalty in Singapore ..this means after the qualification he will move 5 places to the back !

Congratulations Sebastian!
Again a great victory in a very exciting race - thanks to Alonso for the good start!
Otherwise we would not have seen this spectacular maneuver on the lawn!
Schumi on 5 again ! Well done !

1 Sebastian Vettel Red Bull 1:20:46.172
2 Jenson Button McLaren 9.590
3 Fernando Alonso Ferrari 16.909
4 Lewis Hamilton McLaren 17.417
5 Michael Schumacher Mercedes 32.677

The championship of F1 in Europe will come along with the race in Turkey at Istanbul Park, although the event has not yet confirmed.
The 2012 season will see five races back-to-back. The first race in F1 in the U.S. after five years will be held June 17, a week after the event in Canada. The other races are Bahrain / Australia, Malaysia / China, Spain / Monaco, Belgium / Italy. The 2012 season Formula 1 will end in Brazil on November 25.
2012 F1 Calendar
11/03 Bahrain
18/03 Australia
01/04 Malaysia
08/04 China
22/04 Korea
06/05 Turkey *
Spain 20/05
27/05 Monaco
10/06 Canada
17/06 U.S.
01/07 Valencia, Europe
15 / 07 Great Britain
29/07 Germany
05/08 Hungary
02/09 Belgium
09/09 Italy
30/09 Singapore
14/10 Japan
28/10 India
11/11 Abu Dhabi,
Brazil 25/11

ferrari 500 f2
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The 500 F2 car was a Formula 2 with which Ferrari has run the world championship of Formula 1 in 1952 and 1953 . It was also the first Ferrari to be designed with an engine that was not the 12 cylinders. With this car Alberto Ascari won the drivers championship in 1952 and 1953.
At the end of 1951, with the withdrawal of ' Alfa Romeo from racing, the F1 starting grid of the few cars appeared valid. For this reason, before the start of the season 1952, the FIA announced that for the next year and would be allowed to race with cars of Formula 2 , a category which saw the participation of teams as a Gordini , Cooper , Maserati and Ferrari. So one of the few teams prepared for the new demands of F1, Ferrari was just that at the beginning of 1951 he was working on the new 500 F2.
Rather than modify the 12-cylinder engine used on the 166 F2 or the previous Formula 1, Aurelio Lampredi decided to design from scratch a four-cylinder Indeo, considered most suitable for the fractionation capacity of 2,000 cc to 2,500 cc and which came into effect in 1954 , both from Ferrari that Lampredi itself. By the spring of 1951, the 2,000 cc engine was ready and the first testing at the counter. Initial tests revealed its greater efficiency than a 12-cylinder engine of equivalent size: had more torque, less weighed 45 kg, had a better power to weight ratio of 15% and could count on 65% fewer moving parts. The power was 165 hp at 7,000 rpm / min, but would come to 200 with the changes over time. The smaller footprint of the engine compared to a 12-cylinder also permitted to obtain a better weight distribution thanks to the gearbox located under the driver's seat and magnets placed behind the front axle.
In the two years that saw the star of the world, the 500 F2 underwent very few changes. Apart from the engine that came to touch the 200 hp, the most important change consisted of an elongated snout for use in high speed circuits for better aerodynamics. But apart from these minor modifications, the car did not undergo no change as it is one of an object is balanced in form and substance.
The onset of the 500 F2 occurred at the Modena GP 1951 (not valid for the World Cup race) at the wheel with Ascari and Villoresi . The first won the victory in front of Froilan Gonzalez , who drove a 166 F2 , while the latter was forced to retire.
The following year the races sanctioned pre-season from the beginning the superiority of the 500 F2 with Ascari, who won at Syracuse , Pau and Marseilles at the wheel while Farina was imposed in Naples . The 1952 season of Formula 1 is opened with the Grand Prix of Switzerland, which did not participate because Ascari committed to familiarize yourself with the circuit of Indianapolis [1] and with the Indy 375 . The inaugural race was still won by Piero Taruffi before Rudi Fischer , both of 500 F2. The rest of the season for Ascari, always at the wheel of the 500 F2, was a triumph and won easily by imposing the world in all races involved: Belgium , France , Great Britain , Germany , Holland and Italy . At the end of the season are placed behind the driver from Milan, also on 500 F2, Flour, Taruffi and Rudi Fischer of Ecurie espadon.
The appearance of the season 1953 was more or less the same as the previous year despite the Maserati had become more competitive thanks to the A6 GCM , which was now more powerful than the Ferrari, but as a whole was less for road holding and braking . In 1953, the 500 F2 Ascari won with the GP of the Netherlands , Belgium , Great Britain , and Switzerland and Mike Hawthorn, the French GP . The only official race which saw the victory of the 500 F2 [2] was the Grand Prix in Monza when Ascari and Farina were involved in an accident due to a dubbing and Fangio was able to easily overcome them. Farina, however, ended the race in second position ahead of Villoresi and Hawthorn, all on 500 F2. At the end of the season Ascari graduated back in front of world champion Fangio, the only non-Ferrari driver in the top five in the world.

Here is the official result of the qualifying :
Q3
1. Sebastian Vettel : Red Bull Racing : 1:22.275
2. Lewis Hamilton : McLaren : 1:22.725 + 0.450
3. Jenson Button : McLaren : 1:22.777 + 0.502
4. Fernando Alonso : Ferrari : 1:22.841 + 0.566
5. Mark Webber : Red Bull Racing : 1:22.972 + 0.697
6. Felipe Massa : Ferrari : 1:23.188 + 0.913
7. Vitaly Petrov : Lotus Renault : 1:23.530 + 1.255
8. Michael Schumacher : Mercedes GP : 1:23.777 + 1.502
9. Nico Rosberg : Mercedes GP : 1:24.477 + 2.202
10. Bruno Senna : Lotus Renault no time -

Q2
11. Paul di Resta : Force India : 1:24.163 -
12. Adrian Sutil : Force India : 1:24.209 + 1.934
13. Rubens Barrichello : Williams : 1:24.648 + 2.373
14. Pastor Maldonado : Williams : 1:24.726 + 2.451
15. Sergio Perez : Sauber : 1:24.845 + 2.570
16. Sébastien Buemi : Toro Rosso : 1:24.932 + 2.657
17. Kamui Kobayashi : Sauber : 1:25.065 + 2.790

Q1
18. Jaime Alguersuari : Toro Rosso : 1:25.164 + 2.889
19. Jarno Trulli : Team Lotus : 1:26.647 + 4.372
20. Heikki Kovalainen : Team Lotus : 1:27.184 + 4.909
21. Timo Glock : Virgin Racing : 1:27.591 + 5.316
22. Jerome D'Ambrosio : Virgin Racing : 1:27.609 + 5.334
23. Daniel Ricciardo : HRT : 1:28.054 + 5.779
24. Vitantonio Liuzzi : HRT : 1:28.231 + 5.956


Will it be Vettel again who wins the race ?
Is it going to be one of the McLaren boys who will take victory ?
Are the drivers of Ferrari giving there fans what they want ?
These answers we will know tomorrow after the race is bin driven !

Kind Regards
Shaky - Schumi

Here are the times of the last practice session that is just bin driven :

1. Sebastian Vettel : 1:23.170
2. Mark Webber : 1:23.534 + 0.364
3. Felipe Massa : 1:23.668 + 0.498
4. Lewis Hamilton : 1:23.741 + 0.571
5. Jenson Button : 1:23.787 + 0.617
6. Nico Rosberg : 1:23.875 + 0.705
7. Michael Schumacher : 1:24.114 + 0.944
8. Fernando Alonso : 1:24.133 + 0.963
9. Adrian Sutil : 1:24.543 + 1.373
10. Paul di Resta : 1:24.581 + 1.411
11. Bruno Senna : 1:24.853 + 1.683
12. Vitaly Petrov : 1:24.889 + 1.719
13. Sergio Perez : 1:24.948 + 1.778
14. Kamui Kobayashi : 1:25.261 + 2.091
15. Rubens Barrichello : 1:25.319 + 2.149
16. Jaime Alguersuari : 1:25.426 + 2.256
17. Sébastien Buemi : 1:25.439 + 2.269
18. Pastor Maldonado : 1:25.539 + 2.369
19. Jarno Trulli : 1:27.328 + 4.158
20. Heikki Kovalainen : 1:27.491 + 4.321
21. Jerome D'Ambrosio : 1:28.186 + 5.016
22. Vitantonio Liuzzi : 1:28.441 + 5.271
23. Timo Glock : 1:28.962 + 5.792
24. Daniel Ricciardo : 1:30.316 + 7.146

This afternoon at 14.00u it's the qualification !

It's good to see Felipe infront of Alonso again ..hope he can do it also in the quali

Kind Regards
Shaky-Schumi

Records in Formula 1 GOD OF KERPEN

Increased number of seven world titles (1994, 1995, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004)
Greater number of consecutive world titles 5 (from 2000 to 2004)
Greater number of world titles won by champion in office five (in 1995 and from 2001 to 2004)
Greater number of Grands Prix with the same team with the Ferrari 180
Highest number of laps completed 13,909 [1]
Most number of wins 91
Greatest number of consecutive wins: 7 (in 2004 - European Grand Prix, Grand Prix of Canada, the U.S. GP, French GP, British GP, GP Germany GP Hungary) Ascari par with
most wins in a season: 13 (out of 18 races in 2004 )
Greater number of victories with the same team 72 with Ferrari
Most number of wins in the same GP 8 to the French Grand Prix (Magny-Cours)
Greater number of different races in which he has won at least once 22
Highest number of different countries where a GP has won at least 20
Highest number of different circuits in which she won a GP at least 23
more time between the first and last victory 14 years, 1 month and 2 days
Highest number of consecutive seasons in which he made at least one victory 15
Greatest number of consecutive seasons in which he made ​​at least one pole 13
Greater number of second places, 43
Increased number of podium finishes 154
Greatest number of consecutive podium finishes 19 (from the 2001 U.S. Grand Prix, Grand Prix of Japan 2002)
Greater number of podium finishes in a season 17 (out of 17 races in 2002)
Greater number of points finishes 190
Greatest number of consecutive points finishes 24 (from the 2001 Hungarian Grand Prix, Grand Prix of Malaysia 2003)
Increased number speed command to 4741 (for a total of 22,155 km in 131 Grands Prix different) [2]
Increased number of pole 68
Increased number of departures from the first row 108
Greatest number of fastest laps in the race 76
Increased number of fastest laps race in a season 10 (out of 18 races in 2004) equaled by Räikkönen in 2005
Greatest number of doubles (pole position and victory) 40
Increased number of doubles (pole position and victory) consecutive 6 (the GP of Italy 2000, Malaysian GP 2001)
Increased number of hat-trick (pole position, victory and fastest lap) 22
1,369 Greater number of points scored
most points won consecutively 191 (in 24 races from the 2001 Hungarian Grand Prix, Grand Prix of Malaysia 2003 )
Greater number of points scored in a season 148 (out of a maximum of 180 in 2004)
Most consecutive number of arrivals without shrinkage 24 (from the 2001 Hungarian Grand Prix, Grand Prix of Malaysia 2003)
Greater number of points ahead of second ranked 67th in the World (2002)
Reduced number of tenders for the award of the World 11 of 17 math, 64% of the total races (2002)
The only rider ever, in any category to have won 5 times at Indianapolis
Law rider ever, in any category to have won 5 times at Monza
only Formula 1 driver in the fastest time in a collective test session after the withdrawal.

10/09/2006 Michael Schumacher announced his retirement from Formula 1

Let me 1st Thank Bad-Boy for posting the times of the 2nd practice session ...welldone ..and now back to bussiness ..here are the results of the 1st practice session :

1. Lewis Hamilton : McLaren : 1:23.865
2. Jenson Button : McLaren 1:24.786 + 0.921
3. Sebastian Vettel : Red Bull Racing : 1:25.231 + 1.366
4. Mark Webber : Red Bull Racing : 1:25.459 + 1.594
5. Adrian Sutil : Force India :1:26.550 + 2.685
6. Vitaly Petrov : Lotus Renault : 1:26.625 + 2.760
7. Fernando Alonso : Ferrari : 1:26.647 + 2.782
8. Felipe Massa : Ferrari : 1:26.676 + 2.811
9. Sergio Perez : Sauber : 1:26.694 + 2.829
10. Jaime Alguersuari : Toro Rosso : 1:26.696 + 2.831
11. Michael Schumacher : Mercedes GP : 1:26.699 + 2.834
12. Nico Hulkenberg : Force India : 1:26.826 + 2.961
13. Rubens Barrichello : Williams : 1:26.836 + 2.971
14. Kamui Kobayashi : Sauber : 1:26.996 + 3.131
15. Pastor Maldonado : Williams : 1:27.365 + 3.500
16. Bruno Senna : Lotus Renault : 1:27.385 + 3.520
17. Sébastien Buemi : Toro Rosso : 1:27.433 + 3.568
18. Nico Rosberg : Mercedes GP : 1:27.492 + 3.627
19. Heikki Kovalainen : Team Lotus : 1:29.539 + 5.674
20. Karun Chandhok : Team Lotus : 1:30.148 + 6.283
21. Daniel Ricciardo : HRT : 1:30.609 + 6.744
22. Vitantonio Liuzzi HRT : 1:30.619 + 6.754
23. Timo Glock : Virgin Racing : 1:31.052 + 7.187
24. Jerome D'Ambrosio : Virgin Racing : 1:31.899 + 8.034

That's it for now .
Tomorrow saturday at 11.00u will be the 3rd practice session !

Kind Regards
Shaky-Schumi

Results 2nd free practice

1 1 Sebastian Vettel RBR-Renault 1:24.010 37
2 3 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1:24.046 0.036 21
3 7 Michael Schumacher Mercedes 1:24.347 0.337 39
4 6 Felipe Massa Ferrari 1:24.366 0.356 33
5 5 Fernando Alonso Ferrari 1:24.433 0.423 31
6 2 Mark Webber RBR-Renault 1:24.468 0.458 32
7 4 Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 1:24.508 0.498 30
8 17 Sergio Perez Sauber-Ferrari 1:25.097 1.087 39
9 16 Kamui Kobayashi Sauber-Ferrari 1:25.182 1.172 37
10 9 Bruno Senna Renault 1:25.325 1.315 38
11 10 Vitaly Petrov Renault 1:25.450 1.440 31
12 14 Adrian Sutil Force India-Mercedes 1:25.496 1.486 39
13 15 Paul di Resta Force India-Mercedes 1:25.683 1.673 37
14 19 Jaime Alguersuari STR-Ferrari 1:25.758 1.748 29
15 11 Rubens Barrichello Williams-Cosworth 1:26.202 2.192 36
16 12 Pastor Maldonado Williams-Cosworth 1:26.353 2.343 40
17 18 Sebastien Buemi STR-Ferrari 1:28.347 4.337 5
18 21 Jarno Trulli Lotus-Renault 1:28.559 4.549 32
19 20 Heikki Kovalainen Lotus-Renault 1:28.605 4.595 32
20 24 Timo Glock Virgin-Cosworth 1:28.804 4.794 25
21 23 Vitantonio Liuzzi HRT-Cosworth 1:29.162 5.152 34
22 8 Nico Rosberg Mercedes 1:29.184 5.174 29
23 25 Jerome d'Ambrosio Virgin-Cosworth 1:29.622 5.612 34
24 22 Daniel Ricciardo HRT-Cosworth 1:29.841 5.831 7

copied official F1 site

including the number of laps

This weekend it's the Formula1 Grand Prix of Italy ,so this means that there will be practice sessions a qualification and a race ,so here are the times for it :

Friday :
1st practice : 10.00u -11.30u
2nd practice : 14.00u -15.30u

Saturday :
3rd practice : 11.00u - 12.00u
qualification : 14.00u - 15.00u

Sunday :
Race : 14.00u

1st and 2nd practice session will be " live " on tv ,namely the german tv station/sender Sport1 (DSF)

I will post the result of the friday sessions on friday late night after my work


Kind Regards
Shaky-Schumi

nelson piquet


Nelson Piquet Souto Maior born August 17, 1952), known as Nelson Piquet, is a Brazilian former racing driver. He was Formula One world champion in 1981, 1983 and 1987. He is one of eight drivers to win three or more world championships, the others being Jack Brabham, Jackie Stewart, Niki Lauda, Ayrton Senna (3 each), Alain Prost (4), Juan Manuel Fangio (5), and Michael Schumacher (7). In 1983, he became the only driver to win the F1 championship in a BMW engined car.
Piquet was born in Rio de Janeiro, then the capital of Brazil, the son of Estácio Gonçalves Souto Maior, a Brazilian politician. His father moved his family to the new capital, Brasília, in 1960 and became Minister for Health in João Goulart's government (1961–64). Piquet started kart racing at the age of 14, but because his father did not approve of his racing career, he used his mother's maiden name Piquet (of French origin and pronounced as "Pee-Kè") misspelt as Piket to hide his identity.
After participating in Brazilian go-karting (1971 and 1972 national champion) and in the local Formula Super Vee 1976 championship, on the advice of Emerson Fittipaldi, the first Brazilian Formula One world champion who sold the chassis for the Brazilian Formula Vee champion car with his brother, he arrived in European motor sports hailed as a prodigy. In the 1978 British Formula 3 season he broke Jackie Stewart's record of the most wins in a season.
Piquet made his Formula One debut for Ensign in Germany, where he made an impressive debut starting 21st only to retire on lap 31 with a broken engine. For the next three races he switched to the McLaren of BS Fabrications were he finished ninth in Italy. For the last race in 1978, Piquet moved to the Brabham team; he qualified in 14th and finished 11th. Piquet stayed with Brabham until 1985.In 1979 Piquet took his first points in the Dutch Grand Prix finishing fourth. He also took fastest lap in the last race of the season. In 1980 he took his first win at the United States Grand Prix West, and finished second in the drivers' standings, 13 points behind title winner Alan Jones. In 1981 he won the title with three wins, only one point ahead of Carlos Reutemann. The following year, Piquet was fast but his car was unreliable, and he only managed to win in Canada, in BMW's first win in Formula One. The lowpoint of the season was Detroit where he failed to qualify due to an engine failure in qualifying. In Germany, he was leading the Grand Prix until he collided with Eliseo Salazar, after which he physically attacked Salazar at the side of the track. Piquet won his second title in 1983 after a long battle with Alain Prost. It also was the first time a turbocharged car won the championship. In 1984 Piquet again suffered from unreliability, taking pole position nine times but only winning twice. In his last season with Brabham he took one win, in France. It also was the last victory for the Brabham team.
A move in 1986 to Williams saw Piquet becoming the team-mate of one of his fiercest rivals, Nigel Mansell. Both were regarded as highly strung characters with delicate temperaments. Two top drivers in the same team was a recipe for fireworks - and sure enough Mansell and Piquet went head to head for the title. Though the two drove the best cars on the grid, their rivalry caused each to deprive the other of points, allowing Alain Prost to win one of the closest and most fiercely disputed championships ever in F1. Ironically in this season Piquet won one more race (a total of four) than he would in any of his championship-winning campaigns. Piquet made amends in 1987, using political maneuvering and technical skill to gain the upper hand. Despite winning fewer races than Mansell, in 1987 Piquet emerged as world champion. When Piquet followed the dominant Honda engines to a stagnating Lotus team in 1988, his career took a nose dive. He began to lose his reputation when he had no wins in 1988 and even failed to qualify on one occasion in 1989. He resorted to using the media to attack his rivals and gained a reputation as an outspoken "loose cannon", such as attacking Mansell and his wife, calling Mansell "an uneducated blockhead" and stating that fellow Brazilian driver Ayrton Senna "doesn't like women". However, a payment-by-results deal with Benetton saw Piquet return to top form in 1990, with two wins, followed by the final win of his F1 career at Montreal in 1991 - at the expense of longtime rival Mansell.
Known as a practical joker, Piquet lived a stereotypically playboy racing driver lifestyle, earning and losing and earning again a series of small fortunes in his business dealings. One of the great characters of 1980s F1, he tried his hand at the Indianapolis 500 in 1992, but crashed during practice and was badly injured. He returned in 1993 and started in 13th position, but finished in 32nd, after engine problems allowed him to complete only 38 laps. He remains a competitive driver in sports car racing, albeit more for fun than with serious intent.
Since 2000, he has supported the career of his son, Nelson Piquet, Jr., who drove in the F1-feeder category GP2 for 2 seasons, achieving a best championship result of second with four race wins, and was a test driver for Renault F1 in 2007.
On January 20, 2006 Nelson Piquet won the 50th edition of Mil Milhas Brasileiras (Brazilian 1,000 miles), at the Interlagos racing track. He drove an Aston Martin DBR9 alongside his son, Nelsinho, and drivers Christophe Bouchut and Hélio Castroneves. At the end of the race, an exhausted Piquet was quoted saying to a friend he would “never sit in a cockpit again”.
He was inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in 2000.

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brudgon wrote:

He was not the only one after this race who had some ...euh ....difficulties ..i was also a bit too emotional .. sorry !

Regards
Shaky-Schumi