Formula 1 General Chat & Discussion

Here are the times for this weekends race at the New Circuit in India ,time are CET( Central European Time) ofcourse :

Friday :
1st practice session : 06u30 - 08u00
2nd practice session : 10u30 - 12u00

Saturday :

3 practice session : 07u30 -08u30
Qaulification : 10u30 - 11u30

Sunday :

Race : 10u30

As always the German tv sender/station Sport1 ( DSF) brings the session of friday " Live" starting from :06:30u - 08:05u of the 1st session , followed at 10:30u - 12:05u the 2nd session

Hope that this new continent and new circuit will bring a nice ,exciting and clean race to watch !

Kind Regards
Shaky-Schumi

For the first time India will host a Grand Prix Formula One
The new Buddh International Circuit has several ups and downs. It looks fast with some long straights and slow technical corners. There are also a slightly banked, double apex corners (10/11). It is similar to the famous curve 8 in Turkey(Istanbul Park) but with one difference: instead of widening, the second part tightens. The average predicted speed is 210 km/h. and the gap in lap time between hard and soft tires will be huge on this track At the Indian GP, pilots will have available 6 sets of soft(yellow) and 5 sets of hard(silver) tyres to plan out their strategy. Teams usually are given 11 sets of dry-weather tyres per grand prix weekend, but normally five softer option sets and six harder primes. After practices five sets of tyres must be returned to the tyre supplier So before the start of Saturday’s qualifying and for the race each driver has available 3 sets of each specification in dry conditions. The most used strategy in this season for the top drivers, is of three pit stops. In this way, the drivers remain on track for several laps with the faster tires and they use the harder tyre only in the last part of the race. The FIA has set two independent DRS-zones for the Indian Grand Prix,on the start/finish straight and on the long straight after curve three. The same system was used at the Italian GP in Monza.
the podium after 16 races:
1° place: Vettel 10 – Button 3 – Hamilton 2 – Alonso 1
2° place; Vettel 4 – Alonso 4 – Button 3 – Hamilton 3 – Webber 2
3° place; Webber 7 – Button 3 – Alonso 3 – Vettel 1 – Heidfeld 1 – Petrov 1
Total podium: Vettel 15 – Button 9 – Webber 9 – Alonso 8 – Hamilton 5 – Heidfeld and Petrov 1
Fastest lap on race: Webber 5 – Hamilton 3 – Button 3 – Massa 2 – Vettel 2 – Alonso 1
Pole positions: Vettel 12 – Webber 3 – Hamilton 1
The record for poles in a single season by a driver is 14 (Mansell, 1992).
The record for wins in a single season by a driver is 13 (Schumacher, 2004)
Ciao Marco

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The Ferrari 156 F1 was the car with which Ferrari has competed in Formula 1 in 1961 and 1962 . Despite two prototypes in 1960 ( P 246 and 156 F2), the 156 F1 is commonly referred to as the first rear-engined Ferrari.
Designed by Carlo Chiti collaboration with Mauro Forghieri , was equipped with both a Dino V6 that with a 6-cylinder V-120 °. By Phil Hill won the drivers' and constructors championship in 1961 .

New Jersey confirms 2013 F1 street race planson the 2013 F1 calendar
Plans for a second Grand Prix in the United States of America were formally announced today.
A street race at New Jersey will join the F1 calendar in 2013 with the title Grand Prix of America.
It will join the Unites States Grand Prix at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas which is due to join the calendar next year. It will potentially increase the number of races on the F1 calendar in 2013 to 21.
The event organisers revealed a revised 5.15km (3.2 mile) track

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Shaky-Schumi

Panda wrote:My guess is that his only reason is some extra money Karthikeyan and his sponsors are bringing to the team.

Unfortunately, in today's F1 we have many pay-drivers - average drivers with a big sponsor - Karthikeyan, Ricciardo (he has support from Red Bull), Petrov, Maldonado, Perez, d'Ambrosio, Bruno Senna and others. HRT has only one big sponsor - it's Karthikeyan's Tata.

Sad, but F1 becomes a big business without talented drivers :/

feels3 wrote:

Panda wrote:

shaky-schumi wrote:Another short news :
Official: Liuzzi set aside for comeback Karthikeyan

Vitantonio Liuzzi will not be in action on next weekends Grand Prix . This is confirmed by Hispania Racing team boss Colin Kolles today .The Italian will be confronted with Narain Karthikeyan, who for his home race in India will return once more in the Spanish car.Last month it became clear that Karthikeyan in his home race would return to the cockpit with HRT.The Indian will thus take over the seat of Liuzzi.
Team boss Kolles went on: "For HRT, the race in India is even more special than for the other teams. We have Karthikeyan the first Indian driver and for our sponsor TATA it seems like we have a home race. Narain is a talented driver and we are glad we could race with his experience. I asked Tonio Liuzzi place just to stand and I have to thank him for his professionalism. "

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Shaky-Schumi

This is another clear example of what money can do.Karthikeyan as a driver sucks!!!!!
As for the big bosses of every racing team, they sould be concentrate on how to make their cars better instead of collecting money in any way they can.

Agree, but Liuzzi isn't a good driver too. He has worse results than "newbie" Daniel Ricciardo which is in same team.

Yeah but you see that's not the point.
Because if mr Kolles was looking for a better driver,he wouldn't of choose Karthikeyan.
What do you think ?
My guess is that his only reason is some extra money Karthikeyan and his sponsors are bringing to the team.

Panda wrote:

shaky-schumi wrote:Another short news :
Official: Liuzzi set aside for comeback Karthikeyan

Vitantonio Liuzzi will not be in action on next weekends Grand Prix . This is confirmed by Hispania Racing team boss Colin Kolles today .The Italian will be confronted with Narain Karthikeyan, who for his home race in India will return once more in the Spanish car.Last month it became clear that Karthikeyan in his home race would return to the cockpit with HRT.The Indian will thus take over the seat of Liuzzi.
Team boss Kolles went on: "For HRT, the race in India is even more special than for the other teams. We have Karthikeyan the first Indian driver and for our sponsor TATA it seems like we have a home race. Narain is a talented driver and we are glad we could race with his experience. I asked Tonio Liuzzi place just to stand and I have to thank him for his professionalism. "

Kind Regards
Shaky-Schumi

This is another clear example of what money can do.Karthikeyan as a driver sucks!!!!!
As for the big bosses of every racing team, they sould be concentrate on how to make their cars better instead of collecting money in any way they can.

Agree, but Liuzzi isn't a good driver too. He has worse results than "newbie" Daniel Ricciardo which is in same team.

shaky-schumi wrote:Another short news :
Official: Liuzzi set aside for comeback Karthikeyan

Vitantonio Liuzzi will not be in action on next weekends Grand Prix . This is confirmed by Hispania Racing team boss Colin Kolles today .The Italian will be confronted with Narain Karthikeyan, who for his home race in India will return once more in the Spanish car.Last month it became clear that Karthikeyan in his home race would return to the cockpit with HRT.The Indian will thus take over the seat of Liuzzi.
Team boss Kolles went on: "For HRT, the race in India is even more special than for the other teams. We have Karthikeyan the first Indian driver and for our sponsor TATA it seems like we have a home race. Narain is a talented driver and we are glad we could race with his experience. I asked Tonio Liuzzi place just to stand and I have to thank him for his professionalism. "

Kind Regards
Shaky-Schumi

This is another clear example of what money can do.Karthikeyan as a driver sucks!!!!!
As for the big bosses of every racing team, they sould be concentrate on how to make their cars better instead of collecting money in any way they can.

Another short news :
Official: Liuzzi set aside for comeback Karthikeyan

Vitantonio Liuzzi will not be in action on next weekends Grand Prix . This is confirmed by Hispania Racing team boss Colin Kolles today .The Italian will be confronted with Narain Karthikeyan, who for his home race in India will return once more in the Spanish car.Last month it became clear that Karthikeyan in his home race would return to the cockpit with HRT.The Indian will thus take over the seat of Liuzzi.
Team boss Kolles went on: "For HRT, the race in India is even more special than for the other teams. We have Karthikeyan the first Indian driver and for our sponsor TATA it seems like we have a home race. Narain is a talented driver and we are glad we could race with his experience. I asked Tonio Liuzzi place just to stand and I have to thank him for his professionalism. "

Kind Regards
Shaky-Schumi

News flash :
"Next week announcing street race in New Jersey" . From 2013 there will be 2 Formula 1 Grands Prix in America, know Autosport to report. The British magazine reports that Bernie Ecclestone has been able to reach agreement with local politicians and so there will be about two years racing through the streets of New Jersey. An announcement will be made ​​next week.Ecclestone has never made ​​a secret of his love for organize a race in and around New York. Formula 1 goes next season back to America after an absence of four years and from 2013 there would be two races in America.According to sources, there is now an agreement and the confirmation of the event next week by Governor Chris Christie. The Grand Prix would have to find place in June 2013 so that the back-to-back will be the race in Canada. The Wall Street Journal reports that for a press conference is scheduled next Tuesday.Exactly where the race should be run is not yet clear, but likely at the edge of the Hudson river. This would raise the Manhattan skyline can be used as a backdrop .

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Shaky-Schumi

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After a miraculous comeback, Kimi Raikkonen and Ferrari graduate world champions respectively for the first and fifteenth time in the last GP of the season in Brazil

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(ANSA) - Two weeks after the first Grand Prix Formula 1 in India, a group of peasants back to protest against the construction of the circuit in Greater Noida, near New Delhi, for which the local government has expropriated their lands. The inhabitants of the village of Atta Gujran, near the new path, asking for compensation, jobs and the opening of a road blocked by the plant. Otherwise, the farmers are ready to block the gala 'Opening where they waited several celebrities'.

Off Topic :

bellerophon wrote:Hi Mr shaky-schumi

bellerophon's area's electricity went off at 2016 yesterday, so he is without power and cannot watch or listen to the race. He also can't use the telephone.

So he stopped me in the car in the town centre and asked me to conctact you using his log-in details when I got home.

I promised I would, so here is what was on the piece of paper he gave me he to write:

1. Button
2. Hamilton
3. Vettel

SC: >2

PS: 3

FL: Button

I hope this makes some sense to you and he hopes you can give him some special dispensation. He seems to have made a big effort to want to get this to you.

Thanks a lot
...............

So because i'm a friendly person i will let this vote of bellerophon count ..even when it was a bit later that i resieved it ..it will count for this race

Kind Regards
Shaky-Schumi

Here is the official result of todays race :

1. Sebastian Vettel: Red Bull Racing : 1:39.605
2. Lewis Hamilton : McLaren : + 12.019
3. Mark Webber Red Bull Racing : + 12.477
4. Jenson Button : McLaren : + 14.694
5. Fernando Alonso : Ferrari : + 15.689
6. Felipe Massa : Ferrari : + 25.133
7. Jaime Alguersuari : Toro Rosso : + 49.538
8. Nico Rosberg : Mercedes GP : + 54.053
9. Sébastien Buemi : Toro Rosso : + 1:02.762
10. Paul di Resta : Force India : + 1:08.602
11. Adrian Sutil: Force India : + 1:11.229
12. Rubens Barrichello : Williams : + 1:33.068
13. Bruno Senna : Lotus Renault : + 1 lap
14. Heikki Kovalainen : Team Lotus : + 1 lap
15. Kamui Kobayashi : Sauber : + 1 lap
16. Sergio Perez : Sauber : + 1 lap
17. Jarno Trulli: Team Lotus : + 1 lap
18. Timo Glock : Virgin Racing : + 1 lap
19. Daniel Ricciardo : HRT : + 1 lap
20. Jerome D'Ambrosio : Virgin Racing : + 1 lap
21. Vitantonio Liuzzi : HRT : + 3 laps
Did Not Finish:
22. Pastor Maldonado :Williams : not yet known
23. Vitaly Petrov : Lotus Renault : crash
24. Michael Schumacher : Mercedes GP : crash

Safetycar : 1
Fastest Lap : Sebastian Vettel : 1:39.605
Pitstops Hamilton : 2

Source : F1Today , The Official Formula 1 Website


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Shaky-Schumi