Formula 1 General Chat & Discussion

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


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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

the podium of the last three Italy GP

2010
1 Fernando Alonso Ferrari
2 Jenson Button Mc Laren-Mercedes
3 Felipe Massa Ferrari
fastest lap on race: Fernando Alonso Ferrari

2009
1. Rubens Barrichello Brawn-Mercedes
2 Jenson Button Brawn-Mercedes
3. Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari
fastest lap on race: Adrian Sutil Force India-Mercedes

2008
1 Sebastian Vettel Toro Rosso–Ferrari
2. Heikki Kovalainen McLaren-Mercedes
3 Robert Kubica BMW-Sauber
fastest lap on race Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari

will be the 62° edition of Italy GP
Until now 60 editions at Monza(this year will be 61); one edition in Imola 1980 but this circuit was home the San Marino Grand Prix from 1981 to 2006.
Only two countries: Great Britain and Italy have always held a Grand Prix F1 every year since 1950
The legendary circuit of Monza is made up of long straights, punctuated by tight chicanes and fast corners,
Here the cars have the lowest downforce level and the highest top speed. of all the current F1 circuits. For more than three-quarters of each 5.793 km lap, the drivers are on full throttle, reaching top speeds of almost 350 km/h; and the average lap speed is greater than 240 km/h This track is a difficult challenge for brakes and engines. The Parabolica is a corner very long and gradually increasing radius: after having passed the narrowest part you can go along the final section in full acceleration, running to the outside and the finish straight at speeds already very high. Other famous corners are the first Lesmo, and than the second Lesmo and “variante Ascari” a chicane dedicated to great pilot, dead here in 1955.
In 2008 first win for Vettel(Toro Rosso engine Ferrari) – Schumacher 5 wins – Barrichello 3 wins and Alonso 2 wins. Hamilton Button and Webber have never won at this track.
The FIA has announced that there will be two separate DRS zones Also in Montreal and Valencia there was a ‘double DRS zone’ but a single ‘detection point’. Instead, at Monza, there will be two independent zones with their own detection points: one on the start/finish straight and the other on the tree-lined straight connecting the second Lesmo and the Ascari chicane.
The medium(white) and the soft(yellow) tyre will be used as “prime” and “option” respectively, as in the last race at Spa. This year probably will no longer use the hard compound tyres(silver)
The podium after 12 races:
1° place: Vettel 7 – Hamilton 2 – Button 2 – Alonso 1
2° place; Vettel 4 – Alonso 3 – Hamilton 2 – Webber 2 – Button 1
3° place; Webber 5 – Button 3 – Alonso 2 – Heidfeld 1 – Petrov 1
Total podium: Vettel 11 – Webber 7 – Alonso and Button 6 – Hamilton 4 – Heidfeld and Petrov 1
Fastest lap on race: Webber 5 – Hamilton 2 – Massa 2 – Vettel 1 – Alonso 1 – Button 1

....a bit of story

ferrari millechili

The Ferrari Millechili is a concept car designed by the carmaker Italian Ferrari , and this thought is presented to the public through a model of the physical in 2007 .
From this concept comes a collaboration between the house of Maranello and the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the ' University of Modena and Reggio Emilia , which gives rise to a lab for study , research and training called Millechili Lab .
With the concept Millechili Ferrari wanted to incorporate into a single ideal car all the technologies that will be present in their cars next production. The car never actually existed, because it was too early to implement it in its place was built a 1:1 scale model, not marching, the appearance of the Ferrari Enzo . Although all the features of the car may never have taken shape in a single concept car anticipatory, these were distributed in the various models produced after negl'anni. As the name suggests one of the key concepts is the lightness, with the aim to increase not only performance but also to reduce consumption by making more sustainable use of the vehicle, a philosophy which until a few years before it was totally unrelated to ' company. To make 300 kg lighter than the Enzo Ferrari's engineers have designed the 1 meter shorter, and made ​​other arrangements (such as removing the seats) but did not fold in carbon fiber , whose production and disposal is far that sustainable from the point of view of the environment . The Millechili, solutions also anticipates that it turned negl'anni grow very fast after his presentation, many concepts and models of various other car manufacturers. In fact the car is equipped with a hybrid power system characterized by an electric motor of 60 KW approached the V12 in gasoline , it is equipped with direct injection , a solution that finds its embodiment in series production at home with Ferrari Ferrari California . The propulsion system is another innovative feature, derived from the developments made ​​by the Scuderia Ferrari in Formula 1 : the Kers , anticipating another concept car, the horse: the HY-KERS 599 . This system consists in accumulating energy during braking and then return it in acceleration. In concept, there are also other innovations that within a few years have been used on production models like the new gearbox with double clutch that reduces the time changed from 150 ms of the most powerful present at that moment in a production model the house, at 30 ms, is applied on the first California and then on the Ferrari 458 Italy . In the latter has also been applied to study the unusual aerodynamic Millechili developed right on the envelope that consists of mobile appendages of the car body, which change shape depending on the speed, just like in Italy 458. As for the ' braking the Ferrari turned to Brembo discs for carbonceramici of 350 mm .
"Millechili Lab" is a project born from the collaboration between Ferrari and the faculty of engineering mechanics of the ' University of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia with the intention of training students and funding of research and development of new technologies in order to reduce weight to their cars. The main purpose of the project is to study and design Millechili frames of cars read for high-performance models, thanks to the work of students and doctoral students . There are only a few conditions for the design , namely the possibility of commissioning a series of products and compliance with the required high-performance models. The future looms, created for cars with mid-engine , should be available in 2012 . The project has different technical expertise, including the workstation system with Unix , as well as two with Windows . Each PC was equipped with various software such as CAD , the same used by Ferrari. This was done to simplify the data transmission.
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spa highlights

maybe there is shaky in the video

brudgon wrote:ferrari f50gt

exemplary products only 3

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Ferrari F50 GT - Ferrari F50 modernized version designed for racetracks. However, he never took part in any race because of the drastic changes in the class in which he was to start. Car engine was upgraded with a serial model has been tweaked and obtain the power of 750KM. After these modifications F50 GT accelerate to hundreds in 2.9 is the maximum speed reached in a row 380km / h.

One of the three produced F50 GT is broken into Laguna Seca track, after the incident was sent to Ferrari to rebuild it. During this process, the car lost weight and got more powerful engine with a power 900KM.""""--- > very , verrry nice.......?! [ They like to experiment ....I it ]

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