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Update : Lewis Hamilton ...has his car stopped on the track ....already a problem... a bit of smoke comes out of his car !!!!!

Overview driver helmets season 2014

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Tomorrow morning starts the first practice sessions of the new F1 season . Therefore it's the time to know the numbers of the drivers from this season, all riders have a solid start number from now on . Only the world champion, Sebastian Vettel, in this case, may choose to exchange his starting number :

Red Bull
1. Sebastian Vettel (number 5 if no reigning world champion)
3. Daniel Ricciardo

Ferrari
14. Fernando Alonso
7. Kimi Raikkonen

McLaren
22. Jenson Button
20. Kevin Magnussen

Mercedes
44. Lewis Hamilton
6. Nico Rosberg

Lotus
8. Romain Grosjean
13. Pastor Maldonado

Force India
27. Nico Hülkenberg
11. Sergio Perez

Sauber
99. Adrian Sutil
21. Esteban Gutierrez

Scuderia Toro Rosso
25. Jean-Eric Vergne
26. Daniel Kvyat

Williams
19. Felipe Massa
77. Valtteri Bottas

Caterham
9. Marcus Ericcson
10. Kamui Kobayashi

Marussia
4. Max Chilton
17. Jules Bianchi

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( I'm ready for tonight's 1st practice sessions ... I have taken a vacation day ...it's a tradition since many years that I take 1 with the start of the season as well at the end of the season

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Australian Gran Prix – Melbourne circuit;

Albert Park has some elements of a street circuit and others of a permanent circuit
Pirelli has chosen the “White medium” and “Yellow soft” compounds for this weekend
(all the tyres in the 2014 range are slightly harder and more durable than their equivalents last year)

Podium 2011: Vettel(Red Bull) – 2° Hamilton and 3° Petrov. Fastest lap: Massa
pole position : Vettel 1'23''529

Podium 2012: Button(Mc Laren) – 2° Vettel and 3° Hamilton. Fastest lap: Button
pole position : Hamilton 1'24''922

Podium 2013: Raikkonen (Lotus) – 2° Alonso and 3° Vettel. Fastest lap: Raikkonen
pole position : Vettel 1'27''407 * damp track

the winners (current pilots)
3 wins: Button (2009-2010-2012)
2 wins Raikkonen (2007-2013)
1 win: Vettel(2011) Hamilton(2008) and Alonso(2006)

pole position (current pilots)
3 pole: Vettel(2010-2011-2013)
2 pole: Hamilton (2008-2012) and Button(2006-2009)
1 pole: Raikkonen(2007)

Fastest lap (current pilots)
5: Raikkonen (2002-2003-2006-2007-2013)
1: Alonso(2005); Rosberg(2009); Massa(2011); Button(2012)

Podium(winner+second+third)
5 (2+1+2) Raikkonen (two wins + one second place + 2 third place)
5 (1+2+2) Alonso
4 (1+1+2) Hamilton
3 (3+0+0) Button
3 (1+1+1) Vettel
One third place also for Massa and Rosberg.

Good news about Schumi and this time they are true, since they come from his agent Sabine Kehm,
who said that there are little improvements and his family is sure that he will wake up, even if this fight
remains long and hard, but all the energy of his family and his fans will help Michael to win also this battle
Come on Schumi, you can do it

Round 1, Australian Grand Prix at Albert Park, Melbourne

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Albert Park Circuit Data
•Length of lap: 5.303km
•Lap record 1:25.125 (Michael Schumacher, Ferrari, 2004)
•Start line/finish line offset: 0.000km
•Total number of race laps: 58
•Total race distance: 307.574km
•Pitlane speed limits: 60km/h in practice and 100km/h in qualifying and race

DRS Zones & Circuit Notes
•The kerb on the exit of Turn 12 has been levelled and renewed (with the same design of kerb).
•DRS sectors will be the same as those used in 2013. Activation One is 762m before Turn One, Activation Two is 510m before Turn Three. They share a single detection point, located 13m before Turn 14.

Friday :
1st Free Practice Session : 02:30 - 04:00 CET
2nd Free Practice Session : 06:30 - 08:00 CET
Saturday :
3rd Free Practice Session 04:00 - 05:00 CET
Qualifying : 07:00 CET
Sunday :
Race :| 07:00 CET

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shaky-schumi wrote:This is how the Williams Mercedes FW36 F1 car is presented in this years color . We have back the Martini logo/sponsor in the Highest race category !!!

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Brabham BT44b 1975

The season of Formula 1 is about to begin in Melbourne(Albert Park)
This year there will be many changes and the most important is: the new f1 2014 Power Unit(PU)
It is comprised of a 1.6-liter turbocharged V6 engine mated to a new Energy Recovery System(ERS) with two electric motors – one recovering energy from the brakes(MGU-K) and the other from the exhaust(MGU-H) – storing the energy in an onboard battery Together they're capable of producing 760 horsepower – around 600 horses comes from the internal-combustion engine and the rest from the hybrid assist.
Drivers are allowed only five power units per season and the specification was already frozen for this year on February 28
Different penalties on the starting grid will be applied for each additional element used. In case of replacement of a complete power unit (beyond the 5 permitted) the pilot must start the race from the pit lane.
In addition, each driver will be allowed just 100 kg (140 litres) of fuel per race in 2014,
easy to understand that decisive for the victory will be therefore reliability and the fuel consumption optimization

other change: Less downforce in rear zone due a single exhaust pipe and also narrower front wing; the car minimum weight limit has been increased to 690 kg. For these reasons, the lap times should be higher. in Bahrain Felipe Massa ended testing with the fastest time overall of 1m 33.258s, while Nico Rosberg’s pole time for the 2013 grand Prix was 1m 32.330s.

This year will be very important the Power Unit(PU)
Mercedes AMG – Mc Laren – Williams and Force India are powered by Mercedes
Scuderia Ferrari – Sauber and Marussia are powered by Ferrari
Red Bull – Lotus – Toro Rosso and Caterham are powered by Renault

The preseason tests(Jerez and Bahrain) have been dominated by Mercedes powered teams
and especially the new Mercedes AMG F1 W05 (Hamilton and Rosberg) seems the best.
Ferrari a step below
Williams (Massa and Bottas) could be the surprise of the season.
Also Mc Laren MP4-29(Button and Magnussen, a rookie very fast) seems a good car.

Great difficulties for the team powered by Renault
Red Bull continued to struggle with reliability problems. and during the tests they chalked up a total of just over 1,700 kilometres (Mercedes and Williams 5000 km for each, Ferrari 4500 km)

Last thing. This year there will be other new absurd penalty for drivers and the new double points system to the final race in Abu Dhabi. A rule unsportsmanlike, only for the show.

The thrill is rising up ... this week... the F1 will start !

this year is different, this year is special, new rules, new limits, new cars, new frontiers to be reached for the technicians and the teams.

I am very excited because for the first time after years i really don't have a clue about who is the stronger and the faster.
For the first time after a long long time i really don't know who can be the real pretender of the championship title !!!

I don't know even if there are many or few reliability problems !
It could be happening that few cars will reach the finishing line...
looks like to get back to the '80 when everything can happening !!

Good luck everybody !
Ferrari win !!!

GO KIMI GOOOO !!!!!

p.s. Schumi, never give up, never surrender !! go Schumi gooo !!!!

Introducing the F1 drivers of 2014 :

Red Bull Racing

Chassis : RB10

Sebastian Vettel
Starting number: 1
Nationality : German
Date of Birth : July 3, 1987 (26 years )
Grand Prix debut : United States , 2007
Total number of starts : 120
Total wins : 39
Total number of podiums : 62
Total number of pole positions : 45
Total fastest laps : 22
Total points: 1,451
World Titles : 4 ( 2010, 2011 , 2012, 2013 )
Final Rank in 2013 : champion with 397 points


Daniel Ricciardo
Bib Number : 3
Nationality: Australian
Birthdate : July 1, 1989 (24 years )
Grand Prix debut : Great Britain , 2011
Total number of starts : 50
Total wins : 0
Total podium places : 0
Total number of pole positions : 0
Total fastest laps : 0
Total points: 30
World Titles : no
End Ranking 2013 : 14th with 20 points


Mercedes AMG Petronas

Chassis : F1 W05

Nico Rosberg
Bib Number : 6
Nationality : German
Date of Birth : June 27, 1985 (28 years )
Grand Prix debut : Bahrain , 2006
Total number of starts : 147
Total wins : 3
Total number of podiums : 11
Total number of pole positions : 4
Total fastest laps : 4
Total Points: 570.5
World Titles : no
Final Rank in 2013 : 6th with 171 points


Lewis Hamilton
Bib Number : 44
Nationality : British
Date of Birth : January 7, 1985 ( 29 years )
Grand Prix debut : Australia , 2007
Total number of starts : 129
Total wins : 22
Total number of podiums : 54
Total number of pole positions : 31
Total fastest laps : 13
Total points: 1,102
World Titles : 1 (2008 )
Final Rank in 2013 : 4th with 189 points


Scuderia Ferrari

Chassis : F14 T

Fernando Alonso
Bib Number : 14
Nationality : Spanish
Birthdate : July 29, 1981 (32 years )
Grand Prix debut : Australia , 2001
Total number of starts : 216
Total wins : 32
Total number of podiums : 95
Total number of pole positions : 22
Total fastest laps : 21
Total points: 1,606
World Titles : 2 (2005 , 2006)
Final Rank in 2013 : 2nd with 242 points

Kimi Raikkonen
Bib Number : 7
Nationality : Finnish
Date of Birth : October 17, 1979 (34 years )
Grand Prix debut : Australia , 2001
Total number of starts : 193
Total wins : 20
Total number of podiums : 77
Total number of pole positions : 16
Total fastest laps : 39
Total points: 969
World Titles : 1 (2007 )
Final Rank in 2013 : 5th with 183 points


Lotus F1 Team

Chassis : E22

Romain Grosjean
Bib Number : 8
Nationality : French
Birthdate : April 17, 1986 (27 years )
Grand Prix debut : Europe , 2009
Total number of starts : 45
Total wins : 0
Total number of podiums : 9
Total number of pole positions : 0
Total fastest laps : 1
Total points: 228
World Titles : no
Final Rank in 2013 : 7th with 132 points

Pastor Maldonado
Bib Number : 13
Nationality : Venezuelan
Date of Birth : March 10, 1985 (28 years )
Grand Prix debut : Australia , 2011
Total number of starts : 58
Total wins : 1
Total podium places : 1
Total number of pole positions : 1
Total fastest laps : 0
Total points: 47
World Titles : no
End Ranking 2013 : 18th with 1 point


McLaren Mercedes

Chassis : MP4 -29

Jenson Button
Bib Number : 22
Nationality : British
Date of Birth : January 19, 1980 ( 34 years )
Grand Prix debut : Australia , 2000
Total number of starts : 247
Total wins : 15
Total number of podiums : 49
Total number of pole positions : 8
Total fastest laps : 8
Total points: 1,072
World Titles : 1 (2009 )
Final Rank in 2013 : 9th with 73 points


Kevin Magnussen
Bib Number : 20
Nationality : Danish
Date of Birth : October 5, 1992 (21 years )
Grand Prix debut : Australia , 2014
Total number of starts : 0
Total wins : 0
Total podium places : 0
Total number of pole positions : 0
Total fastest laps : 0
Total points: 0
World Titles : no
Final Rank in 2013 : champion in World Series by Renault


Sahara Force India

Chassis : VJM07

Nico Hülkenberg
Bib Number : 27
Nationality : German
Date of Birth : August 19, 1987 (26 years )
Grand Prix debut : Bahrain , 2010
Total number of starts : 57
Total wins : 0
Total podium places : 0
Total number of pole positions : 1
Total fastest laps : 1
Total points: 136
World Titles : no
End Ranking 2013 : 10th with 51 points

Sergio Perez
Bib Number : 11
Nationality : Mexican
Date of Birth : January 26, 1990 (24 years )
Grand Prix debut : Australia , 2011
Total number of starts : 56
Total wins : 0
Total podium places : 3
Total number of pole positions : 0
Total fastest laps : 2
Total points: 129
World Titles : no
End Ranking 2013 : 11th with 49 points

Sauber F1 Team

Chassis : C33

Adrian Sutil
Bib Number : 99
Nationality : German
Date of Birth : January 11, 1983 (31 years )
Grand Prix debut : Australia , 2007
Total number of starts : 109
Total wins : 0
Total podium places : 0
Total number of pole positions : 0
Total fastest laps : 1
Total points: 124
World Titles : no
End Ranking 2013 : 13th with 29 points


Esteban Gutierrez
Bib Number : 21
Nationality : Mexican
Date of Birth : August 5, 1991 (22 years )
Grand Prix debut : Australia , 2013
Total number of starts : 19
Total wins : 0
Total podium places : 0
Total number of pole positions : 0
Total fastest laps : 1
Total points: 6
World Titles : no
End Ranking 2013 : 16th with 6 points


Scuderia Toro Rosso

Chassis : STR9

Jean - Eric Vergne
Bib Number : 25
Nationality : French
Birthdate : April 25, 1990 (22 years )
Grand Prix debut : Australia , 2012
Total number of starts : 39
Total wins : 0
Total podium places : 0
Total number of pole positions : 0
Total fastest laps : 0
Total points: 29
World Titles : no
End Ranking 2013 : 15th with 13 points


Daniil Kvyat
Bib Number : 26
Nationality : Russian
Birthdate : April 26, 1994 (19 years )
Grand Prix debut : Australia , 2014
Total number of starts : 0
Total wins : 0
Total podium places : 0
Total number of pole positions : 0
Total fastest laps : 0
Total points: 0
World Titles : no
Final Rank in 2013 : GP3 champion


Williams Martini Racing

Chassis : FW36

Felipe Massa
Bib Number : 19
Nationality : Brazilian
Birthdate : April 25, 1981 (32 years )
Grand Prix debut : Australia , 2002
Total number of starts : 191
Total wins : 11
Total number of podiums : 36
Total number of pole positions : 15
Total fastest laps : 14
Total points: 816
World Titles : no
Final Rank in 2013 : 8th with 112 points


Valtteri Bottas
Bib Number : 77
Nationality : Finnish
Date of Birth : August 28, 1989 (24 years )
Grand Prix debut : Australia , 2013
Total number of starts : 19
Total wins : 0
Total podium places : 0
Total number of pole positions : 0
Total fastest laps : 0
Total points: 4
World Titles : no
End Ranking 2013 : 17th with 4 points


Marussia Racing

Chassis : MR03

Jules Bianchi
Bib Number : 17
Nationality : French
Date of Birth : August 3, 1989 (24 years )
Grand Prix debut : Australia , 2013
Total number of starts : 19
Total wins : 0
Total podium places : 0
Total number of pole positions : 0
Total fastest laps : 0
Total points: 0
World Titles : no
End Ranking 2013 : 19th with 0 points

Max Chilton
Bib Number : 4
Nationality : British
Birthdate : April 21, 1991 (22 years )
Grand Prix debut : Australia , 2013
Total number of starts : 19
Total wins : 0
Total podium places : 0
Total number of pole positions : 0
Total fastest laps : 0
Total points: no
World Titles : no
Final Rank in 2013 : 23 with 0 points


Caterham F1 Team

Chassis : CT05

Kamui Kobayashi
Bib Number : 10
Nationality : Japanese
Birthdate : September 13, 1986 (27 years )
Grand Prix debut : Brazil , 2009
Total number of starts : 60
Total wins : 0
Total podium places : 1
Total number of pole positions : 0
Total fastest laps : 1
Total points: 125
World Titles : no
Final Rank in 2013 : 7th in World Endurance Championship

Marcus Ericsson
Bib Number : 9
Nationality : Swedish
Birthdate : September 2, 1990 (23 years )
Grand Prix debut : Australia , 2014
Total number of starts : 0
Total wins : 0
Total podium places : 0
Total number of pole positions : 0
Total fastest laps : 0
Total points: 0
World Titles : no
Final Rank in 2013 : 6th in GP2

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Bahrain F1 test: Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes end winter on top :
Lewis Hamilton returned Mercedes to the top of the times while Red Bull's struggles continued during the final pre-season Formula 1 test of 2014 in Bahrain. The 2008 world champion made a late start, after losing most of the morning to a gearbox issue on the W05, but worked his way to the top of the times as the afternoon progressed. He fell just 0.02 seconds short of beating Felipe Massa's Sakhir circuit pre-season benchmark from Saturday's test and bumped Massa's Williams team-mate Valtteri Bottas from the top spot, after the Finn had led the way for most of the day before stopping on the start-finish straight with a mechanical issue. Sebastian Vettel endured another frustrating day in Red Bull's RB10, suffering what the team described as "a mechanical issue at the front of the car", which pitched the world champion off at Turn 1 before lunch. The German returned to the track in the afternoon, and racked up a total of 77 laps, but at reduced pace. He wound up ninth fastest thanks to late improvements under the floodlights, but still over four seconds off Hamilton. Fernando Alonso set Ferrari's fastest time of pre-season around the Sakhir circuit to go third fastest, after the F14 T caused one of eight red flags across the day when Alonso stopped at Turn 12.Romain Grosjean's Lotus, Jenson Button's McLaren, and Nico Hulkenberg's Force India all suffered engine failures that curtailed their running early, while clutch issues forced Kamui Kobayashi's Caterham to stop prematurely too. Jean-Eric Vergne enjoyed arguably Toro Rosso's most successful day of pre-season, clocking 74 laps and the fifth fastest time. Adrian Sutil and Esteban Gutierrez split driving duties in the Sauber and racked up more laps between them (177) than anyone else. Electrical dramas delayed Max Chilton, but the Brit made a late surge to seventh on the timesheet, splitting the Sauber drivers with Marussia's fastest lap of pre-season around this track.Thus ended a drama packed Formula 1 preseason, the next episode being the real deal when engines fire up in anger for the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne ( 14th - 16th march ) !!!

01 Lewis Hamilton - Mercedes - 1:33.278 -69 laps
02 Valtteri Bottas - Williams - 1:33.987 +0.709 - 108 laps
03 Fernando Alonso - Ferrari - 1:34.280 +1.002 - 74 laps
04 Nico Hulkenberg - Force India - 1:35.577 +2.299 - 74 laps
05 Jean-Eric Vergne - Toro Rosso - 1:35.701 +2.423 - 74 laps
06 Adrian Sutil - Sauber - 1;36.467 +3.189 - 91 laps
07 Max Chilton - Marussia - 1:36.835 +3.557 - 61 laps
08 Esteban Gutierrez - Sauber - 1:37.303 +4.025 - 85 laps
09 Sebastian Vettel - Red Bull - 1:37.468 +4.190 - 77 laps
10 Jenson Button - McLaren - 1:38.111 +4.833 - 22 laps
11 Kamui Kobayashi - Caterham - 1:38.391 +5.113 - 106 laps
12 Romain Grosjean - Lotus - 1:39.302 +6.024 - 32 laps

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Bahrain Test II Day 3: Massa raises the bar as world champions fail to do a lap :
Felipe Massa set the fastest time of Formula 1 pre-season testing in Bahrain so far on Saturday, as Sebastian Vettel failed to complete a lap for Red Bull. Williams focused on performance work for Massa's final day in the car before the Australian Grand Prix weekend, and late in the afternoon the Brazilian, on supersoft tyres, set the quickest time over the two tests at Sakhir this pre-season.
Nico Rosberg - who completed 103 laps despite losing most of the morning due to an engine change - also went out on supersofts and briefly stole top spot from Massa with around 15 minutes to go, but the Williams went back out and beat his time by 0.2 seconds.
At the other end of the timing screens sat world champion Vettel, who took over from Daniel Ricciardo following Red Bull's best day of pre-season so far. However, there was no continuation of that momentum for Vettel, who stopped halfway round his out-lap after waiting nearly three hours to head out of the garage for the first time. The RB10 was sent out again before lunch, but this time it only made it to the end of the pitlane before Vettel stopped and had to push the car back. After that the Red Bull mechanics closed the garage doors, and the car did not reappear. Sauber and Lotus were the other teams in trouble. The Swiss team managed one lap before Adrian Sutil pulled to a stop at the pit entry with smoke coming out of the C33, requiring an engine change that could not be completed in time for him to run again. Romain Grosjean was back in the Lotus for the first time at this final test, and after electrical problems prevented him from running in the morning, his day ended after just 33 laps with an MGU-K problem that was too big to fix before the end of the running. In terms of race simulations, Force India followed its programme from the past two days with Sergio Perez, giving Nico Hulkenberg set-up work to do in the morning before a race run in the afternoon. Ferrari had a quiet morning on Kimi Raikkonen's final day in the car, and it finally managed to carry out some race simulation work with the Finn in the final two hours of the day. That left just enough time for some short runs just before the end, which enabled the 2007 world champion to set the third-fastest time.

1 F.Massa - Williams - 1.33.258 - 99 laps
2 N.Rosberg - Mercedes - 1.33.484 +0.226 - 103 laps
3 K.Raikkonen - Ferrari - 1.35.487 +2.229 - 87 laps
4 K.Magnussen - McLaren - 1.35.894 +2.636 - 88 laps
5 D.Kvyat - Toro Rosso - 1.36.113 +2.855 - 80 laps
6 N.Hulkenberg - Force India - 1.36.205 +2.947 - 115 laps
7 J.Bianchi - Marussia - 1.37.087 +3.829 - 78 laps
8 M.Ericsson - Caterham - 1.38.083 +4.825 - 117 laps
9 R.Grosjean - Lotus - 1.42.166 +8.908 - 33 laps
10 A.Sutil - Sauber - 1 lap
11 S.Vettel - Red Bull - 0 laps

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