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04.04.2014, 19:01

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Result of the 2nd practice session of the GP of Bahrain :

1. Lewis Hamilton - Mercedes GP - 1:34.325
2. Nico Rosberg - Mercedes GP - 1:34.690 +0.365
3. Fernando Alonso - Ferrari - 1:35.360 +1.035
4. Daniel Ricciardo - Red Bull Racing - 1:35.433 +1.108
5. Felipe Massa - Williams - 1:35.442 +1.117
6. Jenson Button - McLaren - 1:35.528 +1.203
7. Sebastian Vettel - Red Bull Racing - 1:35.606 +1.281
8. Daniil Kvyat - Toro Rosso - 1:35.640 +1.315
9. Kevin Magnussen - McLaren - 1:35.662 +1.337
10. Sergio Perez - Force India - 1:35.802 +1.477
11. Valtteri Bottas - Williams - 1:35.920 +1.595
12. Jean-Eric Vergne - Toro Rosso - 1:35.972 +1.647
13. Nico Hulkenberg - Force India - 1:35.998 +1.673
14. Kimi Räikkönen - Ferrari - 1:36.366 +2.041
15. Adrian Sutil - Sauber - 1:36.962 +2.637
16. Esteban Gutierrez - Sauber - 1:36.975 +2.650
17. Pastor Maldonado - Lotus - 1:37.259 +2.934
18. Romain Grosjean - Lotus - 1:37.599 +3.274
19. Jules Bianchi - Marussia F1 Team - 1:37.800 +3.475
20. Max Chilton - Marussia F1 Team - 1:38.247 +3.922
21. Kamui Kobayashi - Caterham - 1:38.257 +3.932
22. Marcus Ericsson - Caterham - 1:39.136 +4.811

Hamilton's run continues under lights :
Lewis Hamilton's run of form continued in Bahrain on Friday night when the Mercedes driver claimed the first P1 under the lights.
This season, to mark the 10th running of the Bahrain Grand Prix, the race has become a night event with hundreds of spotlights shinning down on the desert track. Hamilton led the way under lights as the British driver posted a 1:34.325 on the soft Pirelli tyres. It was yet another P1 for the 2008 World Champion, the winner of the last race in Malaysia. Continuing the Brackley team's domination, Nico Rosberg brought his W05 across the line with the second fastest time, 0.365s down on his team-mate.
Fernando Alonso was the closest challenger to the Merc duo as he posted a 1:35.360. That, though, put the Ferrari driver a full second behind Hamilton while Daniel Ricciardo was fourth for Red Bull Racing ahead of Felipe Massa, Jenson Button and Sebastian Vettel. And although the Mercedes drivers had a notable advantage, it was close behind them as from Alonso in third to Kimi Raikkonen in 14th there was just a second separating the runners. Meanwhile there were again issues for Lotus as Pastor Maldonado damaged his E22 when he flew over a kerb while Romain Grosjean suffered a misfire. They did, however, each complete more than 20 laps. Two other drivers, Max Chilton and Marcus Ericsson, didn't see the end of the 90-minute session as car problems meant they stopped out on track while Adrian Sutil had an electrical problem that cost him track time.

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04.04.2014, 17:56

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Result of the 1st practice session of the GP of Bahrain :

1. Lewis Hamilton - Mercedes GP - 1:37.502
2. Nico Rosberg - Mercedes GP - 1:37.733 +0.231
3. Fernando Alonso - Ferrari - 1:37.953 +0.451
4. Nico Hulkenberg - Force India - 1:38.122 +0.620
5. Jenson Button - McLaren - 1:38.636 +1.134
6. Kimi Räikkönen - Ferrari - 1:38.783 +1.281
7. Kevin Magnussen - McLaren - 1:38.949 +1.447
8. Daniil Kvyat - Toro Rosso - 1:39.056 +1.554
9. Sergio Perez - Force India - 1:39.102 +1.600
10. Sebastian Vettel - Red Bull Racing - 1:39.389 +1.887
11. Felipe Massa - Williams - 1:39.533 +2.031
12. Jean-Eric Vergne - Toro Rosso - 1:39.862 +2.360
13. Felipe Nasr - Williams - 1:40.078 +2.576
14. Daniel Ricciardo - Red Bull Racing - 1:40.406 +2.904
15. Adrian Sutil - Sauber - 1:40.652 +3.150
16. Pastor Maldonado - Lotus - 1:40.793 +3.291
17. Jules Bianchi - Marussia F1 Team - 1:40.889 +3.387
18. Giedo van der Garde - Sauber - 1:40.913 +3.411
19. Romain Grosjean - Lotus - 1:41.036 +3.534
20. Max Chilton - Marussia F1 Team - 1:41.794 +4.292
21. Robin Frijns - Caterham - 1:42.417 +4.915
22. Marcus Ericsson - Caterham - 1:42.711 +5.209

Hamilton tops as Mercedes flex their muscles again :
Five days ago Lewis Hamilton celebrated on the top step of the Sepang podium after winning the Malaysian Grand Prix, and on the opening day of the Bahrain Grand Prix weekend the Mercedes driver topped the time sheets at the end of Free Practice 1 with his teammate Nico Rosberg next best. Hamilton’s best time of 1:37.502 was 0.231 faster than Rosberg, and almost a half second up on Fernando Alonso in the Ferrari. There was a Keystone Cops moment at when they sent Alonso out with a Pirelli soft tyre on the front left and a medium compound tyre on the front right, when the penny dropped the Spaniard stopped in the pit lane whereupon mechanics retrieved the F14T. A red face moment for the Reds. At one stage during the session Mercedes powered cars hogged the top five positions on the timing screens, with Nico Hulkenberg right in there, and finishing fourth fastest when the 90 minute session was flagged. Hi teammate Sergio Perez was ninth fastest, but over a second down on his teammate. Jenson Button was fifth fastest in the McLaren, albeit over a second down on the top time with tookie teammate Kevin Magnussen seventh fastest. Splitting the McLaren pair was Kimi Raikkonen who set the sixth best time, which was 0.830 of a second adrift of his Ferrari teammate Alonso.
Fastest of the Renault brigade was rookie Daniil Kvyat, who ended the session eighth fastest in the Toro Rosso. Sebastian Vettel rounded out the top ten in the Red Bull, 1.887 slower than Hamilton’s best. Notably down the order was Daniel Ricciardo who was 14th, but a whopping three seconds adrift of the benchmark time. And even further down the order were the Lotus duo with Pastor Maldonado and Romain Grosjean, 16th and 19th respectively, both managing decent mileage but struggling to squeeze pace from the E22. Reserve drivers in action on the day included: Williams’ Felipe Nasr making his free practice debut in place of Valtteri Bottas, and ended 13th fastest; Sauber’s Giedo van der Garde was 18th, in place of Esteban Gutierrez; and Caterham’s highly rated Robin Frijns, in place of Kamui Kobayashi, was 0.3secs faster than teammate Marcus Ericsson who was slowest of all.
It is early days in Bahrain and perhaps a tad too early to be making assumptions, however one can take for granted that Mercedes will be strong this weekend as they set about their business with consumate, with Ferrari appearing to be up for the chase, although Alonso in particular was really thrashing it about, as the Renault posse play catch-up again or perhaps they have yet to unleash their firepower .

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04.04.2014, 13:24

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Great news about Schumi !!!!

he is truly waking up now Thumb upThumb upThumb up

GO SCHUMI GOOOO !!!

04.04.2014, 12:24

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03.04.2014, 20:47

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The Sakhir circuit will host the Bahrain Grand Prix. This year is the 10th edition. First edition in 2004.
Pirelli has chosen the “White medium” and “Yellow soft” compounds for this weekend

Podium 2011: the GP was cancelled

Podium 2012: Vettel(Red Bull) – 2° Raikkonen and 3° Grosjean. Fastest lap: Vettel
pole position : Vettel 1'32''422

Podium 2013: Vettel(Red Bull) – 2° Raikkonen and 3° Grosjean. Fastest lap: Vettel
pole position : Rosberg 1'32''330

• 2012 and 2013 the same podium for two years in a row

the winners
3 wins: Alonso (2005-2006-2010)
2 wins Vettel (2012-2013) and Massa (2007-2008)
1 win: Button(2009)

Pole Position
2 pole: Vettel(2010-2012)
1 pole: Alonso (2005); Massa(2007) and Rosberg(2013)

Fastest lap
2: Vettel (2012-2013)
1: Alonso (2010); Massa(2007) and Rosberg(2006)

• Pole Position & Fastest lap: the same pilots

Podium(winner+second+third) for current pilots at Sakhir
6 (0 win + 3 second +3 third) Raikkonen
3 (3+0+0) Alonso
3 (2+1+0) Vettel
3 (2+1+0) Massa
2 (1+0+1) Button
2 (0+1+1) Hamilton
2 (0+0+2) Grosjean

One month ago. the Sakhir circuit has hosted the last pre-season testing in Bahrain and Felipe Massa scored the quickest lap time

Felipe Massa Williams1:33.258 (tyre supersoft new)
Lewis Hamilton Mercedes1:33.278 (tyre soft used)
Nico Rosberg Mercedes1:33.484 (tyre supersoft new)
Valtteri Bottas Williams1:33.987 (tyre soft new)
Fernando Alonso Ferrari1:34.280 (tyre supersoft new)

these were the five best times, in the last test before the start of the season
the gap on the flying lap compared to last year might be small
Pole time 2013 (1'32''330)

03.04.2014, 18:06

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Latest news about Michael Schumacher from his manager Sabine Kehm : "All I can say is that there are
encouraging signals" she said to "Bild", "we hope they will continue" SmileSmileSmile
"Bild" also wrote that in next days Schumi could leave Grenoble hospital and be transferred to another clinic

30.03.2014, 15:04

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2014 FORMULA 1 GULF AIR BAHRAIN GRAND PRIX
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Fri 04 April 2014
Practice 1 13:00 - 14:30
Practice 2 17:00 - 18:30
Sat 05 April 2014
Practice 3 14:00 - 15:00
Qualifying 17:00
Sun 06 April 2014
Race 17:00

30.03.2014, 15:01

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drivers standings
1 Nico Rosberg German Mercedes 43
2 Lewis Hamilton British Mercedes 25
3 Fernando Alonso Spanish Ferrari 24
4 Jenson Button British McLaren-Mercedes 23
5 Kevin Magnussen Danish McLaren-Mercedes 20
6 Nico Hulkenberg German Force India-Mercedes 18
7 Sebastian Vettel German Red Bull Racing-Renault 15
8 Valtteri Bottas Finnish Williams-Mercedes 14
9 Kimi Räikkönen Finnish Ferrari 6
10 Felipe Massa Brazilian Williams-Mercedes 6
11 Jean-Eric Vergne French STR-Renault 4
12 Daniil Kvyat Russian STR-Renault 3
13 Sergio Perez Mexican Force India-Mercedes 1
14 Romain Grosjean French Lotus-Renault 0
15 Adrian Sutil German Sauber-Ferrari 0
16 Esteban Gutierrez Mexican Sauber-Ferrari 0
17 Max Chilton British Marussia-Ferrari 0
18 Kamui Kobayashi Japanese Caterham-Renault 0
19 Marcus Ericsson Swedish Caterham-Renault 0
20 Jules Bianchi French Marussia-Ferrari 0
21 Pastor Maldonado Venezuelan Lotus-Renault 0
22 Daniel Ricciardo Australian Red Bull Racing-Renault 0

30.03.2014, 15:01

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constructors standings
1 Mercedes 68
2 McLaren-Mercedes 43
3 Ferrari 30
4 Williams-Mercedes 20
5 Force India-Mercedes 19
6 Red Bull Racing-Renault 15
7 STR-Renault 7
8 Sauber-Ferrari 0
9 Lotus-Renault 0
10 Caterham-Renault 0
11 Marussia-Ferrari 0

30.03.2014, 14:46

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Update :

Daniel Ricciardo gets Bahrain grid penalty :
Daniel Ricciardo has been given a 10-place grid penalty for the Bahrain Grand Prix as a punishment for an 'unsafe pit release' by Red Bull in Malaysia. Although he also received a 10-second stop/go penalty during the race, under the 2014 Formula 1 rules a grid demotion at the subsequent race is also applied. The Australian was running fourth when he exited his pit before the left front wheel was properly attached at his final stop. Ricciardo parked in the pitlane as soon as he spotted the problem and was then brought back by his mechanics. He rejoined a lap down, but subsequently had a front wing breakage and a puncture, and was retired before the finish. The Malaysian GP stewards ruled that Red Bull had breached article 23.12c of Formula 1's rules by "releasing a car in an unsafe condition during the race." Ricciardo said he had known there was a problem as soon as he pulled away.
"I guess everyone thought the tyres were on," he said. "As soon as I left I could feel something wasn't right and the left front was loose."
His Red Bull team also received a reprimand thanks to a mechanic not wearing head protection during a pitstop.

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Shaky - Schumi

Maybe it's just me thinking this Confused ....a Australian driver in a Red Bull Team does not go well together Confused 1st it was most of the time always something with Mark Webber's car or Team... and now it's going in the same direction with Daniel RicciardoConfused Sad !!!

30.03.2014, 12:24

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Result of the Malaysian GP :

1. L. Hamilton - Mercedes - 1:40:25.974
2. N. Rosberg - Mercedes - +17,313
3. S. Vettel - Red Bull - +24,534 +7221

4. F. Alonso - Ferrari - +35,992 +11,458
5. N. Hulkenberg - Force India - +47,199 +11,207
6. J. Button - McLaren - +1:23.691 +36,492
7. F. Massa - Williams - +1:25.076 +1385
8. V. Bottas - Williams -+1:25.537 +0461
9. K. Magnussen - McLaren - +1 lap
10. D. Kvyat - Toro Rosso - +1 lap
11. R. Grosjean - Lotus - +1 lap
12. K. Raikkonen - Ferrari - +1 lap
13. K. Kobayashi - Caterham - +1 lap
14. M. Ericsson - Caterham - +2 laps
15. Mr. Chilton - Marussia - +2 laps
16. D. Ricciardo - Red Bull - +7 laps
Did Not Finish :
17. E. Gutierrez : Sauber
18. A. Sutil - Sauber
19. J. Vergne - Toro Rosso
20. J. Bianchi - Marussia
21. P. Maldonado - Lotus
22. S. Perez - Force India

Fastest Lap : Lewis Hamilton - 1:43.066
Pitstop Esteban Gutierrez : DNF
Bat. 2 Teams : Valtteri Bottas > Sergio Perez
Grid Pos. Kimi Raikkonen : 12th place

Hamilton wins Malaysian GP as Mercedes dominates :
Lewis Hamilton won the Malaysian Grand Prix today from pole position, while his Mercedes GP team mate Nico Rosberg finished in second place, 17.3 seconds behind. World Champion Sebastian Vettel finished in third place, 24.534 seconds behind the winner.
It is Mercedes’ first one-two finish as a team since the 1955 Italian GP, where Juan-Manuel Fangio beat his team mate Piero Taruffi.
It is Lewis Hamilton’s 23 career win, and his second victory since joining Mercedes last season. Fernando Alonso (35.992s) in the Ferrari finished in fourth place, followed by Nico Hulkenberg (47.199s) in the Force India-Mercedes was fifth, Jenson Button (1m23.691s) in the McLaren-Mercedes was sixth, Felipe Massa (1m25.076s) in the Williams-Mercedes was seventh, his team mate Valtteri Bottas (1m25.537s) was eighth, Kevin Magnussen (1 lap) in the second McLaren was ninth and Daniil Kvyat (1 lap) in the Toro Rosso-Renault finished in the final points paying position in tenth. Before the race, Hamilton sits on pole-position in his Mercedes GP, with Sebastian Vettel alongside in his Red Bull-Renault. Nico Rosberg and Fernando Alonso are on the second row, with Danial Ricciardo and Kimi Raikkonen on the third row. With the qualifying session taking place in the rain, the drivers are open to choose whichever tyre compound they want to choose, most choosing medium compound tyres. As always in Malaysia there are threats of rain and thunderstorms throughout the afternoon. Valtteri Bottas drops three positions for impeding Ricciardo during qualifying to start 18th. Sergio Perez will start in the pits, suffering from technical problems. As the cars get ready to start off the grid, all drivers opting to start on the softer medium compound tyres, except Perez starting from the pitlane. Perez is out of his car, as it appears the team cannot fix the car for the start. Hamilton leads the field back to the grid. At the start Hamilton takes the lead, Vettel squeezes Rosberg, but Rosberg takes second followed by Vettel, Ricciardo, Alonso and Raikkonen. Rucciardo passes Vettel for third. On lap 2 Hulkenberg battles Alonso, while Magnussen passes Raikkonen who slows with a punctured rear tyre, after Magnussen touches his tyre with his front wing. Bianchi pits with a puncture. Vergne and Raikkonen pit as well, Vergne switching to hard tyres. On lap 3 Bottas is up to tenth place, after starting in 18th. Button passes his team mate for seventh place. On lap 4 Vettel passes his team mate Ricciardo into the first corner to take third place behind the two Mercedes. Massa and Magnussen battle back and forth for eighth place. On lap 5 Kvyat passes Gutierrez for 11th place. Hamilton sets fast lap at 1m47.428s. On lap 7 Bianchi is given a 5 second stop and go penalty for causing a collision at the start. Maldonado is told by the Renault team to pit the car and retire on the next lap. Hamilton sets another fast lap at 1m47.048s. On lap 8 Maldonado pits and retires. Williams tells Bottas to follow his team mate Massa through past Magnussen ahead - Bottas tells the team to tell Massa to up his pace. On lap 10 Magnussen pits, and has a slow stop as the team replaces the front wing, and his rejoins in 17th. Bianchi pits as well. On lap 11 Magnussen is given a 5 second stop/go penalty for his incident with Raikkonen. Hamilton holds a 6 second lead over his team mate Rosberg in second, and a further 4.6 seconds to Vettel in third place. Kvyat, Gutierrez and Chilton all pit. On lap 12 Alonso pits for more medium tyres and rejoins in 10th place behind Grosjean. Sutil pits as well. Alonso passes Grosjean for ninth. On lap 13 Ricciardo, Massa, Grosjean all pit. Ricciardo battles with Alonso coming out of the pits. Ricciardo gets ahead. On lap 14 Vettel and Button both pit. Vettel on fresh tyres gets ahead of Bottas. Ricciardo gets past Bottas as well. On lap 15 Rosberg makes his first pitstop from second place for more medium tyres. Bottsd pits as well. On lap 16 leader Hamilton pits for new medium tyres, and comes out still in the lead. Kobayashi pits as well. Vettel sets fast lap at 1m46.334s. On lap 17 Hulkenberg finally makes his first pitstop. Hamilton on fresh tyres sets fast lap at 1m46.190s. Markus Ericsson, Raikkonen and Vergne battle over17th place.
Ricciardo is told to back off of Vettel, and he tells the team he would rather stay close in case something happens in front of him.
On lap 18 Vergne pits, while Raikkonen gets past Ericsson. On lap 19 Raikkonen pits and switches to hard tyres. Vergne pits again and retires in the pits. At lap 20 Hamilton leads Rosberg by 9.5 seconds, followed 2.5s further back by Vettel, Ricciardo, Alonso, Hulkenberg, Button, Massa, Kvyat and Bottas in tenth place. On lap 21 Bottas uses DRS to get past Kvyat on the frn straight to take ninth. On lap 22 Mercedes tells Hamilton to dial back the settings to look after his engine. Hamilton asks if there is anything else he can do to conserve his engine. On lap 23 Kvyat pits from 10th place, taking on hard tyres. Gutierrez pits the next lap for hard tyres as well. On lap 25 Magnussen and Sutil both pit. Button and Grosjean pit the next lap. Gutierrez passes Chilton for 15th place. Red Bull report that Ricciardo’s fuel flow sensor has failed. On lap 28 Ericsson and Alonso both pit. Kvyat passes Kobayashi for tenth place. Massa pits. Magnussen sets fast lap at 1m46.110s. On lap 29 Ricciardo pits from fourth place, switching to hard compound tyres. Magnussen passes Kobayashi for 11th place. There are reports of drops of rain in the general area. At lap 30 Hamilton continues to lead his team mate Rosberg by 10.2 seconds, followed 3.9 seconds back by Vettel, Hulkenberg, Ricciardo, Alonso, Bottas, Button, Massa and Kvyat in tenth place. Ricciardo sets fast lap at 1m45.831s. On lap 30 Bottas pits and stays on medium tyres. Kobayashi and Grosjean battle over 12th place. On lap 32 Vettel pits from third place taking medium tyres. Bottas sets fastest lap at 1m45.475s.
On lap 33 Kobayashi and Rosberg both pit. Rosberg takes on another set of medium tyres. Hamilton pits from the lead on the next lap, and takes another set of medium tyres as well. Vettel sets fast lap at 1m44.779s. Vettel chases after Rosberg, who comes out of the pits less than a second ahead of the World Champion. On lap 34 Sutil stops off track just after the final corner, and yellow flags come out. DRS is disabled. On lap 35 Hulkenberg pits and takes hard tyres. Raikkonen reports rain drops on the back straight.
On lap 36 Raikkonen pits. Gutierrez pits as well, but the car sits seemly unable to select a gear. On lap 37 DRS is enabled again.
Reports of rain drops in turns 9 and 10. Alonso closes to under 1.5 seconds behind Ricciardo. Vettel thinks there is some fluid coming from Rosberg’s car. On lap 40 Ericsson pits. Button and Magnussen pit as well. At lap 40 Hamilton leads Rosberg by 11.0 seconds, followed 3.9 seconds further back by Vettel, Alonso, Ricciardo, Hulkenbergm Massa, Button, Bottas and Magnussen.
On lap 41 Ricciardo pits for medium tyres. As he exits down the pitlane his left-front tyre is not secure. The mechanics push Ricciardo all the way back to the Red Bull pit and reaffix the tyre. Ricciardo rejoins, but loses nearly a lap. On lap 43 Alonso pits from fourth and switches back to medium tyres. Ricciardo reports he has a puncture and his front wing mount is falling off. Ricciardo pits again and the team changes tyres and replaces the front wing.Hamilton sets fast lap at 1m44,329s on lap 44. On lap 45 Bottas pits from sixth place. On lap 46 Ricciardo is given a 10-second stop/go penalty for and unsafe release. On lap 47 Button and Massa battle over sixth place, followed by a closing Bottas. On lap 48 Alonso sets fast lap at 1m44.165s. The Ferrari is closing fast on Hulkenberg in fourth. On lap 49 Vettel pits for hard compound tyres, rejoining just ahead of Hulkenberg. On lap 51 Rosberg pits and rejoins still in second place. Hamilton pits the next lap and rejoins still in the lead. Ricciardo pits again, and retires.Raikkonen closes on Grosjean to battle for 11th place. On lap 52 Alonso with fresher tyres battles with Hulkenberg - finally taking fourth place from the German. Hamilton sets fastest lap at 1m43.066s. On lap 53 Massa is told that Bottas behind him is faster and he should let his team mate past. The two Williams battle over seventh place. Hamilton comes across the line first followed by Rosberg and Vettel.

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30.03.2014, 11:27

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Ricciardo seems that he has inherited the bad luck of Webber in Red Bull.Confused

29.03.2014, 18:32

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shaky-schumi wrote:
shaky-schumi wrote:Update : Bottas hit with grid penalty for impeding Ricciardo :
Valtteri Bottas has been given a three-place grid penalty for the Malaysian Grand Prix for impeding Daniel Ricciardo in qualifying..........

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Italianfan wrote:Also Williams had a -2 points penalty in Constructor Championship

@Italianfan Confused....I think I should say that there's a correction needed in your post Confused Blush ! It's not the Williams Team that get the 2 points penalty ....but it's the driver who get's 2 points penalty behind his name ! Here's the story behind it Cool

Valtteri Bottas first F1 driver to get penalty points :
Valtteri Bottas became the first Formula 1 driver to be awarded penalty points following the introduction of the system for the 2014 season.
Under the new rules, any driver who earns 12 penalty points during a 12-month period will be given a one-race ban.
Williams driver Bottas was awarded two points for having impeded Daniel Ricciardo during qualifying for the Malaysian Grand Prix.
The Finn was also hit with a three-place grid penalty for Sunday's race, meaning he will start from 18th position.
Bottas, who admitted he did not expect to be penalised, was convinced that he had not hurt Ricciardo's lap.
"I thought it would be OK and there would be no penalties," he said.
"He was coming very quickly and it was a bit closer in the last few corners than maybe it should've been," said Bottas.
"It didn't cost him anything in the end and I wasn't sure whether he was on a timed lap or not."
The stewards ruled that he should have shown more awareness.
"The driver did not pay attention to the approaching car and continued to impede car #3 through Turns 14 and 15," said a statement from the officials.

So that's the official statement behind it Smile

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Shaky - Schumi

Sorry for the correction Italianfan Confused Blush

Don' t worry Shaky SmileSmile, it seems my infos were wrong SadSad
Thanks for the correction Thumb upThumb up

29.03.2014, 18:24

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shaky-schumi wrote:Update : Bottas hit with grid penalty for impeding Ricciardo :
Valtteri Bottas has been given a three-place grid penalty for the Malaysian Grand Prix for impeding Daniel Ricciardo in qualifying..........

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Shaky - Schumi

Italianfan wrote:Also Williams had a -2 points penalty in Constructor Championship

@Italianfan Confused....I think I should say that there's a correction needed in your post Confused Blush ! It's not the Williams Team that get the 2 points penalty ....but it's the driver who get's 2 points penalty behind his name ! Here's the story behind it Cool

Valtteri Bottas first F1 driver to get penalty points :
Valtteri Bottas became the first Formula 1 driver to be awarded penalty points following the introduction of the system for the 2014 season.
Under the new rules, any driver who earns 12 penalty points during a 12-month period will be given a one-race ban.
Williams driver Bottas was awarded two points for having impeded Daniel Ricciardo during qualifying for the Malaysian Grand Prix.
The Finn was also hit with a three-place grid penalty for Sunday's race, meaning he will start from 18th position.
Bottas, who admitted he did not expect to be penalised, was convinced that he had not hurt Ricciardo's lap.
"I thought it would be OK and there would be no penalties," he said.
"He was coming very quickly and it was a bit closer in the last few corners than maybe it should've been," said Bottas.
"It didn't cost him anything in the end and I wasn't sure whether he was on a timed lap or not."
The stewards ruled that he should have shown more awareness.
"The driver did not pay attention to the approaching car and continued to impede car #3 through Turns 14 and 15," said a statement from the officials.

So that's the official statement behind it Smile

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Shaky - Schumi

Sorry for the correction Italianfan Confused Blush

29.03.2014, 17:39

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shaky-schumi wrote:Update :

Bottas hit with grid penalty for impeding Ricciardo :
Valtteri Bottas has been given a three-place grid penalty for the Malaysian Grand Prix for impeding Daniel Ricciardo in qualifying.
The Red Bull driver complained that he had been blocked by the Williams in Q2. "He was on his out-lap," said Ricciardo of Bottas.
"I'll have a word with him. There were a lot of times last year, to be honest... "We raced each other a lot in the junior categories and I thought we had a lot of respect for each other, but it's a little difficult how many times he's done that now." Bottas had been nonplussed by Ricciardo's charge. "I think there was nothing special," said the Finn. "We were both pushing. For me, there was no incident." The penalty will drop Bottas from 15th to 18th on the grid, and he admitted to being surprised at its imposition.
"I thought it would be OK and there would be no penalties," he said. "It was a difficult situation - we had a radio problem and in Turn 9 the team told me that I had either a gap in front or behind Ricciardo. "So I thought I would try to stay in front. Obviously he was coming very quickly and it was a bit closer in the last few corners than maybe it should've been.
"It didn't cost him anything in the end and I wasn't sure whether he was on a timed lap or not."

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Shaky - Schumi

Bottas also had a -2 points penalty in his driving licence