The FIA has interviewed itself on the subject of the new turbo V6 rules, and while these things aren’t always very useful, in this case the Q&A does give a good idea of what the governing body was thinking when … Continue reading →

Source: http://adamcooperf1.com/2011/06/30/fia-explains-v6-turbo-thinking/

Tom Belso

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Keith Andrews Elio de Angelis Marco Apicella Mário de Araújo Cabral

Marussia Virgin Racing team has concluded a long-term Technical Partnership with McLaren Applied Technologies which will see the Anglo-Russian team benefit from access to McLaren facilities, knowledge and capabilities, for example their test rigs and driver-in-the-loop simulator, supply chain experience and CFD and CAE techniques including race strategy tools. There was a similar deal with [...]

Source: http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2011/07/04/virgin-does-a-deal-with-mclaren/

Marco Apicella Mário de Araújo Cabral Frank Armi Chuck Arnold

In the round-up: Lewis Hamilton responds to champions' comments.

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Vittorio Brambilla Toni Branca Gianfranco Brancatelli Eric Brandon

Emerson Fittipaldi in his heyday © Sutton Images

In an interview in the Times, former world champion Emerson Fittipaldi?s outlined his five-point plan to enhance Formula One. Cut costs ?They spend a fortune in wind-tunnel testing alone. Reduce costs and the slowest teams would catch up and make it more even.? Limit downforce ?They need to reduce enormously the downforce in the cars, the only way to bring back overtaking. We need more mechanical grip so that you have longer braking areas, can set up the car coming out of a corner, get in the slipstream and then overtake.? Close the pitlane ?When the safety car goes out they should close the pitlane. Now it?s just a lottery.? Lift ban on team orders ?It is a very stupid rule. It?s why they are called teams, it?s why they have two cars. If a driver is leading in the championship, everything has to go in his favour. What is wrong with that? It?s so easy for teams to camouflage their orders anyway. All they need to do is tell one guy on the radio he has a problem with his brakes. They can bend the rules very easily. In the old days they would even swap cars, so why do we have this ban now?? Retain traditional grands prix ?These places are the soul of racing. The Americas are under-represented. We have Canada back, but there is no USA, no Argentina, no Mexico. We need to stay in the heartlands.?

Source: http://blogs.espnf1.com/paperroundf1/archives/2010/11/five_ways_to_improve_f1.php

Skip Barber Paolo Barilla Rubens Barrichello Michael Bartels

Lucas di Grassi will do five further tyre tests for Pirelli throughout 2011.

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Raul Boesel Menato Boffa Bob Bondurant Felice Bonetto

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Ray Crawford Alberto Crespo Antonio Creus Larry Crockett

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In an exclusive interview with the Guardian as his 80th birthday approaches, F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone speak out about a variety of subjects, from the future of the sport to Margaret Thatcher, Hitler, Saddam Hussein, democracy, football and what continues to drive him.

The way I feel at the moment, why stop? I do it because I enjoy it. And yesterday is gone. I don't care what happened yesterday. What else would I do? People retire to die. I don't get any individual pleasure because we don't win races or titles in this job. I'm like most business people. You look back at the end of the year and you see what you've achieved by working out how much money the company has made. That's it.

Source: http://blogs.espnf1.com/paperroundf1/archives/2010/10/bernie_ecclestone_no_plans_to.php

Slim Borgudd Luki Botha JeanChristophe Boullion Sebastien Bourdais

Apparently, Switzer’s 1000+ HP take on the R35 GT-R R1K just wasn’t enough for the Ohio based tuner. No, these amazing gearheads had to go and improve on an already fantastic model by getting it up to a staggering 1250 HP. A Nissan GT-R with enough power to rival a Bugatti Veyron SuperSport? We’ll take two helpings and some dessert please.

This new package is called the R1K-X and Switzer Performance has only released this video of the vehicle during its dyno testing for our first tasty sampling. According to the tuner, the 1250 AWHP and 1003 AWTQ was run on VP Q16 race fuel, but a dyno testing with 93 octane pump gas will be uploaded soon.

Switzer, consider our interest piqued and, please, don’t make us wait too long for the entire package.

Video: 1250-hp Nissan GTR R1K-X by Switzer gets its turn on the Dyno originally appeared on topspeed.com on Tuesday, 5 July 2011 20:00 EST.

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Erik Comas Franco Comotti George Connor George Constantine

heres my 51 lead sled not much done but kustom paint swapped the steelies for sombrero style wheels. i was gunna shave the taillights but decided to sand em smooth n make them flush with the body. comments welcome

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Jean Alesi Jaime Alguersuari Philippe Alliot Cliff Allison