Entries Tagged ‘virgin f1’:

Virgin Sign Yamamoto For Reasons Clear Only To Themselves

When a back marker team has a bit of a short fall in their budget, Sakon Yamamoto has become the go to guy. He is the poster boy for all the reasons why pay drivers are detrimental to F1 and is only on the grid because of the rather monstrous size of his wallet. Pay drivers are, [...]

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Nick Wirth Pleads For Pirelli Understanding

Some drivers have already starting pouting and moaning about the Pirelli tyres which all the teams will be using in 2011. Despite the F1 fans telling Pirelli to make tyres which had actual degradation, the teams saying they’d be for it if it improved racing and the company themselves outright telling all the teams before [...]

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The British Grand Prix For Bluffers

As you should be able to deduce from the little .co.uk up there in the URL, we are a British based website. As such, we feel it is our civic duty to provide all the fans who will watch this weekend’s British Grand Prix and not many other races with a Bluffer’s Guide. So, here [...]

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The 107 Percent Rule’s Impact On 2010

I don’t like the re-introduction of the 107% rule. I think it’s unfair, counterproductive and just plain mean. Still, in the interests of fairness, I’m willing to see if it would really have affected things all that much. In 2011, any car which finishes Q1 outside 107% of the fastest time will not be allowed [...]

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Virgin F1 Still Don’t Have Car That Can Finish Races

Did everyone have a nice May Bank Holiday weekend? Good. Because Virgin F1 didn’t – they had to admit defeat in their quest to get a new car with a big fuel tank ready for this weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix. After the volcanic ash stranded the cars, equipment and most of the crew in China [...]

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Kovalainen Hopes Lotus’ Upgrades Will Pull Them Out The Mucky Muck

Lotus are feeling pretty optimistic going into the development break before the Spanish Grand Prix in a couple of weeks. Apart from fixing a few long standing hydraulic issues, they don’t have a whole lot to work on other than performance improvement. That is a lot different to their current rivals, as Virgin F1 have [...]

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F1 Plays Down Ash Cloud Of Certain Doom Effect

In case you haven’t noticed, there is a volcanic ash cloud of certain doom that is currently circling overhead in Europe. This ash cloud means that, without a shadow of doubt, any plane which takes to the skies will crash to the ground in a giant fireball. Or something like that, I’m not on holiday [...]

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Report Cards: Michael Schumacher & The New Teams

We are rolling both Report Cards into one posting today due to the really, really simple nature of them. It would be a waste of paper to do two postings… Michael Schumacher: Absent (again!) For the second race in a row, Schumi was absent from class. After his showing in Australia with a damaged car [...]

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Virgin Director Wirth To Pay For Mr. Cockup’s Room & Board

Virgin F1 Technical Director Nick Wirth has said that his company will foot the bill for the new chassis that the team are being forced to launch after it became apparent that the fuel tank in the current car was too small. Because of Virgin F1′s undersized tank, which is estimated to be undersized by [...]

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Lotus: Bring On The Big Boys!

My oh my are Lotus looking like the cats who got the cream. When they came into this season, they had the simple aim of trying hard to be the best of the new teams. They just wanted to be able to hold their head up high amongst the people in the battle at their [...]

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