Al peggio non c'è mai limite

D'accordo dare il suo tempo a un progetto appena nato ma, dopo ormai due stagione nel Circus, i tre team new entry del 2010 - HRT, Team Lotus e Virgin - già parecchio criticati e discussi nel corso...



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Mas também...

1988
Andrea de Cesaris, Rial Racing
Rial ARC-01, Ford Cosworth DFZ 3.5 V8, Goodyear
XLVI Grand Prix de Belgique, Spa-Francorchamps, Spa-Francorchamps - Bélgica

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...Isso é uma Rial, de Cesaris.

Essas dores de cabeça...

Mas também...

1988
Andrea de Cesaris, Rial Racing
Rial ARC-01, Ford Cosworth DFZ 3.5 V8, Goodyear
XLVI Grand Prix de Belgique, Spa-Francorchamps, Spa-Francorchamps - Bélgica

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...Isso é uma Rial, de Cesaris.

Essas dores de cabeça...

Gp Singapore 2011: beati gli ultimi

Mentre la vettura numero 1 sfreccia con eleganza nella calda notte di Singapore - mettendo praticamente in bacheca un secondo titolo conquistato sulle orme del maestro Schumacher - nella nostra unica...



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Agora vai!

1989
Enrico Bertaggia, Coloni SpA
Coloni C3, Ford Cosworth DFR 3.5 V8, Pirelli
XLVII Grand Prix de Belgique, Spa-Francorchamps, Spa-Francorchamps - Bélgica

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- Seu companheiro de equipe era bem melhor, não?

Após momentos de pura turbulência na minha vida, volto a fazer as postagens diárias por aqui após deixar o blog às moscas por quase um mês.

Vou engrenando de leve, vamos lá...

Agora vai!

1989
Enrico Bertaggia, Coloni SpA
Coloni C3, Ford Cosworth DFR 3.5 V8, Pirelli
XLVII Grand Prix de Belgique, Spa-Francorchamps, Spa-Francorchamps - Bélgica

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- Seu companheiro de equipe era bem melhor, não?

Após momentos de pura turbulência na minha vida, volto a fazer as postagens diárias por aqui após deixar o blog às moscas por quase um mês.

Vou engrenando de leve, vamos lá...

Gp Singapore 2011: qualche grafico

Marina Bay si è confermato circuito può darsi ideale alla fotografia ma completamente inadatto a una gara automobilistica. Mettigli tutte le luci e le ruote panoramiche che vuoi ma da quelle parti...



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Massa focus on next race, puts Lewis incident far away.

Felipe Massa is ready to draw a line in his fight with Lewis Hamilton, but still believes the McLaren driver was fully responsible for their collision in the Singapore Grand Prix.



Hamilton Massa scored right rear tire while trying to catch up on lap 12, making a hole for a Ferrari and the McLaren front wing broken. The accident resulted in both drivers down the order, but Hamilton was able to restore to the fifth, while Massa struggling to ninth.



Massa said Hamilton was trying to speak immediately after the game, but the McLaren driver "walked away without any answer." He confronted Hamilton in the interview on TV and pulled his shoulder, before sarcastically congratulated.



The dispute has attracted extensive media attention Sunday, but Massa said Monday he was ready to leave.



"I am very disappointed pleased with the progress made yesterday: Singapore is definitely not a happy place for me, because something always happens to me here," he told the Ferrari website. "What Hamilton and his behavior both on and off the track, I've said everything I had to say: I have not changed my mind, even a little, since yesterday, but I consider the matter closed.



"It is better for the next race to end this season and hard in a good way to try, as best we can come up with the following to prepare."



Hamilton ruled on the matter and not return to his usual press conference on Sunday.

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Lewis in India

Lewis Hamilton was to India on Tuesday after the Singapore Grand Prix for a Vodafone India promotional event. Given the great turn out (40,000 spectators) it would have been a great distraction from his 'tussle' with a Brazilian on Sunday.

Lewis Hamilton in India

From Bengaluru, photo by @thefifthDriver

Video of an interview with Indian TV

 

Fan video (apologies for poor quality)

Gp Singapore 2011: cinque risposte da Singapore

E' sconcertante vedere - e sentire soprattutto - cronisti, esperti, o cos'altro, della nostra televisione, additare - nonostante ogni evidenza deponga a favore di Sebastian Vettel - come principale...



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Singapore GP: Race Summary

First the 'vanilla' news: Vettel won the Singapore Grand Prix and needs just 1 more point to clinch his second World Drivers' Championship. Button came second and Webber finished in third place. There was only 1 Safety car deployment after an ambitious (read: unnecessary) overtake attempt by Schumacher on Perez.

Vettel tires of finger-pointing (photo from usatoday.com)

Now for the 'tastier' stuff: Lewis Hamilton clipped his front wing on Felipe Massa's wheel while justling for position and both required a visit to the pits for repairs. This incident resulted in a drive-through penalty for Hamilton. The Brit eventually visited the pit-lanes 5 times during the race and made several overtakes to finish 5th. Massa on the other hand, finished in 9th place and made his feelings about the Hamilton incident clear for all to see by interrupting Hamilton's interview saying “Good job, man, well done” with a sarcastic thumbs-up.

 

Video by SixtyBuckss

Other notable drives were by Paul Di Resta (6th position), whose rookie year continues to impress everyone in the paddock and Heikki Kovalainen (Team Lotus) who finished ahead of a Lotus-Renault. Sweet revenge against the team his is currently embroiled in a legal battle with.

More 'tastier' stuff, albeit strange was Anthony Hamilton's comments about his son's management (XIX Entertainment) and their non-appearance at his races. It is understood that he said: 

“You look up and down the pit lane and every driver, except for Lewis, has a driver-manager in his life, not people from a company". “I am sure his management are very good – I don’t know – but Formula One drivers need people personally involved in the driver’s lives because it is a big pressure" - Interview by Tom Cary

Vettel may have won the race at Singapore but another driver is dominating newspaper's columns. 

For more photos and a fan's experience of the Singapore Grand Prix, check out @nicolaheartsF1's blog and Please continue to vote in my poll on the right-hand tool bar.

Gp Singapore 2011: i più e i meno

Hanno provato di tutto per rovinargli la festa, ma nemmeno quella Toro Rosso dimenticata in mezzo alla pista a due giri dalla fine senza un SC in pista - quando al minimo starnuto di un meccanico...



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Gp Singapore 2011: qualifiche

Solo poche righe; perchè in fondo c'è ben poco da aggiungere. Solo poche righe per sottolineare come Seb nel momento del "braccino corto" - quello in cui tanti campioni negli anni si sono ritrovati...



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Gp Singapore 2011: cinque domande (più due) per Singapore

Match ball numero 1. Per Sebastian Vettel inizia la serie di opportunità per chiudere in anticipo un mondiale dominato in modo netto e che mai è stato messo in discussione - gufate della stampa...



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L'importante è vincere

E continuiamo a parlare di talenti, a quella stirpe di piloti che poco avrà vinto ma che tanto ha scaldato i cuori dei tifosi, in periodi in cui vedere una foto in bianco e nero e leggere il...



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Ipersterzo

E' di pochi giorni fa l'anniversario della morte di Ronnie Peterson nel 1978 a Monza, e anche in occasione del GP d'Italia 2011 alcuni suoi fan svedesi non hanno fatto mancare uno striscione a suo...



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Gp Italia 2011: beati gli ultimi

Riprendiamo in esame il GP d'Italia 2011, con il consueto post che cerca di vedere le cose da un'angolazione diversa. Ovverosia la "Beati gli ultimi", classifica che premia chi a fine gara ha...



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Il brutto della TV

Il Conte Johnny Dumfries se in Formula 1 non ha suscitato una grande impressione, nelle altre categorie ha sempre ottenuto risultati degni di nota a dispetto di ogni pregiudizio sul suo blasone e...



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Hamilton versus... (II)

Most people admit Lewis Hamilton is an interesting and exciting driver. His aggressive driving style has been his trademark since his debut year (2007) and has provided viewers with exciting races even though some of his overtaking moves have not been successful. Nonetheless, to date, Hamilton has constantly out-performed his team-mates. 

An article I wrote in October 2010 (Hamilton versus...) shows a graph with Hamilton's performance against all his team-mates since 2007 (his debut year) i.e. Alonso, Kovalainen and Button. (Hamilton eventually finished 26 points ahead of Button in 2010).

Relative Performance of Hamilton against his team-mates

By the 2011 season, Hamilton's current team-mate, Jenson Button admitted that he is more comfortable with his technical team and even his car seat has been customised for him. And recently, he has been doing better than Hamilton on the track, prompting pundits to comment that Hamilton is now playing second fiddle* at McLaren. A very public 'chat' with another team principal has also added weight to the idea that Hamilton is no longer happy at McLaren. Perhaps frustrated by Ron Dennis's replacement's approach to design developments?

After the Italian Grand Prix (a race at which a more aggressive Button pull off an overtake on Michael Schumacher, that a seemingly more conservative Hamilton could not manage), it is looking more probable that Lewis Hamilton will lose his crown as the 'leading driver at McLaren'. Also, as things stand Vettel already has a finger on the 2011 WDC trophy and this season might be the first one Hamilton is not in mathematical contention for the champioship by the last race. So one wonders;

• is this the beginning of a downward spiral in terms of his future F1 performance, given that alternative options for him are limited i.e. other championship winning teams like RedBull and Ferrari are unlikely to sign him for various reasons, OR
• if he is out-performed in 2011, will that be the impetus he needs to buck up and come back stronger and drive a more calculated race in 2012, perhaps tempering his naturally aggressive style to increase his chances of succeeding and possibly winning another WDC?

I would appreciate your participation in the poll running on this blog and your comments on this blog article. 

*second fiddle – n - someone who serves in a subordinate capacity or plays a secondary role

F1 and Twitter

This post is a bit of a split for this blog. It's still about F1 but also about social media, the experiences i've had with it and why you should check out Twitter if you have not already got an account on it. For me the first time i paid any attention to the fast growing website was when i noticed a link for it on the Autosport website for one of their main journalists Jon Noble. I bookmarked his particular page and checked it every so often. Then i picked up on the likes of Jake Humphrey and Lee McKenzie from the BBC team and eventually i was checking about 10 different pages. Finally in October 2009 i made the plunge and got an account. Once you have this you can follow different accounts and then any of their updates (tweets) appear on your homepage with the most recent at the top. For me it was great, i actually liked following the journalist more than the drivers! Lots of news and info and little snippets from the paddock. For the first 6 months though i only sent about 20 tweets myself. So barely anything, i do remember sending one when Jenson Button won the title!

6 months later and i've taken this notion of making a F1 blog. You know the deal, you discover this new platform and have all these big idea and plans on how you can become this really popular site with F1 analysis! As if that would ever happen! So how does this tie in with Twitter? Well i didn't want my blog just to be rehashing news stories. I had seen other sites with a sidebar of tweets so thought if i tweeted the latest news i could have it appear on the blog but it wouldn't be the dominant feature. So that's how it all began. I remember tweeting throughout the Monaco weekend in 2010 and getting up to 10 followers and thinking how great that was (Yes i was that sad) I seem to remember that there was a trending topic for the race and constantly using it and i kept doing that for a few races which i realise was a bit of overkill so to any of my early followers i apologise! If you are new to Twitter it is handy to use the search function as you can pick up on things about somebody and many people will use the hashtag #F1 in their tweets.

The other thing that happened at this time was i started to discover other fans on Twitter. I was only following a few dozen people and they were all drivers, teams or journalists. However there are so many people on Twitter who share the same passion for F1 that i do. It really is a great community and i just enjoy it so much. Whilst i had this great buzz for blogging to begin with it lessened (I still enjoy it) but i really got into Twitter. At first i was hoping to pick up followers simply because in my mind that meant more traffic to the blog but i soon realised that it wasn't all about numbers or stats but simply enjoying having others to talk to who shared my interest for the sport. I don't actually have that many friends into F1 so it's nice to go into the F1 'bubble' of Twitter and tweet all about it!

Anyone that follows me knows i love to tweet about the latest news/info. I'm just a simple fan but always had a bit of a yearning for journalism so i think that's why i'm into that sort of thing. Having finished University last year, i've sometimes had a bit of time on my hands and it's been interesting to learn how information gets out into the public domain. I think i've also realised that it is important to respect the journalist/websites who are reporting an exclusive story. I would have tweeted any story going about to begin with but i've think it is important to credit a site/person if they have put the story out there. Some Twitter accounts will just take a journalists words and rehash them 5 minutes later and really that isn't the way to do it. Of course some information can come out through press releases or public sources and this is readily available so i think there is nothing wrong with sharing that (once you track the source down!) because it is out in the public domain. I decided for this season to do a round-up tweet of the news like some websites do once every day. So in theory i'm breaking my own guidelines in doing that but in general i try and be fair to who has broke a story. I don't do it for any glory. Sure it's nice to get some new followers or get a big response to something you say, there's no denying that. But just doing anything to try to get a higher number is not what i want to chase, i tweet about F1 because i genuinely enjoy doing it and searching for items of interest and if that can be of some use to folks then that is nice.

So the last year has been a pleasure. Got to chat with so many different people. It is pretty cool when you tweet about something and you have people from all corners of the world giving you your opinion! I've made plenty of mistakes trying to think i was right about something or got mixed but i hope anyone who has chatted to me just sees me as the enthusiastic fan i am. I've probably chatted less in recent times to folks as time becomes less available but i still really enjoy it and it is always exciting when a Grand Prix weekend arrives and the timelines and lists get busier and busier. I think Twitter was the main source of being entertained during the 2 hour break in Canada this season!

If you're not on Twitter i would really encourage you to give it a go, it really is great for keeping up with F1. If you want to find some people to follow then check out Sidepodcast or F1Fanatic who have great lists with plenty of options. Worth a look, it is free and you don't have to stick with it if you don't want to! Right this ramble is over, might not be the most interesting post but i just wanted to share my experience of it because it has become such a part of how i follow F1.

F1 and Twitter

This post is a bit of a split for this blog. It's still about F1 but also about social media, the experiences i've had with it and why you should check out Twitter if you have not already got an account on it. For me the first time i paid any attention to the fast growing website was when i noticed a link for it on the Autosport website for one of their main journalists Jon Noble. I bookmarked his particular page and checked it every so often. Then i picked up on the likes of Jake Humphrey and Lee McKenzie from the BBC team and eventually i was checking about 10 different pages. Finally in October 2009 i made the plunge and got an account. Once you have this you can follow different accounts and then any of their updates (tweets) appear on your homepage with the most recent at the top. For me it was great, i actually liked following the journalist more than the drivers! Lots of news and info and little snippets from the paddock. For the first 6 months though i only sent about 20 tweets myself. So barely anything, i do remember sending one when Jenson Button won the title!

6 months later and i've taken this notion of making a F1 blog. You know the deal, you discover this new platform and have all these big idea and plans on how you can become this really popular site with F1 analysis! As if that would ever happen! So how does this tie in with Twitter? Well i didn't want my blog just to be rehashing news stories. I had seen other sites with a sidebar of tweets so thought if i tweeted the latest news i could have it appear on the blog but it wouldn't be the dominant feature. So that's how it all began. I remember tweeting throughout the Monaco weekend in 2010 and getting up to 10 followers and thinking how great that was (Yes i was that sad) I seem to remember that there was a trending topic for the race and constantly using it and i kept doing that for a few races which i realise was a bit of overkill so to any of my early followers i apologise! If you are new to Twitter it is handy to use the search function as you can pick up on things about somebody and many people will use the hashtag #F1 in their tweets.

The other thing that happened at this time was i started to discover other fans on Twitter. I was only following a few dozen people and they were all drivers, teams or journalists. However there are so many people on Twitter who share the same passion for F1 that i do. It really is a great community and i just enjoy it so much. Whilst i had this great buzz for blogging to begin with it lessened (I still enjoy it) but i really got into Twitter. At first i was hoping to pick up followers simply because in my mind that meant more traffic to the blog but i soon realised that it wasn't all about numbers or stats but simply enjoying having others to talk to who shared my interest for the sport. I don't actually have that many friends into F1 so it's nice to go into the F1 'bubble' of Twitter and tweet all about it!

Anyone that follows me knows i love to tweet about the latest news/info. I'm just a simple fan but always had a bit of a yearning for journalism so i think that's why i'm into that sort of thing. Having finished University last year, i've sometimes had a bit of time on my hands and it's been interesting to learn how information gets out into the public domain. I think i've also realised that it is important to respect the journalist/websites who are reporting an exclusive story. I would have tweeted any story going about to begin with but i've think it is important to credit a site/person if they have put the story out there. Some Twitter accounts will just take a journalists words and rehash them 5 minutes later and really that isn't the way to do it. Of course some information can come out through press releases or public sources and this is readily available so i think there is nothing wrong with sharing that (once you track the source down!) because it is out in the public domain. I decided for this season to do a round-up tweet of the news like some websites do once every day. So in theory i'm breaking my own guidelines in doing that but in general i try and be fair to who has broke a story. I don't do it for any glory. Sure it's nice to get some new followers or get a big response to something you say, there's no denying that. But just doing anything to try to get a higher number is not what i want to chase, i tweet about F1 because i genuinely enjoy doing it and searching for items of interest and if that can be of some use to folks then that is nice.

So the last year has been a pleasure. Got to chat with so many different people. It is pretty cool when you tweet about something and you have people from all corners of the world giving you your opinion! I've made plenty of mistakes trying to think i was right about something or got mixed but i hope anyone who has chatted to me just sees me as the enthusiastic fan i am. I've probably chatted less in recent times to folks as time becomes less available but i still really enjoy it and it is always exciting when a Grand Prix weekend arrives and the timelines and lists get busier and busier. I think Twitter was the main source of being entertained during the 2 hour break in Canada this season!

If you're not on Twitter i would really encourage you to give it a go, it really is great for keeping up with F1. If you want to find some people to follow then check out Sidepodcast or F1Fanatic who have great lists with plenty of options. Worth a look, it is free and you don't have to stick with it if you don't want to! Right this ramble is over, might not be the most interesting post but i just wanted to share my experience of it because it has become such a part of how i follow F1.

Quei favolosi anni sessanta

Bei tempi gli anni sesssanta, chi scrive era praticamente un concetto astratto, ma se dopo tanti anni la menano così tanto con 'sti anni sessanta di certo brutti non devono essere stati.
Anche...



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E' tornato? Forse...

Chiariamo subito un concetto: da queste parti Schumacher non è mai stato un granché simpatico. Perché? Perché non si dimenticano le mosse di Adelaide 1994 e Jerez 1997; perché certe "amnesie" sulle...



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