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JEREZ (Spain): BMW Sauber’s Nick Heidfeld was fastest Thursday at Formula One’s penultimate test before the start of the season, and world champion Lewis Hamilton’s day was cut short by a low-speed crash.
Heidfeld set a fastest lap time of 1 minute, 20.052 seconds from a session-high 123 laps as the five-day test at the Jerez Circuit wrapped up amid strong wind and rain.
“The ever changing weather made it quite difficult to do continuous work,” said Willy Rampf, the German team’s technical coordinator. “Nevertheless we achieved the main targets of our development program.”
Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen finished more than 0.3 seconds behind Heidfeld for second, while Hamilton, Red Bull’s Mark Webber, Williams’ Kuzuki Nakajima and Toyota’s Jarno Trulli rounded out the field.
Hamilton was more than 1.2 seconds slower than his German counterpart from 58 laps after a sudden gust of wind swept his McLaren car into a tire barrier. Hamilton’s day ended because of damage to the car’s rear.
Next week’s four-day test at the Circuito de Catalunya at Barcelona is the teams’ last chance to test before the season-opening Australian Grand Prix on March 29. – AP
Honda F1 Team Sold To Ross Brawn
The Honda Racing F1 Team has been sold to Ross Brawn and will now be called ‘Brawn GP’ it was confirmed officially on Friday.
A statement said the team’s new owner is Ross Brawn, also Team Principal of the Brackley-based outfit, whose BGP001 single seater will be powered by a customer Mercedes-Benz engine.
Brawn also confirmed 2008 Honda drivers Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello as its continuing drivers….
http://www.zerotohundred.com/2009/auto-news/honda-f1-team-sold-to-ross-brawn/
[quote]The WMSC accepted the proposal from Formula One Management to award the drivers’ championship to the driver who has won the most races during the season. If two or more drivers finish the season with the same number of wins, the title will be awarded to the driver with the most points, the allocation of points being based on the current 10, 8, 6 etc. system.
The rest of the standings, from second to last place, will be decided by the current points system. There is no provision to award medals for first, second or third place. The Constructors’ Championship is unaffected.
The WMSC rejected the alternative proposal from the Formula One Teams’ Association to change the points awarded to drivers finishing in first, second and third place to 12, 9 and 7 points respectively.[/quote]
source: http://www.fia.com/en-GB/mediacentre/pressreleases/wmsc/2009/Pages/wmsc_170309.aspx
what do you guys think of this late ruling?
sounds like rubbish. somebody must be smoking something here. imagine this… massa scores 5 wins and 50 points. kubica scores 4 wins and 80 points. massa takes the WDC. rubbish innit?
Dun agree with the ruling. By winning more than 50% of the races in the race year by mid-season, the driver can take the rest of the year off.
They gonna revert back into 2008 point scoring system.
Meanwhile Red Bull had officially protest the diffuser designs of Toyota, Williams and Brawn GP. I’m not agree because FIA had clarify those designs are legal before. Those 3 teams had found loophole on the rule, they should keep them and allowed to be raced.
[b]Vettel penalised and fined for Kubica collision[/b]
Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel has been handed a 10-place grid penalty for next weekend’s Malaysian Grand Prix following an incident in Sunday’s Australian race. Vettel collided with BMW Sauber’s Robert Kubica during the latter stages in Melbourne as the Polish driver attempted to overtake him.
Following a post-race investigation, stewards decided to penalise the young German for ‘causing a collision and forcing a driver off the track’. He had been racing in second, behind eventual race victor Jenson Button, with Kubica running a close third.
“We were in second and a strong position, but then, a couple of laps from the end, I had a stupid racing accident with Robert,” explained Vettel. “At the time I turned in I was ahead, but I couldn’t keep up speed in the corner and Robert was on a harder tyre, so was much quicker. At the time we collided he was in front, but I had no where to go, I couldn’t stop the car, or turn to the right and my tyres were gone.
“Maybe I should have said let him go and bring third back home, but that’s life. I tried to defend and, up to the mid-corner, I had reason, but then I had no grip to avoid a collision. I’m sorry to the team and also to Robert, as it didn’t just mean the end of my race, but also his.”
Both Vettel’s and Kubica’s cars sustained substantial front-end damage in the collision. But while the BMW Sauber driver spun off and hit a wall soon after, Vettel continued to drive his stricken RB5 with its left front wheel hanging off as the safety car emerged following the incident.
As a result the stewards have additionally fined him – and Red Bull Racing – US$50,000 for continuing to drive a damaged car.
[i]Kesian!! due to stupid mistake both of the them can’t finished the race[/i]
[quote=luen]apparently that was Kubica slam the door caused the accident.[/quote]
agree with you bro…. Kubica was so greedy, he should have at least leave some room for Vettel to take that corner without causing any damage to both machine
[quote=Formula1.com][b]Toyota’s Jarno Trulli has lost his third place[/b] in Sunday’s Australian Grand Prix after stewards penalized him for passing under the safety car in the closing laps.
Trulli ran off road near the end of the race, thus losing a place to McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton, but then repassed the world champion once he had rejoined the circuit.
The Italian was given a 10-second stop-go penalty as a result, but since the offence occurred within the final five laps that was translated into a 25-second penalty added to his race time. He thus drops to 12th.[/quote]
what a joke!
somebody from Toyota should have noticed this & inform him 🙁latest news
Truli 3rd position has been revoked. Due to overtaking under SC, Truli has been imposed 25 seconds that bump him to 12th.
official standing
1. Jenson
2. Barrichello
3. L. Hamitlon[quote=bosozoku][quote=luen]apparently that was Kubica slam the door caused the accident.[/quote]
agree with you bro…. Kubica was so greedy, he should have at least leave some room for Vettel to take that corner without causing any damage to both machine
[quote=Formula1.com][b]Toyota’s Jarno Trulli has lost his third place[/b] in Sunday’s Australian Grand Prix after stewards penalized him for passing under the safety car in the closing laps.
Trulli ran off road near the end of the race, thus losing a place to McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton, but then repassed the world champion once he had rejoined the circuit.
The Italian was given a 10-second stop-go penalty as a result, but since the offence occurred within the final five laps that was translated into a 25-second penalty added to his race time. He thus drops to 12th.[/quote]
what a joke!
somebody from Toyota should have noticed this & inform him :([/quote]I feel the penalty for Vettel is a little too much. Looking at the replay, we can clearly see Kubica did not give enough space for both of them. It’s a 50/50 chance.
I think the penalty is mainly for Vettel driving around with 3 wheels behind the SC instead of coming in the pits or parking by the side of the track….
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