F1 2011 Teams and Drivers

Full Name	Red Bull Racing	Seasons	6
Principal	Christian Horner	Races	107
Nationality	Austria	Wins	15
Engine	Renault	Championships	1
Chassis	RB7
Sebastian Vettel (GER)		Mark Webber (AUS)
	Seasons 4 Races 62 Wins 10 C'ships 1		Seasons 9 Races 159 Wins 6 C'ships 0
Full Name	Vodafone McLaren Mercedes	Seasons	45
Principal	Martin Whitmarsh	Races	684
Nationality	Great Britain	Wins	168
Engine	Mercedes	Championships	8
Chassis	MP4-26
Lewis Hamilton (GBR)		Jenson Button (GBR)
	Seasons 4 Races 71 Wins 14 C'ships 1		Seasons 11 Races 191 Wins 9 C'ships 1
Full Name	Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro	Seasons	61
Principal	Stefano Domenicali	Races	812
Nationality	Italy	Wins	215
Engine	Ferrari	Championships	16
Chassis	F150
Fernando Alonso (ESP)		Felipe Massa (BRA)
	Seasons 9 Races 159 Wins 26 C'ships 2		Seasons 8 Races 135 Wins 11 C'ships 0
Full Name	Mercedes GP Petronas F1 Team	Seasons	3
Principal	Ross Brawn	Races	30
Nationality	Germany	Wins	9
Engine	Mercedes	Championships	0
Chassis	MGP W02
Michael Schumacher (GER)		Nico Rosberg (GER)
	Seasons 17 Races 269 Wins 91 C'ships 7		Seasons 5 Races 89 Wins 0 C'ships 0
Full Name	Lotus Renault GP Team	Seasons	18
Principal	Eric Boullier	Races	281
Nationality	France	Wins	35
Engine	Renault	Championships	2
Chassis	R31
Robert Kubica (POL)		Vitaly Petrov (RUS)
	Seasons 5 Races 76 Wins 1 C'ships 0		Seasons 1 Races 19 Wins 0 C'ships 0
Full Name	AT&T Williams	Seasons	35
Principal	Frank Williams	Races	554
Nationality	Great Britain	Wins	113
Engine	Cosworth	Championships	9
Chassis	FW33
Rubens Barrichello (BRA)		Pastor Maldonado (VEN)
	Seasons 18 Races 307 Wins 11 C'ships 0
Full Name	Force India F1 Team	Seasons	3
Principal	Vijay Mallya	Races	53
Nationality	India	Wins	0
Engine	Mercedes	Championships	0
Chassis	VJM04
Adrian Sutil (GER)		Paul di Resta (GBR)
	Seasons 4 Races 71 Wins 0 C'ships 0
Full Name	Sauber F1 Team	Seasons	13
Principal	Peter Sauber	Races	216
Nationality	Switzerland	Wins	0
Engine	Ferrari	Championships	0
Chassis	C30
Kamui Kobayashi (JPN)		Sergio Perez (MEX)
	Seasons 2 Races 21 Wins 0 C'ships 0
Full Name	Scuderia Toro Rosso	Seasons	5
Principal	Franz Tost	Races	88
Nationality	Italy	Wins	1
Engine	Ferrari	Championships	0
Chassis	STR6
Jaime Alguersuari (ESP)		S�bastien Buemi (SUI)
	Seasons 2 Races 27 Wins 0 C'ships 0		Seasons 2 Races 36 Wins 0 C'ships 0
Full Name	Lotus Racing	Seasons	38
Principal	Tony Fernandes	Races	509
Nationality	Malaysia	Wins	79
Engine	Renault	Championships	7
Chassis	TL11
Heikki Kovalainen (FIN)		Jarno Trulli (ITA)
	Seasons 4 Races 71 Wins 1 C'ships 0		Seasons 14 Races 238 Wins 1 C'ships 0
Full Name	HRT F1 Team	Seasons	1
Principal	Colin Kolles	Races	18
Nationality	Spain	Wins	0
Engine	Cosworth	Championships	0
Chassis	F111
Narain Karthikeyan (IND)		TBA
	Seasons 1 Races 19 Wins 0 C'ships 0
Full Name	Marussia Virgin Racing	Seasons	1
Principal	John Booth	Races	18
Nationality	Great Britain	Wins	0
Engine	Cosworth	Championships	0
Chassis	MVR-02
Timo Glock (GER)		Jerome d'Ambrosio (BEL)
	Seasons 4 Races 56 Wins 0 C'ships 0

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Chris Bristow Peter Broeker Tony Brooks Alan Brown Walt Brown

Doctors use Formula One pit crews as safety model

American Medical News reports hospitals in at least a dozen countries are learning how to translate the split-second timing and near-perfect synchronisation of Formula One pit crews to the high-risk handoffs of patients from surgery to recovery and intensive care.

"In Formula One, they have checklists, databases, and they have well-defined processes for doing things, and we don't really have any of those things in health care."

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

Eddie Cheever Andrea Chiesa Ettore Chimeri Louis Chiron Joie Chitwood

What Ralph Lauren can teach Mr. E

Source: http://www.metrof1.com/blogs/metrof1/2011/07/what-ralph-lauren-can-teach-mr-e.html

Piero Carini Duane Carter Eugenio Castellotti Johnny Cecotto Andrea de Cesaris

5 Star rateings

Just curious about the 5 star ratings who rates them and what do they mean?

Source: http://cs.scaleautomag.com/SCACS/forums/thread/980973.aspx

Menato Boffa Bob Bondurant Felice Bonetto Jo Bonnier Roberto Bonomi

No need for a flux capacitor - just go to Goodwood

Source: http://www.metrof1.com/blogs/metrof1/2011/09/no-need-for-a-flux-capacitor---just-go-to-goodwood.html

Roberto Bonomi Juan Manuel Bordeu Slim Borgudd Luki Botha JeanChristophe Boullion

Show me your Engines - Post Dedicated to the Engine

Hi All... Everyone shows you the beautiful body paint jobs... But the one thing you don't see often is the beautiful engines in them. This Post is dedicated to the Beauty that is the Engine.

Show us your Engines:

Here's a few of my Engine builds:

1937 CORD 812 Engine

1949 Mercury Custom

1955 Chevy Bel Air

1966 Pontiac GTO

Source: http://cs.scaleautomag.com/SCACS/forums/thread/974177.aspx

Ernesto Brambilla Vittorio Brambilla Toni Branca Gianfranco Brancatelli Eric Brandon

Five ways to improve F1

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

Michael Bleekemolen Alex Blignaut Trevor Blokdyk Mark Blundell Raul Boesel

Vettel ready to clinch F1 title in Japan

Source: http://www.newsobserver.com/2011/10/05/1542373/vettel-ready-to-clinch-f1-title.html

Gerry Ashmore Bill Aston Richard Attwood Manny Ayulo Luca Badoer

N.H. Motor Speedway loses lawsuit against broadcaster

Source: http://www.newsobserver.com/2011/10/04/1540168/nh-motor-speedway-loses-lawsuit.html

Peter Arundell Alberto Ascari Peter Ashdown Ian Ashley Gerry Ashmore

SSM Manager Dies...

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nofenders/zbjv/~3/QeHeHNF7Dwk/ssm-manager-dies.html

Jimmy Daywalt JeanDenis Deletraz Patrick Depailler Pedro Diniz Duke Dinsmore

Nationwide contender Reed Sorenson released

Source: http://www.newsobserver.com/2011/10/04/1540163/turner-motorsports-releases-reed.html

Sebastien Buemi Luiz Bueno Ian Burgess Luciano Burti Roberto Bussinello

Johnson again the race favorite

Source: http://www.newsobserver.com/2011/10/05/1542405/johnson-again-the-race-favorite.html

Erwin Bauer Zsolt Baumgartner Elie Bayol

Pirelli to change colours to differentiate tyres in 2011

Pirelli will not only bring more aggressive tyres into Formula One this year, but also ensure a more colorful method to differentiate the multitude of compounds for the 2011 season. According to Finnish newspaper Turun Sanomat, backed by several other Italian media, Pirelli has come up with a different color scheme for their F1 tyres.

Back when the International Automobile Federation (FIA) asked former F1 sole supplier Bridgestone to differentiate the appearance of the soft and hard compounds, the Japanese company chose to paint a line in a middle groove of the soft options. The next season, when slicks came into play once again, Bridgestone marked the soft compound with a green circle on the sidewall.

For 2011, all F1 tyres will have the words ?Pirelli P Zero? written on the sidewall, but the color of the writing will change based on the compound, as follows:

• The super-soft wording will reportedly be in red
• The soft will be in white
• The medium in blue
• The hard in yellow

In addition to that, the full wet and intermediate tyres will also feature different colors, with the former having the ?Pirelli P Zero? mark painted in yellow and the latter in red.

According to a report from the GMM news agency, the FIA will distribute Pirelli's tyres to the teams after randomly shuffling the code numbers at grands prix, just so that favoritism claims will not be issued.

Pirelli has recently ended its last testing session prior to the first official group test of the winter in Valencia, as Pedro de la Rosa drove the TF109 test car in Abu Dhabi in wet conditions, at night. After evaluating the behavior of Pirelli's wet and intermediate compounds, the marque's research and development boss Maurizio Boiocci admitted he is yet to find out how the additional speed ensured by the introduction of KERS and adjustable rear wings will affect the tyres.

?If the speed came on gradually, for sure there would be no problems. But it remains to be seen what happens when all the power comes on suddenly,? said Boiocci.


Article (C) Ovidiu Panzariu, Image(C) Pirelli

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Jorge Daponte Anthony Davidson Jimmy Davies Colin Davis Jimmy Daywalt

Alfa Romeo product lineup revealed

At a recent investor's conference, Alfa Romeo revealed plans to launch four new models and an updated MiTo and Giulietta

Source: http://feeds.worldcarfans.com/~r/worldcarfans/Jxfz/~3/nP3_AE0h2VY/alfa-romeo-product-lineup-revealed

Kevin Cogan Peter Collins Bernard Collomb Alberto Colombo Erik Comas

'The point of no confidence is quite near'

The wreckage of Jochen Rindt's car at Barcelona © Getty Images

An excellent insight into the world of F1 as it used to be can be found on the regularly-interesting Letters of Note website. It publishes a hitherto unseen letter from Jochen Rindt to Lotus boss Colin Chapman written shortly after Rindt?s crash at Barcelona which was a result of the wing system on Lotus 49 collapsing at speed.

?Colin. I have been racing F1 for 5 years and I have made one mistake (I rammed Chris Amon in Clermont Ferrand) and I had one accident in Zandvoort due to gear selection failure otherwise I managed to stay out of trouble. This situation changed rapidly since I joined your team. ?Honestly your cars are so quick that we would still be competitive with a few extra pounds used to make the weakest parts stronger, on top of that I think you ought to spend some time checking what your different employes are doing, I sure the wishbones on the F2 car would have looked different. Please give my suggestions some thought, I can only drive a car in which I have some confidence, and I feel the point of no confidence is quite near.?

A little more than a year later Rindt's Lotus suffered mechanical breakdown just before braking into one of the corners. He swerved violently to the left and crashed into a poorly-installed barrier, killing him instantly.

Source: http://blogs.espnf1.com/paperroundf1/archives/2010/09/the_point_of_no_confidence_is.php

Marcel Balsa Lorenzo Bandini Henry Banks Fabrizio Barbazza John Barber

Introducing F1 Fanatic?s new community and mobile features | F1 Fanatic updates

Today F1 Fanatic launches the biggest changes to the site in five years.

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/f1fanatic/~3/62tJ2IeIZrc/

Olivier Beretta Allen Berg Georges Berger Gerhard Berger Eric Bernard

HRT F111 unveiled in Barcelona (photos)

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/F1InsightAFormula1Blog/~3/8usS4ADII74/hrt-f111-unveiled-in-barcelona-photos.html

Zsolt Baumgartner Elie Bayol Don Beauman Karl Gunther Bechem Jean Behra

Fernando Alonso: ?Maybe we can have an opportunity?

Fernando Alonso was in an upbeat mood after finishing FP2 in Singapore in second place, just 0.2s shy of pacesetter Sebastian Vettel. Ferrari had expected to be competitive at a track where the Spaniard has also done well in the … Continue reading →

Source: http://adamcooperf1.com/2011/09/23/fernando-alonso-maybe-we-can-have-an-opportunity/

Kurt Adolff Fred Agabashian Kurt Ahrens Jr Christijan Albers Michele Alboreto

Danger for breakfast...

Source: http://www.metrof1.com/blogs/metrof1/2011/07/danger-for-breakfast.html

Kevin Cogan Peter Collins Bernard Collomb Alberto Colombo Erik Comas

Volksrod - first attempt....

Hope I'm not putting this in the wrong thread, but I started on something else while I was stuck on the two '32 Fords.

Let me know what you think so far. It's a bit rough at the moment...

Haven't cut the rear guards off yet, accidentally broke the windscreen frame (it's getting chopped anyway), lowered and extended the front axle forward, lowered the rear (still might drop it a bit more, thinking of sectioning the body and it will have a Corvair motor with either the turbo or twin webbers. Also have to scratch build the inner front guards...any ideas?

Cheers Matt

 

 

Source: http://cs.scaleautomag.com/SCACS/forums/thread/980266.aspx

Trevor Blokdyk Mark Blundell Raul Boesel Menato Boffa Bob Bondurant

Junior struggles again at Dover

Source: http://www.newsobserver.com/2011/10/02/1535994/junior-struggles-again-at-dover.html

Julian Bailey Mauro Baldi Bobby Ball Marcel Balsa Lorenzo Bandini

AUTOS: Spyker Sold Again

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nofenders/zbjv/~3/FXYdQ0-2-Bs/autos-spyker-sold-again.html

Erwin Bauer Zsolt Baumgartner Elie Bayol Don Beauman Karl Gunther Bechem

My Belgian Grand Prix preview

We're having one of the best Formula 1 seasons ever and the final eight races promise to be really exciting, with Red Bull, McLaren and Ferrari closely matched. Watch my preview to this weekend's Belgian Grand Prix and the rest of the season.

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Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/murraywalker/2011/08/my_belgian_grand_prix_preview_1.html

Luki Botha JeanChristophe Boullion Sebastien Bourdais Thierry Boutsen Johnny Boyd

HRT F111 unveiled in Barcelona (photos)

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/F1InsightAFormula1Blog/~3/8usS4ADII74/hrt-f111-unveiled-in-barcelona-photos.html

Birabongse Bhanubandh Lucien Bianchi Gino Bianco Hans Binder Clemente Biondetti

No need for a flux capacitor - just go to Goodwood

Source: http://www.metrof1.com/blogs/metrof1/2011/09/no-need-for-a-flux-capacitor---just-go-to-goodwood.html

Julian Bailey Mauro Baldi Bobby Ball Marcel Balsa Lorenzo Bandini

NASCAR, Goodyear renew agreement

Source: http://www.newsobserver.com/2011/10/03/1537654/nascar-goodyear-renew-agreement.html

Fabrizio Barbazza John Barber Skip Barber Paolo Barilla Rubens Barrichello

F1 2011 Launch Catch Up ? McLaren, Mercedes, Red Bull, Sauber, Toro Rosso, Renault?

Catching up on the launches in one mega post. �Here in you’ll find quick interviews with senior members of the team and photos from the Red Bull, Sauber, Renault Lotus, Toro Rosso, Mercedes and McLaren launches. Apologies for being somewhat late, the whole blog isn’t running at full power until the season starts again. Red [...]

Source: http://f1fanatics.wordpress.com/2011/02/06/f1-2011-launch-catch-up-mclaren-mercedes-red-bull-sauber-toro-rosso-renault/

Piers Courage Chris Craft Jim Crawford Ray Crawford Alberto Crespo

INDYCAR: Missing the REAL Point over Competing in Japan...

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nofenders/zbjv/~3/I2SOruhkmpI/indycar-missing-real-point-over.html

Luki Botha JeanChristophe Boullion Sebastien Bourdais Thierry Boutsen Johnny Boyd

Nissan unveils the one-off Juke-R high-performance crossover [video]

Using the power-train from the Nissan GT-R, including its 3.8 liter V6, Nissan creates this one-of-a-kind powerhouse compact crossover.

Source: http://feeds.worldcarfans.com/~r/worldcarfans/Jxfz/~3/syVeRrheBF8/nissan-unveils-the-one-off-juke-r-high-performance-crossover

Luki Botha JeanChristophe Boullion Sebastien Bourdais Thierry Boutsen Johnny Boyd