Monza – Qualifiers

It’s Kimi Raikkonen folks !! The Iceman will be starting from the pole position tomorrow and alongside him will be Michael Schumacher, followed by Nick Heidfeld driving a resurgent BMW-Sauber. In summary, there were dramas galore, with 2 major tyres failure. First on happened during first qualifying run when Sakon Yamamoto’s Bridgestone gave away bring [...]

Yamamoto set for Hockenheim debut

As reported on HomeofSport Magny Cours will ‘definitely’ be Franck Montagny’s last grand prix for now with Super Aguri…..Yamamoto, to re-complete an all-Japanese line-up, is sure to appear at Hockenheim, with Montagny saying: ‘I know this will be my last race. ‘From Hockenheim onwards I will certainly be the third driver.’ So we’ll have to [...]

Super Aguri delay new car debut to Hockenheim

As reported on Reuters The debut had been planned for the July 16 French Grand Prix, the 11th round of the 18-race season, but the team said events had delayed that to the following race weekend at Hockenheim on July 28-30. Super Aguri said the first delay was due to a decision on the specification [...]

McLaren is F1′s biggest spender

As reported on Wheels24 Business F1 magazine contends that the Woking-based outfit [McLaren-Mercedes], spending a reputed $400m a year, pips the Japanese carmaker [Toyota], at $393m to the dubious post. Interestingly, though, Phillip Morris’ sponsorship of Ferrari, at $97m a year, amounts to more than the annual budget of any of the final three teams. [...]

Aguri replace Ide with Yamamoto

As reported on bbc.co.uk Super Aguri have signed Japanese Formula Nippon driver Sakon Yamamoto as their third driver to replace Yuji Ide. “Sakon drove at the Japanese GP last year (in free practice) so there’s no licence problem,” the team said.”But we are trying to comfirm it with the FIA so we do not repeat [...]

Ide unlikely to make F1 return

As reported on HomeofSport The fledgling team’s boss, Aguri Suzuki, admitted that the language barrier played a notable role in 31-year-old Ide’s struggle earlier this year, and subsequent loss of his Super License credentials. ‘He’d done just 200 kilometres in an F1 car before Bahrain,’ said the Japanese. Aguri Suzuki, who has temporarily replaced Ide [...]

Montagny replaces Ide at Super Aguri

As reported on itv-f1.com French racer Franck Montagny will make his grand prix race debut this weekend after replacing Japanese rookoeYuji Ide in the Super Aguri team at this weekend’s European Grand Prix. Acting on the advice of the FIA, Super Aguri has demoted Ide to testing duties following his poor string of results so [...]

Yuji Ide will be racing for his Formula One career at next weekend’s European Grand Prix

As reported on skysports.com “The second driver has to perform. We don’t want to be called a mobile chicane or create danger or a problem to other drivers,” Daniele Audetto, Team Manager Super Aguri, said. “We are taking into consideration a potential replacement but it is not our priority. We should give him a little [...]

Imola – that’s what F1 is all about

After a hectic weekend, and barely managing to reach home just in time to see the start of the race, things could not have been better. And best of all, the fight between two legends, both on opposite end of age-spectrum. One could never see a better attack by any driver at San Marino to [...]

Bridgestone upbeat as European F1

As reported on autoracingdaily.com After a good start to the year which has seen both Schumacher brothers claim podiums for their respective teams (Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro and Panasonic Toyota Racing) and each of the WilliamsF1 drivers take all important points, the Bridgestone shod teams have been extremely busy over the past three weeks. All the [...]