Tuesday, May 10, 2011

?The speed is there? ? Mercedes

27 April 2011 by Keith Collantine

In the round-up: Mercedes expect to continue to perform at their Shanghai level.

Links

Top F1 links from the past 24 hours:

Mercedes says China pace was genuine (Autosport)[1]

Norbert Haug: ?The speed is there. The performance in China was genuine.?

Sonangol Caterham Team Lotus (Motorsport, according to me)[2]

?The following domains were registered on the 19th April: sonangolcaterham.com, sonangolcaterhamf1.com??

Interview with McLaren?s Gary Paffett[3]

?The exhaust and floor package which we introduced in Melbourne was last minute ? it was the first time it had run on the car and was far from being refined. So we, and everyone else I guess, have got a lot of work around that area to try and maximise that. There are updates coming and hopefully they can deliver and get us closer to the qualifying pace of the Red Bulls[4].?

F1?s Bernie Ecclestone may sell shareholding in QPR for ?100m (The Guardian)[5]

?If somebody bought that team today it would be a very good punt. It is probably worth ?100m. I don?t have any choice staying in or going out. Flavio [Briatore] would probably be the one to sell if anybody? It is dependent on Flavio.?

BBC Sport earns three Bafta award nominations (BBC)[6]

?BBC Sport?s Formula 1 team have also been nominated for their production of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.?

Follow F1 news as it breaks using the F1 Fanatic live Twitter app[7].

Comment of the day

Today I?m off to see what Lotus[8] are bringing to the next couple of races. GeorgeTuk is one of several readers[9] who aren?t convinced by their expectation to be fighting for points in Barcelona:

That is quite a wild prediction, would mean some serious failings of strategy, reliability or speed from those further up the field.

This is based on beating one ?midfield? driver in one race.

Could be true if no one else developed their car in the same period, would rather they were realistic than constantly talking up slim chances.
GeorgeTuk

From the forum

The WRC Fanatic[10] thread is going strong ? look out for a ?Why you should watch?[11] on the subject of the World Rally Championship later this year.

Site updates

A slight tweak to the design yesterday: article pages on the main site now include the article sub-titles. Expect a similar change on the mobile site soon.

Happy birthday!

Happy birthday to El Gordo!

On this day in F1

Alain Prost[12] finished first in the 1986 San Marino Grand Prix, as he had the year before.

But this time he was allowed to keep his win ? in 1985 he had been disqualified as his McLaren[13] was found to be underweight.

Here?s some action from the race:

Image ? Mercedes

References

  1. ^ Mercedes says China pace was genuine (Autosport) (www.autosport.com)
  2. ^ Sonangol Caterham Team Lotus (Motorsport, according to me) (motorsportaccordingtome.blogspot.com)
  3. ^ Interview with McLaren?s Gary Paffett (www.gpupdate.net)
  4. ^ Red Bull (www.f1fanatic.co.uk)
  5. ^ F1?s Bernie Ecclestone may sell shareholding in QPR for ?100m (The Guardian) (www.guardian.co.uk)
  6. ^ BBC Sport earns three Bafta award nominations (BBC) (news.bbc.co.uk)
  7. ^ F1 Fanatic live Twitter app (www.f1fanatic.co.uk)
  8. ^ Lotus (www.f1fanatic.co.uk)
  9. ^ GeorgeTuk is one of several readers (www.f1fanatic.co.uk)
  10. ^ WRC Fanatic (www.f1fanatic.co.uk)
  11. ^ ?Why you should watch? (www.f1fanatic.co.uk)
  12. ^ Alain Prost (www.f1fanatic.co.uk)
  13. ^ McLaren (www.f1fanatic.co.uk)

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