After this weekend’s Bahrain Grand Prix, Robert Kubica is mad yet again at the team and their current development path. BMW finished worse of all the teams and finished last on track with Nakajima’s Williams behind them only due to mechanical failure. As we take a trip down memory lane we remember that last year Bobby K was spouting the same kind of rhetoric at his current employer. BMW stopped a potential title winning car and driver development to focus on the 2009 season, which up to this point has…
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Monteiro Joins ORECA; Peugeot Lite
Portuguese Former F1 driver Tiago Monteiro has joined team ORECA for the 24 Hours of Le Mans this year. In a deal announced over the weekend, Monteiro will join the outfit that has Bruno Senna and Stephane Ortelli. Monteiro, formerly of the Midland and Spyker teams has raced at Le Mans before in a GT class car finishing 16th overall in a GT 2 car. In other Le Mans series news, the Peugeot team has trimmed its entry list for the endurance race at Spa. Peugeot was orginally scheduled to…
Read MoreIndyCar – Kansas City Thoughts
As you are most likely aware by now, Scott Dixon pulled off the win on Sunday in the threatening Kansas City weather. The truck series race scheduled for Saturday night was rescheduled for Monday due to tornadic activity and the IndyCar feature looked like it might suffer the same fate with thunderstorms predicted for the entire day. On top of the uncertainty with the weather, there were high winds all day long making car setup an exercise in high drag, high downforce wing angles. Unfortunately, this appeared to make passing…
Read MoreF1 – Bahrain Wrap Up
The Bahrain Grand Prix has ended and with it we have a season first. Jenson Button has finally won under race pace. Many folks said the wanted to see Vettel win a race in the dry. I said forget that, I want Button to win at over 50 mph. That is exactly what happened. Brawn GP took victory with Jenson Button and took a further lead in both title races. Sebastian Vettel put on a stellar show and Jarno Trulli sat in the press room looking as though he could…
Read MoreRally Argentina Wrap Up
Yesterday was the end of the Rally of Argentina and as usual the attrition numbers were high. On Day 2 we lost Mikko Hirvonen to overheating and day 3 saw its fair share of retirements. Jari Matti Latvala retired late in the day as did Petter Solberg. Both drivers had fuel pressure issues after a jump on course damaged the system. Sebastian Loeb won his 52nd rally of his career and his fifth straight this year. Citroen Total teammate Dani Sordo finished second and overtook Mikko Hirvonen for second in…
Read MoreIndyCars – Kansas Quali Update
The rain stayed away just long enough on Saturday for the 22 IndyCar drivers and the 24 Firestone Indy Lights drivers to have a couple rounds of practice and qualify their machines for the two races on Sunday. Getting the races in might be a challenge. Severe weather moved into the area not long after the qualification and the same front will still be in the area on race day. Expectations are for dry, but windy weather until mid to late afternoon. The Indy Lights race will likely be run,…
Read MoreRally – Argentina Day 2
Day 2 of Rally Argentina brought a large amount of drama and a first for this season. Dani Sordo started the day with Mikko Hirvonen in tow by5 seconds but boy how things changed. During SS15, Mikko Hirvonen for the first time this year, retired from competition with overheating issues in his BP Ford Focus. After the retirement it was announced Mikko would not be able to super rally on the final day. Jari Mati Latvala rounds out the podium and will challenge the Citroen team in hopes of a…
Read MoreIndyCar – 500 Entry List Update
New addition to the Indy 500 entrants list. Buddy Lazier has been announced with the Hemelgarn Johnson #91. Lazier ran the #91 last year and started 32nd and ended up 17th. Lazier’s entrance makes him the 5th previous winner of the 500 So here is the updated list of 41 entrants. Team # Driver AJ Foyt Enterprises 14 Vitor Meira AJ Foyt Enterprises 41 AJ Foyt IV AJ Foyt Enterprises 48 TBA Andretti Green Racing 7 Danica Patrick Andretti Green Racing 11 Tony Kanaan Andretti Green Racing 26 Marco Andretti…
Read MoreIndyCar – Milka is Back
Dreyer and Reinbold has announced that Milka Duno has been picked up again for a limited schedule. With their 2nd car for Kansas and their 4th car for Indy listed as TBA, it was clear that Dreyer and Reinbold had something in the works with somebody other than Darren Manning and Milka’s name was most heavily linked with said works. While Milka definitely improved over last season, she is still not nearly as talented as most of the Indy Lights field. And while the media has to grudgingly accept that…
Read MoreRally – Argentina Day 1
Day 1 of Rally Argentina is in the books for the WRC and thus far Dani Sordo has taken a slight 5 second lead over Ford driver Mikko Hirvonen. Sebastian Loeb rounds out the top three in a day that saw a number of lead changes through tough gravel stages. From what I have seen this has been a very entertaining day 1 that saw everybody get in the mix to some degree. Latvala, Loeb, Sordo, and Hirvonen all had a taste of the lead at some point. P-WRC has…
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