Showing posts with label Formula 1. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Formula 1. Show all posts

Sunday, 31 March 2013

Poor Lewis Hamilton. He wanted to make a pit stop with his former team [Video]


For the last five years Lewis Hamilton raced for the McLaren team, but this year he signed a contract with Mercedes. Both teams use a similar color scheme, but that doesn't justify that you try to make your pit stop with your former team. Well, that is exactly what happened with Hamilton during the Malaysian Grand Prix.


In the video below we can see Hamilton driving to McLaren's pit box while the mechanics wave him through, while his girlfriend watched and laughed at that scene, soon realizing his mistake he drove the the right place.

In the end he finished third ahead of his team mate, Nico Rosberg. But that place was achieved thanks to the intervention from team boss Ross Brawn. After the race was finished Nico was recorded saying to Brawn, "Remember this one".

Even McLaren made fun fun of this situation by saying in twitter, "Feel free to pop in and say "hi" any time". Hamilton wasn't so happy, apologizing to his team and adding that he didn't understand how he could have done such an easy mistake and promising it wouldn't happen again.


Sunday, 10 February 2013

The RedBull F1 team released a video showing their 2013 car


Over the last week several teams introduced their cars for the 2013 Formula 1 championship but the Red Bull Racing team took it a step further and shows us what it takes to build a Formula One car in this video called "The Rhythm of the Factory - RB9".




Friday, 25 January 2013

Portugal may again have a F1 race (PT/EN)


PT: Bernie Ecclestone admitiu hoje que Portugal pode voltar a ter uma corrida de Fórmula 1 depois de terem sido descartadas as pistas de Istambul, na Turquia e a pista da Red Bull Ring, na Áustria.

EN: Bernie Ecclestone has admitted today that Portugal may again have a Formula 1 race after the race tracks from Istanbul, Turkey and the Red Bull Ring in Austria were discarded.

PT: A corrida que teria lugar no dia 21 de Julho iria decorrer na Turquia, cujo governo recusou ajudar no financiamento do Grande Prémio,, depois foi proposta a pista da Red Bull Ring que afinal não tem condições para receber da melhor forma as equipas. Isto significa que neste momento ainda não há uma local para a corrida, estando em cima da mesa, segundo o patrão da Fórmula 1, a hipótese França ou Portugal.

Como Português, e apesar da crise, espero que a corrida aconteça em Portugal e em concreto no Autódromo do Algarve, mas parece que as equipas não são favoráveis a uma 20ª corrida

EN: The race that would take place on July 21 would be held in Turkey, but the government refused to help finance the Grand Prix, so that option was discarded meaning the Red Bull Ring was next in line to held the race, but it is unable to receive the teams in decent conditions. This means that there is still no place for the race, so for now, according to the F1 boss, we have two hypothesis, France or Portugal.

As a Portuguese citizen, and despite the crisis, i expect the race to happen in my country and in particular in the Autodromo do Algarve, but most teams are not open for a 20th race.

Source: autosport

 
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