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Ferrari find out who’s guilty fot the sabotage!
Watch the picture!
Alonso and his team were caught by papparazzi while they were trying to destroy the Ferrari wind tunnel!

Ferrari drop the charges after Jean Todt saw Alonso’s face and said this was his best laugh ever.
Kimi claims that he saw ALonso around Ferrari’s building, but being after 4 beers he was not sure and decide not to report the incident.
Alonso say this is not true, there was Michael Schumacher in disguised trying to set him up.
Michael Schumacher has no comment about the incident.

Yesterday I wrote the previous post about me not having where to watch F1 and, ironically, today I find out that in UK they can go to cinema and see the race!
Read more about this on http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2007/06/26/f1-to-make-hd-debut-in-britain/

My TV was broken for a while. I don’t watch TV too much so I let it be. Broken! This year I saw most of the races to a friend of mine who’s got a big screen and it’s cool!
This make me remember a few years ago, when I was a student living in a hostel without TV in my room. back then, with a few days before a race, the quest began: who of my colleague has TV and it’s not leaving at home. Sometimes I colud’nt find anyone so in the race day, I was starting to go from pub to pub to ask if I could watch F1 instead their creapy music programs:d It wasn’t easy in those days to watch F1!
One time I was in another town. I asked where can I find a pub with TV and find out that is a pub where the F1 fans are getting together to watch the race. It was beautiful! Fans from two teams, Ferrari and McLaren were present there(it was 98 or 99) and they were making so much noise with their hornes, they had flags and shirts with their favourite teams. It was an exciting Malayesian Grand Prix, with Schumacher up and down, it was a real show.
I have a few more “special” places watching F1: in a supermarket, when moving I sleeped on the floor with just a blanket and the tv in the house..but there is one more:
From the street, to a TV in a shop window, the shop was closed, I saw the TV from the bus, I was in the bus going to a pub with TV, it was late so get down and stay in street not to miss the start. And I wasn’t alone. A bad smelling “aurolac” watched the race with me(click the linkif you don’t know what is an “aurolac”. there was a few people who stopped a couple of minutes to ask me who is first, what place is their favourite pilot.

I wonder if there are other F1 fans with such stories.

Lewis Hamilton crashed the go-kart that had just been sold in ebay for £42,100.(see here the Hamilton’s £2000 kart sold on Ebay with £42,100 news.
He hit the he barriers on the temporary track laid out in a central London square at a promotional event organised by sponsor Vodafone. Now the kart it’s a little bent, nothing serious.

Schumacher could race against Hamilton in a charity ‘Race of Champions’ at Wembley Stadium in December.
Schumacher has confirmed his participation while Lewis Hamilton said he is interested.

A Customised £2,000 go-kart owned by Formula 1 wonder boy Lewis Hamilton (left) was snapped up on eBay for £42,100 yesterday.

Offers for the 22-year-old’s McLaren Mercedes kart went through the roof after his back-to-back Grand Prix wins in Canada and the US. Bidding began at just £1 but rapidly soared – with 89 bids placed when the auction closed. Hamilton, just seven races into his Formula 1 career, will present the 80mph kart to the bid winner.

He joked on eBay: “The reasons for selling are my work commitments mean my weekends are taken up for the foreseeable future. McLaren have given me a much faster vehicle now.”

Source: http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1104734

See here more Hamilton’s stuff on Ebay:

A Few Tips For Enjoying the 2007 Formula One World Championship
by David B. Simpson

1. News
Keep up to date with current events in F1. Don’t miss any results or new developments. The races are that much more enjoyable if you have a wealth of F1 knowledge. It really makes a big difference to understand the sport. Hopefully you won’t ever miss a race weekend. If you ever do, get on the web and get caught up on all the results as soon as possible. When anyone starts talking racing or Formula one around you, you will be the expert. There’s too many people out there that have the facts all wrong.
2. The Technical Side of F1.
When you understand how the cars work, how much power they have, you can really begin to see just how good the drivers are and that they are truly athletes. Did you know an F1 car generates enough downforce at a certain speed to drive upside down? Likely won’t ever happen, but the theory works. You here about 300kph+ speeds and 150kph cornering speeds, but do you know how fast an F1 car can stop from 300kph? Phenomenal braking power.
3. Teams, circuits and drivers
Which team has the biggest budget for 2007? What circuit has all of its corners named after former F1 drivers? What’s the oldest circuit on the 2007 F1 calendar? Did you know Ferrari had a driver’s suit made for Michael Schumacher this year just in case he wants to drive? How many drivers are on each team? Hint: it’s not two or three.
Learn as much as you can. Stay informed. The sport and the cars are under constant change. Enjoy the rumours. The ‘buzz’. The glamour. The excitement. The races are usually two weeks apart, but alot can happen in those two weeks…and usually does. Thanks for that one Murray Walker. : )
David B. Simpson
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Gaining knowledge is the key to enjoying the Formula One race season. For news, technical information and to learn about F1 teams, circuits and drivers visit www.formula1grandprix.ca

David B. Simpson
Writer, Webmaster and F1 Enthusiast
David is the owner several domains including www.TotallyTopics.com an article site of over 50,000 pages.
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Formula One - Grand Prix Cars by Billy Bonds

Modern Formula One cars are mid-engined open cockpit, open wheel single-seaters. The chassis is made largely of carbon fibre composites, rendering it light but extremely stiff and strong. The whole car, including engine, fluids and driver weighs only 605 kg. In fact this is the minimum weight set by the regulations – the cars are so light that they often have to be ballasted up to this minimum weight.

The cornering speed of Formula One cars is largely determined by the aerodynamic downforce that they generate, which pushes the car down onto the track. This is provided by ‘wings’ mounted at the front and rear of the vehicle, and by ground effect created by the movement of air under the flat bottom of the car.

A significant difference in the design of the latest breeds of F1 cars is that they make far greater use of vortex “lift,” or in this case, downforce. Since a vortex is a rotating fluid that creates a low pressure zone at its center, creating vortices lowers the overall local pressure of the air.

Since low pressure is what is desired under the car, allowing normal atmospheric pressure to press the car down from the top, by creating vortices, downforce can be augmented while still staying within the rules.

The aerodynamic design of the cars is very heavily constrained to limit performance and the current generation of cars sport a large number of small winglets, “barge boards” and turning vanes designed to closely control the flow of the air over, under and around the car. The “barge boards” in particular are designed, shaped, configured, adjusted and positioned not to create downforce directly, as with a conventional wing or underbody venturi. They are designed so that air spillage from their edges will create these vortices.

The other major factor controlling the cornering speed of the cars is the design of the tyres. Tyres in Formula One are not ’slicks’ (tyres with no tread pattern) as in most other circuit racing series. Each tyre has four large circumferential grooves on its surface designed to further limit the cornering speed of the cars. Suspension is double wishbone or multilink all round with pushrod operated springs and dampers on the chassis. Carbon-Carbon disc brakes are used for reduced weight and increased frictional performance. These provide a very high level of braking performance and are usually the element which provokes the greatest reaction from drivers new to the formula.

Engines are mandated as 2.4 litre normally aspirated V8s, with many other constraints on their design and the materials that may be used. The 2006 generation of engines rev close to 20,000 rpm and produce up to 740 bhp (552 kW).[10] The previous generation of 3-litre V10 engines are also allowed, albeit with their revs limited and with an air restrictor to limit performance.

Engines run on unleaded fuel closely resembling publicly available petrol. The oil which lubricates and protects the engine from overheating is very similar in viscosity to water. For 2007 the V8 engines will be restricted to 19,000 rpm with limited development areas allowed, following the engine specification freeze from the end of 2006. As outright speed and power are effectively being capped it is widely believed that teams will work on improving reliability, and the torque range of the engine to improve driveability.

A wide variety of technologies – including active suspension, ground effect aerodynamics and turbochargers – are banned under the current regulations. Despite this the 2006 generation of cars can reach speeds of up to 350 km/h (around 220 mph) at some circuits (Monza).A Honda Formula One car, running with minimum downforce on a runway in the Mojave desert achieved a top speed of 415 km/h (258 mph) in 2006. According to Honda, the car fully met the FIA Formula One regulations.

Even with the limitations on aerodynamics, at 160 km/h, aerodynamically generated downforce is equal to the weight of the car and the often repeated claim that Formula One cars are capable of ‘driving on the ceiling’ remains true in principle, although it has never been put to the test. At full speed downforce of 2.5 times the car’s weight can be achieved.

The downforce means that the cars can achieve a lateral force of around four and a half times the force of gravity (4.5 g) in cornering - a high-performance road car might achieve around 1 g. Consequently in corners the driver’s head is pulled sideways with a force equivalent to 25 kilograms. Such high lateral forces are enough to make breathing difficult and the drivers need supreme concentration to maintain their focus for the 1 to 2 hours that it takes to cover 305 kilometres.

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Good Things To Know About Formula 1 Circuits by Dalvin Rumsey

A Formula 1 circuit usually has a starting grid placed on a stretch of straight road. The teams work on the cars before the race in the place called pit lane. This is where the drivers stop for fuel during the race and it is also situated next to the starting grid.

These are the only things that cannot miss from a typical Formula 1 circuit. The rest can be very different from one location to the other, keeping the clockwise direction of the race though. There can also be some cases when the race runs in the opposite direction, but this is not very comfortable for the drivers at all. They can get serious neck problems due to the enormous lateral forces generated by F1 cars pulling their heads in the opposite direction to normal. Corners like the high-speed Eau Rouge at Spa-Francorchamps, the Parabolica at Monza and the Tamburello corner at Imola have become very well known in their own right.

The circuit in Monaco, which is used for the Monaco Grand Prix, is the only real street circuit around. The rest of the circuits have only been built in the purpose of competition. The fame and the history of the Monaco race are the main reasons why the circuit is still in use, as it is thought not to meet the strict safety requirements imposed on other tracks. No wonder that the three-time World champion Nelson Piquet described racing in Monaco as “riding a bicycle around your living room.”

The new Bahrain International Circuit, which was designed, like most of F1’s new circuits, by Hermann Tilke intends to protect the safety of drivers, unlike the 1950s, when a driver was lucky to find a strategically placed bale of straw to absorb an impact. There are many large run-off areas, gravel traps and tire barriers in the modern circuits, in order for the risk of injuries due to crashed to be reduced. The tragic disappearance of Ayrton Senna and Roland Ratzenberger at Imola during the 1994 season, safety has been enforced even more in all circuits. The main idea is to best match the speed of a car with both the ability of the barriers to safely absorb the energy of a crash and also the available space to slow down in before reaching a barrier.

Redesigns of the Formula 1 circuits will always have the main goal of meeting the safety standards for the drivers.

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