Posted by ashleigh on
June 22, 2008
French Results
A torid day for Lewis Hamilton. After having to start 10 places down on his qualifying position, he then put a move on Sebastien Vettel, but had to cut a chicane to keep the position, and as a result had to take a drive through penalty. That put paid to his race, as he was never going to recover from that, he did finish tenth in the end, which after what he went through was not a bad result.
Kimi looked on to win the race easily, but then before the half distance one of his exhausts failed, this allowed the Brazilian team mate to take the race lead, and complete the race in the first spot. Kimi held on and limped the Ferrari home in second, the huge lead that the Ferrari cars had got initially allowed him to hold onto the second spot. Although it has to be asked why the car was not Orange and Black flagged, as the Exhaust hanging in the breeze was certainly dangerous, as others have said, if it was a McLaren, I’m sure they would have been asked to resolve the issue. When the exhaust did finally break off, it flew extremely high, and could have caused a lot of damage to another car or perhaps killed a driver if it had hit them square. It’s certainly something that a lot of people will be asking the FIA to explain there thinking behind not O&B flagging Kimi.
Posted by ashleigh on
July 28, 2006
Toyota and Trulli sign up
It has been announced that Jarno Trulli an Toyota have signed a contract that will keep them together until 2009.
Jarno said "I am 100% sure of Toyota's potential and of its chances of challenging for the Formula One World Championship, I am therefore more than happy to continue my excellent relationship with the team into the longer term and to try to achieve our common goals."
This tells us two things, one that Jarno is obviously valued in the team, as his contract will now run for 2 years longer than Ralph Schumacher's (overpriced) contract, and that Toyota will be in the sport until 2009 at least, the worry was that the company would switch from full works outfit, to engine supply partner with Williams.
Trulli commented on the contract, saying "I am really pleased with the contract because it means that also they trust me, they trust in the driver line-up and the work I have done up to now.
Posted by ashleigh on
June 7, 2006
Jarno on the TF106B
Jarno Trulli has recently come out with some comments on the recently released TF106B car that was introduced at Monaco for the Toyota team.
Jarno is hoping the new specification car will show it's abilities at this weekend's Silverston GP, "Monaco was not the right place to judge the TF106B but the car behaved well in the race, It has also showed promise during testing so I'm confident the car is a step forward but we can't yet say how much.
The car at the moment is not all to my liking so we have to work on that. I am having a little struggle to drive this car at the moment, but I am sure we will work it out."
The TF106B was introduced in the attempt to solve some of the tyre issues the team are having (in similar vain to the Honda team). The B specification has not solved all of those problems, but Jarno says it's a step forward, "The tyres, they do look better," he said. "We have made an improvement, but in getting temperatures into the tyres we are not completely on top of the problems yet. As for Silverstone it is very difficult to judge, we will see."
