It is 80 days before the start of 2009 Australian GP and here comes another instalment of the 2009 Formula 1 Season countdown. I missed the 90 days mark thanks to having to fight some sort of flu over holidays. But the countdown is back and I hope it will now smoothly go on without any further interruptions. So how are things with 80 days to go ?
F1Wolf
tags: Tags: 2009, formula 1, Season Countdown
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With all the eyes focused on future of the Brackley team formerly known as Honda we tend to forget that there is one more team with uncertain future also looking for a buyer - Scuderia Toro Rosso. The talk about Honda being suited by several interested parties may be encouraging for Red Bull. If there indeed are several parties in talk with Honda that means that even in the current conditions there are people interested in entering Formula 1. When (if) Honda is sold some of the loosing bidders may turn their eye to Toro Rosso. May, if the team is assured of future existence. Some sponsors on board would probably also do no harm to longe term prospects of the former Minardi team.
F1Wolf
tags: Tags: 2009, Red Bull, Rubens Barrichello, Sebastien Bourdais, Sebastien Buemi, Takuma Sato, Toro Rosso
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Ferrari will be the first to launch 2009 car
The 2009 launch season is around the corner. After having chance to sample what 2009 Formula 1 may look like during earlier winter tests we will soon have the chance to see the real things. Most of the teams will introduce their radically redesigned 2009 cars during next 2 weeks. The launch season will kick off on Monday January 12 with Ferrari unveiling their car. Here is the overview of all the 2009 Formula 1 car launches:
F1Wolf
tags: Tags: 2009, car launch, Ferrari, formula 1, Honda, Ross Brawn
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Sir Jackie Stewart speaks his mind
Sir Jackie Stewart has spoken again. He did not say too much new in his interview with The Times Online. But he nicely summed up thoughts and feelings of many Formula 1 fans, race organizers and perhaps even team owners. The interview is rather long and I would recommend reading it in its original form (click here) but here is summary of points Sir Jackie made:
F1Wolf
tags: Tags: Bernie Ecclestone, formula 1, Jackie Stewart, Max Mosley
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The Formula 1 liveries are back with season 1996. Season 1996 - Jacques Villeneuve arrived in F1 and Williams dominated the field with the champion Damon Hill starting from the front row in every single race.
The look of the grid was so much different than a year later in 1997 … This was the last season of the iconic Marlboro dominated red and white McLaren livery, Jordan was on the way to turn yellow but in their first Benson & Hedges season painted their cars gold to match the colour of the ciggy boxes. Benetton changed several logos on their sidepods and also took Kingfisher on board - the first time Vijay Mallya got himself involved in F1. Arrows was called Footwork that year and Forti although folding after 10 races still managed to run 2 very different liveries. The green one was to signal the life saving sponsorship deal with Shannon Racing that however later went sour. This was also the last season for Ligier before Alain Prost turned it into Prost.
Well, and Ferrari car looked rather funny and quite different from the others back then in 1996. But for the first time they had Michael Schumacher in the cockpit…
Williams - Renault
Ferrari
F1Wolf
tags: Tags: F1 Liveries History, formula 1, livery
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The 2008 year is now over and so I looked back at the visitor statistics here at F1Wolf.com. I was most interested in knowing where the visitors came from.
I am not surprised to see the biggest number of visitors coming from United Kingdom. What I am surprised is to see visitors from the United States to be very close in 2nd place, followed by readers from Canada, countries that Formula 1 decided to leave behind … Singapore, Australia, Spain, Poland, India, Hong Kong and Brazil make up the top 10 (see the chart below). In total readers from 188 countries landed at this site in 2008. As this is Asian based blog I am very happy to see very nice number of visitors from this part of the world !
F1Wolf
tags: Tags: 2008, F1Wolf
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Michael Schumacher - celebrating 40th birthday
Recently I received email from one of the F1 Wolf subscribers asking me to write about retired F1 champions and what they do these days. I liked the idea and decided to go for it. To make the life easier for myself I will start with the most recent one - Michael Schumacher who is also celebrating his 40th birthday today.
F1Wolf
tags: Tags: Retired F1 Champions
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Jim Clark, Formula 1 New Year specialist
It has been very quiet during this Christmas and New Year holiday season in Formula One. But it was not always the case. There were times when New Year meant serious F1 action.
The first five South African Grands Prix between 1962 - 1968 were all held at the end of December and early January. Two of these races were held on January 1st - the season opening GPs in 1965 (East London) and 1968 (Kyalami). And what is interesting, both the New Year Formula 1 races had the same winner - Jim Clark (Lotus). There was F1 race on January 1, 1966 too - the non-championship event in East London won by Mike Spence. Here is the list of the winners of the holiday season F1 winners:
F1Wolf
tags: Tags: Argentina, Brazilian GP, formula 1, History, South Africa
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F1Wolf wishes everybody Happy Healthy and Prosperous New Year.
I wish us another exciting Formula 1 season with 20 cars on the grid.
I also wish us all to either get used to the ugly 2009 cars or for the cars to at the end turn out to be less ugly than the early hybrid versions suggest 
.
I do hope that the 2009 season will be more about racing and less about scandals, politics and bankruptcies.
I also hope that in 2009 we will not loose any more traditional Grands Prix and instead we hear about F1 returning to USA and Canada.
Happy New F1 Year !
F1Wolf
tags: Tags: 2009
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Was it fault of the drivers ?
The rumours about Fernando Alonso signing for Ferrari will probably keep on coming until the Spanish driver actually makes the move. But if we are to believe what we read in the news his eventual move to Ferrari would be a popular one in Italy. Several Italian racing figures voiced their support for Alonso-Ferrari link. But what I found interesting in those speaches is the hint at the quality of current Ferrari drivers by Cesare Fiorio, the former Ferrari team boss who granted Alonso his debut F1 test with Minardi in 1999:
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tags: Tags: 2011, Felipe Massa, Fernando Alonso, Ferrari, Kimi Raikkonen
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