Photo: Vitorino Araújo F1weekly and Renault Sport F1 preview to the Abu Dhabi GP The 2011 FIA Formula One World Championship reaches its final furlong this weekend with the penultimate race on the calendar, the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Held at the Yas Marina circuit built on an island in the Persian Gulf just outside […]
Photo: roc Vitaly Petrov becomes ROC’s first Russian driver News imageRussian Formula 1 star Vitaly Petrov has signed up to compete at the 2011 Race Of Champions in Düsseldorf Petrov, who races for the Lotus Renault GP team, will become the first driver from Eastern Europe to compete at the event The Russian joins a […]
Photo: gp3media Mitch Evans leads the way in Barcelona MW Arden sophomore dominates Day 1 of post season test at Circuit de Catalunya The first post season GP3 Series™ test kicked off today at Circuit de Catalunya, and there were lots of new faces in the paddock. With the majority of the 2011 field moving […]
Dan Wheldon Photo. AP/Michael Conroy A Winner. From Buckinghamshire to Brickyard In October 1999, talented Canadian racer Greg Moore was killed in the season finale at the California Speedway in Fontana, east of Los Angeles. Sunday, a dozen years later, tragedy and history repeated itself at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Dan Wheldon, out of […]
JOSE FROILAN GONZALEZ The other “Maestro” from Argentina SILVERSTONE. July 14, 1951. The Alfas are finally beaten in Formula 1 motor racing. Beaten by team owned by a man who once ran their racing department, Enzo Ferrari. The man driving the Ferrari 375 into history books, José Froilán Gonzalez, from Arrecifes, near Buenos Aires. The […]
Photo. ESPN F1 “The future is so bright I need some shades.” Nando may not be able to take a taxi in Timbuktu, but he can bank on one in Maranello….. Alonso, son of an explosive expert, began his love affair with racing after inheriting his older sister’s kart. Little “Nando” was ready to […]