F1weekly podcast # 342

The Sand Piper   English driver Jenson Button, driving a Mercedes-Benz powered Brawn GP car, wins the Gulf Air 2009 Bahrain Grand Prix, his third victory in four starts in five weeks this season. Last week’s Chinese Grand Prix winner Sebastian Vettel of Germany was second in his Renault-powered Red Bull. Italian Jarno Trulli, who […]

Brawn GP does it again.

    Jenson Button pulls off a great win for Brawn GP in Bahrain. Sebatian Vettel continues his great form with the Red Bull. Jarno Trulli could not bring home Toyota’s first win and settles for third. Lewis Hamilton very happy with four points for McLaren Mercedes. Kimi Raikkonen brings in Ferrari’s first points of […]

How long does Nelsinho have.

On the fences: Beleaguered Nelson Piquet Jr., son of three time world champion and a Dutch model, is not sitting pretty at ING Renault. After surviving a tumultuous rookie season last year, he is still trying to put his Formula 1 career on the right foot. The former British F3 champion and GP2 stand-out has […]

Liuzzi takes pole for sprint race.

  A1GP: New strong man. Italian racer Vitantonio Liuzzi has claimed pole position for the sprint race on his debut in the World Cup of Motorsport. Team Italy is headed by ex-Grand Prix driver Piercarlo Ghinzani. Liuzzi is a former karting and Formula 3000 champion. Many claim his career at Red Bull was shafted by […]

Renault F1 in the desert.

  Desert Frog: The Renault Road Show reaches Dubai. The glitz, glamour and financial capital of UAE, the United Arab Emirates. Test driver Romain Grosjean and demo driver Adam Khan raced their Renault R28s across the Arabian desert, another first for the globe trotting world of Formula 1. Grosjean commented: “Racing in the desert was […]

Memories from Sepang.

 F1 weekly listener Christi Paul at the Malaysian Grand Prix. Long time listener Christi Paul lives less than an hour away from Sepang International Circuit. He was at the inaugural Malaysian Grand Prix in 1999 to see his racing hero, Michael Schumacher, make a dramatic and “defensive” comeback from his leg injuries suffered in the […]