Force India debuts new livery on track
2008-02-12 21:01:00Just five days after its presentation in Mumbai, India, the Force India Formula One Team's striking new livery of gold, white and tungsten made its track debut today in Jerez, Spain.
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Just five days after its presentation in Mumbai, India, the Force India Formula One Team's striking new livery of gold, white and tungsten made its track debut today in Jerez, Spain.
Hamilton leads the way at Jerez
Renault returned to action today, completing the first of three days in Jerez. The team was again running two R28s with Nelson Piquet joined by fellow Brazilian, Lucas Di Grassi, who was enjoying his first test with the new car.
Lewis Hamilton led a McLaren 1-2 at the top of the timesheets on the first official day of testing at Jerez on Tuesday.
Jenson confident Honda will make headway in '08 despite poor early testing form.
Lewis Hamilton finished fastest of the sixteen drivers in action at Jerez today with a lap of 1m19.102s to finish just 0.1s ahead of McLaren tester Pedro de la Rosa. BMW's Robert Kubica was third, 0.4s off the pace.
Test Times: Jerez 12-02
Super Aguri delay the launch of their 2008 Formula One car while talks with would-be investors continue.
Renault outlines 2008 F1 Roadshow plans
Team delays official 2008 launch amid continued uncertainty over its future.
The Super Aguri team has postponed the official launch of its 2008 car as it works to finalise agreements with sponsors and drivers. The team was due to launch its new car at Barcelona next Tuesday.
Lewis Hamilton has resumed testing in Spain for the first time since suffering racist insults at the hands of spectators in Barcelona 10 days ago.
WTF?
Williams is confident it has fixed the front wing problem which caused Kazuki Nakajima to suffer a high-speed crash at Barcelona testing last week. The Toyota-powered team resumed testing at Jerez on Monday and had no further problems.
Super Aguri launch delayed
A bottle of Clandestine Absinthe, some Toblerone and an F1 car please
Coulthard and Webber outpaced Williams as testing returned to Jerez on Monday.
The Jim Clark Film Festival
Lewis Hamilton resumes testing his McLaren in Spain on Tuesday for the first time since suffering racist abuse at the hands of a Spanish crowd.
Toyota Racing brought its stay in Bahrain to a close with day three of the second test at the Bahrain International Circuit on Monday. Jarno Trulli and Timo Glock once again did the driving but, after a successful Grand Prix simulation on Sunday, their focus returned to mechanical and aerodynamic set-up work. Both cars ran without any trouble, with Jarno and Timo completing their full programme of set-up comparisons.
BMW Sauber F1 driver Nick Heidfeld says he is happy that traction control will be banned from F1 this season, even though that means it will put a lot more pressure on the driver's shoulders.