Formula 1 News : Vettel: there's no replacement for Schumi
Mon Dec 18 06:00:00 -0500 2006Germany's latest young F1 talend Sebastien Vettel says there's nobody from his country who can quite fill the hole Michael Schumacher has left in the sport.
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Germany's latest young F1 talend Sebastien Vettel says there's nobody from his country who can quite fill the hole Michael Schumacher has left in the sport.
The Williams-Toyota package is making good progress this winter according to WilliamsF1 technical director Sam Michael. The team has focused mainly on building up better reliability than it had with the Cosworth engine in 2006.
Nick Heidfeld says he is a lot cooler these days leading the BMW Sauber F1 team's charge than he was when he first came into F1.
Massa wins in Brazil
The Race of Champions end-of-season motorsport extravaganza will take place in the new Wembley Stadium in 2007.
The annual event attracts stars from all forms of motorsport including Formula 1.
The new Wembley stadium in London will play host to the next Race of Champions event in December 2007. The stadium has yet to be completed and has been subjected to several delays, but things finally look like coming together in early 2007.
Honda has enjoyed strong reliability in winter testing which enabled the team to cover some 8,000km in the past three test sessions. The team has been coping with a switch to Bridgestone tyres.
The first three Formula One winter tests concluded on Friday at Jerez with Bridgestone very satisfied with the way each of the ten teams have adapted to the new 2007 tyres. The winter test programme initially kicked off at the end of November at the Circuit de Catalunya, Spain, where the teams all ran the same hard compound dry tyre for three days. It was their first opportunity to get to grips with the new specification tyre which has specifically been chosen for its wide operating window.
Massa on pole for International Challenge
There was a definite feeling of relief in the Red Bull Racing garage in Jerez on Friday night, as the final test session of 2006 came to a close, because when Tonio Liuzzi cut the engine as he came into pit lane, it signaled the end of a working life for the less than loved RB2 car.
The Cosworth crew made the engine shut-down at the end of this week's Jerez test last considerably longer than usual, as the final day in Jerez also signalled the final day of testing for 2006 and therefore the last day a Scuderia Toro Rosso car will run in anger powered by the last V10 to race in Formula One to date.
RoC to move to London