Canadian, U.S. investors reportedly eyeing F1 team
Updated: 2013-01-31 03:09:27
Lotus unveiled their 2013 car to great fanfare (if not universal approval) this week and the rest of the F1 teams are on tap to follow suit over the next few days and weeks. McLaren is up next, and they will roll out the new model today - Thursday - while Ferrari and Force India will follow on Friday. Here are the rest: Sauber on Saturday, Red Bull on Sunday, Toro Rosso and Mercedes on Monday and Caterham next Tuesday. Williams has scheduled a Feb. 19 launch and while Marussia has not set a date (as of today), it will...
Once the polyurethane bushings were installed, it was then necessary to check the alignment stand. We are nowhere near race setup, so our primary objective was to ensure that the tyres left a solid ‘footprint’ and the geometry was in no way ‘eating’ the tyres. At the alignment stand, most things were intact and the [...]
: . Tuesday , January 29, 2013 Breaking news Sorta . Dogs playing on the field during Puppy Bowl IX . Photo credit : Animal Planet Source : photos.denverpost.com So having scribbled the following posts in advance of departing for Arizona , naturally thee news O thy weekend broke when Danica Patrick finally revealed publicly that she’s got a new boyfriend whose name is Ricky Steinhouse Jr . Ah Shucks , I’m just wunderin’ what’ll happen when Danica gets PEEVED when she tinks Ricky-boy done turned her , eh RASSCAR Competitors react to News about Danica’s New Boyfriend Yet the really breaking news for Mwah , was the discovery of the annual Puppy Bowl that I’d never ever heard of . Thus , if Y’all are hunkerin’ for something different then just another game O smash mouth pigskin this Sunday ,
: Tuesday , January 29, 2013 Missing Pace car found Hulio’s M ay 24 2009 Indianapolis 500 Pace car camaro at Penske Racing Museum April , 2012. AZM Photos Whale I’m not exactly sure I-T was ever missing Especially if I saw it at thee Captain’s lil museo in Scottsdale , AZ last year , as apparently Roger has some sorta arrangement with his drivers to keep their winning Pace cars , eh Since Blogmeister Miguel pointed out this Hulio-mobile to Mwah last April . As the impetus for this lil yarn was the entertaining story about Ol Rufus Parnelli Jones cowboy hat being found after missing for 50-years YIKES Now ged-along you lil cow-pokies Hya 50 years later , 1963 Indianapolis 500 winner Parnelli Jones will get his hat back Photo Courtesy No Fenders Blogmeister Miguel Posted by Tomaso at 10:48
Kimi Raikkonen says there is no reason Lotus cannot reach the heights that they did in their previous incarnations as Benetton and Renault.
: : Sunday , January 27, 2013 Rolex 24 : Thoughts upon the Race N More The No . 61 R.Ferri AIM Motorsport Racing with Ferrari Ferrari 458 Italia with Max Papis at speed . Source : motorsport.com So it’s funny how much I’m theoretically slipping . As in winters past I’d have watched a ton O Memorex of past Formula 1 races to fill in the Downtime , yet CRAP I haven’t even bothered to carve out time to watch my tape of last November’s inaugural USGP at Circuit Of The Americas CRIKEYS Whilst its even funnier how as I poond away on thy keyboards my favourite Kuhnadiun rock band RUSh’s Limelight serenely plays in the background . Thus it was with GURR-REAT Anticipation that I eagerly awaited the green flag flying at Daytona for this year’ s Rolex 24, which for Mwah always signals the start of a
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As promised, I will outline what has been happening with the AE86 project. My last official installment in Feb. 2012 made mention of the work being done on the exhaust manifold by the notorious ‘Speaker Pro’. Despite not delivering at the time he stated, he eventually came, did all the ‘mock up’ work necessary and [...]
: : Friday , January 18, 2013 AUTOS : Blastolene Say What The stunningly beautiful A.J . Watson Roadster driven to victory by Jim Rathman in the 1960 Indy 500. DOB Photos Ah , the synchronicity of it all Nah , not that this story was abducted by the NoFenders Wormhole Vortex Hya But that I’d be off to thee Big Island just a month after watching a Clive Cussler Barrett-Jackson 1hr special episode on SPEED , 10 02 11 where there was a bit on a wacky 8,400lb Blastolene IndyCar-style special chassis that was 25-inches shorter then Jay Leno’s original Tank Car Huh This second Blastolene Special took a Mega 4,000 man hours to complete , with its wheels alone costing 15k patterned after typical Watson Roadster kidney bean Halibrands and sold for a whopping 255,000 Not including the auction
Ferrari driver Felipe Massa says a change in his mental approach led to turnaround in form midway through last season.
Ferrari's Spanish driver Fernando Alonso predicts Lewis Hamilton will "win races" at Mercedes this year.