Briefs

1. F1 news briefs

Sezione: F1

French formula one driver Sebastien Bourdais has demonstrated his Toro Rosso single seater on the streets of the capital city Paris. The 29-year-old, guided by police, took in sights including the famous Place de la Concorde and may even have triggered a few speed cameras, the German magazine Auto Motor und Sport reports.-With motorcycle racing veteran Randy...

Data: 2008-09-03

2. Valencia, F1 news briefs: Sunday

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Local reports on the scene of the European grand prix at Valencia suggest that up to 15,000 of the allocated 112,000 seats will be vacant alongside the inaugural formula one race on Sunday.It also emerges that hundreds of paying spectators on Saturday complained to organisers Valmor Sports that their seats offered impeded views.-Now infamous to those within...

Data: 2008-08-24

3. F1 news briefs: Valencia, friday

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Francisco Camps, the president of the local region around Valencia, has asked F1 chief executive Bernie Ecclestone to adopt the status of official mourning for the inaugural grand prix on the eastern port city's streets this weekend. The Spanish government on Thursday declared three days of nationwide mourning following the Spanair plane crash in Madrid.It...

Data: 2008-08-22

4. News briefs from Valencia

Sezione: F1

Lewis Hamilton on Thursday was fined 5000 euros for arriving two minutes late for the FIA press conference at Valencia.-The inaugural European grand prix in the eastern port city could be a sombre affair, after the Spanish government on Thursday three consecutive days of nationwide mourning in the wake of the Madrid air crash.Flags at the urban street...

Data: 2008-08-22

5. Peugeot Boxers bloom in the Parks of Eastbourne

Sezione: Commercial vehicles

...a lucrative contract.  With the wide range of Peugeot LCVs on offer, and the variety of conversions we can provide, our team has the resources to meet the most complicated of briefs.”  A spokesperson from Eastbourne Borough Council said, “Eastbourne is looking forward to the injection of new vehicles over the duration of Wyevale’s contract,...

Data: 2008-07-26

6. F1 news briefs

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The F1 drivers' football team, the Nazionale Piloti, will take on a German celebrity side at Darmstadt, about a 45 minute drive from Hockenheim, on Wednesday evening. Michael Schumacher is expected to play.-Joint championship points leader Lewis Hamilton went head-to-head in his McLaren with an executive Learjet plane at the Farnborough Air Show in Hampshire...

Data: 2008-07-16

7. F1 news briefs

Sezione: F1

Organisers of F1's inaugural Singapore night race marked the completion of the three-storey pit, media, race control, paddock club and podium building on Friday with a simple ceremony. The formula one event takes place on September 28.-Veteran French formula one photographer Bernard Cahier, whose son Paul-Henri has been in the press this week, has died at...

Data: 2008-07-11

8. F1 news briefs

Sezione: F1

Team bosses have criticised the loss of the usual August break - a lull in grands prix and testing - on next year's formula one calendar, that has expanded from 18 to 19 races."It really is tough on the mechanics," said McLaren executive Martin Whitmarsh. It is suggested that, to avoid 'burn-out' among the travelling F1 fraternity, teams may have...

Data: 2008-07-05

9. F1 news briefs

Sezione: F1

David Coulthard's fiancee Karen Minier is pregnant, according to the Swiss newspaper Blick. Soon-to-be-retired Coulthard and Minier, a former F1 TV journalist for France's TF1, have been engaged for two years. "He has a beautiful fiancee to look after," friend and rival Jenson Button said at Silverstone on Friday in contemplation of Coulthard's...

Data: 2008-07-04

10. F1 news briefs

Sezione: F1

Mark Webber has been busy since the French grand prix. The Australian went to a Speedway event in Wales last Saturday, contested an amateur mountain bike race on Sunday, and watched tennis at Wimbledon on Monday. Webber, 31, also said he will keep an eye on the start of the Tour de France as he races at Silverstone this weekend."I am a big general...

Data: 2008-07-03

11. F1 news briefs

Sezione: F1

Lewis Hamilton has enjoyed a one-on-one meeting with his personal hero Nelson Mandela as the icon celebrates his 90th birthday in London.Last week, the McLaren driver attended Mandela's birthday dinner, and then nervously introduced an act at the Hyde Park concert.British newspapers are now carrying photographs of Hamilton, 23, having a personal audience...

Data: 2008-06-30

12. F1 news briefs

Sezione: F1

Murray Walker, the legendary British formula one commentator, has been immortalised with a star on the Walk of Fame of his home city Birmingham."It's very flattering indeed," Walker, born there in 1923, told the BBC.-Toyota F1 driver Timo Glock, of Germany, will sample the controls of the Japanese marque's Le Mans prototype of 1998 and 1999, the...

Data: 2008-06-30

13. Alfa Romeo MiTo: Driving satisfaction, Alfa Romeo style

Sezione: Auto news

...low grip (e.g. on wet surfaces or snow), taking action to control vehicle dynamics because the VDC cut-in threshold is lowered.The new Alfa Romeo MiTo suspension systemsOne of the briefs given to the designers allocated to the ‘Alfa Romeo MiTo’ project was to create a suspension capable of higher-category performance levels. The devices therefore had to...

Data: 2008-06-20

14. News briefs from Montreal: Saturday

Sezione: F1

The last tickets for this weekend's Canadian grand prix sold out on Thursday, meaning that the three-day attendance will top 300,000.-David Coulthard (Red Bull) and Williams' Kazuki Nakajima were both fined for speeding in pitlane on Friday. Japanese Nakajima's infraction cost him only 400 euros, but veteran Coulthard went a whopping 25kph too fast in the...

Data: 2008-06-07

15. News briefs from Monaco: Saturday 4

Sezione: F1

It is worth noting a rumour that has now been heard more than once in the Monte Carlo paddock on Saturday. If the whispers are true, Fernando Alonso will switch to Ferrari in 2010.-Double world champion and former DTM competitor Mika Hakkinen at Monaco confirmed that his days as a professional race driver are over."When I watch the cars going around, I...

Data: 2008-05-25

16. News briefs from Monaco: Saturday 3

Sezione: F1

F1's carmakers on Saturday turned down an invitation to discuss future engine regulations in embattled FIA president Max Mosley's Monaco office.The group signed a joint letter explaining to the FIA's Charlie Whiting that they need to be informed with more time in advance about these kinds of meetings."Therefore we request you defer the meeting to...

Data: 2008-05-25

17. News briefs from Monaco: Saturday 2

Sezione: F1

The conventional wisdom in Monaco on Friday was that there is a greater than 50 per cent chance of rain on both Saturday and Sunday.Apparently, however, the expert on-site meteorologist Meteo France is telling its client F1 teams that the rain probability is very low for the actual qualifying hour, and only 30 per cent for Sunday's grand prix.It did not rain...

Data: 2008-05-24

18. News briefs from Monaco: Saturday 1

Sezione: F1

His own team's press office made it loudly known that Monaco is Sir Frank Williams' 600th grand prix as a formula one entrant.Predictably, however, the unsentimental 66-year-old was the least impressed of all as he said the milestone "means very little to me!".-Triple world champion Nelson Piquet, who never won in the Principality, disliked the...

Data: 2008-05-24

19. News briefs from Monaco: Friday

Sezione: F1

Force India's two drivers had expensive days at Monaco on Thursday, as Adrian Sutil and Giancarlo Fisichella were fined 600 euros apiece for going just 2.5 and 2.1 kph respectively above the 60kph pitlane speed limit.McLaren driver Heikki Kovalainen's speeding fine, meanwhile, was 800 euros, for going 63.5kph, stewards at Monte Carlo confirmed.-15 years...

Data: 2008-05-24

20. News briefs from Monaco: Thursday

Sezione: F1

McLaren's topsy-turvy garage allocations in 2008 has continued in Monaco, with the team slotting in between Red Bull and Williams in the Principality's pitlane.Despite finishing the 2007 championship last, the Mercedes-powered team began the season in the fifth slot following an agreement with Bernie Ecclestone.For Bahrain and beyond, however, FIA president...

Data: 2008-05-23