Tag Archives: 2008

Apr201013

Rob

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Briatore and Symonds could be back in F1 for 2013 as the FIA drop appeal

The FIA has dropped it’s appeal against a French court ruling that it’s punishment of Flavio Britore and Pat Symonds formerly of Renault. This whole saga seems to be based around an apology from the pair that means they now acknowledge their part in the scandal following on from the Singapore race fixing.
Their actual punishment now means that they can’t take part in any FIA competition until the end of the 2011 season and any F1 involvement until 2013. Apart from the fact that no F1 of any significance would want to hire these two after what has happened it remains to be seen what 4 years out from the sport would mean for an engineer/manager. Geoff Willis has already been commenting on the state of the HRT Cosworth car that was built by people outside of the paddock so would a four year exile have the same effect [...]

Feb201016

Rob

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What can Alonso expect in 2010?

Fernando Alonso moves from his Renault safe house to Ferrari this season and arrives finding it a little different to when he signed for the them a year or so ago. 2009 wasn’t kind to Ferrari and Alonso must be hoping that changes this year.
Partnering the Brazilian Felipe Massa who is quick and has pushed all his team mates hard Alonso won’t be left to relax. Massa had been building himself up to be the number 1 at the Italian team over the last couple years with losing out by just a point to Lewis Hamilton in 2008 and having the upper hand over Kimi Raikkonen until his accident last year. So Massa will want to come back strong and assert himself as much as Alonso wants to do the same at his new team.
Alonso will also have to content with all the other drivers on the track, Ferrari are [...]