Birthdays for Pesenti-Rossi and Guerra!

RichardsF1    Birthdays, Former F1 Figures, Formula 1    

Former Grand Prix drivers Alessandro Pesenti-Rossi and Miguel Ángel Guerra are celebrating their respective birthdays today!

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1995 F1 World Championship Review (VHS)

RichardsF1    DVDs    

He Did It His Way! – The Official Review of the 1995 FIA Formula 1 World Championship Season
VHS, © 1995 DUKE, 170 minutes

The 1995 Formula 1 season presented Michael Schumacher with a fairly comfortable run to becoming the sport’s then-youngest-ever double World Champion, and it would be fair to say that it was perhaps not the most exciting season in the annals of the sport.

It is therefore of little surprise that the official season review video mirrors this in many respects, although it still represents a continual progression in the level of detail – relative to the 1994 video review – provided by these annual reviews.

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IndyCars: Power and Penske clean up at Sonoma

RichardsF1    IndyCar, Race Reviews, Results    

Completing a virtually perfect weekend by delivering a sublime display of aggression and control, Will Power shrugged off the frustrations of the previous round in New Hampshire by delivering an utterly dominant performance in the IZOD Indycar Series event at Infineon Raceway at Sonoma, California. Our IndyCar correspondent Matt Lennon takes a look at the Grand Prix of Sonoma.

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2011 IndyCar Championship Standings

RichardsF1    Championship Standings, IndyCar    

Current championship standings of the IZOD IndyCar Series Championship season after the completion of the Indy Grand Prix of Sonoma (Round 13).

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Two DRS zones confirmed for Monza

RichardsF1    F1 2011, Formula 1     Circuit News, FIA

The FIA is set to announce that there will be two DRS zones for the upcoming Italian Grand Prix at the historic Autodromo Nazionalie di Monza.

The decision to commit to multiple zones on a circuit where overtaking has never really posed a problem is certainly a surprise.

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Download the Australian GP Podcast!

RichardsF1    Formula 1     Daniel Ricciardo, Media

The Australian Grand Prix Corporation has launched a new initiative, “Keeping Track”: the podcast of the Australian Grand Prix.

Hosted by renowned F1 journalists Stuart Sykes and Matt Clayton, the podcast will be available for download each month on the official Australian Grand Prix website.

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Button pushes for McLaren contract renewal

RichardsF1    Driver Market, Formula 1     Jenson Button, McLaren

By his own admission, Jenson Button would immediately sign an option on his services with McLaren if the Woking-based team elected to continue with his services for the 2012 season.

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IndyCars: China set to join the calendar?

RichardsF1    IndyCar, News    

Despite dropping the popular Japanese round from the 2012 calendar – ostensibly under the auspices of wanting to keep the series on North American soil to suit its TV audience – IndyCar Series organisers look set to confirm a Chinese round on next year’s schedule.

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RichardsF1.com Tipping Competition Leaderboard

RichardsF1    F1 2011, Formula 1, Tipping Competition    

It was another action-packed Grand Prix from Spa-Francorchamps, with Sebastian Vettel returning to winning form for the first time since June’s European Grand Prix snoozefest at Valencia.

And perhaps this set the tone in the RichardsF1.com Tipping Competition…

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A proud father of the bride…

RichardsF1    Formula 1     Bernie Ecclestone, Spotted

And while all the F1 action was happening in Belgium’s south-east over the weekend, F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone also made the time to attend daughter Petra’s OTT wedding to her long-time boyfriend in Italy.

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