McLaren drivers and F1 champions Lewis Hamilton and Jensen Button drive Alain Prost’s 1986 winning Formula One turbocharged 1000hp racecar. Neither seem happy with the turbo lag
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If Danica Patrick is ever going to get the hang of a stock car, this looks like a great chance.
She’s in the midst of an eventual 10 consecutive races in the NASCAR Nationwide series.
After these 10 races, which include the last four races of this year – including TMS in two weeks – and the first four of next year, she needs to have a feel for the big vehicles, which drive nothing like the rockets in the Izod IndyCar series. A full-time move to NASCAR, which she is considering, would require such a feel.
“I’m getting the feel of the car better and what I need in the car, as opposed to going for a ride and not knowing what I want,” she said Tuesday from Chicago, where she was getting ready for Saturday’s Nationwide race at Gateway. “These cars … Details
Russia will host grand prix races near the Black Sea resort of Sochi starting in 2014 after signing a six-year contract with Formula One chief Bernie Ecclestone on Thursday.
Ecclestone and a regional Russian construction official penned the deal in Sochi, which is also hosting the 2014 Winter Olympics. Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with Ecclestone and attended the signing.
Russia has tried to get on the F1 circuit before, but former Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov failed to reach an agreement with Ecclestone in 2002 to use the capital as a venue … Details
Are athletic sports tougher on the body than driving a Formula 1 car? This is a question that arises in many minds when they compare other sports to Formula One racing. It is not just running and moving that affects the body and its muscles. The way a Formula 1 car affects the body is so unique, that the training the drivers go through is not less than the training required to fly a fighter jet. Bettor.com takes a look at a few myths and statistics from a different angle.
An average F1 driver looses nearly 4 kilograms in just one race, which includes two to three litres of water. For this, they have an on-board drinking bottle installed which also contains minerals and salts to make up for the lost fluids. This is all because of the amount of battering the body takes at the hands of the intense G-forces acting on the driver, including the intense temperature of the cockpit. These G-forces can be so extreme that when an F1 car brakes, the deceleration forces can be compared to hitting a wall at 300 km/h … Details