It was one thing for the Brawn team to turn up at the last minute for the start of the season in Australia on 29 March and quite another to finish a punishing five-week Asian tour on top of the championship. Ross Brawn will be glad of the pause before the season resumes in Spain, however, Brawn GP’s team principal admitting they had “nothing in the cupboard” to sustain Jenson Button’s remarkable run beyond his third win from four races in Bahrain on Sunday.
The Brawn-Mercedes may have been untouchable in Melbourne but the ferocious pace of evolution in formula one means the opposition will be hot on their heels and…Â Details
Continuing my regular feature of selecting the best quotes of the race weekend, and come the end of the season I’ll pick my favourite ten.
Last time out in Shanghai Flavio Briatore couldn’t keep his mouth shut, this time in Bahrain it was a more mixed bag.
Thursday’s Press Conference
Kimi Raikkonen was asked about what he would do with his time between now and Barcelona and whether he would go to the factory. His response…Â Details
So, Danica Patrick thinks she can leave the IndyCar Series, switch to NASCAR and become an instant sensation, racking up millions in sponsorship and endorsement opportunities and race off into the sunset.
Perhaps if she talked to fellow IndyCar driver Sarah Fisher, Patrick would hear a sarcastic: “Good luck with that.”
Fisher thought she was perfectly suited to make the switch to stock cars when she left IndyCar in 2004 to join Richard Childress Racing’s development program…Â Details
Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo has blamed “badly written rules” and his team’s “presumptuous approach” for their continued struggles this season.
The Italian listed those among four reasons for Ferrari’s lack of pace.
The others were that the Kers power-boost systems were not mandatory and that Ferrari started designing its 2009 car late due to its 2008 title battle…Â Details