Dan Wheldon believes the streets of Long Beach are made for racing.
What the former IndyCar points champ is still debating—like most other drivers in the series— is how to attack the 1.97-mile, 11-turn course with this year’s tire combination.
After seeing drivers mix up their strategies at last weekend’s season-opener in St. Petersburg, Fla., Wheldon and others are spending this week’s break evaluating results and devising new game plans.
“I liked the way that we played it (at St. Pete),†Wheldon said. “Certainly with the experience we’ve got now, we’ll probably try and adjust that a little bit at Long Beach.â€
It’s just what series officials were hoping for when they … Details
PKF insolvency experts are fighting car giant Honda for unpaid fees after being dismissed as administrators for defunct Formula One racing team Super Aguri last year.
Partners from PKF are owed around £300,000 for their work as joint administrators to Super Aguri, of which Honda was the major creditor with tens of millions owing when the racing team collapsed.
Honda, which closed its own Formula One team this season, rejected the administrators’ plan to sell Super Aguri, and their fees, then appointed liquidators from BDO Stoy Hayward to sell the assets of the business. Super Aguri was officially placed into liquidation on 7 July 2008.
PKF’s joint administrators, Philip Long, Brian Hamblin and Ian Gould, have applied to the courts to protect their fees… Details
Next week, Formula One powers could spoil the season by ruling that the Jenson Button fairy tale is too good to be true and his back-from-the-dead Brawn GP team has cheated its way to the top of the grid.
If they do, we should protest by switching off our televisions for the next race, the Chinese Grand Prix. The first two races, both won by Button, were too fun for a sudden overturning of the results to be palatable now.
The matter that motorsports’ International Court of Appeal will hear Tuesday is this: Do Brawn, Williams and Toyota have illegal aerodynamic technology on their cars?
Some teams—which this season, remarkably, include Ferrari—contend they do and their lack of the same go-fast bodywork is a main reason why they’re eating Button’s dust… Details