For Marco Andretti it was pretty much an up-hill pedal from the start of the Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg. An up-hill fight that saw a promising run end in a heartbreaking DNF.
That was not the case for Ryan Briscoe who was in the mix all day and eventually took the Grand Prix win.
Briscoe held off runner up Ryan Hunter-Reay in a three-lap dash to the finish, giving Indy car’s winningest car owner Roger Penske his third St. Pete victory.
Andretti did the best he could, with the hand he was dealt, after qualifying deep in the starting grid 18th… Details
A torrential downpour delivered the shortest Formula One race for 18 years and back-to-back victories for Brawn GP’s Jenson Button at the Malaysian Grand Prix on Sunday.
The race suspended when the red flag came out after 32 laps as a tropical storm lashed the Sepang track, making conditions impossible for drivers. A restart was considered for 50 minutes, but with the rain continuing and darkness descending after the twilight start, the race director elected not to attempt a restart.
Because less than three quarters of the scheduled 56 laps were completed, only half points were awarded to drivers and teams. It was the first time that had happened in F1 since the Australian GP at Adelaide in 1991.
“It wasn’t like a river, it was a lake,” Button said of the track conditions when the race was stopped.
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BMW-Sauber protested the legality of cars used by the Brawn, Toyota and Williams teams at the Malaysian Grand Prix in a repeat of actions taken by others in Australia last week. Race stewards again rejected the protest, just as officials had in Melbourne. BMW-Sauber said it would appeal…Â Details
ROSS BRAWN is the hero of the hour after being thrust into the public consciousness with the stunning debut 1-2 in Australia of his eponymous Grand Prix team. But he has actually been around the motor racing block more than a few times and helped steer Michael Schumacher to his seven world championships.
I worked with him in both F1 and sports car racing and got to know, like and immensely respect the man that Jenson Button calls “the big bearâ€. It is a fair nickname because he … Details