Red Bull Racing pairing Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber have admitted that they were surprised by Lewis Hamilton’s qualifying pace after the McLaren driver took pole by over six tenths of a second.
Vettel and Webber will start second and third despite … Details
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Larry Dixon raced to the Top Fuel qualifying lead Friday at the NHRA Las Vegas Nationals. Matt Hagan, Mike Edwards and Hector Arana also led their categories at the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series event, the fifth of six races in the Countdown to 1, NHRA’s championship playoffs.
Dixon, currently second in the championship standings, powered his Al-Anabi Racing dragster to a performance of 3.805 seconds at a track record speed of 318.24 mph at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. If his time holds through Saturday’s two qualifying sessions (11:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m.) it will be his ninth No. 1 of the season and 40th of his career… DetailsÂ
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 Lewis Hamilton claimed pole position for the inaugural Abu Dhabi Grand Prix by a crushing 0.7sec margin over the Red Bulls of Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber.
McLaren driver Hamilton had dominated the early stages of qualifying – topping Q1 by half a second and Q2 by 0.3sec. He then squandered his first Q3 lap by running wide at Turn 17, but regrouped and set a 1m41.773s next time around to take provisional pole from Rubens Barrichello (Brawn).
Red Bull’s Vettel and Webber then made … Details
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Frank Williams has officially confirmed that his team will switch to Cosworth engines next year. Although the team has so far kept silent about its engine plans, its move to Cosworth was decided on in the last few weeks after it ended talks it had held with Renault. Williams himself has let the cat out of the bag about its intentions for 2010 after telling the Gulf News newspaper that his team was making the switch to Cosworth.
“We’ve finished our contract with Toyota and we’ve moved on to a British engine manufacturer …Â Details
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