Rubens Barrichello is back in Formula 1. A few days ago the Brazilian driver could not have hoped to be driving an F1 in the 2009 season. Ross Brawn announced the repurchase of the Honda team and confirmed Barrichello and Jenson Button as drivers. Holding the record for most races (271 GPs) he is ready for his 17th season. In an interview published today by French daily “L’Equipe”, Michael Schumacher’s former team mate in Ferrari admits that he never was really worried about his future, saying …Â Details
Toyota have hinted that on the basis of pre-season Formula 1 testing, they have produced the ‘fastest’ package on the 2009 grid in the shape of the TF109 – with nobody really knowing just how the running order will shake out when all 20 cars take to the track in anger for the first time in the curtain-raising Australian Grand Prix at the end of the month.
Though the big-budget Japanese manufacturer’s new challenger has rarely topped the timesheets, it has remained a consistently strong presence …Â Details
Fast cars, girls, yachts and a champagne lifestyle: but there’s more to Formula 1 than you may at first realise.
A new exhibition at London’s Science Museum demonstrates how engineering and innovation from Formula 1 spins-off into the broader world.
‘Fast Forward: 20 ways F1 is changing our world’, is a new free exhibition at the museum, which is located in South Kensington.
20 innovative by-products of the sport are on display in an elegantly designed gallery overlooked by the chassis of the McLaren MP4-21 suspended from the ceiling….. Details
And now, the best use of a BlackBerry Storm I have seen to date: Lewis Hamilton, the British Formula One driver, appears in a YouTube video controlling his F1 car remotely with Research in Motion’s touchscreen smartphone.
Here’s the backstory: A couple of Vodafone subscribers in the UK hacked a BlackBerry Storm to race a toy R/C F1 car around a homemade track. That’s what appears in the first minute or so of the video. The Storm’s built-in accelerometer lets them steer the car by tiling the phone back and forth, while acceleration and braking is controlled with buttons on the phone’s touch screen, according to Autoblog.
Once word got out and Team McLaren heard about it, they invited the fellows to the McLaren Mercedes garage, where they adapted the control system to a real F1 car…Â Details
Toyota have hinted that on the basis of pre-season Formula 1 testing, they have produced the ‘fastest’ package on the 2009 grid in the shape of the TF109 – with nobody really knowing just how the running order will shake out when all 20 cars take to the track in anger for the first time in the curtain-raising Australian Grand Prix at the end of the month.