Archive for May 2009
FOTA: conditional entry for 2010
All FOTA Teams have today submitted conditional entries for the 2010 FIA Formula One World Championship.
Brembo Brake Facts Turkey
Let’s turn now to the Turkish Grand Prix and its hardest braking point. This comes approaching turn 7. The Brembo engineers calculate that the drivers brake down here by around 210 km/h, discharging in the process a full 2,250 kilowatts of energy. Up to 5.1 G pull at the driver, as he pushes down with [...]
Turkish Grand Prix 2009
Formula One added the Turkish Grand Prix to the calendar in 2005. Istanbul Park is one of the circuits designed by Aachen-based architect Hermann Tilke.
The highly modern facility was built outside the town on the Asian side of the Bosphorus.
Brawn GP driver Jenson Button of Britain, winner of the Turkish Formula One Grand Prix, [...]
Red Bull aims to close the gap
It will be important for us to achieve a strong result and our objective has to be to reduce the gap to the Championship leaders.
Mercedes-Benz prior to the Turkish GP
Prior to the Turkish Grand Prix, Brawn Mercedes driver Jenson Button leads the drivers‘ ranking with 51 points ahead of his team mate Rubens Barrichello with 35 points; Lewis is ninth with nine points. In the Constructors‘ Championship, Brawn GP lead with 86 points and Vodafone McLaren Mercedes is fifth with 13 points.
Five Wins in [...]
McLaren previews Turkish GP
We go to Turkey in the knowledge that the track characteristics are a bit less likely to suit our package than Monaco, but we are improving all the time.
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