Posts Tagged ‘Fernando Alonso’
Alonso: a race on track, a race at the factory
There was a back-to-school atmosphere in the Spa paddock today, as everyone discussed what they had done during the break, but it did not take long for the old routine to resume, starting with Fernando Alonso’s traditional meeting with the media. And the first question went straight to the heart of the matter, could Scuderia [...]
Webber retakes championship lead in Hungary
Mark Webber scored a fourth victory of the season in Hungary to take back the world championship lead when an early race Safety Car for debris on the track played out in his favour. Red Bull Racing team mate Sebastian Vettel was leading comfortably, having converted his pole position, while Webber was trapped behind Fernando [...]
Vettel takes Hungaroring pole
Sebastian Vetel (1:18.773) took a dominant pole position for the Hungarian Grand Prix as Red Bull Racing once again locked out the front row. Vettel was the only driver to lap below 1m19s as team mate Mark Webber stopped the clock in 1:19.184, the 0.41s margin between the pair bigger than usual. The clean side [...]
Alonso: A good place to celebrate a birthday
Only one driver can come to a race with that special feeling of having won the previous Grand Prix and here in Hungary, that man was Fernando Alonso. There was even more cause for him to be in good form and he seemed genuinely pleased that his usual Thursday meeting with the media in the [...]
The closest shave
When the great history book of close shaves is written, Sebastian Vettel’s pole position lap for the 2010 German Grand Prix will get a worthy mention. He snatched P1 from Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso by a mere two-thousandths of a second: 1:13.791 to 1.13.793, to take his third pole position in a row and his sixth [...]
Vettel claims home pole
Sebastian Vettel (1:13.791) claimed his third successive pole but his first in Germany by just two thousandths of a second from Fernando Alonso’s Ferrari (1:13.793). Their respective team mates, Felipe Massa (1:14.290) and Mark Webber (1:14.347) share the second row of the Hockenheim grid. “It would be interesting to calculate just how much two thousandths [...]
