Showing posts with label McLaren. Show all posts
Showing posts with label McLaren. Show all posts

Monday, March 19, 2012

Florida Garage is a True Car Lover's Paradise


It’s probably happened to you at some point: for whatever reason, you fail to recall where you parked your car in the garage and you are going around in circles trying to find it.

In any other case, that would be a huge nuisance but not at this particular garage located somewhere in Northeast Florida.

If you're wondering why, then all you have to do is follow the break to watch the video and the answer will quickly become clear…

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Formula 1: Australian GP Race Results


Every year FIA, the sport’s governing body, changes Formula 1’s technical regulations with the purpose of leveling out the playing field. This forces designers to work within a very strict set of parameters that make gaining an advantage a great challenge.

Despite FIA’s efforts to increase competition even more, F1 is far from becoming something akin to a one-make series. Some teams always make a better job than others do, but we have to wait until each year’s first race before drawing any conclusions.

At the 2012 Australian Grand Prix, the Saturday qualifying session showed us certain things like that the McLaren is currently the fastest car out there, while Red Bull Racing seems to have lost some of its pace due to the rule changes that affected the design of the RB8.

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Saturday, March 17, 2012

Formula 1: Australian GP Qualifying Results


At the inaugural race of every Formula 1 season you never really know where each team stands in terms of performance. Sure, there are the favorites, the also-runs, the back markers and oftentimes, the wild cards.

Well, the qualifying race of the Australian Grand Prix that kicked off this year's F1 season certainly had all of the above. But not necessarily in the way most seasoned F1 fans might have expected.

Lewis Hamilton claimed the 20th pole position of his career and Jenson Button lined up right beside him, making it an all-McLaren front row. Not too surprising, as despite the fact that Sebastian Vettel took most pole positions last year, the McLarens had proved to be very fast during testing.

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Thursday, March 15, 2012

Formula 1: Carscoop’s Preview of the 2012 Season


When the red lights go out at the Albert Park circuit in Melbourne, Australia on Sunday (17:00 local time, 06:00 GMT), it will not only mark the start of the 28th Australian Grand Prix but of the 2012 Formula 1 season as well.

It will also mark the first time in the 62-year history of the sport that six world champions line up on the same grid: Michael Schumacher (7 titles), Fernando Alonso (2 titles), Lewis Hamilton, Jenson Button, Kimi Raikkonen (1 title each) and, of course, the reigning champion, Sebastian Vettel, who also won the 2010 world title.

In Formula 1, things can change dramatically from one year to another. And FIA is certainly trying hard to make any advantage held by a single team evaporate: thus it made the standard ECUs even simpler, compelled all teams to use “periscope”-style exhausts eliminating their aerodynamic effect on the diffuser, made changes to the front wing’s minimal strength and height and outlawed ride-height suspension systems.

Despite all these changes, some of which were clearly aimed at Red Bull (and made most cars sport an ugly face), the 25-year old German and the all-conquering these past two seasons RBR team are starting out as the ones to beat.

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Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Eye Opener - 2011

September 2011: Who’s smiling wider — the McLaren MP4-12C or Sachin? It’s really difficult to tell. What’s easy to see however is that our master blaster is really having a ball behind the wheel of the McLaren.


September 2011: Who’s smiling wider —
the McLaren MP4-12C or Sachin? It’s really difficult to tell. What’s easy to see however is that our master blaster is really having a ball behind the wheel of the McLaren.