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The Grand Prix this Sunday in Austin will be an important event in the career of Sebastian Vettel not only because he is playing the third consecutive World Title. In fact, the Red Bull driver will compete in the 100 ° GP during his dazzling athletic activities in Formula 1, with the aim of celebrating in the best way this milestone prestige. |
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Circuit of the Americas – Austin(Texas) – 1° edition
The statistic of this season after 18 races wins: Vettel(5) Alonso and Hamilton (3)Webber and Button (2), Rosberg, Maldonado and Raikkonen (1) 2°place: Alonso(4) Raikkonen and Button (3); Vettel and Perez (2), Rosberg, Grosjean, Webber and Massa(1) 3°place: Alonso(4) Raikkonen and Hamilton(3) Grosjean and Vettel (2), Schumacher, Perez, Kobayashi and Webber (1) pole: Hamilton(6) Vettel (5); Alonso and Webber (2), Rosberg, Maldonado and Button (1) fastest lap: Vettel(5); Raikkonen, Rosberg and Button (2) Kobayashi, Grosjean, Perez, Schumacher Senna, Hulkenberg and Webber (1) After five years, the Formula 1 championship returns in USA on the new Austin circuit. The track looks quite good with many ups and downs. The first corner is a steep uphill left hander, following by a sequence of fast turns, similar at the Maggots Becketts Chapel complex (Silverstone) or Esses(Suzuka). For sure the first half of the track is the most interesting. Then there is the usually long straight(only one) that begins and ends with slow corners, while in the last sector(the slowest) there are the curves 16 -17 and 18: a long multi-apex right hander. The driving direction is anticlockwise and at the beginning of the weekend, the track will be very slippery. Only a single DRS zone on the longest straight. The tyre compounds will be silver hard(prime) and white medium(option). A very conservative choice, perhaps too, used only on circuits with a high tyre wear or probably the Pirelli engineers have done a prudent choice because the track is completely new. In the past, many circuits(Indianapolis Watkins Glen, Long Beach, Las Vegas Detroit, Dallas, Phoenix and others) have hosted Formula One in USA. The circuit of Las Vegas, built in the Caesar Palace hotel parking, is probably one of the worst in the history of formula 1. Not good even Phoenix, Dallas and Detroit(all, street circuits); instead a bit better, Long Beach. For me, the best track in USA was Watkins Glen. A fast circuit but perhaps also too dangerous. On this track Francois Cevert won his one and only Gran Prix(1971), but tragically, it was also the place where two years later, the young Frenchman would lose his life in qualifying. Cevert was a good driver, one of the best French pilots of all time. In 1973 finished second, six times, often behind his teammate and first driver in Tyrrell, Jacky Stewart. After the fatal accident of his teammate, the Scottish, three time world champion, announced his decision not to compete at Watkins Glen and he retired forever from the races. Just a few months before had died in Zandvoort, another pilot Roger Williamson. Was his second Grand Prix. His friend David Purley stops and desperately tries to save him from the flames, but he can’t and no one helps him. A black day in the history of F1. |
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A litle reminder for this weekend : The Grand Prix of America :
Friday : 1st practice session : 16.00u - 17.30u ( CET ) 2nd practice session : 20.00u - 21.30u ( CET ) Saturday : 3rd practice session : 16.00u - 17.00u ( CET ) Qualification : 19.00u - 20.00u 5 ( CET ) Sunday : Race : 20.00u ( CET ) Kind Regards Shaky-Schumi |
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10/11/1965 happy birthday to eddie irvine former ferrari driver
[Verstecktes Bild - Registrierung notwendig] |
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Peter Collins
[Versteckter Link - Registrierung notwendig] Born : 6th November 1931 - Died : 3rd August 1958 |
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Jacques Villeneuve Senior 4th November 1953
[Versteckter Link - Registrierung notwendig] Happy Birthday to your 59th anniversary 
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brudgon wrote:1 Kimi Räikkönen LotusFastest lap : Sebastian Vettel - 1:43.964 Pitstop Heikki Kavalainen : 1 D.S.L : 17 Kind Regards Shaky-Schumi |
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A terrible accident ! Glory to God - all survived ! Sebastian Vettel - the hero of the day !
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2012 FORMULA 1 UNITED STATES GRAND PRIX
[Versteckter Link - Registrierung notwendig] Fri 16 November 2012 Practice 1 16:00 - 17:30 Practice 2 20:00 - 21:30 Sat 17 November 2012 Practice 3 16:00 - 17:00 Qualifying 19:00 Sun 18 November 2012 Race 20:00 |
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constructors standings
1 Red Bull Racing-Renault 422 2 Ferrari 340 3 McLaren-Mercedes 318 4 Lotus-Renault 288 5 Mercedes 136 6 Sauber-Ferrari 124 7 Force India-Mercedes 95 8 Williams-Renault 73 9 STR-Ferrari 22 10 Marussia-Cosworth 0 11 Caterham-Renault 0 12 HRT-Cosworth 0 |
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drivers standings
1 Sebastian Vettel German Red Bull Racing-Renault 255 2 Fernando Alonso Spanish Ferrari 245 3 Kimi Räikkönen Finnish Lotus-Renault 198 4 Mark Webber Australian Red Bull Racing-Renault 167 5 Lewis Hamilton British McLaren-Mercedes 165 6 Jenson Button British McLaren-Mercedes 153 7 Felipe Massa Brazilian Ferrari 95 8 Nico Rosberg German Mercedes 93 9 Romain Grosjean French Lotus-Renault 90 10 Sergio Perez Mexican Sauber-Ferrari 66 11 Kamui Kobayashi Japanese Sauber-Ferrari 58 12 Nico Hulkenberg German Force India-Mercedes 49 13 Paul di Resta British Force India-Mercedes 46 14 Pastor Maldonado Venezuelan Williams-Renault 43 15 Michael Schumacher German Mercedes 43 16 Bruno Senna Brazilian Williams-Renault 30 17 Jean-Eric Vergne French STR-Ferrari 12 18 Daniel Ricciardo Australian STR-Ferrari 10 19 Timo Glock German Marussia-Cosworth 0 20 Heikki Kovalainen Finnish Caterham-Renault 0 21 Vitaly Petrov Russian Caterham-Renault 0 22 Jerome D'Ambrosio Belgian Lotus-Renault 0 23 Charles Pic French Marussia-Cosworth 0 24 Narain Karthikeyan Indian HRT-Cosworth 0 25 Pedro de la Rosa Spanish HRT-Cosworth 0 |
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2012 FORMULA 1 ETIHAD AIRWAYS ABU DHABI GRAND PRIX
1 9 Kimi Räikkönen Lotus-Renault 55 Winner 4 25 2 5 Fernando Alonso Ferrari 55 +0.8 secs 6 18 3 1 Sebastian Vettel Red Bull Racing-Renault 55 +4.1 secs 24 15 4 3 Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 55 +7.7 secs 5 12 5 18 Pastor Maldonado Williams-Renault 55 +13.0 secs 3 10 6 14 Kamui Kobayashi Sauber-Ferrari 55 +20.0 secs 15 8 7 6 Felipe Massa Ferrari 55 +22.8 secs 8 6 8 19 Bruno Senna Williams-Renault 55 +23.5 secs 14 4 9 11 Paul di Resta Force India-Mercedes 55 +24.1 secs 12 2 10 16 Daniel Ricciardo STR-Ferrari 55 +27.4 secs 16 1 11 7 Michael Schumacher Mercedes 55 +28.0 secs 13 12 17 Jean-Eric Vergne STR-Ferrari 55 +34.9 secs 17 13 20 Heikki Kovalainen Caterham-Renault 55 +47.7 secs 18 14 24 Timo Glock Marussia-Cosworth 55 +56.4 secs 21 15 15 Sergio Perez Sauber-Ferrari 55 +56.7 secs 11 16 21 Vitaly Petrov Caterham-Renault 55 +64.5 secs 20 17 22 Pedro de la Rosa HRT-Cosworth 55 +71.7 secs 22 Ret 25 Charles Pic Marussia-Cosworth 41 +14 Laps 19 Ret 10 Romain Grosjean Lotus-Renault 37 Accident 9 Ret 2 Mark Webber Red Bull Racing-Renault 37 Accident 2 Ret 4 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 19 +36 Laps 1 Ret 23 Narain Karthikeyan HRT-Cosworth 7 Accident 23 Ret 8 Nico Rosberg Mercedes 7 Accident 7 Ret 12 Nico Hulkenberg Force India-Mercedes 0 Accident 10 |
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let me spam a little saying this:
KIMI !!!! number 1 ..the one and only ! the best of the bests  welcome back to the top ! p.s. next year will be funny hehe |
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2nd saftey car.
Vettel rank 4 with new soft tyres. Could be interesting and thrilling the last 14 laps. 
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Latest News update :
The car of Sebastian Vettel is out of the Parc Fermé ,Vettel will start from the pit ...this means that the mechanics ( Team ) can work on his car to get the maximum out of it ! Kind Regards Shaky-Schumi |
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