Formula 1 - Season 2010

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3 Days to Practice One!

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Force India’s Adrian Sutil caused something of a surprise here at Bahrain’s Sakhir circuit on Friday morning, when the 2010 Formula One season finally kicked off properly with the first practice session of the year.

 

 

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Bahrain:

 

1. Fernando Alonso Ferrari

2. Felipe Massa Ferrari

3. Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes

4. Sebastian Vettel RBR-Renault

5. Nico Rosberg Mercedes Benz GP Ltd

6. Michael Schumacher Mercedes Benz GP Ltd

7. Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes

8. Mark Webber RBR-Renault

9. Vitantonio Liuzzi Force India-Mercedes

10. Rubens Barrichello Williams-Cosworth

 

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I am delightet

 

Though I think without the fuel stops the races will become top boring very soon .

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yes this i expect too.

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in 9 days, Melbourne/Australia

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Though I think without the fuel stops the races will become top boring very soon .

 

My thoughts exactly... hopefully I'll make Albert Park this year!

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Here's hoping Formula One gets even more boring

 

By JOHN LEICESTER, AP Sports Columnist John Leicester, Ap Sports Columnist – Wed Mar 17, 4:34 pm ET

 

PARIS – With luck, the deadly dull Bahrain Grand Prix was not an unfortunate one-off but the first in a parade of mind-blowingly boring races that will ruin the Formula One season.

 

Because a complete lack of racing spectacle could be just what is needed to finally force the remarkably conservative sport to swallow its medicine and accept radical changes that would a) enable cars to actually overtake each other and give fans what they want, which is races consistently worth watching and not the bus-like procession of vehicles seen in Bahrain.

 

Of course, not all races this season will be quite that bad. Occasionally, there will be rain, which makes things more interesting. But, one hopes, not too interesting.

 

"It's like climate change, it's got to be bad before it can get better," says Peter Wright, a veteran F1 engineer and consultant to motorsport's governing body, the FIA. "It's got to get bad enough for people to actually have the real will to do things that they wouldn't normally do."

 

Fundamentally, F1 lacks the essential ingredient for an absorbing spectator sport: unpredictability. The sad truth is that many people within the F1 industry have long known that the cars, as they are now designed, are not really very good at overtaking each other. But they've been reluctant to do much about it, mainly because the teams spend so much money on their cars that they don't want to shake things up too much.

 

F1 has long talked about the need to make overtaking easier, it has even had groups studying the problem, but it has not made this its absolute priority. The boredom of Bahrain was no fluke. It was another sign that the F1 emperor has no clothes, that having the fastest, most expensive cars does not make the formula the pinnacle of motorsport, as it claims.

 

"The root cause is that the cars are not good racing cars, the formula is badly designed," says Tony Purnell, who led the former Jaguar team and helped devise last year's failed FIA attempt to cap F1 budgets. "The will to please the public really isn't there."

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Lewis Hamilton apologises after car impounded by police

 

Lewis Hamilton has apologised after his Mercedes road car was impounded by Melbourne police on Thursday evening.

 

The 25-year-old, who set the fastest time in Friday's Australian Grand Prix practice, is expected to be charged with improper use of a vehicle.

 

McLaren's 2008 Formula 1 world champion admitted: "I was driving in an over-exuberant manner and, as a result, was stopped by the police.

 

"What I did was silly, and I want to apologise for it."

 

The news broke hours after Hamilton recorded the quickest time in Friday's second practice session.

 

His time of one minute, 26.801 seconds, was 0.25 seconds quicker than McLaren team-mate and current world champion Jenson Button.

 

Police constable Scott Woodford said Hamilton's rear wheels were skidding as he accelerated out of Albert Park, where Sunday's race is being staged.

 

"Given that Melbourne's on the world stage with a lot of interstate and international visitors, we would expect drivers to observe road rules," he said.

 

A Victoria police spokesman added: "The vehicle was seen to deliberately lose traction and was intercepted by police.

 

"The driver, a 25-year-old man who resides in Switzerland, was spoken to at the scene and is expected to be charged on summons with improper use of a vehicle.

 

"The vehicle, a 2010 Mercedes, was impounded for 48 hours and the driver returned to his hotel."

 

It is not the first time Hamilton's driving has put him in trouble with the police. In 2007, his car was impounded in France after he was caught speeding.

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this was an entertaining race :content:

 

1 Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes

2 Robert Kubica Renault

3 Felipe Massa Ferrari

4 Fernando Alonso Ferrari

5 Nico Rosberg Mercedes

6 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes

7 Vitantonio Liuzzi Force India-Mercedes

8 Rubens Barrichello Williams-Cosworth

9 Mark Webber RBR-Renault

10 Michael Schumacher Mercedes GP