Filed under: Motorsports , Europe , Government/Legal We don't condone illegal behavior here at Autoblog. Heaven forbid. But if you are going to break the law, this strikes us as a good way to go about it. Reports out of Germany indicate that a group of some 100 people in 43 cars descended upon the Hockenheimring (host of the German Grand Prix) in southern Germany this past Saturday night for what...
Hockenheim, Germany - Police in the western German city of Hockenheim broke up an illegal car-racing meeting taking place overnight at the famous Hockenheimring, home to the German Grand Prix, officials said Sunday. A local resident informed police o...
OnPole.com Limited Edition Lithograph of Juan Manuel Fangio, in his Maserati 250F during the 1957 German Grand Prix at the Nurburgring. No driver has dominated Formula One as completely as Juan Manuel Fangio. During his seven full seasons he raced he won five World Championships and finished second in his other two seasons. In 1957, [...]
Copyright: xpb / Dr. Dieter Zetsche (GER), Chairman of Daimler, German Grand Prix, Sunday Pre-Race Grid, Hockenheim, Germany,.20.07.2008........ October 27,.2009.9:45 PM ........ Filed Under:./spy shots.1, McLaren, Mercedes-BenzDaimler and Mercedes chief Dieter Zetsche will travel to Abu Dhabi this week for the last race of the 2009 formula one season.German ...
Renault’s crash-happy dismissed Formula One driver is set to do something very different after his brief, unhappy career in single-seaters: drive a Toyota Tundra in circles. Poor Nelsinho! Not only did he have to drive under the shadow of a famous father and suffer the intrigues of an unhinged Flavio Briatore , someone has now assembled an unflattering compilation of his short career in Formula...
The Hockenheimring is expected to return to the 2010 F1 calendar. The circuit claims a financial rescue package has been agreed and it will continue to share the German Grand Prix with the Nürburgring. According to the circuit’s website the event will remain at the venue until 2018. There had previously been talking about the Nürburgring sharing [...]
Jackie Stewart stands waiting under an umbrella (though we can’t see the canopy, it’s odds on that it is an umbrella!). He waits for 4 minutes 3.2 seconds to be precise, for second placed driver Graham Hill to finish the 1968 German Grand Prix at the Nurburgring! This is the longest winning margin in modern [...]
Mark Webber started the season with a badly broken leg but the Red Bull veteran could become the most unlikely of Formula One champions Wisdom comes from adversity," Mark Webber says coolly, his matter-of-fact Australian accent making him sound less like an aspiring sage than an old drinking buddy becoming suitably philosophical at the end of a long night. But, deep into the third hour of our...
Force India is almost certain not to run KERS this season, despite originally having hoped to run the energy recovery system as early as the German Grand Prix in July
[Preface - Due to accountancy studies I fell behind with the editing of these posts. They were written during the live BBC coverage as usual, save for the race result and points. Anything in italics in square brackets was written during the edit, just like this paragraph.] 2009 Formula 1 Grosser Preis Santander von Deutschland / 2009 Formula 1 Santander German Grand Prix Circuit: Nürburgring...
Luciano Burti, a former F1 driver who is probably best known for his huge accident at the 2001 German Grand Prix, or even at the Belgian Grand Prix of the same season has called on the FIA to increase helmet safety even further. Burti, a fellow Brazilian race driver of Massa’s crashed heavily at the Belgian [...]
LONDON, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- Brazilian Formula One race car driver Nelson Piquet confirmed Monday he has been fired from the Renault team. Piquet said in a statement he attributed his situation to team principal Flavio Briatore. I am a team player and there are dozens of people I have worked with in my career who would vouch for my character and talent, except unfortunately the person that has had the...