Fernando Alonso was fastest in the second German Grand Prix practice session, as the weather failed to impact on proceedings. Although the track remained damp at the start of practice, all of the drivers emerged on slick tyres and attempted to get as much dry running as possible. Adrian Sutil started the session as he [...]
Jenson Button was repeatedly asked over last winter to justify his decision to join Lewis Hamilton at McLaren.
What are you doing, the suggestion clearly was, voluntarily deciding to go up against the fastest driver in the world in a team that has nurtured him since he was 11 years old?
How stupid do those queries [...]
1st Jenson Button (McLaren), 1h33m36.531s; 2nd Robert Kubica (Renault), 1h33m48.565s; 3rd Felipe Massa (Ferrari), 1h33m51.019s.
Q: Jenson, an incredible race. 50 laps plus on a set of soft tyres. You made the early gamble for the slick tyres and that was the game changer. Was that your call?
Jenson Button: It was. I think it is a [...]
Jenson Button was delighted with both the performances of himself and the McLaren team in Melbourne as the current title holder won his first Grand Prix of the season at Albert Park. When running sixth, the Englishman risked losing everything when electing to pit for Slick tyres on a damp circuit.
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Bridgestone enters the final season of its contract as official tyre supplier to the Formula One World Championship with the commencement of the Bahrain Grand Prix with its super soft and medium 2010 specification dry slick tyres.
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Bridgestone, official tyre suppliers to the FIA Formula One World Championship, have announced the compound allocations of their dry-weather Potenza tyres for the first three rounds of the 2010 season.
This season will be the second with slick tyres, which made a return to Formula One racing last year after 11 years’ absence from the sport. [...]
On Thursday Mercedes Grand Prix Formula 1 driver Michael Schumacher concluded a three-day development test today in Jerez, Spain. Clear blue skies, strong winds and a much dryer track offered the possibility to run in slick tyres for the majority of the day.
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Michael Schumacher concluded a three-day GP2 development test today in Jerez today, where improved weather conditions offered the possibility to run in slick tyres for the majority of the day.
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Felipe Massa today tested a Ferrari F1 car for the first time since his serious July accident, and pronounced himself as fit ‘as if nothing had happened’.
The Brazilian took a F2007 Ferrari fitted with GP2-spec slick tyres around the Italian marque’s Fiorano test track, and said he could return to racing today.
But doctors are [...]
The Formula One technical regulations in 2009 were significantly changed in order to improve overtaking during races. Amongst the most notable of these changes were a much-welcomed return to slick tyres – banned in 1998, a complete clean-up of the car bodywork with fins, winglets and other ugly pieces of aerodynamic junk to be chopped [...]