Team Principals – John Booth (Virgin Racing), Ross Brawn (Mercedes GP), Paul Hembery (Pirelli), Christian Horner (Red Bull), Martin Whitmarsh (McLaren). Q: Paul, can you tell us what is the thinking about the tyre choice here and in India as well?Paul Hembery: Here we have come with the soft and super soft. From the information that we saw it is a track that needs compound grip. It is an aggressive choice, we don’t deny that, but from what we saw with the inters running today, the surface is not very aggressive. The wear rates were quite low. That’s the reasoning [...]
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FIA Friday Press Conference – Korea
Posted on 18 October 2011.
Team Principals – John Booth (Virgin Racing), Ross Brawn (Mercedes GP), Paul Hembery (Pirelli), Christian Horner (Red Bull), Martin Whitmarsh (McLaren). Q: Paul, can you tell us what is the thinking about the tyre choice here and in India as well?Paul Hembery: Here we have come with the soft and super soft. From the information that we saw it is a track that needs compound grip. It is an aggressive choice, we don’t deny that, but from what we saw with the inters running today, the surface is not very aggressive. The wear rates were quite low. That’s the reasoning [...]
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Hamilton Breaks Red Bull Pole Streak
Posted on 18 October 2011.
Lewis Hamilton today scored pole position during an exciting qualifying session in which for the first time this season the Red Bull team failed to score.Prior to today’s Korean Grand Prix session, Sebastian Vettel had scored 12 pole positions while Mark Webber, in the other Red Bull, had scored the other three. “Of course, pole position is still only the first step, particularly when we know that tomorrow’s race will be long and unpredictable,” said Hamilton.”Pole is always a great achievement and I’m particularly proud to have achieved it at the team’s 700th Formula 1 Ggrand Prix.”
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Formula One Fraternity Pays Tribute to Wheldon
Posted on 17 October 2011.
The Formula One paddock in Korea was in sombre mood on Monday after it awoke to the sad news of British driver Dan Wheldon’s death following a huge, multi-car accident in Sunday’s Indycar season finale in Las Vegas, USA. Although Wheldon, 33, never made it to Formula One, he did race with many of its current stars as he made his way through the motorsport ranks, en route to his two Indianapolis 500 wins and his 2005 Indycar title. “I have so many good memories of racing with Dan in the early 90-s, a true fighter,” said McLaren’s Jenson Button, [...]
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Vettel Wins, While Hamilton Puts on a Show
Posted on 17 October 2011.
Sebastian Vettel took his 10th victory of the season at the Korean Grand Prix on Sunday as Lewis Hamilton, who had started on pole, raced one of his best races of the season, finally climbing out of the depths of his errors in recent races. Vettel took the lead on the first lap from the British driver, and Hamilton could never challenge him again.Hamilton spent the second half of the race holding Mark Webber in the other Red Bull behind him, in a valiant and exciting race for second place in Korea and in the drivers’series, as the two are [...]
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FIA Post-Race Press Conference – Korea
Posted on 16 October 2011.
Drivers: 1 – Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull); 2 – Lewis Hamilton (McLaren); 3 – Mark Webber (Red Bull). Q: Sebastian, a 10th win of the season and any thoughts that after last week’s celebrations you’d start taking things easy now quickly dispersed?Sebastian Vettel: Well, I think it is good to see that the whole team keeps on pushing. In terms of preparation it wasn’t ideal, as I think most of us were a bit tipsy after the last race after the Sunday night. But we clearly deserved that. Now to come here and after a tough Friday and tough Saturday [...]
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FIA Post-Qualifying Press Conference – Korea
Posted on 16 October 2011.
Drivers: 1 – Lewis Hamilton (McLaren), 2 – Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull), 3 – Jenson Button (McLaren) Q: Lewis, congratulations, your first pole position in over a year. I would have thought that you’d have had a smile as wide as the sea between here and Japan. But you don’t seem to be too happy? Is everything okay?Lewis Hamilton: No, I am happy. I am very happy. Happy to be here and very proud of what the team have been available to achieve over the course of the last few races and for Jenson to have won the last race [...]
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FIA Post-Race Press Conference – Japan
Posted on 09 October 2011.
Drivers: 1 – Jenson Button (McLaren); 2 – Fernando Alonso (Ferrari); 3 – Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull) Q: Jenson, coming into this weekend you said all you wanted from the rest of the season was to take another Grand Prix victory. Job done. Congratulations.Jenson Button: Thank you very much. I think this circuit is very special to all of us. We love this place, so to get a victory here in front of such an amazing Japanese crowd really does mean a lot. I need to say a big thanks to the team for the improvements we have had over [...]
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