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Thursday, November 2nd, 2006
Honda de facto number 2 Rubens Barrichello has launched an attack against his Honda team on the back of a season which saw the veteran humiliated by Jenson Button. Rubens thinks Honda has him doing too much PR work off the track, and doesn’t listen to him about his on track problems. Barrichello feels that the car doesn’t suit him under brakes and has found it impossible to come to grips with the Hondas traction control system. With the excuses for both parts of the corners covered, at his home race at Interlagos the Brazilian started complaining about his relative lack of pace on the straights.
It must be difficult for the Honda engineers to tweak their pride and joy to suit Rubens when all he does is bag it because it isn’t like his old Ferrari, which he wasn’t very good in anyways! With young Felipe Massa showing brilliant skill at overcoming early season teething troubles, Rubens is looking almost as worn out as his not-so-little book of excuses.
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Wednesday, June 28th, 2006
Found in the June 26th edition of the National Post in Canada
Hehe
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Sunday, June 11th, 2006
There is a really interesting article over on the BBC website about the new cornering speeds at the Copse corner at Silverstone.
The Formula One car appears out of the heat haze, bright colours shimmering, and grows larger at an alarming rate as it heads towards you at more than 180mph.
Then it turns 90 degrees right at a speed so astonishing that you think it surely must lead to disaster. Instead, the car spears through the corner and off out of sight.
This is Copse, Silverstone’s first corner, and now one of F1’s most spectacular tests.
I’ve seen the cars at Eau Rouge myself and it is a sight to see but I imagine seeing cars change direction at Copse is a whole different visual experience.
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Friday, May 12th, 2006
Michael Schumacher has hinted that he will probably not make an announcement about his future racing plans until the end of this season.
Fans and people involved in F1 were expecting an announcment soon especially with all the rumours going around that Kimi Raikonnen is poised to join the team and the ongoing speculation of MotoGP superstar Valentino Rossi interesting in driving a Ferrari in F1 next year.
What I can’t figure out is whether this is a ploy by Schumacher to have people stop asking him about his plans or whether he is really undecided and needs that much time to make up his mind. Ferrari of course are publicly saying they will wait until the cows come home for a decision by Schumacher but I have to wonder if they can really afford to wait that long. I assume if they wait until the end of the season the pool of available top drivers will be very shallow if not completely dry and can they really afford to go a season without a superstar number one driver? let’s say they wait and Schumacher decides not to race. I’m assuming Raikkonen will have signed with a team by October. Will that force Ferrari to rush Rossi into F1 by making an offer he can’t refuse. They’ll need his popularity to sell the Ferrari glamour.
Sir Jackie Stewart seems to agree with me; there is no way Ferrari can afford to wait that long but Gerhard Berger is quoted as saying in the same article:
“It doesn’t surprise me,” said the Austrian when asked about Schumacher’s Spanish revelation. “If he needs until the end of the season, then it is correct that Ferrari gives him this time.”
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Saturday, May 6th, 2006
Several members of the message board attended testings session as Silverstone last week and posted lots of pictures and video clips on the forum. Here, here, here, here, here and here.
Alex got this most amazing pictures of Fisichella going through Becketts and the picture perfectly captures the unbelievable tire warp as the car navigates the curve.
Keep in mind Fisichella is doing around 160mph at this point!
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