Campos Meta to race in the 2010 Formula One World Championship

Campos Meta team principle Colin Kolles has said he is convinced that the team will be ready to fully participate in the 2010 Formula One World Championshp. Read more

Button A Worthy Champion

After all the doubts over his bottle Jensen Button finally sealed the Formula One World Championship on Sunday.

He has led the Championship since the first race back in Australia in March and with one race still to go his 5th place finish in Brazil means he cannot be caught.

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Formula 1: Malaysian Grand Prix

The fallout from last weeks Australian Grand Prix still continues to wreak havoc along the pit lane, with McLaren Mercedes being the next team to suffer the wrath of the FIA.

The enthralling first race, was blown into dispute after the Italian veteran, Jarno Trulli, supposedly overtook Lewis Hamilton while he was behind the safety car.

Trulli was duly punished with a 25-second penalty, putting him last in the race, and more importantly, out of the points. Read more

Formula One 2009 the preview

With last years excitement and drama just about sunk in, it is almost time to start all over again, with what promises to be another seven-month roller coaster ride.

Lewis Hamilton will race into 2009 with the number one plate on the front of his McLaren, after snatching last year’s title on the final lap of a thrilling season.

That last gasp victory left millions of British sporting fans on the edge of their seats when the title was hanging by a thread, and Lewis was making hard work of it.

The new F1 season kicks off in Australia on March 29th and this time, there will be a more level playing field.

New rule changes have caused a stir, and will take a while for spectators, and drivers to get used to.

The ‘bizarre’ looking cars are especially contentious, with the larger and lower front wings already being criticised by drivers.

The drivers feel they could cause more accidents as they cannot judge the size of these new wings because they can’t see them, especially at the start of races when cars are closely packed.

Rear wings are now taller and narrower, which will apparently make overtaking easier, something which Formula 1 fans have always demanded.

This works because it allows cars to ’slipstream’ with more effect, meaning the car behind can now get a better run at the car in front.

But the most controversial change is the new KERS (Kinetic Energy Recovery System).

This works by creating energy when a car breaks for a corner, which is then stored electrically in a special battery, meaning an extra 60KW of energy will be available to the driver at the touch of a button, giving about 80BHP for around seven seconds a lap.

This has however created controversy amongst the teams.

F1’s new green technology has been dubbed ‘dangerous’ after a BMW mechanic was hospitalised, suffering an electric shock upon touching a car entering the pits.

New safety measures have since been added, but many remain skeptical.

What does all this mean for Lewis Hamilton’s title defence?

With his experience driving in GP2, which also consists of cars using the same basic aerodynamics and slick tyres, many people have Lewis down as favourite.

Hamilton has improved vastly throughout his F1 career, from the unknown new boy to the confident man, putting in dominant performances that even the great Ayrton Senna or Michael Schumacher would envy.

Hamilton critics would however point out his often careless mistakes, such as driving into the back of Kimi Raikkonen’s parked Ferrariin Canada last year, or when he slid off the circuit whilst entering the pit-lane in China, 2007 .

Ferrari will certainly be strong again this season and look to challenge Lewis all the way.

Kimi Raikkonen is determined not to be outshone again, either by Hamilton or his Ferrari his team-mate Felipe Massa.

Raikkonen is the highest paid F1 driver, earning 20 Million Euros per year, but failed to build on his 2007 winning season with a series of poor results.

BMW will also be a threat.

They lead the constructors and drivers championships at the halfway point of 2008, but abandoned development on the car so they could be the first team to focus on the new 2009 machine.

Don’t rule out Renault either, 2007 and 2008 may have seen them slip behind in performance, but Fernando Alonso is determined to bounce back, and has spent lots of time trying to get the French team back on track.

But with Honda still not finding a buyer it remains unlikley that we will see Britain’s Jenson Button on the grid in 09.

With new cars, a new race in Abu Dhabi and a list of potential champions, the 2009 season is set to be a must see for any sporting fan.

Black is Back

This week we have witnessed a great part of history in two countries that share those three sacred colours on their flags. Just a couple of days apart, two ambitious black men made their dreams  come, with the help and gratitude of millions. Read more