Formula One 2010

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SCARES IN THE SECOND SECRET DAY IN RICARDO TORMO




The McLaren de Alonso for and Hamilton his is destroyed
By MIGUEL SANZ · Madrid
the way is not going to be easy. That knows clearly Fernando Alonso and McLaren, who do not win for scares with the new MP4/22. To 15:00 hours of Thursday in Cheste the car of Fernando when coming out stopped of curvón Grandson. Just as Wednesday when they pushed to him in one of his many entrances to boxes. Tests of consumption of the motor? It seems soon. Failure? They seem more duendes of the motor and the electronics that govern and worry to the limit the new motors.

The case is that it is the third warning after the oil flight of the first day, but Alonso followed with the put smile rolling announcements of Vodafone, with the full track of publicity of Bank Santander, Mobil the 1 and rest of esponsors, as well as signing autographs to the boys of the running.

The capital scare took to its companion Lewis to it Hamilton. To 14:00 hours one left track, it was giving tumbles of backs on the sand and it was printed against the protections with such force that burst the car, made unusable for the rest. It left unharmed miracle. Lewis when seeing that soured Alonso returned to be quicker, than put a second almost to him, and improved his registry in seven tenth (1:11.698 by 1:12.387 of Wednesday).

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RALF DOMINATED The THIRD DAY And The SPANISH PILOT FINISHED QUARTER

Fernando Alonso returned to surpass to the Ferrari in Cheste

The German pilot of Toyota Ralf Schumacher was fastest in the third day of the training of Formula 1 that are celebrated in the circuit Ricardo Tormo. Fernando Alonso, who dominated first days both, in the end obtained the quarter best time, after Ralf and the Renault de Giancar it Fisichella and Heikki Kovalainen.

Schumacher obtained a better registry of 1:11.297, two tenth less than Fisichella, three that Kovalainen and four that Alonso, qeu surpassed to Nick Heidfeld and Kimi Raikkonen, that had mechanical problems in their single-seaters.


Problems for Raikkonen

Fernando Alonso closes thus six days of tests in the Valencian circuit in which he has added 468 returns, or what is the same, 1,874 kilometers before continuing its training of preseason in Sherry, Catalonia and, later, Bahrein. Next to the Asturian one it was Pedro Martinez of the Rose, that gave 69 returns and finished seventh.

The things to Ferrari did not go to him well, and that the single-seater of Raikkonen, that gave 65 turns and obtained the sixth better time, was stopped, whereas Felipe Massa finished eighth.


BETTER TIMES

1. Ralf Schumacher (ALE/Toyota)
1.11.297 (50 v.) 2, Giancar It Fisichella (ITA/Renault) 1.11.521 (121) 3, Heikki Kovalainen (FIN/Renault) 1.11.643
(10 4, Fernando Alonso (ESP/McLaren) 1.11.710 (95) 5, Nick Heidfeld (ALE/BMW Sauber) 1.11.989
(99) 6, Kimi Raikkonen (FIN/Ferrari) 1.12.360
(65) 7, Pedro of the Rose (ESP/McLaren) 1.12.361 (69) 8, Felipe Massa (BRA/Ferrari) 1.12.418
(9 9, Robert Kubica (POL/BMW Sauber) 1.12.857
(20) 10, Jenson Button (GBR/Honda) 1.12.926
(77) 11, Anthony Davidson (GBR/Aguri) 1.13.143 (33) 12, David Coulthard (GBR/Red Bull) 1.13.450
(59) 13, James Rossiter (GBR/Honda) 1.13.728
(3) 14, Mark Webber (AUS/Red Bull) 1.13.796
(23) 15, Kazuki Nakajima (JAP/Williams) 1.13.945
(82)

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MASSA MARKED THE BEST TIME, WHEREAS ALONSO WAS QUARTER

Ferrari beats for the first time to McLaren in 2007
EFE. Sherry
escudería Ferrari, of the hand of the Brazilian Felipe Massa, has finished in preseason for the first time in front of McLaren-Mercedes, the figure of the Briton Lewis Hamilton, during the second day of training of Formula 1 in the circuit of Sherry of the Border (Cadiz), where the Spanish Fernando Alonso has been quarter.

Massa, that Tuesday could not train to feel ill, has marked one better return of 1:19.746 the steering wheel of the new F2007. The Brazilian was three tenth quicker than his teammate, the Finn Kimi Raikkonen. To 75 thousandth of Massa finished Lewis Hamilton. Alonso has been this time quarter.

Alonso, world-wide champion both last years, centered the attention of the numerous public congregated in Sherry. Nothing else to ignite the green traffic light that opened the track, to nine in the morning, Alonso left to the layout, although 24 minutes later its single-seater, aquejado of some smaller mechanical problem, left the track in the first curve of the layout after making the straight line of goal at low speed.

Once corrected the misfortune, the Spanish pilot of Mclaren continued the session for later (15.10), with a shutdown in track more of his bolide, again in the first curve of the circuit.


Raikkonen, slower than Alonso

Already in the evening, the sky returned gray and began to fall some drops of rain although it did not rain the sufficient thing to wet the layout and this caused that the single-seaters took advantage of until last hour the session in forecast the water that is announced for the next day, last of these test.

Felipe Massa has gained finally the game to until now unbeatable pilots of Mclaren. Third it was the BMW Sauber of the Pole Robert Kubica, who stopped crono in 1:19.839, whereas after him Fernando Alonso located itself, who completed a session of 101 returns and a better registry of 1:20.046. His main rival in the fight by the world-wide title, Kimi Raikkonen, did it next with 1:20.068.


- Times:

1. Felipe Massa (BRA/Ferrari) 1:19.746 (46 returns) 2. Lewis Hamilton (GBR/McLaren) 1:19.821 (109) 3. Robert Kubica (POL/BMW) 1:19.839 (96) 4. Fernando Alonso (ESP/Mclaren) 1:20.046
(101) 5. Kimi Raikkonen (FIN/Ferrari) 1:20.068 (46) 6. Nelson Piquet (BRA/Renault) 1:20.070 (76) 7. Alex Wurz (AUS/Williams) 1:20.132 (7 8. Nico Rosberg (GER/Williams) 1:20.143 (66) 9. Ralf Schumacher (GER/Toyota) 1:20.604 (59) 10, Mark Webber (AUS/Red Bull) 1:20.629 (36) 11, David Coulthard (GBR/Red Bull) 1:20.702 (70) 12, Nick Heidfeld (GER/BMW) 1:20.710 (80) 13, Jenson Button (GBR/Honda) 1:20.751
(100) 14, Ricardo Zonta (BRA/Renault) 1:20.767 (86) 15, Jarno Trulli (ITA/Toyota) 1:20.898 (80) 16. Frame Andretti (USA/Honda) 1:22.151 (74)

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The EX- COMPANION OF ALONSO SEES The ' SCUDERIÁ LIKE EQUIPMENT BEAT

Fisichella: "the Ferrari is more consistent than the McLaren"

Giancar it Fisichella (Renault) it affirms that in Barcelona it has been seen Ferrari like the equipment beat. "they have been more consistent than McLaren, mainly in the two first returns and the last ones of each turn. They have made a great work and they have been working long time with Bridgestone, which I believe that it is a great advantage ", assures the Italian pilot.

As far as the R27, the ex- companion of Fernando Alonso affirms: "We go in the good direction, but we needed more speed. We have proven a new front aileron, that gives to one better load and a better setting us, but still is work that to do ".

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در برابر ديدگان هزاران تماشاگر

آلونسو: به كودكان آفريقايي كمك نمي*كنم


فرناندو آلونسو، قهرمان فرمول يك جهان و اسپانيا حاضر به كمك مالي به كودكان آفريقايي نشد.



به نقل از ماركا اسپانيا، فرناندو آلونسو در اقدامي عجيب و در حاليكه مقابل هزاران تماشاگر تلويزيوني قرار داشت، عنوان كرد: هيچ كمكي به كودكان آفريقايي نمي*كنم.

وي كه با جمله اول خود، حضار در سالن و تماشاگران را شوكه كرده بود، ادامه داد: هر سال چند تن از ستارگان هاليوودي يا جهان ورزش به صورت سمبليك به كودكان آفريقايي كمك مي*كنند و خيال همه از آفريقا راحت مي*شود؛ اما كسي كه از كره ماه، *آفريقا را نگاه مي*كند؛ چيزي غير از آتش، كينه*توزي، فقر و انحراف فكري نمي*بيند.

آلونسو متذكر شد: *چرا به صورت سمبليك كمك كنم تا سياستمداران از اين طريق به نفع خود چندين مقاله بنويسند؟ سكوت مي*كنم و اين سكوت بهترين كمك براي كودكان آفريقاست.

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IT CONFESSES THAT ONE WENT OF RENAULT BECAUSE FELT "LIKE AN OLD ONE"

Alonso: "To be in McLaren it is like playing in Real Madrid"

Fernando Alonso confessed itself in the newspaper ' Daily Mail'. The bichampion of the world opened the reasons of his draftee by McLaren after two years filled with successes in Renault. The Asturian pilot discovered unknown aspects of his childhood and praised to his new equipment. In this extensive granted interview to one of average the most prestigious ones of the United Kingdom, he wanted to end many topics as much on his personality inside as outside the circuits.

What means to be in an equipment like McLaren-Mercedes?

I feel very lucky to be in McLaren. If outside soccer player, would want to play for Real Madrid, the equipment that support and that master. Leading for McLaren is like playing in Real Madrid.

Why it left Renault?

It needed a new challenge, and it needed a new motivation in my race, and my life.

But it could continue gaining titles with Renault...

In Renault already he was a little tired. It could not obtain to more things alli. It had gained two titles, knew the car perfectly, to the people who worked with me. To follow meant there to continue making the same things again. It was like eating the same plate of paella every night. It needed to again have the sensation of which I am young, that I am 25 years old. Now I feel like young person again.

What deludes to him of McLaren?

The fact to be in a new company, a new equipment, with the new people and a new car motivates to me. I have luck because passage of a great equipment to another great equipment. I made this decision in 2005, when it did not know if it were going to have a good car in McLaren in 2007. Now I know that we have a good car.

It preferred to gain a third title with another equipment that to do it with Renault?

Until my grandmother it will understand the challenge to try to gain a third world-wide title changing of equipment. Desire to gain the third title, because to gain one it can suppose that I had the luck to have the best in a while certain car. To gain two already is a great profit, but to reach three causes that it remembers to you like one of the great ones. All the names of great pilots who we remembered took three titles. If they ask to me what is more important, if to gain three titles with Renault or three titles with two different equipment, the answer is easy.

They have to do its ídolos of the childhood with pilots who comprised of the McLaren equipment?

When he was a boy in Oviedo, my heroes were pilots as Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna and both were pilots of escudería McLaren. In fact, he played with the cars of the toy of McLaren, also. Therefore, to be a conductor of McLaren now really is a dream made reality.

How it is seen like pilot at the moment?

I am myself better than the last season. Although seventh east had left year, I am seen better. In addition, as person I am better, more relaxed. When she was 23 years old always was exposed people, trying to prove that she had talent to be champion. I have already obtained it and I do not have to demonstrate nothing to nobody. But I do not relax in my profession because Formula 1 is a sport of enormous tension from January to October, but attempt to disconnect the possible maximum. Between race and race attempt to be most relaxed possible and to dedicate me to my ' hobbies'.

How one felt when it proved the McLaren in Sherry for the first time?

The first time which I piloted the McLaren in the month of December of the last year not I felt too comfortable. The car lead me more to me than I drived the car. Now I feel very comfortable in the car, happy and am working very to taste yet the equipment. They are already all in my same wave. Mécánicos engineers, with whom are of the equipment I want to know them well. I like to have interaction with much people. Tonight, for example, I will arrive at my hotel and I will put myself to speak with the recepcionista.

Does not see dangerous go away of an equipment champion to whom he comes from a crisis?

In the F1 everything changes year to year. No equipment assures to you that you are going to win, so it is a risk of following like changing of equipment. Everything is a risk in Formula 1.

What thinks of their teammate Lewis Hamilton?

I believe that it is a luck to have to him like teammate. He is young and it has much talent and it can bring new ideas to the equipment. When you have been seven years in Formula 1 as it happens to me to me, you go by your way, so it will bring new air to the equipment, to all those that we are it jeopardize with this equipment and things of him can be learned. With Lewis all we will feel like more young people. I create sincerely that I do not have anything to teach to him. I have seen him pilot and knows very well what does. He is very fast, it has talent and I believe that it will get to be a great star of this sport.

That it says to us of its new ' look' with shaved hair?

I thought about cutting it during the last season, but I stopped myself to think it and I said myself, to see if it is going to give bad luck at the moment to you. So I hoped to that the championship finished.

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IT SURPASSED To The FERRARI... And ITS McLAREN REMAINED UNEMPLOYED IN The TRACK

Fernando Alonso returned to put the things in his site in Bahrein
EFE. Manama
Fernando Alonso (McLaren MP4/22 Mercedes) obtained the best time in the third and last day of the training made by nine of the eleven escuderías that will compete in the world-wide one of Formula 1 in the circuit of Sakhir, scene of the Great Prize of Bahrein. The Spanish pilot gave his better return in a time of 1:30.994, one tenth of second less than his teammate the Briton Lewis Hamilton, who has been second.

Everything was not the good news for McLaren, since the single-seater of the Spanish was left prisoner in the track with an evident loss of oil in the evening and one hour later did the one of its teammate.


Problems for BMW
If the Ferrari had Friday problems of electrical character that they prevented them to repeat the times of the eve, this time they were located after the McLaren, but to a respectable one it distances: Felipe Massa, who returned again to be fastest from the pilots of the ' Scuderiá, remained to eight tenth of Alonso and Raikkonen, to nine.

The BMW-Sauber, that Friday they soon impressed with the times in configuration of classification and in the maneuvers of race, also had problems, until the point of which the German Nick Heidfeld had to change the motor of his car, whereas the motor of the single-seater of the Pole Robert Kubica also had a loss of oil.


TIMES OF THE DAY

1. Alonso (ESP) McLaren-Mercedes 1:30.994 73 2, Hamilton (GBR) McLaren-Mercedes
1:31.094 53 3, Massa (BRA) Ferrari
1:31.718 52 4, Raikkonen (FIN) Ferrari 1:31.867
100 5, Kovalainen (FIN) Renault
1:32.032 86 6, Barrichello (BRA) Honda 1:32.115
129 7, Button (GBR) Honda
1:32.137 78 8, Coulthard (GBR) Network Bull-Renault
1:32.220 73 9, Piquet (BRA) Renault 1:32.334
102 10, Heidfeld (ALE) BMW Sauber
1:32.451 65 11, Kubica (POL) BMW Sauber
1:32.475 95 12, Davidson (GBR) Super Aguri-Honda 1:32.553
126 13, Montagny (FRA) Toyota 1:32.917
110 14, Webber (AUS) Network Bull-Renault
1:33.034 73 15, Trulli (ITA) Toyota 1:33.062
104 16, Speed (USA) Toro Rosso-Ferrari
1:33.255 60

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WHEN YOU ARE IN HIGHEST, Or DAS The STATURE Or NOT IT DAS", IT ASSURES

Jacques Villeneuve: "Fisichella was not to the height of Alonso"The Canadian pilot Jacques Villeneuve considers that the Italian Giancar it Fisichella "he was not to the height of Fernando Alonso", his companion the two last seasons in Renault, and announced that he could run in the NASCAR in 2008. Villeneuve, that was world-wide champion of Formula 1 in 1997, questioned the yield of Fisichella during the two last seasons in the French equipment, in which the Italian gained two victories as opposed to fourteen of Alonso.

On declarations to one radio of Montreal, Villeneuve insisted on Fisichella: "it was not to the height of Alonso, that is everything. Thus it is the life ". "When you are in highest, because Formula 1 is the maximum in sport motoring, or it give to the stature or not the DAS. Thus they are the things. One is not intentions, but of facts ", it added.

As far as his future in the competition, Jacques still continues thinking about some of the American categories: "we are working to compete in the NASCAR in 2008, beginning to prepare this year to us. You must participate in championships smaller and different circuits to be accepted in the NASCAR ".

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Following intensive track testing at Valencia, Barcelona, Jerez and Bahrain, the BMW Sauber F1.07 is now set for its first race of the year.

The BMW Sauber F1 Team exceeded expectations in its debut season to finish fifth in the constructors’ world championship in 2006.

The team’s aim for 2007 is to record more podium finishes on merit and further reduce the distance to the top of the constructors’ standings.

Last
year, the gap between fifth place and fourth alone was 50 points.

Race drivers Nick Heidfeld (29) and Robert Kubica (22) will be joined at the circuit on Friday mornings by test and reserve driver Sebastian Vettel (19). On the Friday, the teams can now each make use of two 90-minute testing sessions, with a maximum of two cars per team allowed on track per session. In all, each team has eight sets of tyres at their disposal on the Friday (four of each specification), which must then be handed back. On the Saturday each driver has ten new sets (five of each specification) for the remainder of the weekend. The teams can change engines once again ahead of Saturday practice, with maximum engine speed limited to 19,000 rpm in 2007. The engines have to last for two race weekends, as before.

In the race itself, the teams have to use both specifications of the new standard Bridgestone Potenza tyres. The different specifications will be given markings to allow the spectators to see which tyres each team is running at any time. This strategic challenge adds a further unknown to the mix in the run-up to a season which seems set to provide unprecedented levels of excitement on the back of numerous changes to personnel and equipment.

NICK HEIDFELD
“Australia is my favourite country on the Formula One calendar to travel to. I flew straight out there with my family from the test in Bahrain to have a look at a few things and get used to the time zone and climate. The Albert Park circuit is nice to drive, but also a demanding one for the drivers. Because it isn’t a permanent race track, there isn’t much grip at the start of the weekend. So it will help that the cars will spend more time on the track on the Friday, as extra rubber will quickly be laid down on the asphalt. We were pretty quick in testing, but unfortunately not that reliable, so for us the most important thing in the first race of the season will be to get to the finish.”

ROBERT KUBICA
“Albert Park is one of my favourite tracks, as it is partly a street circuit. There are also a few run-off areas, and that makes it slightly easier. There isn’t much grip, but it is quite bumpy. Conditions improve enormously over the course of the weekend. You have to make changes to the car and understand how it is going to react. I like the circuit a lot, it’s a challenge. Tight corners and full-throttle sections follow one after another.”

SEBASTIAN VETTEL
“I’ve never been to Australia and I’m very much looking forward to being in Melbourne with the team and getting out on the track. The circuit certainly looks interesting. The beginning of the season is extremely important – a lot of things are easier if you get off to a good start. We’ve shown in testing that we definitely have potential, but we’ve also had one or two difficulties. Like the team as a whole, I’m just pleased that it’s finally time to go racing.”

MARIO THEISSEN, BMW MOTORSPORT DIRECTOR
“Last year we put in a very good performance in Albert Park, and it would be nice if we had something to celebrate once again on Sunday evening. As ever, it is difficult to make predictions. Our rivals have been generous with praise at times, but we also had a few problems in testing. As always, it is a race against time to get the car ready for the first race of the season.

We are pleased to see that Melbourne is once again the first race on the calendar in 2007. The race this year will take place two weeks earlier than in 2006, i.e. in late summer rather than autumn. The city will be hungrier for the grand prix again, as this time round it has not just played host to a Common¬wealth Games.”

WILLY RAMPF, TECHNICAL DIRECTOR
“The tension ahead of the first race of the season is always particularly high, of course, because you’re waiting to find out how you shape up against your rivals. The last test in Bahrain showed that the performance of the F1.07 meets our expectations, but we’ll still only be able to make a reliable assessment of our progress once we get to Melbourne. Added to which, we will have one or two new parts on the F1.07 in Australia, which we hadn’t introduced in the last test. I have to admit that my sense of anticipation is even greater than usual.

Melbourne is a stop-start kind of circuit with high levels of downforce – and that places the brakes under serious loads. We will therefore focus heavily on braking stability when it comes to car set-up. Another typical feature of Albert Park is that the track is still fairly dirty on the Friday and grip only really improves after a significant number of laps.”

FACTS AND FIGURES:
Circuit/Date: Albert Park, Melbourne/18th March 2007
Start time (local/UTC): 14.00 hrs/03.00 hrs (CET 04.00 hrs)
Lap/Race distance: 5.303 km/307.574 km (58 laps)
Corners: 10 right-hand and six left-hand corners
Winner: 2006 - Fernando Alonso, Mild Seven Renault F1 Team
1 hr 34:27.870 min
Pole position: 2006 - Jenson Button, Lucky Strike Honda Racing
1:25.229 min
Fastest lap: 2006 - Kimi Räikkönen, McLaren Mercedes
1:26.045 min
Current lap record: 2004 - Michael Schumacher, Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro
1:24.125 min
Data 2006 (race): Full-throttle percentage: 68 %
Top speed: 303 km/h
Longest stretch at full throttle: 10 sec / 720 m
Gear changes per lap: 53
Tyre wear: moderate
Brake wear: high
Downforce level: high
Grip level: low

DRIVER DETAILS:

NICK HEIDFELD
Date of birth: 10.05.1977
Place of birth: Mönchengladbach/Germany
Nationality: German
Residence: Stäfa, Switzerland
Marital status: Partner Patricia Papen, daughter Juni
Height: 1.65 m
Weight: 61 kg
F1 debut: 2000, Melbourne
GP starts: 117
Pole positions: 1
Wins: -
Podiums: 5
Fastest laps: -
Best placing: 8th (2001)
Total points: 79
Points 2006: 23

ROBERT KUBICA
Date of birth: 07.12.1984
Place of birth: Krakow/Poland
Nationality: Polish
Residence: Monaco
Marital status: Single
Height: 1.84 m
Weight: 73 kg
F1 debut: 2006, Budapest
GP starts: 6
Pole positions: -
Wins: -
Podiums: 1
Fastest laps: -
Best placing: 16th (2006)
Total points: 6
Points 2006: 6

SEBASTIAN VETTEL
Date of birth: 03.07.1987
Place of birth: Heppenheim/Germany
Nationality: German
Residence: Zug, Switzerland
Marital status: Single
Height: 1.76 m
Weight: 62 kg
F1 debut: 2006, Istanbul (Friday)
GP starts: -
Pole positions: -
Wins: -
Podiums: -
Fastest laps: -
Best placing: -
Total points: -
Points 2006: -

DATES AND EVENTS
On Tuesday 13th March a group of Formula One drivers, including Nick Heidfeld, Alexander Wurz, Scott Speed and the organiser of the event Mark Webber, will be lining up with Australian tennis greats Paul McNamee, Jason Stoltenberg and Richard Fromberg in a tournament being held for a good cause. The doors will open at the Albert Reserve Tennis Australia Facility (on the corner of St Kilda Road and Hanna Street) at 16.30 hrs, with the action getting underway at 17.15 hrs. Tickets cost ten Australian dollars and all proceeds will be donated to Webber’s foundation for children in need. Further details are available from Richard Chapman at sparkimpact, mobile phone no.: +61 417 393237.

On Wednesday 14th March, test and reserve driver Sebastian Vettel will be getting involved in some fun and games with Official Corporate Partner Intel. From 13.00 to 14.30 hrs he will be found on the business end of a games console in Myers Department Store in the city centre. From 14.00 to 14.30 hrs he will also be available for interviews. From 16.00 hrs Vettel will then be battling for supremacy in the Intel game “Live for Speed” against Australia’s computer game world champion on the simulator in Luna Park. Media representatives are also welcome to attend. Further details are available from Anna Torres

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Munich/Hinwil, 9th March 2007. Following intensive track testing at Valencia, Barcelona,
Jerez and Bahrain, the BMW Sauber F1.07 is now set for its first race of the year. The
BMW Sauber F1 Team exceeded expectations in its debut season to finish fifth in the
constructors’ world championship in 2006. The team’s aim for 2007 is to record more
podium finishes on merit and further reduce the distance to the top of the constructors’
standings. Last year, the gap between fifth place and fourth alone was 50 points.

Race drivers Nick Heidfeld (29) and Robert Kubica (22) will be joined at the circuit on
Friday mornings by test and reserve driver Sebastian Vettel (19). On the Friday, the
teams can now each make use of two 90-minute testing sessions, with a maximum of
two cars per team allowed on track per session. In all, each team has eight sets of tyres
at their disposal on the Friday (four of each specification), which must then be handed
back. On the Saturday each driver has ten new sets (five of each specification) for the
remainder of the weekend. The teams can change engines once again ahead of
Saturday practice, with maximum engine speed limited to 19,000 rpm in 2007. The
engines have to last for two race weekends, as before.

In the race itself, the teams have to use both specifications of the new standard
Bridgestone Potenza tyres. The different specifications will be given markings to allow
the spectators to see which tyres each team is running at any time. This strategic
challenge adds a further unknown to the mix in the run-up to a season which seems
set to provide unprecedented levels of excitement on the back of numerous changes
to personnel and equipment.

Nick Heidfeld:
“Australia is my favourite country on the Formula One calendar to travel to. I flew
straight out there with my family from the test in Bahrain to have a look at a few things
and get used to the time zone and climate. The Albert Park circuit is nice to drive, but
also a demanding one for the drivers. Because it isn’t a permanent race track, there
isn’t much grip at the start of the weekend. So it will help that the cars will spend more
time on the track on the Friday, as extra rubber will quickly be laid down on the asphalt.
We were pretty quick in testing, but unfortunately not that reliable, so for us the most
important thing in the first race of the season will be to get to the finish.”

Robert Kubica:
“Albert Park is one of my favourite tracks, as it is partly a street circuit. There are also a
few run-off areas, and that makes it slightly easier. There isn’t much grip, but it is quite
bumpy. Conditions improve enormously over the course of the weekend. You have to
make changes to the car and understand how it is going to react. I like the circuit a lot,
it’s a challenge. Tight corners and full-throttle sections follow one after another.”

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No Michael Schumacher. A laid-back Kimi Raikkonen in bright red. Fernando Alonso and Ron Dennis together. Add to that F1 cars raising awareness of environmental issues, an American still on the starting grid and, of course, new rules.

This year's Formula One season, which begins March 18 in Melbourne, Australia, should be a lot different than the season that ended last October in Brazil when Alonso won his second straight title and Schumacher said goodbye with his record seven titles.

Alonso has won the Formula One title the last two years for Renault, who also won the team championship. Now the Spaniard takes the prestigious No. 1, signifying him as champion, to McLaren.

"I do want to win more world titles, this is my aim during my career. To win one may have meant you had the best car that year, to win two I feel is a great achievement," he said on the team Web site this week. "But to win another, all the big names in the sport and the drivers we remember won three or more world titles."

There's a very short list of three-time champions in Formula One: Jack Brabham, Niki Lauda, Nelson Piquet, Ayrton Senna, Jackie Stewart, Juan Manuel Fangio, Alain Prost and, of course, Schumacher.

Alonso has a string of "youngest" records already _ youngest to gain a pole position, win a Grand Prix and take one and two titles _ and hopes to become a three-time winner shortly after turning 26 in July.

After years with the flamboyant Flavio Briatore as mentor and team boss, Alonso now finds himself with a different-style boss _ McLaren's controlled and analytical Ron Dennis, who is anxious to return to the top.

Dennis's McLaren team has not won a team title since 1998 and a driver's championship since 1999 with Mika Hakkinen. Raikkonen came close in 2003 and 2005, but with Alonso coming to the team it was inevitable he would be driving elsewhere in 2007.

When Schumacher finally quit, Raikkonen moved to Ferrari.

Seeing the usually reserved Raikkonen _ nicknamed "The Iceman" _ in loud Ferrari red seems strange. But he was ready for a change _ he was winless in 2006 after gaining seven victories, equal to Alonso, in 2005.

This could be the year of the return of Ferrari, which last won anything significant in 2004. Raikkonen and Felipe Massa have been consistently at the top of testing during the last two months, including last week's final test in Bahrain, site of the third race of the season.

Most of the drivers were out for that test, and Ferrari was first all three days with Massa _ who played the role of good teammate behind Schumacher the last two years and won two races. Ferrari has said it will allow open competition between its two drivers this season.

Alonso's new teammate is Lewis Hamilton, a 21-year-old Englishman who is the sport's first black driver. He has won the GP2 and F3 championship the last two years and took the seat that opened when Juan Pablo Montoya left for NASCAR.

Alonso's former Renault team has a new Finn, Heikki Kovalainen, and veteran Giancarlo Fisichella, who won the second race of the 2006 season.

Honda has Jenson Button looking for his second victory after it took 113 for his first. It also will sport a new car design that will replace advertising and sponsor logos with an image of the Earth to "raise awareness of environmental issues facing the planet"

Toyota, with Schumacher's brother Ralf still around; Williams, seeking a comeback with a different Toyota engine, and BMW-Sauber will be looking to take points away from the top three.

Red Bull, with David Coulthard and Mark Webber, could surprise. Its second team, Toro Rosso, has American Scott Speed in his second year.

In the rear are the two teams that trailed last year: Japan's Super Aguri, which put off the unveiling of this year's new car until two days before practice in Australia, and Spyker, which was Midland last year.

Although there are no new teams on the grid and no new races, one has returned and two are gone. The Belgian Grand Prix comes back after financial difficulties. The European Grand Prix, held in Germany during the Schumacher years, and the San Marino Grand Prix, at Imola, Italy, have been dropped.

Imola hopes to return to the calendar after track improvements, but Saudi Arabia has announced a race in 2009 and Singapore has expressed interest in running one.

There will be plenty of new rules, from practice sessions to tires.

The two free practice sessions on Fridays of race weekends will be extended from 60 to 90 minutes, and teams will be allowed to use only two cars in each of the sessions. Three were allowed last season.

Bridgestone will supply all tires beginning in 2007, after Michelin withdrew at the end of last season.

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نخستين مرحله رقابتهاي اتومبيلراني فرمول يك از روز يكشنبه هفته آينده در ملبورن استرالياآغاز مي*شود.

در رقابتهاي امسال يازده تيم رنو، فراري، مك لاورن - مرسدس، هوندا، ب ام و، تويوتا، رد بول، ويليامز، تورو روسو، اسپايكر و سوپر آگوري حضور دارند.

امسال تيم مك لاورن - مرسدس براي نخستين بار از سال ۲۰۰۰به اين بعد، پس از پيوستن فرناندو آلونسو كه داراي عنوان قهرماني جهان است، در خط استارت شماره يك مي*گيرد.

لوئيز هميلتون ستاره جوان كه امسال براي نخستين بار در اين رقابتها حضور مي*يابد نيز در كنار وي قرار مي*گيرد.

بدين ترتيب وظايف رانندگان در تيم مك لاورن مرسدس كاملا مشخص است و هميلتون وظيفه پشتيباني از آلونسو در مقابل رقبا را برعهده دارد. اما بايد ديد كه آيا بي*تجربگي هميلتون نقشي خواهد داشت؟
اما در مورد تيم فراري كه با اتومبيل مدل اف يك ۲۴۸در خط استارت شماره دو پا به ميدان مي*گذارد، اوضاع به گونه ديگري است. پس از كناره*گيري ميشائيل شوماخر از رقابتهاي اتومبيلراني فرمول يك، اكنون رقابت بين دو راننده اين تيم بر سر ميراث داري وي بالا گرفته است. فليپه ماسا راننده برزيلي تيم فراري، سالها بعنوان محافظ ميشائيل شوماخر محسوب مي*شد، اما از هنگام رفتن شوماخر، گويا او بال درآورده و در تمامي آزمايشات از سرعت بيشتري نسبت به هم تيمي فنلاندي خود برخوردار است. اما كيمي ريكونن خود ميگويد كه تيم مي*داند كه من ميشائيل شوماخر نيستم، اما رفتن وي براي من مسئله*اي نيست، زيرا من قبلا هم در تيم مك لاورن - مرسدن جانشيني ميكا هكينن را برعهده گرفتم كه دوبار عنوان قهرماني جهان را تصاحب كرده بود.

اين در حالي است كه فليپه ماسا از هم اكنون گفته است كه بخاطر كيمي پا را از روي گاز برنخواهم داشت.

كناره*گيري شوماخر از رقابتهاي فرمول يك، تنها بر سر تيم فراري نيست كه سايه انداخته است. مشكل اينجاست كه هنوز هيچ كس نمي*داند رفتن وي چه تاثيري بر كل فرمول يك خواهد داشت. شوماخر پانزده سال در رقابتهاي فرمول يك فرمانروائي كرد و هفت بار تاج قهرماني جهان را بر سر گذارد و نام تيم فراري را جاودانه ساخت. او يك پاي ثابت در ميان مدعيان بود، اما در نخستين سال رقابتهاي بدون شوماخر، هر تيمي ميتواند مدعي كسب عنوان قهرماني باشد.

اما خلا شوماخر در آلمان هم محسوس است. شايد بتوان گفت در كشوري كه بجر دو مارك فورد و اوپل كه در آلمان هم توليد مي*شوند، خود داراي پنج مارك اتومبيل مرسدس بنز، آودي، ب ام و، فولكس واگن و پورشه كه جزو اتومبيل*هاي برتر درجهان محسوب ميشوند و از هر چهار فرصت شغلي يك شغل به نوعي وابسته به صنايع اتومبيل*سازي است، علاقه به رقابتهاي اتومبيلراني فرمول يك امري طبيعي باشد. اما براستي بايد گفت كه اين شوماخر بود كه بر محبوبيت فرمول يك در آلمان و جهان افزود و اين موج محبوبيت باعث شد كه اكنون چهار راننده آلماني در اين رقابتها حضور داشته باشند.

در كنار رالف شوماخر برادر جوانتر مشائيل كه پس از جدائي از ب ام و به تويوتا پيوست. وي با مدل تي اف ۱۰۷پا به ميدان خواهد گذاشت. تيم تويوتا امسال در خط استارت يازدهم و دوازدهم قرار دارد. نيكو روزبرگ راننده ديگر آلماني است كه با تيم ويليامز در ميدان حضور دارد. اين تيم با اتومبيل اف دبليو ۲۹كه داراي موتور تويوتا ميباشد، در خط استارت شانزدهم و هفدهم قرار ميگيرد .

ادريان سوتيل ستاره جوان آلماني، امسال براي نخستين بار در تيم اسپايكر با اتومبيل اف ۸كه داراي موتور فراري است در خط استارت بيست و يكم قرار دارد. و بالاخره نيك هايدفلد با تيم ب ام و و اتومبيل مدل اف يك كه در خط استارت نهم قرار مي*گيرد.

كناره*گيري شوماخر، شبكه*هاي تلويزيوني كه به پخش مستقيم رقابتهاي اتومبيلراني فرمول يك مي*پردازند را نيزبه فكر واداشته است. يك شبكه تلويزيوني اعلام داشته كه حتي در صورت كاهش ۲۵درصدي تعداد تماشاگران، ما فعلا قرارداد پخش اين رقابتها را تمديد خواهيم كرد. استفاده از لغت فعلا خود نشان از ناروشني آينده است.

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Raikkonen and Ferrari First Race of This Year in melbourn! Alonso came second place! alot of crashes! ajab vahshatnak! khodaro shokr kasi koshte nashod! to doraye akhar yaro az roye onyeki mashin parvaz kard loooooooooooool

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THE FERRARI PILOT DID NOT HAVE RIVAL IN THE GREAT PRIZE OF AUSTRALIA

Raikkonen imposes its law in front of Alonso and HamiltonAGENCIES. Melbourne

· Thus we lived the Great Prize on Australia

Kimi Raikkonen both gained a easy victory in the Great Prize of Australia in front of pilots of McLaren, Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton, that formed podio but young in the history of Formula 1. The debut of the Finn in Ferrari could not be more lucky: it obtained ' polé, it marked the fast return in the race and won.

Raikkonen only yielded the leadership in six of the 58 returns of the race, four to Hamilton and two to Alonso, and agreeing with its shutdowns to refuel and to change tires. In any case, its leadership never was in danger, since from the exit it accumulated one more an advantage than sufficient.

Alonso was conscious of the superiority of the Ferrari and knew that its only opportunity was that they broke, something that feared in escudería Italian after the problems that Massa in the classification with the change had. The technicians of Maranello chose to change to the motor of Brazilian, that he had to leave from the last place, from that overcame to sixth.


Bad exit
Alonso also trusted making one of its famous flashing exits to give the return to the prognoses, but at the time of the truth it happened all the opposite: it could not not only advance to Raikkonen, but that in addition was surpassed by Heidfeld and Hamilton, with which it confronted the first third of the test in fourth position.

The world-wide bichampion had to hope to the shutdowns in boxes to recover positions; in first he surpassed to Heidfeld and in the second a Hamilton, although never he was at readiness to press to Raikkonen. The accident in which they were involved
the Scot David Coulthard and the Austrian Alex Wurz to ten returns of the end seeded doubts by the possible entrance of the security car, that had given another air to the race, but in the end it did not take place.

Of the endiablado rate imposed by Raikkonen in this first race of the World-wide one of Formula 1 it gives to sample the fact that its fast return was a second inferior one to the one of Fernando Alonso, who marked second.


Face and cross for Hamilton and Kovalainen
The third position was for the newcomer Lewis Hamilton, who made an admirable race and without errors and that osadíá included ' to surpass to its head of rows in the first curve. The Briton occurred the luxury to lead the test, an historical fact, and although in the end stop' lowered to the third position after being surpassed by Alonso in the last ' pit, celebrated it like a victory.

The opposite pole was Heikki Kovalainen, that has occupied the position of Fernando Alonso in Renault and to which Flavio Briatore sees like a future champion, who finished tenth after carrying out several ' excursiones' outside the track. "For being my debut I have very few things that to remember and if many to forget", commented the Finn.

BMW Sauber demonstrated in this first race all good and the bad one that it had aimed in the preseason. The good thing, the rate of which made finery Nick Heidfeld and Robert Kubica in first half of the race; the bad thing, the nth breakage of the gear box in the car of the Pole, who left when he was fifth.


Fiasco in Sling
Vista the superiority of Ferrari, the only consolation for Alonso and Hamilton is that they have located to escudería Vodafone McLaren Mercedes in the first place of the classification of constructors.

The cross of the currency was, without a doubt, for the Sling. Rubens Barrichello finished eleventh and little agreed Jenson Button, fifteenth, positions to the power of the Japanese square, whose single-seaters shine a spectacular decoration now ' ecológicá (an Earth map). Something better - but it went to him not much to the Toyota, that finished eighth and ninth.

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WHITMARSH WAS SATISFIED WITH THE RESULTS WITH AUSTRALIA

McLaren is marked as it puts to progress a pair of tenth by raceThe McLaren equipment, to which Fernando Alonso belongs, wants to improve two tenth of second by race, although his president, Martin Whitmarsh, occurs by satisfied with the results with the Great Prize of Australia. Whitnmarsh declared optimist in relation to the options of McLaren to dispute the title to Ferrari in spite of the superiority that exhibited Kimi Raikkonen in Melbourne, where surpassed in more of a second to Fernando Alonso in the fastest returns of both. "the first impression in the McLaren equipment is positive", affirmed Whitmarsh. "We think that we have made a good beginning and in the course of the season we hoped to progress from one to two tenth by race", needed in Web ' F1-live.com'.

For escudería British it supposes a great challenge, because Ferrari is an equipment very hard and organized very well. "they are not going away to be there, we will have to still work and to progress more express more than they, but we assumed this challenge. Our motivation is the greater one in many years and we want to fight itself both by titles ", asserted Whitnmarsh. For the president of McLaren it will be a fight opened between the MP4/22 and the F2007. "We are going to try to improve our yield the possible maximum. If Ferrari talks back and can progress at the same speed that we or even more, will be hard. If they do not do it, the advantage will be ours ", concluded.