Posts Tagged ‘Brawn GP’
While we can probably expect good weather for today’s Bahrain Grand Prix, no-one is entirely discounting sandstorms, of the kind that wrecked testing at the circuit earlier in the year.
There may be sand on the track, drivers and teams may be in a jetlagged no man’s land between Asian and European time zones – but at least the weather is predictable.
Those people hoping to see former F1 driver Anthony Davidson back behind the wheel could be set for disappointment after two potential opportunites have failed to materialise.
Three races into the season and we’re back in China already – where it’s raining and all bets about tyre strategies are off. The engine to have in qualifying was the Renault, with the Red Bulls and Fernando Alonso up the front – but the Brawns are lurking dangerously. Follow it live here.
Brawn GP’s rivals have finally managed to dislodge Jenson Button from pole – but at the cost of running so light you could practically pick their cars up and walk away with them.
Improvements to Lewis Hamilton’s car could see him back among the front-runners in Shanghai, as he gave Jenson Button a run for his money in today’s Shanghai practice session.
Flavio Briatore has inadvertently revealed that he attempted to recruit Jenson Button to Renault for the 2009 season, presumably at the expense of the under-performing Nelson A Piquet.
The aerodynamics that provide such a fundamental part of Jenson Button’s double race-winning car are legal, according to a decision by FIA stewards yesterday.
Here’s a reminder, as if one were needed, that Ross Brawn didn’t just win seven world championships with Michael Schumacher by accident.
It’s hard to get one’s mind onto the racing when the press are camped outside the Sepang paddock media centre like a pack of Romans at the circus in the later period of the Empire – but we’re going to have to try.
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April 15, 2012: Rosberg wins in China, but Hamilton and Button lead the championship »
