F1; Washabiki wa F1 mpo??

[Mourinho]

Yeah yuko vizuri dogo, sijawaacha kivile saaana

Race ya leo ya aina yake, sikumbuki mara ya mwisho kuona red flag kwenye Grand Prix, are u watching though?

 

[kibonzo]

Dah ts gettin harder n harder..the idea ya kua na safety car imewaaribia kina lewis..

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[Mourinho]

Bado race imesimama kwenye lap ya 46/78, na kila team inatumia muda huu kufanya marekebisho madogo madogo. In less than 10 minutes the race will resume!

 

[multmandalin]

Sijawahi kuona uzi wa F1 hapa toka nijiunge na JF, ina maana hakuna mashabiki wa F1 ndani ya JF?

Leo tuko Monaco, Monte Carlo, hii ni moja kama sio circuit ngumu zaidi kwenye F1 na kila F1 driver anataman kishinda hapa. Ni race ya 78 laps kwa leo.
Kwenye pole yupo Rosberg akifuatiwa na L. Hamilton na Vettel. Na kwa namna hii circuit ilivyo anayeanzia mbele ana nafasi kubwa sana ya kushinda race.

Mpaka sasa kwenye Championship anayeongoza ni Vettel akifuatiwa na Kimi R.,

Haya bwana Mzee wa langalanga! Mi nilionaga mwaka 2009, nilipokuwa Singha-pura!
Inabidi shughuli mjini zipunguwe kidogo.

 

[Mourinho]

Dah ts gettin harder n harder..the idea ya kua na safety car imewaaribia kina lewis..

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Rosberg looks comfortably up front, Webber kuna time alikua ana-struggle kumhold Hamilton so you never know, Hamilton bado anachance ya kumalizia kwenye podium

 

[Mourinho]

Haya bwana Mzee wa langalanga! Mi nilionaga mwaka 2009, nilipokuwa Singha-pura!
Inabidi shughuli mjini zipunguwe kidogo.

Mkuu, me sijawahi kuiona hii mikitu live ila cjakata tamaa.
Race imeanza upya, Rosberg anaongoza mbele ya Vettel, Webber, Hamilton, Raikkonen, Perez, Alonso, Sutil

 

[Mourinho]

Perez is on fire, anampa wakati mgumu mtu mzima Kimi, Hamilton naye hayupo mbali sana na Webber

 

[Mourinho]

Adrian Sutil anamu-overtake Alonso kiulaini, sasa yuko nyuma ya Perez

 

[Mourinho]

Another yellow flag, Bianci kapiga mzinga and so he's out of the race!

 

[Mourinho]

Another accident, safety car is out!

 

[Mourinho]

Perez ni mlatino haswaa, analazimisha kumpita Raikkonen na wanaishia kutouch, gari zimepata damages na Kimi kapit.

Lap 72/78 na Rosberg anaonekana kushinda this race in his hometown!

 

[Mourinho]

Perez is off, Sutil is in 5th position mbele ya Button na Alonso

 

[Mourinho]

Niko Rosberg win in Monaco,
2.Vettel
3.Webber
4.Hamilton
5.Sutil ( his highest finish in F1)

 

[Mourinho]

Hongera Rosberg!

 

[Mourinho]

PIRELLI BLAME MERC FOR 'TESTGATE'
By CHRIS HOCKLEY

FORMULA One’s tyre suppliers Pirelli have blamed Mercedes for the “Testgate” furore – days after Lewis Hamilton’s team did the opposite.

Pirelli said their understanding was that Merc had cleared the test after "good discussion" with motor racing's rulers the FIA.

The tyre company also insisted they made no attempt to keep the test secret.

With the F1 world waiting on the FIA to announce whether the issue will go before a tribunal, Pirelli’s declaration means the two parties involved are blaming each other over who should have kept the governing body in the loop.

In-season tyre testing with current cars is banned in F1 except for safety reasons.

But Pirelli and Mercedes, using a 2013 car and race drivers Hamilton and Nico Rosberg, conducted one at Barcelona between May 15 and 17.

It only became public knowledge just before last weekend’s Monaco Grand Prix, won by Rosberg even though Mercedes have been plagued by severe tyre problems in previous races.

Red Bull and Ferrari have launched a protest. And several other F1 teams are unhappy about the test.

On Sunday, Mercedes team principal Ross Brawn said: "It was up to Pirelli to spread the information. It wasn't up to us, it was their test."

But now Pirelli’s motorsport director Paul Hembery has offered a different story.

He said: "For these tests, as with others, we requested the use of a representative car.

"We wanted to create a test that gave us great value. It has been suggested in some quarters we asked for a 2013 car. That's not true.

"We asked for a representative car. Our understanding is there was good discussion between Mercedes and the FIA on this subject."

Hembery insisted Merc gained no advantage from the test.

He said its purpose was to try out tyres for use in next year’s world championship and to tackle dangerous delamination problems experienced by some drivers this season.

Hembery added: "The test was performed blind. Mercedes had no idea and still have no idea of what was being tested.

"There was no benefit to them. The benefit was for Pirelli and F1 in general.

"As for it being described by some people as a secret test, I don't think we are going to win any James Bond prizes.

"We booked the circuit in our name two days after a Formula One race. We turned up in our trucks dressed as Pirelli people with a brightly-coloured Mercedes car.

"And at a circuit like Barcelona, when you hear an F1 car the fans turn up and take photos. So it clearly wasn't a secret or we would be very bad spies.”

Hembery said Pirelli are fully co-operating with the FIA's investigation of the matter.

 

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SUNSPEED 2013: CANADIAN GRAND PRIX

KIMI RAIKKONEN has a high-flying German in his sights in Montreal this weekend - but it's not Formula One championship leader Sebastian Vettel.

The Lotus ace needs a top 10 finish in Montreal to equal Michael Schumacher’s all-time record of 24 successive grands prix finishes in the points.

Scoring these days is slightly more generous than when the seven-time world champion first plied his trade.

When Schumacher grabbed his first world title in 1994, only the top six drivers were awarded points. This was increased in 2003 to the top eight drivers until the present system of winning points for a top 10 finish was introduced in 2010.


CANADA DRY ... Lewis Hamilton has been a three-time winner at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal

Raikkonen, in usual positive mode, said: “I am sure that it will all stop at some point.

“Obviously we always try to get points and do good races but it can be some small part [of the car that breaks] and it will stop.

“Of course it would be nice with this team. In the past I kept retiring quite often so it’s different to what it was in the past.

"But I’m sure that we will have some difficulties at some point.”

Watch our video guide below then scroll down for more must know facts on the Canadian Grand Prix.

CANADIAN GRAND PRIX

Venue: The Circuit Gilles Villeneuve has a lap distance of 4.361km. The race will be held over 70 laps, a total distance of 305.270km. The race is due to begin at 2pm local time, which is 7pm UK time on Sunday, (9pm EAT) June 9. Rubens Barrichello set a lap record of 1min 13.622secs in 2004.

Mine's a treble: Lewis Hamilton's win last year with McLaren was his third victory at the Canadian Grand Prix, adding to his previous successes in 2007 and 2010. It was also the Woking based outfit's third successive victory at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, Jenson Button winning in 2011.

Lucky 13: Lewis Hamilton's victory in 2012 was McLaren's 13th as a constructor, matching the previous best set by Ferrari when Michael Schumacher took the chequered flag in Montreal in 2004.

Schu fits: Michael Schumacher is the most successful driver at the Canadian Grand Prix. He bagged seven wins in total spread over 11 seasons, his first coming in 1994. Lewis Hamilton is the best of the current crop, his victories in 2007, 2010 and 2012 putting him joint second with Nelson Piquet on the all-time winners' list.

 

[Mourinho]

RED BULL F1 SPY: CANADIAN GP
From RED BULL F1 SPY in Montreal

HELLO all, Red Bull F1 Spy here, transmitting from a rubber dinghy in the rowing basin behind the circuit. It’s the only place at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve not covered with shipping crates.

The track takes up every inch of this island, which means our base is perched on stilts over the water. But at least it’s cosy.

Everything in the paddock is tiny, it’s like being in a model Formula One village.

The garages are small, the paddock is only a couple of feet wide, instead of offices we’ve got portable cabins stacked on top of each other and our hospitality unit has only three small tables.
Given that there’s 70 of us and we all like to eat at the same time, competition for seats if fierce.

We reckon it’s some sort of survival-of-the-fittest genetics experiment and Adrian’s trying to breed a super-mechanic that doesn’t need distractions like food and warmth.

The cabins are interesting, too. Upstairs there are rooms for Seb and Mark, the physios, team management and the PR department.

It’s all very private — except for the fact the dividers don’t go all the way to the top and sound gets through. It took a while for that one to sink in.

Back at the business end of the operation, the garage has a new viewing area where the VVIPs stand to watch the action. We’ve always had one of these, it’s nicknamed ‘the goldfish bowl’. The surprise for us was that this new bowl doesn’t have any glass.

Given the language used in the garage tends to be a touch industrial, this is a brave new world fraught with danger.

After a couple of early mishaps everyone’s getting into the rhythm of being polite to one another — even if it does sound like some of the lads are auditioning for a guest appearance on Downton Abbey: “Oh bother, you appear to have driven a tyre trolley over my foot. You are a silly man.”

Fortunately everything returns to normal when the cars start up as it’s impossible to hear anything anyway. It reminds me of a story that one of our neighbours in the pitlane likes to tell.

A couple of years ago they had a Hollywood A-list actor as a guest. Being a muscular action-hero type he was too tough for the ear-plugs — and then leapt about 3ft feet in the air, screaming like a teenager at a Justin Bieber concert when the engine was fired up behind him.

It makes us giggle every time we see him in a movie, beating up a hundred henchmen while nonchalantly chewing a cigar.

Of course, we have a real action man in the team. Mark spent the start of the week mountain biking out in the sticks with a local Red Bull athlete — skiing world champion Erik Guay.

Mark’s mood when asked to participate in promotional activity is variable. Ask him to sit on a chat-show sofa or model a new range of kit and he’ll have to be dragged into the studio kicking and screaming. Tell him he has to ride a bike, go kayaking or wrestle a wolverine and he’ll bite your hand off.

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TYRE-GATE REVELATIONS LOOM LARGE OVER LEWIS
From BEN HUNT in Montreal

LEWIS HAMILTON will line up in second place for today’s Canadian Grand Prix — but the Brit will be racing under a huge cloud following the stunning ‘tyre-gate’ revelations.

SunSport has obtained details about the three-day 1,000km tyre test, which took place in Barcelona with manufacturer Pirelli, that has left rival Formula One teams fuming.

And with governing body FIA due to set a tribunal date, racing legend Sir Jackie Stewart believes Mercedes should be punished.

Here are the astonishing facts of the controversy engulfing F1:

Lewis Hamilton only found out he was testing the tyres just DAYS before — but the test was booked WEEKS in advance after a planned track day in Barcelona was cancelled.

Hamilton was forced to fly back from an event in Florida with sponsors Blackberry to take part in the test.

Both Hamilton and team-mate Nico Rosberg were given unmarked helmets for the test so as not to attract attention.

The team did not use regular test driver Sam Bird and also used their current F1 car, which is a breach of the F1 rules.

Mercedes only told a handful of team members to keep news about the test to a minimum.

Mercedes boss Ross Brawn has put himself in the firing line after agreeing to the ‘private’ test but refused to admit whether the team’s chairman Niki Lauda knew about it.

An eyewitness has been reported as saying he was prevented from watching the test and was ushered along by hired security at the circuit.

Rivals Red Bull refused to accept Pirelli’s offer of a test as they felt it broke the sport’s rules.

A date for the landmark hearing is thought to be June 20 and will take place in Paris, just 10 days before the British Grand Prix.

The panel will have the power to impose fines or bans, while Stewart claims Mercedes could also be stripped of the points they won in Monte Carlo.

He said: “If there is a regulation that does not allow testing to take place, then that surely is black and white.

”I don’t see how one team has been given a privileged such as that when they are serious contenders for the world championship.

”You have to have disciplinary action. It is the only thing you can do. A total ban would be over the top, but they would have to be penalised like any other misdemeanour.

”It would have to be to a sufficient level and robust to make sure that nobody would consider taking a similar position, because if one team gets off with little or no penalty, what’s to stop others from doing it?

”Whether it is Ferrari or Mercedes Benz or one of the smaller teams, they shouldn’t have been allowed to do it without a reason.

”It doesn’t allow them or anyone else to go beyond the law. If they did, I would have though their victory in Monaco could be threatened in terms of the points the team and drivers acquired.”

Meanwhile, Mercedes maintain they have done nothing wrong by agreeing to Pirelli’s request for the tyre test.

On Friday night, Pirelli’s motorsport director Paul Hembery failed to attend an official FIA Press conference on legal advice.

However, Brawn is confident his team are in the clear and will be vindicated at the tribunal, although he admits his current position in the paddock is uncomfortable.

He said: “It was my decision to do the testing, that is a fact. Let’s see what happens at tribunal and we go from there.

”I wouldn’t say it is very pleasant at the moment, but I am comfortable and confident that once when we get to the tribunal the facts will become apparent and people can make a better judgement.

”We would not have done the Pirelli test unless we believed we could do the Pirelli test. When we get to the tribunal you will have your answers.”