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http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/sin.../297164/1/.html Works begin for Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix By Vimita Mohandas, channelnewsasia.com | Posted: 31 August 2007 1813 hrs SINGAPORE: Work has started at the Marina Bayfront for the F1 Singapore Grand Prix as officials await a decision next month by the international governing body for motorsports,FIA,on whether Singapore will proceed with a night or day race. In nine months, what's now a muddy patch of land at the Marina Promenade will be transformed into a sleek Pit Building for the Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix. Trade and Industry Minister Mr Lim Hng Kiang, who graced Friday's groundbreaking said the event marks an important milestone. He noted that although the F1 Singapore Grand Prix is set to flag off in a year's time, the infrastructure will have to be up in about nine months. "But Singapore is a City of Possibilities, so I have full confidence we will be ready for the 28 September race date." According to Mr Lim Neo Chian, Deputy Chairman and Chief Executive of the Singapore Tourism Board, the Pit Building will be completed by the end of May next year, which is a construction industry record. The Pit Building, a key element in the infrastructure of the F1 Singapore Grand Prix, will house the race control facilities, team garages, hospitality lounges for about 4,000 guests, a Media Centre and other facilities. Located along the waterfront at a new stretch of road off Republic Boulevard, the estimated S$33 million, three-storey Pit Building will measure some 350 metres long. The structure has been designed to be simple yet modern, and also environmentally sustainable. Taking up most of the ground floor is space for 36 garages for the 12 race teams. The Media Centre, hospitality lounges, race control centre and the winners
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OK the other thread has some talk on pianos and how they compare to cars when it comes to mindset and mentality. Here in this video, the presenter tries to sell the Hailun baby grand piano. Notice how he doesn't talk down on Yamaha or Kawai. He recognizes these as very good brands, he compares the features of the equivalent models from each. What he is informing us is that there is a baby grand that is bang for buck for the sound it produces. Not many people know of Hailun and this is one piano brand and piano I will consider if my daughters level up.
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[laugh] and ferrari is owned by fiat fantastico fernando fantastico
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Motor racing-F1 governing body opens race probe SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium, Aug 30 - Formula One's governing body has opened an investigation into alleged events at a past grand prix, the International Automobile Federation said on Sunday. "The FIA can confirm an investigation is under way regarding alleged incidents at a previous Formula One world championship event," said a spokeswoman at the Belgian Grand Prix. No details were given about which race was being investigated and sources close to the governing body refused to divulge any details. Both the autosport.com and grandprix.com websites referred however to last year's Singapore Grand Prix won by Renault's Fernando Alonso. The double world champion won the sport's first floodlit race after Brazilian team mate Nelson Piquet, who has since parted from the team, crashed and brought out the safety car. Tsk tsk tsk . . . . I did mention something to this effect to my colleagues but they had laughed me off. That crash was like "ochestrated" Let's see the outcome of the investigation
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"Lets move on" beats "Honest mistake" hands down................. this is the most convincing way to cover their own backsides without admiting mistakes / boo-boos ............ hopefully other organisations / parties are not going to use it, it's fully patented and gazetted................. any infringement will entail relentless law suits anyone knows of other more dignified excuses??
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MANAMA, March 14 (Reuters) - Fernando Alonso won the season-opening Bahrain Formula One Grand Prix and led a Ferrari one-two in a dream debut with the Italian glamour team on Sunday. In a strength-sapping race led for 34 of the 49 laps by Germany
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Hi All, Am new here so forgive me if my questions sounds silly. I have a 1.5 sunny coming to the end of the COE next year. Am thinking of getting a second hand car... Am looking at a airtrek non turbo or a grand vitara 2L. Any advice regarding... -Reliability -FC -Maintenance cost -spaciousness my work involves indoor and outdoor where sumtimes i have to ferry huge equipments. Like lightstand and tripods and cartons of lights. This outdoor work happens once in every month or so... Have an friend who claims that airtreks are not high in demand and very hard to sell??? Any advice would be great! Thanks Nina
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Anyone knows where got live screening such as restaurants or pubs or hotel lounge that kind? I don't have Miao TV at home.... Need help! Thanks!!
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Got to do a Black GT today..Indeed an awesome beauty..Since is very nice..groomer engage by Hong Seh did a good job..No swirl except one or two hairline and some blur patches around..I did some light polish with a LC white polish pad and manage to get them off..No chance to bring this beau out under the sun as it was raining..took some shots in the carpark..sorry for the poor pictures.. My steps.. 1. Did a wash with mixture of Optimum shampoo and ONR.. 2. Dry with drying towel 3. Light cutting compound along with white polish pad with XC3401 4. Optimum Poli Seal with white polish pad 5. Wipe down with Optimum All purpose cleaner to remove the excess oil 6. Final application manually with Opti-Seal and a micro-fiber applicator
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this is one F1 grand prix i look forward to, but because of the telecast times i found myself dozing off on one ocasion or more! FRI Practice 1 21:00 FRI Practice 2 (Sat) 01:00 SAT Practice 22:00 SAT Qualifying (Sun) 01:00 SUN Race (Mon) 00:00 last year was an true exception with the championship very much hang in the balance with this single race to unfold this year it seems we are going to get some good racing too from the championship challengers the standing as of now: Jenson Button 85 Rubens Barrichello 71 Sebastian Vettel 69 will Button put both hands on the title by this weekend or will it go all the way to the next race at Abu Dhabi... who knows what will happen in the race? no one wants to predict with so much happened in the 2008 race... in the last lap no less! "The track is very bumpy, and it takes great reflexes and skill to have control of the car in any given situation, the tight corners posing some serious problems for the speeding machines..." and making all more interesting is the anti clockwise of the track, which the drivers had to go thru 71 laps... not finished on the interesting bits as there are forecast of rain too! with me going the the kart track early morning tomorrow i reckon i had better rest in the afternoon when i reached home else i will only see the start of the race
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Pos No Driver Team Q1 Q2 Q3 Laps 1 5 Sebastian Vettel RBR-Renault 01:24.8 01:24.1 01:23.9 19 2 6 Mark Webber RBR-Renault 01:25.3 01:24.3 01:24.0 20 3 8 Fernando Alonso Ferrari 01:25.1 01:24.3 01:24.1 22 4 1 Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 01:24.9 01:24.5 01:24.7 19 5 7 Felipe Massa Ferrari 01:25.5 01:25.0 01:24.8 24 6 4 Nico Rosberg Mercedes Benz GP Ltd 01:24.8 01:24.8 01:24.9 26 7 3 Michael Schumacher Mercedes Benz GP Ltd 01:25.4 01:24.9 01:24.9 24 8 9 Rubens Barrichello Williams-Cosworth 01:25.7 01:25.1 01:25.2 20 9 11 Robert Kubica Renault 01:25.6 01:25.1 01:25.4 23 10 14 Adrian Sutil Force India-Mercedes 01:25.5 01:25.0 01:26.0 24 11 2 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 01:25.0 01:25.2 - 13 12 16 Sebastien Buemi STR-Ferrari 01:26.1 01:25.6 - 17 13 15 Vitantonio Liuzzi Force India-Mercedes 01:26.2 01:25.7 - 19 14 22 Pedro de la Rosa BMW Sauber-Ferrari 01:26.1 01:25.7 - 15 15 10 Nico Hulkenberg Williams-Cosworth 01:25.9 01:25.7 - 17 16 23 Kamui Kobayashi BMW Sauber-Ferrari 01:26.3 01:25.8 - 16 17 17 Jaime Alguersuari STR-Ferrari 01:26.1 01:26.1 - 16 18 12 Vitaly Petrov Renault 01:26.5 - - 10 19 19 Heikki Kovalainen Lotus-Cosworth 01:28.8 - - 9 20 18 Jarno Trulli Lotus-Cosworth 01:29.1 - - 8 21 24 Timo Glock Virgin-Cosworth 01:29.6 - - 8 22 25 Lucas Di Grassi Virgin-Cosworth 01:30.2 - - 8 23 21 Bruno Senna HRT-Cosworth 01:30.5 - - 10 24 20 Karun Chandhok HRT-Cosworth 01:30.6 - - 10
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAfcF8ZWEuI
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After a couple of months without a F1 race, motorsports fan around the world will be on to the 1st race of the season with several reasons. 1stly, they will see the 'hideous' new F1 cars on the track in racing condition... the design is to have the field racing closer and enable more overtaking during race. we shall see if we can really see this "inner beauty" of the new cars 2nd, electrical shock ! KERS is optional for this season. it is unsure how many teams are going to run their cars with KERS in this 1st race of the season. this revolutionary system which will stored power generated from braking and released it back to the power train for about 6 sec per lap. it is obviously very very useful but highly vulnerable. some teams mech had been shock while checking the KERS on the cars... watch the pit stops... it can be hair raising! 3rd, just not too long ago Honda F1 team is being finally bought over by Ross Brawn & some management executives and renamed BrawnGP. this brings much cheers to the F1 circles and fans around. then, their oppositions start to frown once they realised BrawnGP cars are fast with very limited testing. and they contributed the speed to the 'illegal' diffuser on the car. this controversy is still being play out in Australia as we speaks.. the stewards have now thrown out all protests on the 'clever' diffuser designs on 3 teams: Williams, Brawn and Toyota therefore, this may go to 'appeal court' and so the result of the Australia and Malaysia Grand Prix can be of some doubt till then wat's F1 without some drama rite? 4th, underdogs. with a clean drawing board for everyone i hope there will be some surprises for us all already BrawnGP had provided some interesting news.. Force India with Merc engine. will it force their way into the mid field pack? will the Red Bull & STR cars come good with A. Newey having more input on the new cars? Williams, the team that exist just to race, will hope to do well in 2009 after being disappointing for the last few seasons. i believe this will be a crunch year too for both Toyota and Renault. there are much stories on these 2 who are on the verge of F1 pull out but remain on the grid for now. if the result is not not up to scratch, along with the poor economical conditions, we may be seeing the last of these teams sooner than we think. fingers crossed for them! lastly... gentleman, start your Engine and Battle! it will be interesting how Massa will push on from last year title challenge. i think he will do well. but will Kimi be back with a vengeance? i really love to see the ice man to be back to his best! McLaren will see that Lewis and Hekki have a competitive car by the time the races are back in europe. recent testing result had been poor for them. it will interesting to see how Hamilton fight for another title ( in recent interviews, he had adopt a interesting mentality that is not defending his title but getting another one ) BMW. the car seems to be good on paper. but Kubica may be hampered by a weight issue. not that he is over weight. it is he's just taller and hence heavier than most drivers on the grid. in all, most of the field will be running on min weight set by FIA at 605kg. while Nick Heidfeld must prove he's not just another driver on the grid. he must beat his much celebrated team mate in order to have a future in the sports. i await the start of the F1 weekend with the qualifying starting on starsport at abt 2pm tmw !
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Anyone knows when is a good day for the each zodiac to pray ??? I'm a goat... this year is my turn to offend the Grand Duke...
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Hi there any GP owners here to share info,My uncle think of getting one.Heard the the TD 1.2 produce 90hp and 200nm of torque for a small engine.
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http://sg.news.yahoo.com/afp/20081012/tts-...pn-c1b2fc3.html FUJI SPEEDWAY, Japan (AFP) - - Fernando Alonso took full advantage of others' mistakes and misfortunes to claim his second successive victory on Sunday when he won the Japanese Grand Prix. The Spaniard made the most of incidents and errors that wrecked the day for championship contenders Lewis Hamilton and Felipe Massa as he steered his Renault to the 21st win of his career, following his victory in Singapore. He came home 5.2 seconds clear of second placed Pole Robert Kubica of BMW Sauber with defending drivers champion Finn Kimi Raikkonen third for Ferrari. Brazil's Nelson Piquet was fourth in the second Renault ahead of Italian Jarno Trulli of Toyota and the two Toro Rossos of Frenchman Sebastien Bourdais and German Sebastian Vettel. Hamilton failed to score a point for McLaren Mercedes after a drama-filled afternoon following a poor start from pole position and some impetuous moves. He eventually finished 12th. But his main title rival Brazilian Felipe Massa of Ferrari also struggled through collisions, errors and penalties on his way to finishing eighth to claim a single point. This reduced Hamilton's lead to six points with two races remaining in China and Brazil. Hamilton's team-mate Finn Heikki Kovalainen retired with a blown engine in the early stages. In the constructors' championship, Ferrari jumped back into the lead with a six points cushion over McLaren. When the lights went out, the start produced chaotic drama as Hamilton made a slow getaway and struggled to keep up with Raikkonen who pulled clear to lead as they surged towards the first corner. Hamilton responded immediately by switching to the inside and attempting to pass the Finn under braking, but he was unable to make the corner and went off across the run-off area. In the packed field behind him, there were bumps and collisions that led to Briton David Coulthard in his Red Bull and Japan's Kazuki Nakajima in a Williams going off, the Scot crashing heavily into the barriers. Hamilton's rush inside Raikkonen had taken the Finn off the track with him and this led to a stewards' investigation that resulted in a drive-through penalty for the championship leader. As the field settled, Kubica was leading ahead of Alonso before further incidents arrived on lap two when Hamilton, in sixth, attacked and passed Massa who ran off the track and then collided with the Englishman's McLaren. Massa's Ferrari spun Hamilton's car to a halt and left him stranded as the field streamed through with the Briton forced to wait and rejoin last with wrecked tyres. Like Hamilton, Massa's actions were investigated and the stewards gave him a drive-through penalty. The incident also caused Hamilton to pit immediately for tyres. As all this took place, the race unfolded with Kubica leading Alonso towards the first pit stops when the Spaniard took control. Alonso delivered a rapid burst to establish his position before he pitted and once the lead had been passed to Trulli and then Bourdais, it was Piquet out in front. On lap 28, Piquet finally made his first stop and Alonso regained the lead with a 7.8 seconds advantage. By lap 30, Alonso was pulling clear and Massa was 12th and Hamilton 14th. After his impetuous start, Hamilton was a long way from scoring any points and his only consolation was that Massa also struggled, although the Brazilian worked his way through the field to earn a valuable point.
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Suzuki has come up with a VVT Grand Vitara AWD with a 2.4L engine, rear disc brakes... No change to the look except what lies beneath the bonnet, its EPS, 6 airbags and other enhanced electronic mechanisms that delivers powers to the wheels in accordance with the terrain condition. Anyone test driven it at Champions yet?
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this is quite interesting. i wonder if we may see a Red Flag if it rain. -------------- F1's driver safety union, the Grand Prix Drivers' Association, is concerned about the sport's forthcoming inaugural night race. The floodlit event, to be held on the streets of Singapore at the end of next month, will take place without any prior pre-race testing under lights. The official timetable for the weekend's action even affords precious little evening practice for the drivers, and despite speculation and reports of amendments, this has never been officially confirmed. "At the moment we still don't know what the schedule of the weekend will be," Toyota driver and GPDA stalwart Jarno Trulli told reporters at Valencia at the weekend. He said a major concern is the combination of the lights, the concrete-lined street circuit, and the unknown quantity of how rain might further complicate their visibility. "We are a little bit concerned," the Italian admitted. "We go there, we haven't tested, we don't have any idea. It's going to be a night race, it's going to be the rainy season, so it's not exactly what you really want from a safety point of view." "It doesn't look comfortable so far." Trulli said there is no point liaising with MotoGP riders about the situation, following the premier two-wheeled category's inaugural night race in Qatar earlier this year. "Because riding a bike is different to driving a car. And they were racing on a circuit and we are racing on a street circuit. They had run-off and we have walls," Trulli added. http://en.f1-live.com/f1/en -
it's a F1 weekend once again.... dun most of us know it already when we heard of "VPower going at the price of 98" AGAIN this week, the 'circus' is at Istanbul Park Circuit. it is slightly over 5km in length, but the most tricky bit of this track is that it is of anti clockwise. driver will have to prepare carefully for this weekend, else necks will suffer immensely. also "the track is best known for the challenge presented by Turn Eight, a triple-apex left-hander that seems to go on and on. it is taken around 250 km/h generates arguably the highest G-forces drivers see over the season. " however, the past few weeks i had been really disappointed with the F1 circus. it is really a circus... 1stly, we did not see more racing than last year with all the car design changes, did we? then again, i reserve my judgment on that, as most cars are still trying to match Brawn's clever deign. once, teams do catch up, i really do hope there are really more true blooded racing from all teams. 2nd, is there really going to be a F1 2010 season? i just can't believe at a time when the sports shld be doing everything it can to promote itself, it just turn ard and shot itself in both feet. one foot for the ugly cars, and another for all the politics involving cost cutting and what have you. Max Mosley has even came out and said this:
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Woudl appreciate info on where to get a set of Grand Punto original alloy rims. I have friend needing a set, thanks.
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I realised that there are a few watch collectors here... so a question... Would you consider getting the Tag Grand Carrera (the brown dial one is really nice) if you already own a Kirium and a Monza? Or would you look at other brands? -
Series shot with Canon EOS 5D, 17-40mm, 50mm, 70-200mm and 550EX flash from various vantage points on the Bay Grandstand. Merged two shots to expose the evening sky a bit better, while getting the cars to be fairly sharp. The sound of an F1 car can be deafening at 10,000rpms and 20 feet away Kimi Raikkonen Jenson Button Timo Glock Robert Kubica Raikkonen's Middle Finger Moment Barrichello tailed by Alonso Giancarlo Fisichella overshoots Turn 16 This is how it looks like from Row 14 on the Bay Grandstand
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i know, i know, it's not even under way however i believe it will be a very very interesting race in Shanghai, China firstly, Massa will be just behind Hamilton on the starting grid. how will it be of Lewis's start this time round? how will Alonso fared with his Renault starting from fourth? will the 2 time champion make the championship more interesting in its final races? Nick Heidfeld is now 9th after being demoted from 5th. looking on during Q3, i do not understand why he overtook DC during his in lap (he pitted in after he overtook DC) while DC is on his fast qualifying lap... then again, if NH is indeed on his in lap and catches up with DC we may have to ask "is DC driving that Slow"?? ok, what i want to say next can be seen to be of a Pro-LH observation but the fact remain as it is during the qualifying. and most certainly it's not in response to any anti LH threads here ... during Q3, LH 1st run laptime put him 5th, with about 0.5 or so seconds from Kimi at P1. it seems Kimi is waking or already woken up from his slumber form. then LH pitted in for new tyres for his second & final run, checked with his engineer on where he is good (to maintain) and where he is losing time which are sector 2 and 3. and amazingly, he managed to digest this info and put in a stunning lap to claim pole position ahead of Kimi by 0.3 sec it is always easy to overdrive in the sectors you are being told u are slower, and then have a even slower lap time. and, personally, to me qualifying is a more difficult task for drivers. because during then, there are no other cars for you to aim and overtake, u cannot follow or analyze your opponents lines or baking points. in qualifying, u just go. go as fast as possible. but driving over the limit is a problem. being smooth is the solution. but where to be on the limit and where to be smooth is another level of driving all together. all in all, i hope the race will not put me into my afternoon nap mode. it should not be esp when all the chips are almost all down, and a SMALL chance of rain. http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2008/10/8536.html 1. Lewis Hamilton 1:36.303 2. Kimi Raikkonen 1:36.645 3. Felipe Massa 1:36.889 4. Fernando Alonso 1:36.927 5. Heikki Kovalainen 1:36.930 6. Sebastian Vettel 1:37.685 7. Jarno Trulli 1:37.934 8. Sebastien Bourdais 1:38.885 9. Nick Heidfeld 1:37.201** 10. Nelson Piquet 1:35.722 11. Robert Kubica 1:35.814 12. Timo Glock 1:35.937 13. Rubens Barrichello 1:36.079 14. Nico Rosberg 1:36.210 15. David Coulthard 1:36.731 16. Mark Webber 1:37.083* 17. Kazuki Nakajima 1:36.863 18. Jenson Button 1:37.053 19. Adrian Sutil 1:37.730 20. Giancarlo Fisichella 1:37.739 * Mark Webber penalised 10 grid positions for an engine change. ** Nick Heidfeld penalised 3 grid positions for impeding David Coulthard during qualifying.
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http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/09/t...grand_prix.html
