Mark Webber third in Monaco GP
Webber third in Monaco (The Age / Reuters)
Mark Webber scored his career best result of third place in the Monaco F1 Grand Prix yesterday. It was a good result the Williams team too with Nick Heidfeld finishing second behind Kimi Raikkonen who led from start to finish.
Renault F1 team uses clustered Linux
Linux drives Renault Formula 1 (ZDNet / Ingrid Marson)
From the article: “The main reason for choosing Linux was performance rather than cost, according to Verdier. “Formula 1 is not driven by cost but by time,” said Verdier. “Ultimately the metric is time per lap — to have the fastest car. We are trying to design the best car in the shortest time.””
Renault are certainly off to a good start in the 2005 F1 season. It’s amazing how much behind the scenes work goes into building and maintaining the F1 cars. According to a short documentary I saw on the Toyota F1 team they employ 600 people to work exclusively on F1 related projects.
Fisichella wins Melbourne F1 Grand Prix
Renault’s dream start (Formula1.com)
It was a good day for the race in the end, and a fantastic result for Renault and closer competition in this year’s season.
Mark Webber cruises the Sydney Harbour Bridge
Sydney’s moment in the F1 sun (The Age / Bob Jennings)
 Photo by Steve Christo @ The Age |
A F1 car crossing the Harbour Bridge is not something you see every day, and in fact had not been seen before. Certainly a sight to behold. |
Winds of change as Webber’s Williams flies (SMH)
From the article: “Williams driver Mark Webber gave his team a boost as he rounded-up his pre-season testing in style by clocking the fastest time in Valencia.
The Australian geared up for the opening race of the formula one season in Melbourne on Sunday week by recording a lap time of one minute 10.087 seconds in his new BMW-powered car on Wednesday.
Webber’s time was superior to former Williams driver Ralf Schumacher and Michael Schumacher’s Ferrari. Ralf’s fastest lap in his Toyota was 1:11.005, while Michael was four one-hundredths of a second behind. BAR’s Takumo Sato was nearly three seconds down on Webber.“
I’m really looking forwards to seeing Mark Webber in a more solid car this year. I feel he would have done a lot better last season if it wasn’t for the numerous mechanical problems of the Jaguars.
Silverstone seals British GP deal (BBC)
From the article: “The British Racing Drivers Club and F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone have signed a contract through to 2009.“
I am pleased to see the parties involved have been able to reach a deal for the contination of the British F1 grand prix at Silverstone. While a street race through the London may have been an interesting alternative Silverstone has a lot of history associated with it and I think all fans will be pleased with this outcome.