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Mercedes Formula One driver, Nico Rosberg will drive his Mercedes F1 car on the streets of Rotterdam in August as part of the city’s annual City Racing Rotterdam event. The F1 winner in Chinese last weekend really excited to entertain the spectators at Netherland. City Racing started off in Rotterdam in 2006 and allows motorsports fan the opportunity to get up close to top-level racing cars from Formula One, Formula Two and other motorsport disciplines.
Source :- CarAdvice
The Williams F1 Team today confirmed that Susie Wolff will join the team as its Development Driver.
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Born in Scotland, Susie Wolff has had the classic racing career, beginning in karting and then moving to junior single-seater series and was twice nominated for the prestigious Young Driver of the Year Award before moving up to DTM. In 2012, Susie will contest her seventh season in DTM.
Frank Williams, Team Principal of the Williams F1 Team, said, “Susie is a talented, successful and highly professional racing driver who competes in one of the world’s most fiercely-contested racing series. Susie will join Williams as a Development Driver, in which capacity she will assist us with the development of our simulator and other technical challenges. Susie will also undertake some aerodynamic testing of the FW34 and a full track test in the coming months. Susie will also attend a number of races with us. I should add that, as Susie is married to Toto Wolff, a Director of Williams, her appointment was carefully considered and then approved by the Board, with Toto recusing himself from the process.”
Susie Wolff said, “I would like to thank Sir Frank for giving me this opportunity both on and off the track. I must also thank Mercedes Benz AMG and HWA for supporting me to take up this new experience with Williams. Formula One is the ultimate challenge for any racing driver and it offers me the chance both to apply and to improve the skills I have developed racing in DTM. In return I shall be offering some of my own technical insight and experience – coming from a different discipline – and helping the team engage with its partners. I hope also to demonstrate that women can play a role at the highest levels of motorsport and I shall be working closely with the team on its social responsibility programme in the areas of education and road safety.”
Bernie Ecclestone, Chief Executive of Formula One, welcomed the announcement: “If Susie is as quick in a car as she looks good out of a car then she will be a massive asset to any team and on top of that she is very intelligent. I am really looking forward to having her in Formula One.”
Source :- AutoBlog
Another Female driver. Hope it won’t just for ads only..
Jenson Button from McLaren take a winner on the podium for F1 2012 Australian GP. The McLaren man outpaced last season champion, Sebastian Vettel with two seconds behind. Button teammate, Lewis Hamilton was third. Hamilton took first place before overtaken by button after suffering a bit of wheel spin.
Kimi Raikkonen who make a comeback finish seventh with the Lotus F1 team.
Jenson Button from McLaren take a winner on the podium for F1 2012 Australian GP. The McLaren man outpaced last season champion, Sebastian Vettel with two seconds behind. Button teammate, Lewis Hamilton was third. Hamilton took first place before overtaken by button after suffering a bit of wheel spin.
Kimi Raikkonen who make a comeback finish seventh with the Lotus F1 team.
F1 2012 Australian GP result
os # Driver Car Laps Gap Difference Reason
1 3 Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 58
2 1 Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault 58 2.139 2.139
3 4 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 58 4.075 1.936
4 2 Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 58 4.547 0.472
5 5 Fernando Alonso Ferrari 58 21.565 17.018
6 14 Kamui Kobayashi Sauber-Ferrari 58 36.766 15.201
7 9 Kimi Raikkonen Lotus-Renault 58 38.014 1.248
8 15 Sergio Perez Sauber-Ferrari 58 39.458 1.444
9 16 Daniel Ricciardo Toro Rosso-Ferrari 58 39.556 0.098
10 11 Paul di Resta Force India-Mercedes 58 39.737 0.181
11 17 Jean-Eric Vergne Toro Rosso-Ferrari 58 39.848 0.111
12 8 Nico Rosberg Mercedes 58 57.642 17.794
13 18 Pastor Maldonado Williams-Renault 57 1 lap 1 lap
14 24 Timo Glock Marussia-Cosworth 57 1 lap 116.965
15 25 Charles Pic Marussia-Cosworth 53 5 laps 4 laps
16 19 Bruno Senna Williams-Renault 52 6 laps 1 lapNot classified
6 Felipe Massa Ferrari 46 12 laps 6 laps Accident damage
20 Heikki Kovalainen Caterham-Renault 38 20 laps 8 laps Suspension
21 Vitaly Petrov Caterham-Renault 34 24 laps 4 laps Steering
7 Michael Schumacher Mercedes 10 48 laps 24 laps Gearbox
10 Romain Grosjean Lotus-Renault 1 57 laps 9 laps Steering
12 Nico Hulkenberg Force India-Mercedes 0 58 laps 1 lap Suspension
McLaren are considering to use Honda engines starting from 2014 when F1 shift to use V6 turbo engine. Currently, McLaren use Mercedes engine which the deal is expire to the end of 2012. The deal states that Mercedes can provide the Woking-based team with the engines until at least 2015 but they need to pay 8 million Euros to Mercedes. As we know, Mercedes also have their own team in F1 and McLaren already started to find another engine partners. It is not the first time Honda and McLaren collaboration. In the past they have make a team between 1988 and 1992. During the time, they claim four driver’s title.
Source :- Bettor