Kimi Raikkonen have more competitive in 2013


Kimi Raikkonen

Lotus driver Kimi Raikkonen overcome every person with his wonderful presentation in this year and will come up even stronger in the 2013 Formula 1 season. Raikkonen left the sport after his pre-mature agreement extinction with Ferrari back in 2009. He took part in World Rally contest in 2010 and 2011, but could not prove his possible and came back to F1 with the Enstone based team in this period.

The Finnish driver achieves extremely well throughout the year and scored points with superb constancy. He stood amongst one of the most qualified and endowed drivers in the field. Moreover, he was affirmed as a major threat to the top drivers by the team major of Red Bull Racing, Christian Horner after the first partially of the season. Additionally, the team superior of Ferrari, Stefano Domenicali also articulated that the Finn is incontestably the strongest title candidate, after seeing his presentation during the opening few races.

It is to be noted that Lotus effort with their eligible rapidity due to which Raikkonen and his colleague, Romain Grosjean failed to achieve aggressive points for their team in many races. Nevertheless, the 2007 world champion still supervises to deliver some marvelous concert during the season and was measured as one of the most justified title competitor.

Even though, he could only attain one race triumph at Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi, but he still tenable third situation in the contest fight with 207 points after Fernando Alonso of Ferrari and Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull Racing.

On the other hand, Grosjean also achieve credibly well in some grands prix and secured three stage finishes. However, he was retreat in many races and faced a lot of disapproval over his cruel driving style due to which he was even penalized for quite a few times. Nonetheless, the French driver has effectively secured his competition seat at Lotus for the next year and is completely looking forward to perform well for his team.

Formula 1:Sebastian Vettel voted as European Sportsman of the year


Sebastian Vettel

Red Bull Racing driver Sebastian Vettel, who won his third successive world drivers’ contest title in the 2012 Formula 1 season, has been designated as the European Sportsman of the Year. Vettel performed extremely well in this season and fought imposing until the very end of the season.

Although, the Milton Keynes based group faced enormous problems with their car design during the start of the season because of the changes in the rules by FIA and particularly the ban on twice diffuser.

However, they came back very well as their chief technical officer, Adrian Newey effectively organize to develop the most capable car towards the end of the year with which the 25-year-old almost became incontrovertible and claimed his third consecutive world championship title.

It will be significant to declare that Vettel had a very tough struggle with Fernando Alonso of Ferrari who also performs extraordinarily well. Nonetheless, he won the championship battle by just 3 points from the Spaniard and became the youngest triple world winner in the history of F1.

The veteran German has been designated as best by the journalists from 26 news charity and won the poll with 137 points from his main adversary, Bradley Wiggins who is the first ever British to win Tour de France. Additionally, Wiggins was immediately 7 points following the veteran German driver.

In addition, the poll was organized by PAP which is a shine news agency. PAP affirmed on their website that the winner has been elected from 73 athletes from 28 countries, belonging to 31 regulations. Moreover, there were 47 male contestant and 26 female athletes.

F1: Fernando Alonso Targets 2013 Revenge


Fernando Alonso

The 2012 season will be memorize as one of the most exhilarating ever with Vettel crown Formula One's youngest ever triple world winner by a measly three points. The 25-year-old German's sixth to Alonso's second in Brazil made him only the third driver in narration to win three consecutive titles, equaling the achievement of the great Argentine Juan Manuel Fangio and infancy idol Michael Schumacher, who finished seventh for Mercedes in his closing race before diffident.

But while recognition rained down on Vettel runner-up Alonso was mapping out ways to end his Red Bull rival's domination in 2013 after what the 2005 and 2006 winner called "the best season of my life". The 31-year-old imagine his title bid was damaged by his Ferrari's lack of competitiveness compared to the super dependable and super fast Red Bull, and rough fairness at Spa and Suzuka.

In Belgium and Japan, Alonso finished useless after being shut out of argument by Lotus duo Romain Grosjean and Kimi Raikkonen. "We absolutely did not lose the heading in Brazil; that occurs in Spa and Suzuka," argued Alonso. "In the end, we misplaced the title by three points, nevertheless I did the best flavor of my life and now I can only think of the year to come.

"It was a wonder to see, race after race, what we supervise to achieve: Next year, we will try and recover the car, trying to start further up the grid, thus evade accidents. Let's hope we also have a bit more destiny." He shrugged off any anger he and Ferrari stirred up among Vettel's fan base in Germany when lodging and finally fruitless request to the sport's governing body beside Vettel's Brazil win.

The driver changes for the Formula - 1 2013 Changes

Kobayashi’s performance in 2012 integrated scoring points in nine races in which he also scored one platform during the Japanese GP. His points were expensive to Sauber F1 in securing the sixth standing in the constructors’ contest. He increases a total of 60 championship points by the end of the period. It is unsatisfactory that he could not preserve his position with Sauber F1 in spite of his obvious performance.

Bottas replaced Bruno Senna as he unsuccessful to achieve as compared to his colleague Maldonado. Senna is also the nephew of the late Brazilian Ayrton Senna. The driver is not predictable to secure a race seat at this instant but there are still a few alternatives open with Caterham’s and Force India having not proclaimed their driver line up yet.

Senna achieve points in ten races with only two retirements in the entire season although he confess that his performance was hurt due to missing out on the perform conference that were given to Bottas instead. He scored 31 points in the whole period with a 16th overall position in the drivers’ contest.

HRT as a team will not be incoming the 2013 F1 season as it failed to find any consumer after it was put up for sale in November. It leaves De la Rosa and Karthikeyan deficient a race seat but still naught has been confirmed.

Schumacher’s first retreat had been in 2006 when he was driving for Ferrari and pursue his eighth F1 world title in which he was not victorious. He remained a consultant for the Italian team during his years of deficiency from racing. He returned to F1 in 2010 on a three-year contract with the Mercedes team which is first F1 group from the company after they purchases BrawnGP since 1955.

Formula 1 Race Calendar 2013 GP2

Next season's GP2 calendar has been unconfined, with its 11 race weekends set to sustain over half of 2013's Formula One races. The main change is the adding of Abu Dhabi as the final round of the calendar, while the street race in Valencia has been crashed as well as one of the Bahrain around from last year.

The sequence will once again open in Malaysia as a sustain race to the second grand prix of the period before leaving on to Bahrain, Spain, Monaco, Great Britain, Germany, Hungary, Belgium Italy, Singapore and Abu Dhabi.

"2013 will be an additional strong season for GP2," GP2 CEO Bruno Michel said. "We have determined to keep the impressive tracks outside of Europe, starting with Sepang and Sakhir, two locations which present some heart-stopping exploit last season.

We are also recurring to Singapore in September for the second time of the Series' narration. I am very satisfied to be closing the season in Abu Dhabi: we have been to that track numerous times with GP2 Asia and raced there last time in November 2011 with our latest production car.

"Added to these four abroad events, we will be racing beside F1 in all seven European rounds which bring a total of eleven F1 tracks on our schedule again next season. Since the sequence started in 2005, we have always provided the drivers with a car close to F1 in presentation and used the same tyres

DATE RACE CIRCUIT
March 22-24 Malaysia Sepang
April 19-21 Bahrain Bahrain International Circuit
May 10-12 Spain Circuit de Catalunya
May 24-26 Monaco Monte Carlo
June 28-30 Great Britain Silverstone
July 5-7 Germany Nurburgring
July 26-28 Hungary Hungaroring
August 23-25 Belgium Spa-Francorchamps
September 6-8 Italy Monza
September 20-22 Singapore Marina Bay
November 1-3 Abu Dhabi Yas Marina

Sebastian Vettel Determined to wins fourth title


Sebastian Vettel

The Red Bull driver says he has never effort for incentive and is already starting to think about next season. "I want us to be as victorious in 2013 as we have been this year and the preceding two years," Vettel said. "Personally, I have never had to replicate inspiration that is part of my nature."

Vettel won the drivers' title in an exciting pinnacle in Brazil at the end of November, thrashing Ferrari's Fernando Alonso by just three points after a 20-race period. The 25-year-old, who was talking in an meeting with the official Formula 1 website, said the little particulars that added up to the contest victory were what would attach in his memory.

"Right now it is pleasant to savor the title win and everything that goes with it," Vettel said, "but what stays in your reminiscence much more than something else are the steps that got you there: the anxiety on the grid at the first race, the stress when it didn't work out as intended, the platform - all these moments stay in your head perpetually."

Vettel said that he was not instantly filled with joy when he irritable the line in sixth place at Interleague, knowing Alonso's second place was not adequate to renovate his lead. "The explosion came later," Vettel said. "The instant I crossed the finish line I was very calm - rather empty.

"I guess that's what occurs when a huge lumber comes off your chest. All year extended we've been so focused on that one and only goal and then rapidly you have reached it. That makes you silence - and perhaps a bit helpless - for a short immediate.

F1 News : Vettel and Schumacher Wins ROC Nations Cup


Vettel and Schumacher

Sebastian Vettel and Michael Schumacher won the Race of winner Nations Cup for Team Germany in Bangkok on Saturday, captivating the designation for the sixth successive year. 

The Race of Champions took place on a small track in Bangkok's Rajamangala Stadium with drivers from dissimilar nations in teams of two and inclined alongside each other in a series of races. 

Vettel and Schumacher won their assembly phase before thrashing an Australian team of V8 Supercar champion Jamie Whincup and motorbike celebrity Mick Doohan. 

 In the concluding the Germans strike Team France which was made up of Romain Grosjean and meeting driver Sebastien Ogier. 

Schumacher went head-to-head with Lotus F1 driver Grosjean and bang he driving KTM Crossbows previous to Vettel beat Ogier to give Germany a leading victory. 

A alone occasion will take place on Sunday called the champ of Champions in which each driver will take on the others in a new knock-out style contest. Ogier will be suspicious his title after winning last year.

F1 News: Vettel Insist his Motivation to Win will Never Reduced



Red Bull Racing’s Sebastian Vettel has affirmed that even after winning three successive F1 championships, his resolve to win will never be reduced. 

“As a team associate I want us to be as victorious in 2013 as we have been this year and the two preceding years,” Vettel said. “And myself, I never had to simulate incentive that is part of my life. 

Sure, right now it is nice to savor the title win and all that goes with it, but what stays in your recollection much more than everything else is the steps that got you there: the anxiety on the lattice at the first race, the pressure when it didn't work out as intended, the platforms.” 

Vettel told that the 2012 F1 period was very rough in terms of their car but still they never congested consider that they can win which is very complex to do. He said that there are many specialists who keep wonder throughout the period but you do not have to let that get to you, whether they are negative or positive explanations. 

Ever since the fight for the contest began among Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso and Vettel, F1 opponent kept adage that Alonso was the better driver and justify winning. A survey performs after the end of the season exposed that the bosses of all F1 teams measured Alonso a better driver over Vettel. Vettel has previously told that it does not bother him. In fact, he said that he compliments and admires his rival.

Red Bull Racing and Sebastian Vettel nominated to 2013 Laureus World Sports Awards


Sebastian Vettel

Red Bull Racing and their driver, Sebastian Vettel have been integrated in the proposal for the 2013 Laureus World Sports Awards. Previous Formula 1 driver, Emerson Fittipaldi and Edwin Moses who is the chairman of Laureus World sports education Academy, have lately exposed the suggestion for the awards which will be held on March 31, 2013. 

Red Bull Racing has been designated for the Laureus World Team of the Year after maintains their third consecutive world constructors’ championship title in the 2012 F1 season. Moreover, they are planned beside the US Miami Heat Basketball team, Spain’s Men’s Football players, the European Ryder Cup Team, China’s Olympic Table Tennis players and the United States’ Men’s Basketball Team. 

On the other hand, the experienced person German driver who has won his third succeeding world drivers’ challenge title in this season has been nominated against Usain Bolt, Mo Farah, Lionel Messi, Michael Phelps and Bradley Wiggins. 

It will be significant to mention that previous Williams and Lotus F1 driver Alex Zanardi, who won two gold medals and one silver medal in the London Paralympics Games, has also been designated in Laureus World Sportsperson of the Year in the grouping of immobilized. 

“I always feel in an Olympic year that you are likely to see a strapping group of possible Nominees and this year is positively an immense instance of that,” said Laureus World Sports Academy chairman Edwin Moses.

Formula 1:Grosjean wins the race of Champions

French Formula One driver Romain Grosjean, whose expectations with the Lotus team is yet to be established beat Sebastian Vettel and Michael Schumacher on his way to delightful the Race of Champions occasion in Bangkok on Sunday.

Dubbed a 'first lap nutcase' by Australian Mark Webber after he reasons a number of smash this year, counting one in Belgium that got him disqualified for a race, Grosjean showed a steadier side to his aptitude.

After thrashing Red Bull's triple winner Vettel in the quarterfinals and seven-time F1 winner Schumacher in the semifinals, Grosjean went on to conquer Denmark's eight-time Le Mans 24 Hours winner Tom Kristensen in the best-of-three race concluding at the Rajamangala Stadium. 

"It's been a rough end to the Formula One period but I finally got back on the platform yesterday and now this," Grosjean, who lost the team final to the German brace on Saturday, said on the event website. 

"It's great to obtain this win before I head off for a holiday," additional the 2011 GP2 winner. The yearly occasion pits winners and champions from a variety of motorsport series beside each other over numerous rounds in the same machinery.

Vettel feels more pressure after winning the Third Title


Sebastian Vettel

Red Bull Racing driver Sebastian Vettel has said that he is sensation more pressure after charming his third consecutive world drivers’ championship title in the 2012 Formula 1 season. Vettel had a stressed start to this season as compared to the preceding one in which he completely conquered with his 11 race victories.

Nevertheless, the expert German driver kept on fighting hard in spite of the problems which his team faced with the design of RB8 because of the changes in the policy by FIA. On the other hand, the chief technical officer of Red Bull, Adrian Newey worked very hard during the year to expand the most competitive car and productively managed to attain his objective towards the end of the season. Finally, the 25-year-old performed amazingly well with the fastest car during the last few grand’s prix and claimed his third contest title. 

After pleasing the title, Vettel became the youngest triple world winner in the history of the sport and has now been evaluating with the seven-time world champion, Michael Schumacher. However, he considers that it is extremely hard to keep up the level of reliability in the performance after such an achievement because the pressure of potential mounts to a higher level. Additionally, he said that it is very firm to keep the focus on receiving more and more. 

“I said after [Brazil] race that the hardest thing is to win after you have won,” observation the German. “You get the consideration and the pressure, and you are very probable to focus on how to win again, slightly than the small steps to win in first place.” “Of course there's pressure, on top of that it's always receiving more and tenser at the end of the year, within the last combine of races depending on who you struggle in order to try to win the contest,” he said.

Vettel and Red Bull Collects the Trophies in Istanbul


Sebastian Vettel

The venue may change but the names are recognizable, as once again Sebastian Vettel and Red Bull Racing chosen up their FIA Formula One World competition trophies at the FIA Prize Giving Gala on Friday evening. Vettel, the 2012 FIA Formula One World victor driver, was obtainable with his by FIA President Jean Todt. Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso and Lotus’s Kimi Raikkonen also conventional awards for second and third places correspondingly in the drivers’ championship. 

“It’s a unbelievable feeling to be here tonight and to be able to take this trophy back home for an additional year. As I said last time, it isn’t amazing you want to give back,” said Vettel. “Winning the title with Red Bull racing three times in a row makes we all sense very proud. This was a period with lots of ups and downs and the team had to push hard to get me larger than the line. 

While Vettel was capable to win the 2011 title by a contented margin, this year’s world championship went behind to the wire and a rain-soaked vivid period finale in Brazil. Vettel’s destiny at Interleague seemed to change by the lap, as he survived a first-lap crash and demotion to last place before hostility his way during the pasture to become the youngest triple world champion in Formula One history. 

With team mate Mark Webber addition wins in Monaco and Great Britain to Vettel’s drag, it was another year of achievement for Red Bull Racing, for who team Principal Christian Horner composed the FIA Formula One Constructors’ World Championship prize, as well for the third year in a row. Alongside their seven triumphs, the team managed seven other stage finishes, eight pole positions and seven best laps. They achieve points in 19 of the 20 races.

F1: Red Bull Open to hosting F1 at A1 Race

The energy drinks company has renovate the venue, now known as the Red Bull Ring, and its motorsport consultant Helmut Marko has exposed that he has been in touch with the FIA to make it aware of the occasion available. 

The FIA declared earlier this week that a European Formula 1 race would be held on July 21 next year at an undetermined venue - with France and Turkey the favorites to protect the spot. However, Marko consider the Red Bull Ring is more than competent of protected a return of F1 to Austria for the first time since 2003. 

"We made the FIA aware of the detail that there is the Red Bull Ring and it holds a full rating F1 license," Marko said. 

Although the current 40,000 capability for the Red Bull Racing would make it hard for the event to make a profit, Marko advice that funding could also be approaching from the Austrian national government and the region of Styria. 

"It worked in the 1970s and 1980s too," he said. "And we have a full quantity of hotels in Graz." Red Bull boss Dietrich Mateschitz is at present on vacation and occupied for observation about the possibility of there being an Austrian GP in 2014. 

Austria has held 26 world contest races. An event in 1964 took place on a military airstrip at Zeltweg before the Osterreichring was used from 1970 to 1987. The modify A1 Ring held grands prix among 1997 and 2003.

Formula 1: The Top Races of 2012

Pastor Maldonado's victory in the Spanish Grand Prix: 

After continuing one of the most unsatisfactory seasons of its memorable history in 2011, there were misgivings as to whether Williams would ever win once more in F1. But at the Circuit de Catalunya in May this year, Pastor Maldonado revisits the British outfit to the top step of the platform with an inch-perfect drive. 

The race didn't have the on-track play of some of the others in 2012, but Maldonado's combat for conquest with Fernando Alonso was anxious and remained on a knife edge awaiting the chequered flag. However, the Williams driver was made to work for his entrance win after Alonso muscled past him at the first corner and built a gracious lead.  

Fernando Alonso victory in the European Grand Prix: 

The Valencia street track has resists to win the hearts of F1 fans since its prologue to the calendar in 2008. Its 3.3 miles of concrete-lined, unremarkable track had seen little enthusiasm in its first four years, but in 2012 it played mass to one of the most action-packed races of the season. 

Sebastian Vettel and Romain Grosjean both leave from race-winning location with alternator failures, exit Fernando Alonso with the occasion to fight from 11th on the grid to triumph in front of his home fans.  

Kimi Raikkonen's victory at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix: 

After spending two years hitting trees in the World assembly Championship, Kimi Raikkonen revisit to F1 in 2012 and strung jointly a near spotless comeback season, topped off by his conquest in Abu Dhabi. 

It was another exciting race and made all the more exhilarating by championship nominee Sebastian Vettel preliminary from the pit lane due to a fuel detail in qualifying. Lewis Hamilton could maybe feel hard done by after reserved from the lead with a mechanical problem, but Raikkonen seized the occasion and held off title nominee Fernando Alonso in the closing stages.  

Sebastian Vettel wins the title in Brazil: The Brazilian Grand Prix was a appropriate finale to a exciting season, with a race that had the lot - from a first lap crash to a post-race argument. Sebastian Vettel ultimately emerged winning in Brazil, but it looked something but confident after his first lap contact with Bruno Senna. Despite stressed on with a damaged car, the Red Bull driver selected his way through the field in altering track situation to take the essential points to win the contest. 

Both drivers got out of their cars at the end of the race in a situation of distrust, but with Red Bull mechanics rejoice up and down the ditch lane there was no hesitation which man had come out on top.

European Formula 1 race added to 2013 Calendar

The 2013 Formula One season will have an added race in Europe, with the location yet to be determined, to make up for a delayed Grand Prix in New Jersey, the decision body FIA said on Wednesday. 

The FIA World Motorsport committee motivated the German Grand Prix onward by one week to July 7, and July 21 "has been reticent for another F1 European event, topic to the endorsement of the relevant ASNs (national bodies)." 

The German race will now approach a week after the British race. The FIA did not proclaim a venue, as the intended site, the Nuerburgring, is in deep monetary difficulty and may not be talented to stage the race. 

The July 21 race is a week in front of Hungary, and could see a revisit to Turkey, which hosted an F1 race 2005-2011. A French GP, last on the F1 calendar in 2008, is also allegedly a option, with Magny Cours or Le Castellet being the probable places. 

F1 was initially due to see its debut in New Jersey on June 16, 2013, in place of the plunge European GP in Valencia, but that race has been delayed. The July 21 race brings the agenda back to 20 races. 

FIA also said that teams can no longer claim excellent situation - "force majeure" - when cars don't revisit to the pits after be eligible and stop on the track, a move intended to clamp down on fuel subject after world winner Sebastian Vettel and Lewis Hamilton conventional grid penalty in 2012 for stopping on the track with not sufficient fuel.

Formula 1 2013 Race date in Austin may Change

Don’t solid up those tactics for the 2013 U.S. Grand Prix in Austin, the Formula 1 race may modify dates. It’s at present set for Sunday Nov. 17; a day following the Texas Longhorns will beat Oklahoma condition in front of a multitude that will top 100,000. 

Overlapping such a distinguished competition in college football with the F1 fiesta which over three days last month logged 265,499 visitors to the track of The Americas circuit could be a warmth tragedy. Even though some vendor protest about not being busy sufficient through the current F1 weekend, hotels, restaurants and others cuisine to the ample worry about excess next year — and the University of Texas is worried about nuisance its fans. 

But there’s good news for the concerned: Some sources close to the F1 action are flattering ever more hopeful that F1 managers will find a different Austin date soon. It isn’t simple. The international gauntlet that’s Formula 1 is a preparation frightening. 

Imagine orchestrating 20 races approximately the globe in now nine months. Oh, stay away from holidays such as blessing, mind the weather and innumerable other factors on numerous continents, and make sure the direction is cost-effective for an army of F1 workers, the racing teams and the legions of fans that follow them.

Sebastian Vettel wants the Austrian GP to return to F1 Calendar

Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel has confirmed that he needs Formula 1 to return in Austria with the Austrian Grand Prix so that the team could have a residence race. “I was at the opening ceremony and had the possibility to drive there. The track is totally formula one-compatible,” the German said throughout a festive event in Graz, Austria. “I don’t identify why we (F1) don’t go there. For us (Red Bull) it would be huge for it to be our home grand prix.” 

Sebastian Vettel

The Austrian GP was last held throughout the 2003 F1 season which is five years before Vettel had a full racing period in F1 with Red Bull. Michael Schumacher who was powerful for Ferrari at that time won the 2003 Grand Prix. The circuit selected for the race was previously known as the A1 Ring. The track has been totally rehabilitated and has now been renamed as the Red Bull Ring. 

After the last race in 2003, the track was destroying and Mateschitz has exhausted a huge quantity of money to reconstruct it. The Billionaire said that the track is prepared for reopening. While F1 boss, Bernie Ecclestone, has oblique about the F1 race recurring to Austria, Mateschitz thinks that it is very doubtful.

Former three times F1 winner, Niki Lauda, is also of the same estimation that the revisit might not be probable because there are still much difficulty to conquer but then it is hard to say as nobody knows what Mateschitz might be preparation. Besides Vettel, Schumacher has also uttered his wish for the go back of the race.

Michael Schumacher ends Formula 1 Career with "fun" final race

Michael Schumacher's concluding race was a bit like the last three years he exhausted in Formula One after pending out of his first departure - solid but unglamorous. That didn't stop the German seven-time winner from methodically like what he called an "exciting" Brazilian Grand Prix on Sunday before walking left from a sport he occupied for numerous of his 19 seasons. 

"Even under these hard circumstances, my final Formula One race was marvelous fun," he said. "I would once again like to thank the team and all my fans for their grasp up over the past years. I've enjoyed the time we've exhausted together very much certainly." 

 F1's most victorious driver finished seventh at Interleague after improving from a perforate tire that left him a lap down early on in the race, receive a final six points to cap off his career. "What an exhilarating and exciting grand prix," Schumacher said. "Strangely adequate, my last ever Formula One race began with a pierce which pushed me down the running order. But it's always been my attitude to never give up, there's always a possibility, you just have to keep leaving and confiscate it when it comes." 

The stands at Interleague were crowded with banners and signs worship and cheer Schumacher. The 43-year-old German is reserved for the second time, having relinquished in 2006 before pending back with Mercedes in 2010. 

He resist in the last three seasons, though, being continually outpaced by colleague Nico Rosberg and organization only one platform finish, at the European GP in July. He ended 13th in the drivers' standings this period.