F1: Williams unveiled the FW35 in Spain

Williams became the final team to begin their 2013 car on Tuesday morning, as the Renault-powered FW35 was reveal in the Barcelona pit lane at the begin of this week's four-day test at the Circuit de Catalunya.

To be raced by 2012 Spanish Grand Prix winner Pastor Maldonado and new colleague Valtteri Bottas, Williams hope the car - which features development in several key areas over its FW34 predecessor - will help them advance on their eighth place in last year's position.

“Given the rule constancy over the winter, I’m pleased with the gains that we’ve been talented to make with this car,” said Williams’ technical director, Mike Coughlan. “It’s a better, more advanced Formula One car than the FW34 and I think everyone complicated in the project can feel proud of the work they’ve done.”

Despite being a development of 2012’s car, more than 80 percent of the FW35 is new. It has a original gearbox, new rear suspension, new radiators, a new floor, new exhausts, new bodywork, a new nose and a important amount of heaviness has been saved as fine.

With many new parts on the car, the team has accepted out a lot of dependability work over the winter. The gearbox alone has already finished 3,200 kilometres on the dyno, a lot of which was behavior in the form of five straight Grand Prix weekends.

Triple Formula 1 Champion Sebastian Vettel: Red Bull better than Last Year

Triple Formula One world champion Sebastian Vettel has caution his 2013 title rivals that Red Bull are in better form than this time 12 months ago. Red Bull driver Vettel frame out Ferrari's Fernando Alonso at the final race of the 2012 season to seal a third consecutive drivers' title by just three points, while his team famous a third constructors' crown in a row.

Vettel, the sports youngest ever three-time champion, persevere the whole team is focused on identical last year's achievements.

"What we have is more or less the equal car that we had in Brazil (the final race of the 2012 season) -- with some steps onward," the 25-year-old told F1's official website after attractive to the track at a preseason testing occurrence in Barcelona.

"But from a individual level I can declare that I am much happier now than I was one year ago." The German also release suggestions he might resist for motivation ahead of the 2013 season.

"Sure it was nice what we've attain in the last three years and it makes us all arrogant, but I would say that I am still in a chapter of my life where I look forward, and that's the right direction to go."

F1: Pirelli announces its plans for opening F1 race

For the first time the super-soft tyres will punch the Formula One tracks in the upcoming season, F1 tyres supplier Pirelli have declared. In order to cope with the high temperatures and rasping outside, Pirelli has taken this step.


The giant tyre company has declare its compound option for the first four races of the 2013 season -Australian GP, Malaysian GP, Chinese GP and Bahrain GP.

A week later, in Malaysia, medium and hard will be tried on the irregular surface of Sepang. In China, soft and medium tyres will be on present and Bahrain Circuit will be tried with soft and hard tyres.

As was the case last year, each team will obtain six sets of the harder complex and five sets of the softer compound for each race.

Pirelli will also bring four sets of transitional and three sets of full wet tyres to all four races of the period in case of rain

Formula 1 : Sebastian Vettel Sees Formula One title Race as Wide Open

Sebastian Vettel

Asked whether he still saw Britain's Lewis Hamilton as a nominee now that the 2008 champion has enthused from race winners McLaren to the Mercedes team that was far less aggressive last year, the German nodded.
"I think the way that last season started, with a lot of dissimilar teams and drivers winning the races, there's nothing that speaks beside it occurrence again this year," he told journalists after his first drive of the new Red Bull RB9 on Thursday.

"The policy hasn’t really changed. At some stage I think it will be getting even earlier at the top and consequently everyone is in the follow." Last year started with seven diverse winners in the opening seven races and ended as a combat between Vettel and Ferrari's Fernando Alonso as the top teams got on summit of the Pirelli tires.

Pirelli have changed the complex for this year with the aim of hopeful overtaking and introducing more stops. Vettel cited the example of Williams, who won in Spain last year because they were fast fairly than lucky, and optional the same could happen again with less-fancied teams enjoying their instant in the spotlight.

"We contain to wait and see. Even if after the last Barcelona test you have a definite favorite, it could be all different in Australia. It's a different track and a different warmth. It's departing to be a long season," he said.

F1 Race : Lewis Hamilton Unveils 2013 Mercedes Car


Lewis Hamilton

The 28-year-old, who has switched from McLaren, drove the car for little laps at the Jerez circuit in Spain where pre-season testing starts on Tuesday. The 2008 world champion said: "Feels like we absolutely have some work to do but we were on expression tyres so I can't really get a sense for it.

Mercedes resist last season, starting powerfully and winning the third race of the season before dropping further from the pace as the year went on awaiting by the end of the year they were stressed even to score a point.

Hamilton said: "This year is concerning one step at a time. Finish the first race, receiving on the platform, and then trying to win races." "We have to distribute as a team, of course, but I am not a wonder worker. I'm going to work as firm as I can with the team to make steps onward.

"The target is to advance on last year. Last year they didn't have a sturdy year. "They got one win, but they didn't have sufficient podiums, didn't have anywhere near the achievement they deserved."

Team principal Ross Brawn explain the car as "a clear step forward in design and feature complexity over its predecessor" and said he was expecting "a step change in presentation compared to last season".

F1 - Ferrari's Fernando Alonso predicts tighter 2013


Fernando Alonso

Fernando Alonso said Friday the battle for Formula One primacy could be a lot tighter this year ahead of his bid to recover on two runner-up places after Sebastian Vettel with a maiden title for Ferrari. Last season's world championship was amazing for the fact there were seven race-winners in the first seven races before Alonso went toe-to-toe with Red Bull leading Vettel in a decisive, exciting finale at Interleague.

Vettel, the sport's youngest-ever three-time world winner (2010, 2011, 2012), finished sixth at the famous Brazilian circuit, where Alonso was second, to beat his Spanish competitor to the title by only three points.

Alonso, speaking at the start of Ferrari's new F138 car for the upcoming season, indicates that their predictable duel in 2013 could leave rivals straggling in their wake from the season-opening Australian GP in March.

"I think the probability of seeing seven different race winners in the first seven races, like last year, will be unfeasible," he said. "There will be a utmost of two or three teams" combat for the title, he added, "and one of those will absolutely be Ferrari."

Alonso, a two-time world champion with Renault in 2005 and 2006, joined Ferrari for the 2010 period and finished runner-up to Vettel. He finished a unsatisfactory fourth in 2011 but in 2012 won three times and tenable a total of 13 platform places before being pipped by Vettel at the finish.

Webber promise to Battle Vettel for F1 Title

Mark Webber promise to push Sebastian Vettel for the 2013 world title when their winner Red Bull team launches its new Formula One car on Sunday. The veteran Australian has had to play second swindle to the all successful Vettel in the past three seasons, in spite of at stages being in argument for his maiden championship.

He has had to compete with recent disapproval from Red Bull's motor sport advisor Helmut Marko, who maintain the 36-year-old can't cope with the title pressure. "I do consider I can have a break at the championship again this year, as I have done in preceding seasons," Webber told journalists at the RB9's launch at the team's English H.Q. in Milton Keynes.

"That is my goal and what I think concerning each day when I get up, and I'm effective hard with the team on doing that.”They distinguish I need 100% supports. You cannot win a world name with only 90, you need 100, and we're going into 2013 with this in place, and I'm relaxed with that."

Team boss Christian Horner, who signed a new multi-year contract last week, reverse Mark Webber to be a nominee although him finishing sixth overall last season -- 102 points behind his colleague. "If we weren't happy with Mark then we would never have signed him to be with the squad for this year," he said.

Ferrari introduces the new F138 for F1 Race 2013

The 2013 Formula One racing season begins March 17 at Albert Park in Melbourne in front of a swarm probable to comprise around 330,000 race fans at the Australian Grand Prix. With only slight changes made in the Formula One policy for this year, the differences between the F2012 and Ferrari's 2013 entry, the F138, are evolutionary rather than innovatory. But even though the informal eye will not distinguish a great deal of difference in the F138, most of the parts and systems have been modifying to maximize presentation while maintaining Ferrari's admirable dependability.

Ferrari F1 race car 2013

Beginning with the external essentials, the widely-hated stepped nose of the F2012's front air ingestion has been moderately blocked off on the F138 by a "vanity panel," which is assert to develop the aerodynamics of the car as well as its exterior. However, the most major changes are found at the rear of the car, which is narrower and more narrowed than the F2012.

Ferrari F1 race car 2013

The aerodynamics of the F138 are still a work in improvement, with wind subway testing predictable to continue at least up to the initial gate of the Australian Grand Prix testing runs. The front and rear wings of the F138 have around the same configuration as emerged on the F2012 late in last year's season. Underneath the car, the front and rear pull-rod started torque springs suspension is still supporting the F138, but has been tuned to faintly raise the car under some situation to improve its aerodynamics.

The engine is the logically aspirated Ferrari 2.4 liter 056, which has been used in one form or one more while V8s were mandated by the FAI (Federation Aeronautique Internationale) in 2006. 2013 is the last year this athletic engine will be used in Formula One struggle, as the FAI, following its adoption of "green" principles, has determined to change to turbocharged 1.6 liter V6 engines in 2014.


One general criticism about recent Formula One racing is that the cars have a great contract of trouble transient on the track, resulting in dull races for the audience. In response, the rules were changed to augment speed in the straight-aways. The F138 has an active haul decrease system (ADRS), which is prohibited by the driver to decrease the down pressure from the wings in straight-aways. Essentially, the wings are made to stall, which decreases the rolling resistance of the car and the drag from the wing to supply a speed boost in straight-aways of about 9-10 mph (14-16 km/h).