All Posts Tagged With: "German Grand Prix"
Caption Contest: #95
The ninety-fifth photograph to feature in BlogF1’s caption contest. You know the drill, think of something funny and witty to say and leave it as a comment below. With the news that Sebastien Bourdais has been dumped by Scuderia Toro Rosso in favour of upcoming driver Jaime Alguersuari, I thought I would return the Caption [...]
Germany 2009: Fantasy Racers Update
Not such a great race in terms of the Fantasy Racers game, the highest scoring team of mine only managing 618 points from Germany (97 less than Silverstone). The lack of success from the Brawn camp slightly dented the efforts and it is perhaps time to switch allegiance to the better performing Red Bull drivers. [...]
Germany 2009: Pitstop & Tyre Strategies
Most drivers started the race on the Super Soft compound to get it out of the way early on in the race, although some teams did split their strategies between their drivers, Scuderia Toro Rosso, Renault and Toyota doing just this. Also, most drivers went with the two-stop approach to the race, although Timo Glock [...]
Germany 2009: Mark Webber Becomes A Grand Prix Winner
Mark Webber this evening is celebrating his new status as a Formula One Grand Prix winner. After a difficult race which saw some collisions and investigations, Webber’s pace proved too much for every single other driver in the pack and not even a drive-thru penalty could stop the Australian’s charge. All weekend Webber has been [...]
Germany 2009: Race Result
Can Mark Webber turn his maiden pole into his maiden win, or can Jenson Button stamp his authority down on the Red Bulls once again? Is it Rubens’s time to win in a Brawn, or will Lewis Hamilton find his KERS button and jump everybody ahead of him? Adrian Sutil is looking for points and [...]
Germany 2009: Live Race Notes
Mark Webber is on pole, the Brawns are right behind and McLaren have significantly improved. Qualifying for the German Grand Prix was exciting and all eyes will be on the skies to see what the changeable weather is going to do. The rain could really shake things up and allow out of position drivers to [...]
Germany 2009: Post-Qualifying Car Weights
With the weights of all twenty cars now published, we can see who did well in qualifying and who did less well. Williams reckon it takes 2.43kg of fuel of cover a normalised distance of 5km, which for the Nurburgring, means the cars will be using approximately 2.5kg of gas per lap of the 5.148km [...]
Germany 2009: The Grid
Following qualifying, here is the completed grid for tomorrow’s German Grand Prix, this time being held around the Nurburgring circuit. With Mark Webber on pole, beating the pair of Brawn drivers and his team mate, the race should be exciting. Also attracting attention is Adrian Sutil in the Force India, recording his and the team’s [...]