All Posts Tagged With: "Valencia"
Valencia 2009: Fantasy Racers Update
The worse performance in the Fantasy Racers competition yet, I believe. None of my teams broke out of the 500 points mark and BlogF1 Racing were thrashed by Inner Pickle Racing, the latter claiming 65 more points than the former. The failure to check up on what was happening in the build-up to the European [...]
Valencia 2009: Pitstop & Tyre Strategies
Valencia proved to be a mix bag in terms of strategy, with many teams and drivers opting for two-stops, but a fair few attempting just one scheduled stop. although the incidents at the start of the race meant that although a few drivers did realistically make one stop in terms of their strategies, they did [...]
Valencia 2009: Barrichello Takes First Victory In Five Years
Rubens Barrichello has taken his first race win in five years, the Brazilian’s career tenth and remounts his championship challenge by moving back into second place and eighteen points shy of Jenson Button. The race proved to be relatively unexciting, but with another new winner for 2009, the season is really heating up to be [...]
Valencia 2009: Race Result
The Mclaren duo have locked out the front row and with their KERS-enabled cars, Lewis Hamilton and Heikki Kovalainen look good for another great result, this time around the streets that make up the dock area of Valencia. Brawn are running a slightly better strategy in terms of fuel, but will it be enough against [...]
Valencia 2009: Live Race Notes
As the season enters its second and final stage, with just seven events to run, the championship is really heating up. Brawn have had the wind taken out of their sails, and Red Bull Racing have improved along with McLaren who dominated in Hungary and have dominated the qualifying in Valencia. Although Jenson Button and [...]
Valencia 2009: Post-Qualifying Car Weights
The FIA have published the weights of the top ten in qualifying earlier and the declared weights of the bottom half of the grid ahead of tomorrow’s European Grand Prix. From this, we can estimate the first pitstop of all the runners by taking Williams’s 5km-normalised fuel consumption for Valencia of 2.45kg. This means the [...]
Valencia 2009: The Grid
The grid has been decided for Sunday’s European Grand Prix, and after a fairly steady qualifying session, it is McLaren who will lead the pack away when the lights go out, Lewis Hamilton taking pole position ahead of team mate Heikki Kovalainen is second.Brawn did reasonably well with Rubens Barrichello finishing in third, although Jenson [...]
Valencia 2009: Qualifying Result
After four weeks away, Formula One returns to action this weekend with the European Grand Prix, held around the docks of Valencia. Felipe Massa is not racing this weekend as he recovers at home in Brazil, and in his place sits Ferrari test driver Luca Badoer. The Italian last raced in 1999, and so far [...]
