:: The Formula 1 - 2007 Season Thread ::

[hailgautam]

This is the Formula 1 - 2007 Discussion Thread.

The Race Timetable is as follows:

1. ING Australian Grand Prix Melbourne 16 - 18 Mar
2. Petronas Malaysian Grand Prix Kuala Lumpur 06 - 08 Apr
3. Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix Bahrain 13 - 15 Apr
4. Gran Premio de España Telefónica Catalunya 11 -13 May
5. Grand Prix de Monaco 2007 Monte Carlo 25 - 27 May
6. Grand Prix du Canada 2007 Montreal 08 - 10 Jun
7. United States Grand Prix Indianapolis 15 - 17 Jun
8. Grand Prix de France 2007 Magny-Cours 29 Jun - 01 Jul
9. Santander British Grand Prix Silverstone 06 - 08 Jul
10. Grosser Preis von Deutschland 2007 Nürburgring 20 - 22 Jul
11. Magyar Nagydíj 2007 Budapest 03 - 05 Aug
12. Petrol Ofisi Turkish Grand Prix Istanbul 24 - 26 Aug
13. Gran Premio d'Italia Monza 07 - 09 Sep
14. Belgian Grand Prix Spa 14 - 16 Sep
15. Fuji Television Japanese Grand Prix Fuji Speedway 28 - 30 Sep
16. Sinopec Chinese Grand Prix Shanghai 05 - 07 Oct
17. Grande Prêmio do Brasil 2007 Sao Paulo 19 - 21 Oct

The team Composition is as follwos:
McLaren
Base: Woking, UK
Drivers: F Alonso L Hamilton Test Drivers: P de la Rosa G Paffett
Chassis: MP4-22 Engine: Mercedes-Benz FO 108T Tyres: Bridgestone Potenza First Season: 1966 World Championships: 8 Highest race finish: 1 (x148 ) Pole Positions: 125 Fastest Laps: 128

Renault
Base: Enstone, UK
Drivers: G Fisichella H Kovalainen Test Drivers: R Zonta N Piquet
Chassis: R27 Engine: RS27 Tyres: Bridgestone Potenza First Season:1977 World Championships: 2 Highest race finish: 1 (x33) Pole Positions: 50 Fastest Laps: 27

Ferrari
Base: Maranello - Italy
Drivers: F Massa K Räikkönen Test Drivers: L Badoer
Chassis: F2007 Engine: 056 Tyres: Bridgestone Potenza First Season: 1950 World Championships: 14 Highest race finish: 1 (x192) Pole Positions: 186 Fastest Laps: 193

Honda
Base: Brackley, UK
Drivers: J Button R Barrichello Test Drivers: C Klien J Rossiter
Chassis: RA107 Engine: RA807E Tyres: Bridgestone Potenza First Season: 1964 World Championships: 0 Highest race finish: 1 (x3) Pole Positions: 2 Fastest Laps: 2

BMW Sauber
Base: Munich, Germany / Hinwil, Switzerland
Drivers: N Heidfeld R Kubica Test Drivers: T Glock S Vettel
Chassis: F1.07 Engine: BMW P86/7 Tyres: Bridgestone Potenza First Season: 1993 World Championships: 0 Highest race finish: 3 (x8 )Pole Positions: 0 Fastest Laps: 0

Toyota
Base: Koln, Germany
Drivers: R Schumacher J Trulli Test Drivers: F Montagny
Chassis: TF107 Engine: RVX-07 Tyres: Bridgestone Potenza First Season: 2002 World Championships: 0 Highest race finish: 2 (x2) Pole Positions: 2 Fastest Laps: 1

RedBull
Base: Milton Keynes, UK
Drivers: D Coulthard M Webber Test Drivers: R Doornbos M Ammermuller
Chassis: RB3 Engine: Renault RS27 Tyres: Bridgestone Potenza First Season: 2005 World Championships: 0 Highest race finish: 3 (x1) Pole Positions: 0 Fastest Laps: 0

Williams
Base: Grove, UK
Drivers: N Rosberg A Wurz Test Drivers: N Karthikeyan K Nakajima
Chassis: FW29 Engine: Toyota RVX-07 Tyres: Bridgestone Potenza First Season: 1975 World Championships: 9 Highest race finish: 1 (x113) Pole Positions: 125 Fastest Laps: 129

Toro Rosso
Base: Faenza, Italy
Drivers: V Liuzzi S Speed Test Drivers: TBC
Chassis: STR2 Engine: Ferrari 056 Tyres: Bridgestone Potenza First Season: 2006 World Championships: 0 Highest race finish: 8 (x1) Pole Positions: 0 Fastest Laps: 0

Spyker
Base: Silverstone, UK
Drivers: C Albers A Sutil Test Drivers: M Winkelhock F Fauzy A Valles
Chassis: F8-VII Engine: Ferrari 056H Tyres: Bridgestone Potenza First Season: 2006 World Championships: 0 Highest race finish: 9 (x1) Pole Positions: 0 Fastest Laps: 0

SuperAguri
Base: Leafield, UK
Drivers: T Sato A Davidson Test Drivers: S Yamamoto
Chassis: SA07 Engine: Honda RA807E Tyres: Bridgestone Potenza First Season: 2006 World Championships: 0 Highest race finish: 10 (x1) Pole Positions: 0 Fastest Laps: 0


I was a Fan of Scumacher. Now in search of the new Hero.....
One more day to go....

[prateek_san]

really waiting for the season to begin .....lets hope ferrari wins this season.....Lets pray for massa......

Go Ferrari !!!!!

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Ferrari lead the way in Melbourne [Friday Practice]


Five teams in the top six hints at a close race in prospect


Ferrari team mates Felipe Massa and Kimi Raikkonen set the pace in Friday’s second practice for the Australian Grand Prix. However, with McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton, Renault’s Giancarlo Fisichella and BMW Sauber’s Nick Heidfeld all close behind, the Italian team look unlikely to have things all their own way this weekend.

Following the morning’s damp opening session, there were a few anxious moments over the lunch break when the skies over Albert Park went grey. However, practice resumed on a dry track with BMW Sauber’s Robert Kubica and Williams’ Nico Rosberg taking over their regular mounts from their respective test team mates Sebastian Vettel and Kazuki Nakajima.

This time Massa set the pace initially with 1m 28.582s, lowering that to 1m 28.111s as the McLarens chased after him. Once again Hamilton was highly impressive, looking smooth and calm as he shadowed Fernando Alonso’s times only a couple of tenths down.

The Spaniard had just set the fastest lap of 1m 28.040s (compared to Hamilton’s 1m 28.251s) when Rubens Barrichello’s Honda snapped away from him in the last corner before tapping the outside wall.

After a 15-minute red flag period - in which Heikki Kovalainen’s stricken Renault was also collected from Turn 4, whence it had ground to a halt at the same time - things resumed with Massa banging in a 1m 27.868s lap to go fastest from Heidfeld’s 1m 27.970s for BMW. Massa subsequently lowered his time to 1m 27.353s, which remained the fastest overall. Hamilton followed him with 1m 27.829s which stood him second fastest until Kimi Raikkonen got going to ease ahead of the McLaren with 1m 27.750s, just as Fisichella moved to fourth on 1m 27.941s, just ahead of Heidfeld. Gripping stuff!

Unfortunately for Renault, Fisichella’s car then also stopped, also in Turn 4. It’s an unusual day when neither Renault is around at the finish. In both cases the team blamed fuel pressure problems , the causes of which are being investigated.

Right at the end, Alex Wurz jumped his Williams up to sixth with 1m 27.981s, leaving Alonso seventh on his 1m 28.040s ahead of Rosberg, who also improved at the end for 1m 28.055s. Robert Kubica was ninth for BMW on 1m 28.281s, with David Coulthard rounding out the top 10 for Red Bull with 1m 28.495s.

In the second half, Honda’s ‘B team’ beat their ‘A team’, Anthony Davidson beating Super Aguri team mate Takuma Sato after lapping his SA07 in 1m 28.727s compared to the Japanese driver’s 1m 29.009s. That put both ahead of Jenson Button, an unhappy 14th on 1m 29.066s, and Barrichello 15th on 1m 29.542s. To make matters worse for the Japanese manufacturer, Toyota’s Jarno Trulli separated the Super Aguris in 12th place, after a lap in 1m 28.921s.

Toyota’s second car was 16th courtesy of Ralf Schumacher’s 1m 29.574s best, ahead of Mark Webber in the second Red Bull on 1m 29.801s.

Kovalainen’s 1m 30.097s lap left him 18th in the line-up, ahead of the Toro Rossos and Spykers. Scott Speed was the quickest of this quartet on 1m 30.383s, with Adrian Sutil continuing - albeit only just - to show Spyker team mate Christijan Albers the way round. The German lapped in 1m 31.108s, the Dutchman 1m 31.175s.

At the back, Tonio Liuzzi was stranded on 1m 31.693s after his Toro Rosso went off in Turn 14. He made it back to the pits, but did not go out again.

When you look at Jenson Button’s 2006 pole time of 1m 25.229s it’s clear how much the Bridgestone control tyres have slowed things down thus far in 2007.

Source: F1.com news


Kimi & Ferrari All the WAY


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Drivers List corresponding to Last Season Grid Position
The full entry list of constructors and drivers is as follows:

McLaren Mercedes
1 Fernando Alonso (E)
2 Lewis Hamilton (GB) <=First Black Person to Enter F1 Racing.

Renault
3 Giancarlo Fisichella (I)
4 Heikki Kovalainen (FIN)

Ferrari
5 Felipe Massa (BR)
6 Kimi Raikkonen (FIN)

Honda
7 Jenson Button (GB)
8 Rubens Barrichello (BR)

BMW
9 Nick Heidfeld (D)
10 Robert Kubica (PL)

Toyota
11 Ralf Schumacher (D)
12 Jarno Trulli (I)

Red Bull Renault
14 David Coulthard (GB)
15 Mark Webber (AUS)

Williams Toyota
16 Nico Rosberg (D)
17 Alex Wurz (A)

STR Ferrari
18 V Liuzzi
19 S Speed

Spyker Ferrari
20 Christijan Albers (NL)
21 A Sutil

Super Aguri Honda
22 Takuma Sato (J)
23 Anthony Davidson (GB)

Source: www.f1.com

[hailgautam]

Unfortunately I will miss the 1st race.. I will be in Chennai and I do not get the TV here .....

I am also hoping for the Ferrari to do well this season, they had messed up early races in last season, but since they did well towards the end, I hope they well good in this season too.

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[hailgautam]

ya ya i know this and already got it, but there is no fun like watching it live,,,,at least on the tv..

[forever]

thnx for the headsup fellas

[Ankur Gupta]

M supporting the combo of Kimi+Ferrari!

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KIMI Raikkonen (Ferrari) P1

Qualification Result:::

P1 - Kimi Raikkonen (Ferrari)
P2 - F. Alonso (McLaren)
P3 - Nick Heidfield (BMW)
P4 - L. Hamilton (McLaren)
P5 - R. Kubica (BMW)
P6 - G. Fisichella (Renault)
P7 - M. Webber (RBR)
P8 - J.Trulli (Toyota)
P9 - R. Schumacher (Toyota)
P10 - T. Sato (Super Aguri-Honda)


P16 - F. Massa (Ferrari) [Technical Problem with his F2007 Ferrari]

[faraaz]

Kimi Raikkonen + Ferrari -> Match made in heaven!!

Alonso + McLaren -> Unholy ALLIANCE!

[prateek_san]

^^ cool man .....

[abhi_10_20]

Kimi Raikkonen + Ferrari -> Match made in heaven!!

naaa.......
Alonso + (any team) == Alonso win

[prasad_den]

Request a mod and add a poll yaar.. Who will win this F1 season...??

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if Alonso won the 2005 F1 season, then it was because of McLaren or it would have been Kimi , coz McLaren had horribly UN-RELIABLE car.

why it was horrible is b'coz Kimi lost some Races after retiering, due to technical failure, at the near END of RACE.

almost same scenario in 2006 Season, Michael Schumacher was very UNFORTUNATE b'cos his Ferrari broke down in Suzuka Track, or we'd have seen M.S win another title.

[prasad_den]

I'm pretty sure kimi is gonna win this time..!! He deserves it..

[hailgautam]

I bet on Massa. Ferrari got a better car than the last year....and Massa did very well..remember he was 3rd last year. but all boils down how Ferrari will treat Massa, if they choose to support Kimi as the primary driver then Massa will find it difficult.

Hope his car works all right tomorrow....

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Muhawhawha , Ferrari showing Kimi's Talent to McLaren

great drive by rookie (noob) driver L.Hamilton to take a Podium in his Debut F1 .

Alonso in Second place thanks to Ron Dennis's tactical head (pits strategy)

[iMav]

hamilton .... nice drive .... and here come the scarlet back to where they belong ... numero uno .... the ice man on the prancing horse ....

[prasad_den]

Is the race over..??

[s18000rpm]

are we going to see a "Kimi Era" now, just as we saw "Schumi Era".

hope the tyre manufacturer Michelin are brought back, F1 2007 sucks with no Competition in Tyre dept.

if FIA goes making new rules like this, then F1 will become a A1 GP in few years time, 1 Engine maker, 1 Chassis maker, 1 tyre maker, 1.......

[prasad_den]

Great...!! This year we gonna have a wonderful time.. Kimi and Alonso are gonna show true competition..!!!
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@s18000rpm: The one set of tyres per race rule was also nice. I personally felt that the competition was good then..

[s18000rpm]

yup it was good, but lot of Safety Issues rose b'coz of it, so...

FIA Boss sucks.

WRC Rocks, maybe b'cos that guy "Max Mosley" hasent done much damage in WRC yet

[iMav]

@s18000rpm: The one set of tyres per race rule was also nice. I personally felt that the competition was good then..

it wasnt true competition ... racers concentrated more on conserving their tyres rather than on over taking the racer in front and besides it was also very dangerous ....

1 engine maker ... ferrari, 1 chasis maker ... the 1 who makes for ferrari, 1 tyre manufacturer .... bridgestone .... 1 racer ... bernie eccelstone

[s18000rpm]

there were some threats from Ferrari, McLaren... to FIA, that if they (FIA) de-grade F1 more, they'll start their own Racing Series (similar to F1).

Ferrari make their own Chassis

[abhi_10_20]

Whooooooo.......
Massa from 22 to 6.....
simply shows Ferrari's sheer power......

[iMav]

arre toh schumi has done so many times ... evn kimi for mclaren has done that so many times in the last 2 seasons

[abhi_10_20]

Yaa, agree with you......
But, even if i hate Ferrari for many reasons, i love them for the only thing---
POWER.........

[spynic]

aha.. raikonnen kickd ass!!
shuda stuck wid mclaren.. wuda been a killer team.. kimi n alonso..

[abhi_10_20]

shuda stuck wid mclaren.. wuda been a killer team.. kimi n alonso..

man.....can't imagine....my dream pair.....

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then no fun, no competition.

Kimi ~ Schumi ~ Senna ; Alonso ~ Mika ~ Prost

so these guys sre continuing the age old tradition of RIVALRY