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Bahrain Grand Prix - Sakhir International Circuit - Formula 1 races Created: Saturday, May 12, 2012 Updated: Saturday, May 12, 2012
When the Bahrain Grand Prix was on the Formula 1 calendar for the first time, in 2004, it was hailed with great expectations as the first of the elite series' races in the Middle East, the Gulf kin...
Chinese Grand Prix - Shanghai International Circuit - Formula 1 Races Created: Saturday, May 12, 2012 Updated: Saturday, May 12, 2012
When the inaugural Chinese Grand Prix took place outside Shanghai in 2004, it marked a huge success for Formula 1 as it broke into one of the final territories lacking from its world series.
Yas Marina Circuit - Formula 1 Race Track - Abu Dhabi Grand Prix Created: Monday, February 07, 2011 Updated: Tuesday, May 08, 2012
The Abu Dhabi circuit, on Yas Island, in 2009 became the site of the first “twilight” Formula One race, beginning in daylight and ending in darkness.
Fernando Alonso Profile – Renault Formula 1 Driver Fernando Alonso Created: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 Updated: Monday, May 07, 2012
In 2006 Fernando Alonso became the youngest double world champion in Formula 1 history, and the youngest to win consecutive drivers' titles. In fact, at 25, but with five seasons of F1 racing behi...
Tobacco Sponsorship - Formula 1 Sponsorship - Formula 1 Teams Created: Wednesday, April 18, 2012 Updated: Monday, April 30, 2012
It was as recent as 2007 that Formula 1 saw the last of the tobacco advertising that had funded the series' racing for 40 years. But it immediately found other sources of sponsorship.
Grand Prix Drivers' Association - F1 Safety - F1 Drivers Created: Monday, April 30, 2012 Updated: Monday, April 30, 2012
Can a score of the world's most competitive people agree on a common cause? When it's about their collective self-interest, of course or, at least most of the time. Formula 1 drivers normally spend...
Formula 1 paddock - Show Business - F1 paddock life Created: Monday, April 30, 2012 Updated: Monday, April 30, 2012
There has long been a mutual love affair between Formula 1 racing and movie stars, with their glamour and glitz. Here's the story behind the glitz of paddock life.
Formula 1 Drivers - Racing Psychology - F1 Driving Skills Created: Friday, April 27, 2012 Updated: Friday, April 27, 2012
Great racing requires cool nerves, psychology and self discipline. In such a high-speed sport, tempers and emotions invariably fly. But whether it be caused by an intentional attack or personal er...
Malaysian Grand Prix - Sakhir International Circuit - Formula 1 Races Created: Friday, April 27, 2012 Updated: Friday, April 27, 2012
When it was inaugurated in 1999, the Malaysian Grand Prix had a custom-built circuit that was the biggest, most technologically advanced in Formula 1 history. It was the first step in an unpreceden...
Vijay Mallya - Force India F1 Team - Spyker F1 Team Created: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 Updated: Tuesday, April 17, 2012
He is often called the Richard Branson of Bangalore, he wears bracelets, earrings, sunglasses and dyes his hair and beard. He also has a genuine and longstanding love of motor racing, and that is w..
Australian Grand Prix - Albert Park Circuit - Formula 1 Races Created: Friday, April 13, 2012 Updated: Friday, April 13, 2012
Unlike most of the race sites halfway around the world from the sport's traditional home in Europe, Australia had a long and rich auto-racing history before the country's first Formula 1 event took..
F1 Safety Car - Bernd Maylander - Racing Strategy Created: Sunday, April 08, 2012 Updated: Sunday, April 08, 2012
Formula 1 teams use any method to win. They build factories costing hundreds of millions of dollars that house wind tunnels operated by top engineers to streamline cars worth millions that are driv..
F1 Race Strategy - Red Bull Racing - Formula 1 Races Created: Saturday, March 31, 2012 Updated: Saturday, March 31, 2012
Mention race strategy to almost anyone outside a Formula 1 team and chances are it will bring to mind an on-track chess game with someone cerebral sitting on the pit wall plotting the moves, or a d..
Formula 1 Engines - Renault - Formula 1 Car Engines Created: Saturday, March 17, 2012 Updated: Friday, March 30, 2012
Car engines hold little interest for most people. Even Formula 1 fans generally prefer to talk about a sexy new aerodynamic wing on the chassis than a modified piston. Yet in the words of Rob White..
Kinetic Energy Recovery Systems - KERS - F1 Technology Created: Sunday, March 11, 2012 Updated: Friday, March 30, 2012
The Kinetic Energy Recovery Systems, or KERS, was introduced by the International Automobile Federation, the sport's governing body, to not only make Formula 1 more environmentally relevant and use..
F1 Teammates - Formula 1 Teams - McLaren Mercedes Created: Saturday, March 24, 2012 Updated: Friday, March 30, 2012
McLaren with its two English world champion drivers in 2010 became the first time two British world champions raced on the same team since Graham Hill and Jim Clark at Lotus in 1968. In the first ..
Spa Francorchamps Circuit - Formula 1 Tracks - Belgian Grand Prix Created: Sunday, March 11, 2012 Updated: Friday, March 30, 2012
With Formula 1 facing some criticism as it expands around the world with new, uniformly designed circuits, Spa is the last of a breed.
Formula 1 Tourism - F1 Travel - Formula 1 Races Created: Friday, March 30, 2012 Updated: Friday, March 30, 2012
As Formula 1 has expanded to ever more exotic locations around the world, a new industry has developed: Grand Prix tourism. Mixing attendance at a sports event with tourism is not exclusive to Form..
Sergio Perez Interview - Sauber F1 Team - Malaysian Grand Prix Created: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 Updated: Friday, March 30, 2012
In only his 19th Formula 1 race, at the Malaysian Grand Prix of 2012, Sergio Pérez achieved his first podium in the highest echelon of motorsport. The 22-year-old came second and took a break ..
Bruno Senna Interview - Williams F1 Team - Ayrton Senna Created: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 Updated: Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Bruno Senna joined the Williams team as a full-time F1 driver for 2012. It is the same team at which is his uncle, Ayrton Senna, drove when he had his fatal accident at the San Marino Grand Prix i..
Women Racing Drivers - Women in F1 - Katherine Legge - Danica Patrick Created: Friday, March 16, 2012 Updated: Friday, March 16, 2012
In what is essentially considered a macho sport, there are a few women who are breaking the mold in Formula 1, where, as is the tradition elsewhere in auto racing, they usually occupy marketing, m..
Brazilian Grand Prix - Sao Paulo - Formula 1 Tourism Created: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 Updated: Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Racing culture like no other in the world contributes to making the Brazilian Grand Prix and its home, Sao Paulo, one of the most unusual and exciting races of the season.
F1 Teams - Formula 1 Teams - Business of Formula 1 Created: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 Updated: Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Great racing teams are entities that constantly change, regenerate and restructure.
McLaren Mercedes F1 Team Profile – McLaren Mercedes Formula 1 Created: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 Updated: Monday, February 27, 2012
McLaren Mercedes is the second most successful Formula 1 team, behind Ferrari. It has won races in five different decades of racing in the FIA Formula 1 world championship. From its earliest years..
Ferrari F1 Team Profile – Ferrari F1 Team Profile Formula 1 Created: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 Updated: Monday, February 27, 2012
Ferrari is the only Formula 1 team to have raced in the series since the championship was founded in 1950. It is also the most successful team in F1 history. After dominating for the last decade ..
Racing Car or Driver - Racing Technology Versus Driver Strength - F1 cars Created: Monday, February 27, 2012 Updated: Monday, February 27, 2012
The question has existed almost as long as auto racing: What is more important, the car or the driver?
Red Bull Racing F1 Team Profile – Red Bull Racing F1 Team Formula 1 Created: Friday, February 23, 2007 Updated: Monday, February 27, 2012
The Red Bull Racing Formula 1 team joined the sport in 2005 after buying the Jaguar team. After a first promising season, it did less well in its second year. But by hiring one of the best techni..
Racing Driver Psychology - F1 World Drivers' Championship - Jenson Button Created: Friday, February 24, 2012 Updated: Friday, February 24, 2012
Formula 1 drivers must be fast on the track. But the mental game and challenge they have in trying to win the title is equally as important and trying.
F1 Media - Formula 1 Photographers - Racing Journalism Created: Thursday, February 23, 2012 Updated: Thursday, February 23, 2012
The Formula 1 series is covered by media around the world. Specialized magazines, newspapers, and web sites all need photos of the track and paddock action. The photographers that take these phot..
Abu Dhabi Grand Prix - Abu Dhabi - Formula 1 Tourism Created: Monday, November 21, 2011 Updated: Thursday, February 23, 2012
The captial city of the United Arab Emirates offers race attenders more than sand, sun and skyscrapers: It offers a first class race track, lots of entertainment and the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
F1 Driver Fitness - Robert Kubica - Racing Car Accidents Created: Saturday, February 18, 2012 Updated: Saturday, February 18, 2012
When Felipe Massa, the Ferrari driver, was struck in the head by a spring that had come loose from another car at the Hungarian Grand Prix in 2009, the Brazilian's subsequent ordeal was one of the ..
F1 Cars - Racing Steering Wheels - Racing Car Technology Created: Thursday, February 16, 2012 Updated: Thursday, February 16, 2012
One of the modern Formula 1 driver's biggest technical challenges is to learn by heart the positions, buttons and lights on their complicated steering wheels.

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