The seventeenth and last leg of the 2009 FIA Formula One World Championship season takes place this Sunday at the Yas Marina Circuit. Preparations for the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix are in full swing as the largest army of volunteers to ever be put to task at a Formula One Grand Prix are at work getting the track and facilities ready for the race. 800 individuals went to work today to complete the task of getting the venue ready for the thousands of Formula One fans that are about to show up for the race. The race organizers recently combined …read more

The vote is in and the people of Formula One have spoken. Jean Todt is the new head of FIA after a not-so-close vote of the FIA General Assembly in Paris on Friday and he’ll take the place of departing President Max Mosley. Politics is a cruel ground to tread and apparently Jean was the darling child of Max and received his support in his bid to be the next President of Formula One’s governing body. This left Todt’s closest rival for the job, Ari Vatanen, on the outside looking in apparently, and helped to determined the next President of …read more

Formula One will be returning to Valencia for the 2009 European Grand Prix this weekend after successfully hosting the 2008 European Grand Prix. This year track safety officials have made a few changes to conditions on this street circuit after consultations with the racers and the FIA.
This year they have changed the pit exit by leveling it to the same height as the track which should make getting onto the track easier and less hazardous. They have also extended the curbs on the apex of Turns 4 and 5, which will give the drivers more room to make it around …read more

Helmets are a bulky, heavy and hot and the only time your likely to miss one is when you really need it. We often only pay attention to helmets when they don’t do the job they were designed to do. You can bet that Felipe Massa is thanking his lucky helmet and maybe having it bronzed and put in his personal museum at home. His helmet saved his life Saturday when he was struck in the head by a part off of one of the other vehicles on the track during qualifying rounds for the Hungarian Grand Prix. This incident …read more

Brawn officials must be sitting somewhere and cracking a few bottles to celebrate pulling a rabbit out of the proverbial hat as their disputed diffuser has been declared legal by FIA’s International Court of Appeal on Wednesday. This doesn’t mean that we should hand Jenson Button and Brawn the trophy and tell the other teams and drivers to stay home, that they shouldn’t bother coming to Shanghai this weekend. In fact, despite this bit of good news for Brawn, Williams and Toyota, expect Jenson Button to have to battle to win his hat-trick at the Shanghai International Circuit.
The other teams …read more

The winds of change will be blowing over the 2009 Formula One season when the cars pull up to the start line of the first race the Australian Grand Prix at Melbourne. This year the FIA has made alterations to the Sporting Regulations in order to increase the reliability of the cars and decrease the inherent costs involved in Formula One racing for the teams and sponsors. In addition, they are changing the Technical Regulations to try to decrease the role aerodynamics plays in a cars’ performance, make it easier to pass during a race, and to get a handle …read more