The 2009 Formula One season is over and the final standings are in and once again things aren’t the way predicted by the experts. Englishman Jenson Button jumped out to an early start and put the other drivers in his rear view mirror early in the campaign, by winning six of the first seven 2009 Formula one races and the race for the 2009 FIA Formula One title was almost over before it was half over. Lewis Hamilton was racing from behind from the opening race in Australia in his bid to repeat as FIA Formula One World Champion in …read more

Injuries are a common thing in Formula One and events such as these have often been the chance for many a future Formula One champion to step into the limelight and grab their chance at glory, fame and history. You might only get one good chance to show that you have the right stuff to be a Formula One driver if you’re given a chance – a feat that requires skills that are far beyond the driving skills displayed on the roads around the world every day – and move into the seat left vacant by an injury to another …read more

2009 has been a busy year for racing and the fastest sports in the world are coming down to the wire in the case of NASCAR’s Sprint Cup Series with Jimmie Johnson leading the Chase and looking good for his fourth straight Sprint Cup Series Championship. There are only a few races left and as long as Jimmie keeps his cool and his car running straight and fast, it’s going to be hard for his rivals for the Sprint Cup Series Championship to catch him. Kyle Bush leads in the Nationwide Series and looks to be good for the championship …read more

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

The 2009 Formula One season is drawing to a close and we are preparing to crown a new Formula One champion. The season isn’t quite over for sure, but Jenson Button is in the lead and can’t be caught with the races and time remaining for his competitors. The lights are shining bright on the tenth British Formula One champion at the moment and he’s basking in the glory and fame of being the champion of the fastest sport on the planet.
Things are kind of low key at the moment and Formula One is currently formulating their plans for the …read more

Dreams are meant to be lived and Jenson Button has finally achieved the ultimate in Formula One as his fifth place finish in the Brazilian Grand Prix guarantees he’ll be the 2009 Formula One Grand Prix World Champion. They still have a little work to do in Abu Dhabi but Button is fifteen points ahead of his closest competitor Sebastian Vettel and seventeen points in front of his team mate Rubens Barrichello as they head to the last race of the year.
The overall race was won by Red Bull’s Mark Webber, just ahead of BMW Sauber’s Robert Kubica, last year’s …read more

A dream can be a fleeting will-o-wisps that slips through your grasp just as you reach out to make it your own after years of constant battling and competing. One slip or moment of indecision during the heat of competition can burst your dream and have you beginning at the start again. You may never be in a position to achieve your dream again, sometimes you only get so many chances during a career to achieve the ultimate goal, and the pressure of knowing this might be your only chance to be a world champion could be more than you …read more

Sports is a dangerous activity, it doesn’t matter if you play darts or football, the chance of being injured exists whenever we interact in the physical world and even more so whenever we tempt fate by taking our bodies and minds into realms of physical activity that aren’t natural to us and we have to learn to adapt to existing conditions to succeed. Sitting behind the wheel of a race car is certainly one of these moments in human history when humans attempt to take their bodies and minds into areas that aren’t normal to our senses and experience. A …read more

There have been rumours that Felipe Massa was seen walking into Ferrari’s offices in Maranello Monday for the first time since being injured in a qualifying accident during the Hungarian Grand Prix in July. It must have felt good for him to come home to see his friends and team mates at Ferrari as he took part in the team activities for the first time in weeks.
The word is Felipe is hoping to return to a Formula One paddock for Match’s Bahrain Grand Prix, which will be the first race of the 2010 Formula One season.
Ferrari has asked for and …read more