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

 
Felipe Massa is feeling a little better after his high-speed crash in qualifying rounds for Sunday’s Hungarian Grand Prix being held at the Hungaroring. The Brazilian racer went off the track and into the wall on Turn 4 late in the second session after a rear damper spring came loose from the car of Ruben’s Barrichello in front of him and hit him on the helmet at over 200 mph. Medics were quick to get to the racer and get him on his way to the hospital for treatment and this may have been the difference between life and death …read more

The difference between competitors was a matter of split seconds from top to the bottom again as Friday’s qualifying for the Hungarian Grand Prix kicked off and the fastest men on four wheels maneuvered their steeds around the Formula One circuit near Budapest. Keikki Kovalainen displayed the driving skill that made him the winner in this race last year in the first session. The aerodynamic properties of his updated McLaren MP4-24 were the difference in this session. He was able to complete a lap in the fastest time of the session and just edge out Williams Nico Rosberg by stopping …read more

The Hungarian Grand Prix welcomes the fastest vehicles on four wheels to the Hungarian circuit outside the ancient and historic city of Budapest this weekend. The Hungarian venue is a circuit that will challenge the drivers, cars, and engineers preparing these space-age vehicles to do 70 laps, a distance of 306.630 km, on a 4.381 km track where Michael Schumacher set the current lap record in 2004.
This circuit near Budapest is going to be a challenge for the cars and engineers, with no high-speed corners to slow them down, the engineers will be setting up the cars with the highest …read more