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Thursday, July 15, 2004
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Testing at Jerez |
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 Barrichello was the only Ferrari driver testing at Jerez, Spain. But he beat all the other teams that were driving there. With a 1.17.580 he was, in 91 laps, almost half a second faster than Jenson Button in the BAR (1.17.956).
Other teams at Jerez, yesterday, were Renault, McLaren, Totota, Williams and Jaguar. The slowest man of the field was the Fin Heiki Kovalianen. He is part of the Renault trainingcentre and drove 66 laps, with a fastest time of 1.20.437.
Source: F1Racing.nl |
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Wednesday, July 07, 2004
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F1 in London |
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 Today the F1 arrived in London. Yes, you read it right; the F1 cars were driving around Piccadilly Circus and on Regent Street...in London.
Cars of Williams, Jaguar, Jordan, Ferrari and more were at the 'start'.
The start was at 18.00 when Toyota driver christiano da Matta drove the first lap throught the Capital of Great-Brittain. Then Nigel Mansell also drove a lap, with a Jordan. The Ferrari was driven by testdriver Luca Badoer.
The track was from Waterloo Place, through Regent Street, Great Marlborough Street, Little Argyll Street, again Regent Street and then Waterloo Place.
Source and more pics: F1Racing.nl |
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Sunday, July 04, 2004
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Tactics...and the last corner |
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 This was an historic race. It was because of the tactics. Of what team? Well, Ferrari ofcourse. Michael Schumacher started the race as second and was on the same stratagy as Alonso in his Renault. And...they drove the same laptimes. But according to the data, Ross Brawn noticted that Schumacher could drive faster. So...they changed the pitstop strategy. Not three, not two...no four pitstops. This hasn't been done before in a total dry race! And it worked. After the first stop Schumacher was still behind Alonso, but he overtook him by the second, by just 2 or 3 seconds. And the gap grew...until there was enough time to make the fourth!
Behind this all there was a very nice battle for third place. In the race Trulli was third, Barrichello, who started as tenth, was fourth just before Button who he overtook while he was comming out of the pits.
In the last corner of the last lap, just before start/finish, Barrichello did what a great driver must do; he took his changes and put his Ferrari on the inside of the Renault of Trulli...and became third!
In my opinion; Rubens Barrichello - the driver of the race! |
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Today I visited, together with fellow F-chatter Wesley, the local (we both live in Hilversum, The Netherlands) Ferrari dealer (and importer) Kroymans. In the basement there was a nice row...an Enzo, F50 and F40 (and a Dino 246). Together with a 360 Spider, 355, 328, and two 612 Scagliettis a nice collection. Took some pics and you can see 23 of them in a 
Day three (got this picture already yesterday, but had no time to update the site). Isn't it amazing...you can just see the car 'growing' under the professional hands of Carsten!
Day two. More and more details are getting vissable in the drawing of the 250 SWB!
Michael Schumacher did it again. He won his eleventh victory of this season, and thereby came to his own record of victorys in one season he set in 2002. Jenson Button had a great race with a lot of good fights and became second. Fernando Alonso became third.
This picture was taken yesterday at the Hockenheim track. Just look how relaxed Schumacher looks. Like a man who knows he can win...again. No worries. The car is fine, the tyres are fine and the team is fantastic. But even better...he knows he can do it! He can win his 6th victory in a row. His 81st victory in total...and take another step to his next World title.
Finally. The Gallery of the Modenay Day at Schwetzingen and the Hockenheim Ring is online. Over 50 pics of this great event! Enjoy!
Sorry for the lack of updates these past view days :) Am a bit busy at the moment, but updates will follow soon...especially the gallery of the Modena Days. Have over 50 pics in the gallery and it will be (probably) online tonight or tomorrownight! 
This is what we (the visitors of the Modena Days) will look like when the weather doesn't improve...like wet ducks :D Ferrari loving wet ducks :). Tnx Tina for letting me use this beautiful drawing!!
Just received a phonecall from a friend of mine. He goes to the GP of Deutchland at Hockenheim, next weekend. He's going with some friends, and one of those had to cancel. So he had one ticket left. Unfortunatly I'm not able to go...very very sad indeed.
For Michael Schumacher it was a 'different' win than all the others. Why? Because this was his 80th Grand Prix victory.
After a qualification with many dark clouds, but without rain, Kimi Raikonnen took pole position. Rubens was also very fast and set the second time. Third is Jenson Button and just behind him is Michael Schumacher. 
Just made the decision...I'm going next weekend to Germany, Schwetzingen. The Modena Days! Hundreds of Italian cars, nice Italian food and many F-Chatters!! Looking already forward to it!
Just some while ago Williams approached Barrichello with a contact for 2005. But the Brasilian decided not to accept it. He is more confinced that Ferrari will win and that he can beat Michael Schumacher next year.
Yesterday I got an email from author Wallace Wyss, known from his books: Ferraris by Pininfarina Photo Archive and The Complete Guide to the Ferrari 308. He is working on a story for a magazine on Saddam's cars. Rumor goes that he had a Ferrari 166. Does anybody knows about it? Or was it perhaps Saddam's son, the carcollecting Uday?
Probably one of the most famous Ferrari collections of the world, is the one of the Japanese collector Matsuda.
The Ferrari drivers Michael Schumacher and Rubens Barrichello closed the first training day on the France track as fifth and tenth. During the first practice they were the fastest two.
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