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New 1/32 Scalextric Slot Car Mc Laren Mercedes F1 MP4-16 Formula One Kimi C2668 $39.99 |
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New 1/32 Scalextric Slot Car Ferrari F2004 #1 Formula One C2676 $39.99 |
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New 1/32 Scalextric Slot Car Ferrari #5 Formula One F1 F2006 #6 C2752 $39.99 |
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New 1/32 Scalextric Slot Car Williams F1 2006 #10 Formula One C2726 $39.99 |
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New 1/32 Scalextric Slot Car Renalt F1 2006 #1 Formula One Team Spirit C2723 $39.99 |
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New 1/32 Scalextric Slot Car Honda Formula One F1 2007 #7 C2817 $39.99 |
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New 1/32 Scalextric Slot Car Mc Laren M23 Formula One F1 Hunt 1976 #12 C2927 $39.99 |
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New Vintage 1/32 SCX Scalextric Slot Car Ferrari 312 T3 F1 Formula One #11 C136 $34.99 |
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FLY 88279 MARCH 761 FORMULA 1 LAGUNA GRAND PRIX CAR NEW 1/32 SLOT CAR IN DISPLAY $74.95 |
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F1 FORMULA 1 SEASON REVIEW 2004 MICHAEL DOES IT AGAIN DVD*RACING CAR GP*NEW $1.35 |
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F1 FORMULA 1 SEASON REVIEW 2005 FANTASTIC FERNANDO DVD*RACING CAR GRAND PRIX*NEW $1.07 |
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BMW NEW F1 WILLIAMS FORMULA ONE RACE CAR GENUINE KEY CHAIN W/ PACKAGING $9.95 |
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FERRARI F1 FORMULA 1 CAR TRANSPARENT INTERIOR LOOK POSTCARD CARD – NEW VERY RARE $1.49 |
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NEW 1:43 Diecast Formula 1 Ferrari Race Car #3 ~ MINT $2.99 |
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Vintage diecast Formula 1 – Grand Prix car – Very Cool old piece – New $4.99 |
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FLY 88256 MARCH 761 FORMULA 1 CANADIEN GRAND PRIX NEW 1/32 SLOT CAR IN DISPLAY $61.95 |
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T-SHIRT: Formula 1 Renault F1 Team NEW! Alonso Car XL $12.62 |
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T-SHIRT: Formula 1 Renault F1 Team NEW! Alonso Car M $12.62 |
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HONDA NSX -R NEW FORMULA RED 1/43 HPI MODEL CAR $69.99 |
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F1 FIA Formula 1 Tag Keychain – Auto Racing Car Key Chain – 2 Sided Design – NEW $16.99 |
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T-SHIRT: Formula 1 Renault F1 Team NEW! Alonso Car S $12.62 |
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T-SHIRT: Formula 1 Renault F1 Team NEW! Alonso Car $7.87 |
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T-SHIRT: Formula One 1 Williams F1 Team NEW! Car Kids $9.45 |
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FERRARI FORMULA 1 ANNUAL 1996 NEW RACE CAR BOOK! $99.50 |
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MB QUART FKB-116 CAR AUDIO STEREO FORMULA 6 1/2″ CAR DOOR PAIR SPEAKERS NEW $52.50 |
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F1 Formula 1 Tag Keychain – Car Racing Key Chain – Double Sided Design – NEW $12.00 |
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FERRARI FORMULA 1 ANNUAL 1995 NEW RACE CAR BOOK! $149.50 |
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Russkit 1/24 scale Cooper Formula 1 vintage slot car New in Box, Rare. $225.00 |
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Russkit 1/24 scale Ferrari Formula 1 ’62 vintage slot car New in Box, Rare. $225.00 |
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With the turn of the New Year comes anticipation for the beginning of the racing seasons in NASCAR and Formula One. Both have been hit by tough economic times and made radical changes to lower costs. If you thought the Car of Tomorrow was ugly in NASCAR, you have to get a gander of the new F1 cars.
Formula One doesn’t begin racing till late March, but that doesn’t stop teams from launching their cars starting in early January. Launching is, of course, just another way to drum up a media event for sponsors to see the new car, take plenty of pictures and publish them in periodicals around the world.
Ferrari is the first team to launch the new car this year. Ferrari has always had a sleek car of deep red, black and some white. Regardless of how your feel about the team, the colors are breathtaking and the cars are beautiful. Well, till now.
The new Ferrari, the F60, reminds one of the joke about the fact a person wasn’t hit by the ugly stick, the entire tree fell on them. This is one ugly car. It starts with a front wing that is so wide it extends out to the outer edge of the front wheel. It looks bad, but is made far worse by the fact the back of the car has a wing that is very narrow. Frankly, it looks like the parts from two different cars where mashed together in a Frankenstein design.
Alas, this is not Ferrari’s fault. The powers that be in Formula One have mandated new regulations designed to increase passing. The car is a reflection of those regulations and other teams have the same look based on testing photos. Still, the sheer ugliness of the car is compounded by two big concerns.
The first concern has to do with passing. The new design is supposed to make passing easier. If so, it seems an odd design. The vast majority of down force now appears to be on the front wing. As a car pulls up to a slower one, the air will be lost off the front wing. A sudden lack of down force hardly seems to be a tonic to help passing, but perhaps there is another element of the car that compensates for this.
The second concern is the sheer extension of the front wing. Formula one starts from a standing stop. The first corner is always a bang up affair – pun intended. With the new design, it seems impossible that the drivers will be able to see the ends of the wing. Given this, one can expect a bevy of crashes as front wings clip the tires and bodies of other cars. The resulting carbon fiber on the ground should make for plenty of laps behind the safety car.
How will the new car perform during the 2009 season? For the first time in a very long time, nobody really knows. Every team is starting from scratch, so the first race should be very exciting and well worth watching.
Was keke Rosberg one of the greats?
Im relatively new to formula 1, I watched some races as a kid but ive only really gotten into it since 2002. I have to say im becoming a fan of nico rosberg, I think he’s playing a stormer in a very unreliable car. I was just wondering about his dad though. I know he won the world championship in 1982 so he must be a decent enough driver, but was he one of the greats? Thanks
Well, I wouldn’t say he was a great, but then, to have been World Champion is worth something isn’t it.
In 1982, when he won the championship, he won only one Grand Prix—the Swiss GP, run at Dijon, France. That season, ten drivers won a race—10!!!—and none of them won more than two each. Prost started the year with wins at South Africa and Brazil and lead the championship on those 18 points (back then a win was worth 9) alone until the end of race 7, in Detroit. John Watson took the lead with his win at Detroit and Didier Pironi moved into second; the Ferrari driver’s win and second at Zandvoort and Brands move him to the lead by the end of race 10.
Meanwhile, Rosberg lay fourth in the championship standing with two 2nds, one 3rd, one 4th, and one 5th. The key to his win came from a very consistent run over the final six races with points in five of them, and, unfortunately for Pironi, an accident that ended Pironi’s F1 career (at the German GP, race 12). Rosberg clinched it really, with the win at Dijon. It was there that he passed Pironi (who ended second, tied on 39 points with Watson).
I think you could say Keke was a very good Grand Prix driver who raced in a VERY competitive time. Winning a championship in a season—1982—within which 10 drivers won a race is something because it required consistency. Something that came from both himself and his Williams car. In that year, Rosberg led only 84 laps of all the races (ranking 5th among the drivers to lead laps!). But he also scored points 10 times; Watson was next at 8 scoring finishes.
What Keke had that keeps him in the eye of F1 fans today was personality. He was, from what I recall, a character who stood out. He had some funny quirks too–like being quick to light up a cigarette after getting out of the car.
So, in the end, not a great, but very good. He had some good wins (5) and was a guy I think most people liked.
RP
F1 2007 Vodafone McLaren Mercedes New Car Launch at Valencia
