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Spanish Grand Prix 2012

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Fernando Alonso, Pastor Maldonado, Kimi Raikkonen

By Pete Vack

Photos courtesy and copyright Ferrari Media, unless otherwise noted

It was an exciting race and yet a boring race. All too exciting was the action after the race was over when the Williams garage caught on fire. Contrary to early reports, at least nine team members were injured in the fire and one mechanic was airlifted to a Barcelona hospital. Sir Frank Williams was quickly taken from the area and is ok. It was an almost tragic end to a well deserved and surprising victory.
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Chinese Grand Prix 2012

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moss mercedes benz

Stirling Moss at Monaco, 1955 with the Mercedes-Benz W196. With Fangio, the Mercedes team would win every Grand Prix that year aside from Monaco, where they retired with mechanical problems. Photo from author’s collection.

Chinese Grand Prix by Pete Vack

Photos courtesy and copyright Ferrari Media, unless otherwise noted

Mercedes-Benz won their first F1 race since 1955. That in itself is surprising, but the most significant aspect of their victory was the long struggle to achieve a true Mercedes-Benz win. The difficulties in succeeding in F1 today (already noted with great loss of dollars by Toyota, Jaguar, Honda, Porsche and others), demolished the tradition of German engineering supremacy, a shock and awe technique which once caused fear and loathing in its competitors.
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Australian Grand Prix 2012

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Photo by Andrew Coles.

VeloceToday readers are already familiar with the work of Andrew Coles (see Fiat Nationals, Australia). Coles attended the first round of the F1 World Championship at Melbourne and filed this report for VeloceToday.

Story and Photos by Andrew Coles and Ferrari Media

Formula 1 has always been the holy grail of motorsport. It doesn’t matter if you’re a driver, an engineer, an official or even just a spectator, the FIA’s premiere category has an attraction that no true motor racing fan can deny. It was this magnetic-like pull that brought me to Melbourne for the opening round of the 2012 season. Being there live is a world class experience. No matter how many cameras are used to televise the event, no TV coverage can match. In many respects, TV does a very poor job of portraying what actually makes Formula 1 so special.
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Ferrari at Daytona, New F1: In English and Italian

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By Roberto Motta
Photos courtesy of Media-Ferrari and Grand-Am Media

Daytona celebrated the 50th anniversary of the legendary International Speedway track in Florida with the Rolex 24 hour race held during the last weekend of January. The Grand Am Series kickoff saw the debut of the new Ferrari 458 Grand Am, the car is designed specifically for the Grand Am GT class. Based on Ferrari’s European GT3 racer, the new car turned its very first laps at the famous Daytona International Speedway in July of this year under the watchful and experienced eyes of both the manufacturer and its pre-eminent North American racing team, Risi Competizione.
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Hungarian Grand Prix 2011

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Sebastian Vettel, Jenson Button, Fernando Alonso

By Pete Vack

Photos courtesy and copyright Ferrari Media

Pirelli Wins

Like most of the F1 events this year, Hungary was a race of tires, or choices thereof. Give a team enough choices and fifty percent of the time they will screw it up. For McLaren, it was German GP winner Hamilton whose handlers opted for the wrong options. Also for McLaren, it was Jenson Button’s team who got the combination right and went on to win. Simple as that. Hamilton had to settle for fourth after a drive-through penalty.
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German Grand Prix; VeloceToday Rates the Drivers

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Fernando Alonso

By Pete Vack

Photos courtesy and copyright Ferrari Media

Ferrari loses in pit lane—not once but twice.
Almost eliminating all the recent gains made with the Italia, Ferrari managed to make a mess out of the German Grand Prix by twice losing the pit race. [Read more…] about German Grand Prix; VeloceToday Rates the Drivers

European Grand Prix

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Fernando Alonso, Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber

By Erik Nielsen
Photos courtesy and copyright Ferrari Media

Snooze Fest

Seems like this author took a bit of a beating for an editing oversight that caused Jenson Button fans to cry foul over a win at Montreal when “their” driver won. I’m happy to report that we’ve returned to our regularly scheduled programming and Sebastian Vettel is once again the winner of a grand prix. We’ve only seen this happen six times this year already. Happy?
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Spanish Grand Prix

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The start was the most exciting part of the race.

By Erik Nielsen

Photos courtesy and copyright Ferrari Media

McLaren challenges, but Vettel prevails; Welcome back, Bob

Sebastian Vettel did something different this weekend, for the first time in memory, the pole sitter did not win at Barcelona. He also needed to actually work for this win, holding off a hard charging Lewis Hamilton who was hot on the German’s rear wing for the closing laps. The Brit could not find a way around for the win. History will likely show that this was one more incremental step for the Red Bull driver’s 2011 championship, but those that watched the race know that this was closer racing than has been seen so far this season.
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Malaysian Grand Prix 2011

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Felipe Massa

By Pete Vack
Photos courtesy and copyright Ferrari Media

Malaysia. One of those new-fangled F1 venues one has to Google to get a location, despite being more than a decade old. It’s new to someone who remembers Avus. Hot, humid, huge, teaming with the energy of a new world, the Malaysian Grand Prix is new money. Bernie goes where the money is and of course, Bernie himself was on the grid at Malaysia.
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Australian Grand Prix, 2011

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The Start

By Erik Nielsen
Photos courtesy and copyright Ferrari Media

Sebastian Vettel’s number one on the nose of his Red Bull led the way in the season opener as the German took the momentum of winning the championship and converted the first pole into the first win. The Red Bull is quick out of the box; the question will be how long can they hold their advantage over the rest of the field.
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Ferrari Testing in Barcelona; Bahrain Cancelled

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Alonso, Ferrari, Barcelona. But no Bahrain.

By Roberto Motta
Photos: Ferrari-Media

The Bahrain Grand Prix, first race of Formula One Championship has been postponed. The decision was taken by the Arabs organizers as results of the sad events that are happening on these days in this country.

Catalunya Testing

On Friday February 18th, the Ferrari 150th Italia started its third test session in preparation for the Formula 1 World Championship, at Circuit de Catalunya in Barcelona.
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