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Hamilton, Button, Perez, Massa, Di Resta and Kobayashi - that's a good press conference line-up for tomorrow! What would you ask them? #F1
Someone posted this on twitter.
I expect Jenson & Sergio to be giggling & ignoring Lewis.
JAPAN WEATHER CLEAR AFTER TYPHOON JELAWAT
Wednesday 3 Oktober at 08:35 : Oct.3 (GMM) A good weekend of weather awaits in Japan this weekend, mere days after the country was ravaged by Typhoon Jelawat.
The gale-force winds, strong enough to overturn cars and injure hundreds of people, have eased early this week.
The German-language Speed Week said the forecast for Suzuka this weekend is for sunshine and harmless clouds, with temperatures between 20 and 24 C.
And good weather should also greet F1 in South Korea, a few days after the Japanese grand prix.
http://www.onestopstrategy.com/daily...n+Jelawat.html
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Suzuka DRS zone shortened for 2012 Japanese Grand Prix
By Pablo Elizalde Wednesday, October 3rd 2012, 09:29 GMT
The FIA has announced that DRS zone for the Japanese Grand Prix will be shorter for this year's race.
The ruling body has decided to shorten the zone by 20 meters compared to last year, when the detection point was 70 metres after Turn 15 and the activation point 30 metres after Turn 18.
For this year's event, however, the detection zone will be 50m before Turn 16 and the activation zone is at the Control Line after Turn 18.
In 2010, before DRS was introduced in F1, there were seven overtaking moves completed at Suzuka.
Last year, in contrast, there were 59 on-track changes of position.
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/103021
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Friday, October 05, 1600 hours local time (0700 GMT)
John Booth (Marussia), Ross Brawn (Mercedes), Stefano Domenicali (Ferrari), Monisha Kaltenborn (Sauber), Kim Spearman (Cosworth) and Martin Whitmarsh (McLaren).
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Many work at Suzuka in anticipation of the arrival of F1
The track has been redone from turn 7 at the chicane, was also applied a new drainage system
October 3, 2012 11:57
After the drainage problems experienced in the past, in Suzuka were carried out several jobs for the arrival of the Circus set for this weekend. As you may recall, in 2010 the qualifications were even postponed until Sunday morning due to a violent storm that had fallen on the Japanese circuit on Saturday, making it even dangerous for the verification of the safety car. For this reason the track was resurfaced from the curve 7 in the entire stretch leading up to the final chicane . It was also set up a new drainage system, which should facilitate the flow of water in case of rain.
http://www.omnicorse.it/magazine/219...ella-formula-1
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Fifty years celebrated in a special way
Suzuka, 3 October –Reaching the age of 50 is an important milestone in the life of a man, but celebrating it on a plane is not exactly brilliant, especially when it’s a flight from Italy to Japan, which is not exactly a little jaunt. With that in mind, the long standing Scuderia Ferrari Chief Mechanic, Francesco Uguzzoni, decided to wait until he had got to Suzuka before celebrating the special day alongside those he spends a lot of time with, namely his fellow Scuderia colleagues.
They all gathered together this afternoon under the tented hospitality area to raise a glass and tuck into a birthday cake: there was time for a round of applause, a few jokey comments and then our man was back at work overseeing the build-up of the two F2012s to be used by Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa at this race.
“This will be my 260th Grand Prix, but I still love this life,” said “Ugo,” as he is known by all in the Maranello pit garage. “I like the adrenalin of the races, travelling around the world and today, I still can’t see myself doing anything else. At some point or other, I’ll retire, but given the way things are going at the moment, it’s hard to say when…”
“I started with the race team in 1995 and from then on, I’ve always been at the track, apart from a break in 2005 and 2006, when I ran the mechanics on the test team,” recounts Francesco, who was born on 30 September 1962 at Modena. “I joined Ferrari in 1991: at first I was a mechanic at Castelvetro, but then when I transferred to Formigine, I learned that there was the chance of being taken on at Maranello and so I sent in my CV. I was taken on immediately by the Gestione Sportiva as a welder, while my first role at the track was in the bodywork section.”
It’s a classic question on these occasions – what are the best and worst moments of your career? Despite the fact there are no less than 259 chapters to choose from, Uguzzoni is clear on the subject: “The worst was Singapore 2008, the race in which there were problems with the refueling on Felipe’s car. “It was a very difficult moment and I will never stop thanking Ferrari for having supported me and shown confidence in me: it’s not by chance that I still have the same role of supervising the pit stops: and in that respect one can see the difference with the other teams. The best? It’s again linked to a pit-stop, which is always a key moment in a race: my first time on the lollipop was at Spa in 1996, when Michael Schumacher took the second of his 72 wins in Red.”
In fact, Schumacher played a major part in Uguzzoni’s career at the race track, given he was always in the pits in the years in which Maranello took five Drivers’ and six Constructors’ titles. He was also there in the other championship winning years, 2007 and 2008: to bring this tale to a close, there is still something missing. Everyone in the garage knows what that refers to, but out of superstition, no one is saying…
Forza Ferrari
Happy Birthday Francesco Uguzzoni.All of us at The Scuderia.net are behind you.
Go get that ''something missing''.![]()
I bet Fernando and Vettel are in stitches outside then.
True, but you don't see other personalities in F1 giving shout outs to every single person that tweets them, sometimes with the same thing said.
The again, Flav is talking about the apprentice, where he is 'Alan Sugar/Donald Trump'
In Stefano Domenicali, we have a team boss who has proved to be a leader. - Luca diMontezemelo
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