Flash News #06

Lotus to replace BMW Sauber on rF1 2010 Grid.



The garage currently occupied by BMW-Sauber will be replaced by a Malaysian-owned 'Lotus F1 Team' in 2010, F1's governing rFIA announced on Tuesday morning. But the Paris federation also gave hope to the Hinwil based team, who had also applied for the thirteenth and final 2010 entry in the wake of BMW's decision to quit the sport.

The rFIA described Sauber's application as "impressive", but said Lotus had been selected for the definite 2010 entry because "there are still uncertainties" about the former team's future ownership. Sauber has instead been awarded the "14th place" in the 2010 pitlane, even though at present the sporting regulations and Concorde Agreement allow a maximum of 13 teams.

Regarding Lotus, the rFIA said a company called 1Malaysia F1 Team has won the 13th entry for a Norfolk (UK)-based and Cosworth-powered team to be headed by Tony Fernandes and technical director Mike Gascoyne.

New drivers in track soon?



Rumors in the paddock says that some new drivers should join Bmw and Red Bull second cars. Names are now top secrets but we will probably have a full grid in European Grand Prix, in Valencia.
Red Bull had got for two races the Turkish driver Ahmet Kesgin, but he was kicked out after two really bad races in Great Britain and Germany.
Let's wait for updates.

Meeting...Juan Manuel Cardozo

Name: Juan Manuel

Surname: Cardozo

Age: 17

Place of Birth: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Where do you live: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Height and Weight: 1,77 cm. 60 Kg

What are your hobbies?: Leagues f1 of rFactor. Scalextric. PC

What do you do in your life?: I study, I'm a student of secundary school.

Cardozo during his interview in a park in Buenos Aires.

Who is the most beutiful woman in the world?: Angelina Jolie, she is beautiful!

How many years did you race rF online?: one and a half on an american rFactor league.

What kind of controller do you use: keyboard. Although I could use a steering wheel.

Do you like rF1?: es una buena liga. I met them when I was in the servers online, and Giammy asked me to race with them. For now I feel like here, it hurts the lag due to the remoteness of my country: (

Juan has got now 6 points in driver's standing.

What kind of modifies do you suggest for rF1?: there is something serious to be changed, I think that's right, though as Cabiddu said, I would be good to longer races.

Who is going to win?: Carigliano is having a good season, is a great candidate. I see another rising star is Cabiddu. Giammy at some point will have to win, it always sits between the top but can not find victory.

Who is the surprise?: I think my latin partner Mario Nieto has joined valuable points in Australia, but has been delayed over the course of carreras. I had been the surprise in Silverstone!

What's your favourite real driver?: Now, lewis hamilton. He is a very good driver, I like his driving. All the history: Ayrton Senna. He was the best!

What's your favourite track?: Monza, this incredible track. also, but I know is that. Other good track is Silverstone.

What kind of different league would you like to race?:well, I race in other league, and the truth would not have time to practice in another league.

Thanks Excu, see you in Valencia and Good Luck!

rFactor1 ING Magyiar Grand Prix - Budapest - Comment

It was clear since the practise that rF1 Magyiar Grand Prix was going to be a really hard race, maybe because of the particular track layout.
In qualify, again a Pole position for Corigliano, with Cabiddu 2nd and Baroni 3rd.
Best qualify of the season for Greg (5th) and Wariof (6th) while GM Serra was not able to make his fastes lap showed in Friday. Penalties "+5 pos in grid" for Luty (changed the gearbox) and Nieto (from accident in German GP).

GM Serra is back to podium: 6th time in 9 races, now he is only 6 points from leader Baroni.

At the start, Cabiddu tried to take the lead, but fought too much with the poleman and Baroni overtook both. Great start for GM Serra, who redeems itself after the bad performance in qualifying, taking the 5th place and undermining Zingalus fourth place.
In the middle of the group, contacts between Smith and Giaky Serra and Wariof and Luty.
At the end of the first lap, pits for Smith, Giaky Serra and Bianchi.
Third lap, quite bad accident for Bianchi (Renault) at corner 6: the driver is ok. In same lap, pitstop for Bernard after a contact in the middle of the track: he will have another pit in the following lap.


Finally a great race for Luty, 4th place for the polish driver.

Fifth lap, second pit for Giaky Serra and first for Nieto with Brawn.
Three laps later, pit for Nieto's teammate Greg, who showed he qualified with empty tank.
Starting from 10th lap, and for the following five laps, we saw the pitstops of Vacca, GM Serra, Iudicello, Burdisso, Baroni, Corigliano, Wariof, Zingalus, Smith, Cabiddu and Luty. After pitstop, the new standing saw Cabiddu leading, Zingalus second, Corigliano and Baroni behind them.In these laps, Luty is fighting in points zone.

Cabiddu wins again: here his celebration on podium with Zingalus.

In sixteenth lap, second pit for Greg and third for Giaky Serra.
Two laps later, second pitstop for Baroni, but his pitmen were not ready and he wasn't able to complete the stop .
At 22nd lap, the most important accident of the race: in first corner, Baroni completely missed the brake and hit Corigliano, with BMW driver who is still in hospital for check. In same corner, few second before, Wariof spun off and hit the wall with his Ferrari (retired).
Last three laps are just a "red carpet" for first three drivers, with Cabiddu taking his second win, Zingalus again second and GM Serra (just 6 points from the leader without any win) again third. Points for Luty, Iudicello, Greg, Burdisso and Smith, after a very difficult race.

rFactor1 ING Magyiar Grand Prix - Budapest - Official Results

After qualify, penalties for Nieto (from last GP accident) and Luty (changed the gearbox).



OFFICIAL POST-PODIUM INTERVIEWS
SIMONE CABIDDU (FORCE INDIA MERCEDES - WINNER)
ENGLISH: "Is so exciting to win in such a difficult track, I'm very happy because of I was not expecting this kind of result, til yesterday I was not finding the right feeling but today everything changed. I would like to dedicate this win to all the pussy in the world."
ITALIANO: "E' veramente emozionante vincere in un tracciato così tecnico e difficile, sono molto contento perchè non mel'aspettavo, fino a ieri non trovavo il feeling con la vettura ma stamattina tutto è cambiato. Voglio dedicare questa vittoria alla gnocca in tutto il mondo."

ALEX ZINGALUS (FERRARI - 2nd)
ENGLISH: "Our setup was great, congrats to the whole team who worked hard on aerodinamics making some modifies which gave me the chance to take the maximum from my car, and giving me the chance to take again a second place, fighting for first one until the end. Realy thanks to everyone."
ITALIANO: "Setup ottimo complimenti a tutta la squadra che ha lavorato intensamente sull'areodinamica apportando delle modifiche che mi han permesso di ottenere il massimo dalla macchina cosi da ripetere per il secondo GP consecutivo la seconda posizione, lottando fino alla fine della gara per la prima posizione. Grazie a tutti."

GIAMMY SERRA (TORO ROSSO FERRARI - 3rd)
ENGLISH: "We're back to podium, this is the most important thing. We did a quite good job during the whole weekend, but I missed qualify, starting from 7th. We had a good constancy in race, but I'm a little disappointed for second half, where we lost around 10 seconds and we still don't know why. Great result for us, six podiums in nine races, awesome".
ITALIANO: "Siamo tornati sul podio, questa è la cosa più importnate. Abbiamo fatto un buon lavoro durante tutto il weekend, ma ho sbagliato la qualifica, finendo per partire 7°. Abbiamo avuto una buona costanza in gara, anche se sono un pò deluso dalla seconda metà di corsa, dove abbiamo perso una decina di secondi e non sappiamo il motivo. Grande risultato per noi, sei podi in nove gare, è grandioso".

Meeting...Tomek Luty

Name: Tomasz

Surname: Luty

Age: 18

Place of Birth: Szczecin (Poland)

Where do you live: Moszczanka (South of Poland)

Height and Weight: weight 70 kg height 1.72 m

What are your hobbies?: formula 1, sport, computer games, modern technologies ,music, discoteques.

What do you do in your life?: I am studying at high school, but final objective is to buy some supercar like lamborghini or ferrari.

"Tommy" is one of the youngest drivers of the league.

Who is the most beutiful woman in the world?: mhm beatiful,i think it's Angelina Jolie.

How many years did you race rF online?:I race onilne since I installed connection in august 2009.

What kind of controller do you use: I use gamepad tracer twin shock.

Do you like rF1?: so much yes, because theleague is well organised and managed by awesome people.

What kind of modifies do you suggest for rF1?: I think we should wait for rfactor 2 :D

Who is going to win?: I dont know... it'sjust have of season, everything can change.

Who is the surprise?: Giammy Serra surprised me...he drives really fast and equally, this give really advantage in Formula 1 world.

Luty ends only one of four races in points because of lack of experience.

What's your favourite real driver?: it's Robert Kubica, he impressed me with getting to formula 1. Our contry isn't so rich and we have not many circuits and he became formula 1 driver. When I had heard about this info, i was really happy.

What's your favourite track?: the most I like Nurburgring track, its really demanding. Just behind my like scale there is Hungaroring track.

What kind of different league would you like to race?: I raced in Gp2 some time ago and this is really hardcore league. You have to pay attention with some many more things than in Formula 1.

Thanks Tommy,
see you in track!

rFactor1 ING Magyiar Grand Prix - Hungaroring - Preview

Last week started a really busy period for rFactor1, which is going to show us three races now in four weeks. Nineth round of this season is taking place in the heart of the "Old Europe", Hungary.
Hungaroring was created in 1986, it became the location of the first Formula One Grand Prix behind the Iron Curtain.

Vision of the Hungaroring track by helicopter.

Due to the twisty style of the circuit overtaking is difficult in dry conditions. Nonetheless, the Hungaroring has been the scene of several memorable races such as the duels of Nelson Piquet and Ayrton Senna, Nigel Mansell's lost wheel in 1987, Mansell's win from 12th on the grid after a dramatic pass on Ayrton Senna in 1989, Damon Hill's almost victory with Arrows in 1997 and maiden wins for Hill in 1993.

Track layout of Hungaroring, Mogyrod, Budapest.

The track is 4.381kms long, with just a long straight (where there is the grid) and sexteen corners: ten right and six left. The Hungaroring is the home of Hungarian motorsport. Besides Formula One, there were also DTM, FIA GT Championship races in its history. A public drag race event takes place every month.

If you want to know more about this, please visit:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungary
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungaroring

Hungaroring paddock's gate.

The race is monday, June 14th, free practise will start at 09.15pm GMT time (10.15pm in Italy).
h 09.15pm GMT Free practise - 35 mins.
h 09.50pm GMT Qualify - 10 mins. (Parc Ferme)
h 10.00pm GMTRace - 35% of real laps with a mandatory pitstop - 25 laps.

Race carefully, see you in track.

rF1 staff.

Shocking New: BMW retires from rF1 in 2010

The BMW Group will not continue its Formula One campaign after the end of the 2009 season. Resources freed up as a result are to be dedicated to the development of new drive technologies and projects in the field of sustainability. BMW will continue to be actively involved in other motor sports series.
Also if Davide Corigliano is fighting for World Championship, the BMW decided to announce his retirement at the end of the season. This new should open a large number of hypothesys on Corigliano's new team.
"Of course, this was a difficult decision for us. But it's a resolute step in view of our company's strategic realignment," explained Dr. Norbert Reithofer, Chairman of the Board of Management of BMW AG.
Who is going to take BMW's place in next season?
Where is racing the italian driver in 2010?