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Hello my name is LB22 and was looking around Wikipedia and found your page. It struck me how much we are alike! You like F1, I like F1(I am a chief editor and founder of the WP:F1 newsletter), I like Warriors also. The only difference is that you like Arsenal!! :| I support Chelsea!!
Happy editing hope to hear from you soon LB22(talk to me!)Email me! 21:49, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
Warriors
Thanks 4 replying!! I have finished Dark River from po3 series - book 2. I would like to get Outcast though!! I could only briefly look at the wiki but I noticed what you called the 6th book! Its name is now called Sunrise!! I won't give anything away...! LB22(talk to me!)Email me! 17:20, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
Ps I used to have an F1 wiki on wikia! Why not look!
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Formula One, abbreviated to F1, is the highest class of open-wheeledauto racing defined by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), motorsport's world governing body. The "formula" in the name refers to a set of rules to which all participants and cars must conform. The F1 world championship season consists of a series of races, known as Grands Prix, held usually on purpose-built circuits, and in a few cases on closed city streets. The most famous Grand Prix is the Monaco Grand Prix in Monte Carlo. The results of each race are combined to determine two annual Championships, one for drivers and one for constructors.
Michael Schumacher holds the record for the most Grand Prix victories, having won 91 times. Alain Prost, is second with 51 wins, and Ayrton Senna is third, with 41 wins. Michael Schumacher holds the distinction of having the longest time between his first win and his last. He won his first Grand Prix in 1992 at the Belgian Grand Prix, and his last in 2006 at the Chinese Grand Prix, a gap that spans 14 years, 1 month and 1 day. The youngest winner of a Grand Prix is Sebastian Vettel, who was 21 years, 73 days old when he won the 2008 Italian Grand Prix. Luigi Fagioli is the oldest winner of a Formula One Grand Prix; he was 53 years and 22 days old when he won the 1951 French Grand Prix.
Well, first of all, welcome to the project! One good thing about everyone doing the same kind of article is that it's easier to help the others, as the same problems generally arise. I'd still probably call it C-classed, with references being the major problem (the race is largely uncited). There's also a little jargon ("Both Heidfeld and Button later said that they suffered from tire graining during this session.") But really, there's not much to be concerned about. I'd say merge practice and qualifying, so you have the same format as this year's two FAs (Japan and Brazil). You're definitely on the right track, though. Apterygial 23:08, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
The article looks good - you could nominate it for a peer review to see if there are any other minor problems that need fixing, similar to the ones Apterygial has raised.--Diniz(talk) 20:56, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
Oh, and you need to add a 'Background' section. It's fairly easy, just copy the first paragraph from the equivalent section in the 2008 Japanese Grand Prix article, adapt the second, and add a little about the circumstances of the Championships heading into the race. Apterygial 10:07, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
References are encouraged to be from 'reliable sources' at any stage of creation, although at stubs, start-class, c-class you'd probably be right in saying anything is better than nothing. For Good Articles or Featured Articles however the criteria states that references must be present and must be from reliable sources. As you say, taking them out wouldn't be any good. Are you putting "2008 German Grand Prix" into Google with quotes? If so, that could be limiting your results as rarely does that exact phrase appear in an article. My tip would be to manually search some of the reliable sources. This can be achieved in Google by searching for
2008 German Grand Prix site:bbc.co.uk
Notice no quotes are used. You can replace site:bbc.co.uk with any reliable source, e.g. autosport.com grandprix.com etc. (see the current GA/FA to get an idea of what the reliable sources are considered to be). Alternatively go into the F1 news section of Autosport.com and browse manually back through the news archive to the time this Grand Prix was held. There are a couple of things that are easily sourced from the Autocourse book (official race name, championship standings tables). Assuming you don't have a copy, you can try asking D.M.N. or Diniz nicely if they'd be willing to source that stuff for you. AlexJ (talk) 12:39, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
If I was doing this article, these sources I would regard as invaluable: [1], [2], [3], [4] (which I'm aware will rot), [5] and [6]. Use them and you can't go wrong. Apterygial 23:03, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
Re:2008 German Grand Prix Autosport book refs
I think you mean Autocourse, not Autosport? Anyway, I must apologise as I am at university at the moment and don't have access to it. I shall be back by the end of March, although I believe D.M.N. has it as well.--Diniz(talk) 17:24, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
By the way, when you've finished responding to Apterygial and AlexJ's peer review comments, let me know and I'll be happy to give my opinion of the article as well.--Diniz(talk) 00:27, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
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Hamilton, the eventual Drivers' Champion, led the Championship going into the race, and started from pole position alongside Räikkönen. Second in the Drivers' Championship, Massa began from third, next to Fernando Alonso of Renault. The first three drivers retained their positions into the first corner, but Alonso was passed by Hamilton's McLaren teammate Heikki Kovalainen. However, Alonso was able to regain the place midway through the first lap. Over the course of the race, Hamilton extended a considerable lead over the two Ferraris. Massa passed Räikkönen with seven laps remaining, to improve his chances of surpassing Hamilton's points tally at the final race in Brazil.
The result extended Ferrari's lead over McLaren in the Constructors' Championship from seven to 11 points. Third-placed in the Drivers' Championship, Robert Kubica's sixth place at the Grand Prix eliminated his hopes of winning the Championship, and reduced his lead over fourth-placed Räikkönen to six points.
Explanation: Since I'm not allowed to ruthlessly take over the F1 project's newsletter (the urge is a local thing, I live in the same city Rupert Murdoch started off), I figured I could whet my appetite for doing something a little different by producing what should be a one-off newsletter. It's packed full of information about the project's *ahem* 19 articles, where they're going and who is taking them there.
The path of the 2008 Japanese Grand Prix article was not so smooth. Lasting an incredible 26 days, and making rare use of the talk page, the FAC was somewhat of a marathon, but with the help of several members of the project, and many concessions, passage was made.
2008 Belgian Grand Prix was the first 2008 race report to attain Good article status, way back in November, after a truly horrific GAN (my first article assessment on Wikipedia, incidentally). In the end, it doesn't really matter, as I intend to carry out a major re-write on the article later this year, and have a shot at FA.
In stark contrast, 2008 Italian Grand Prixquick-passed GAN. The reviewer suggested a trip to FAC, but as this was around the time the Japanese article was there, I had no intention on following him up on it, and still don't.
Remember that ad for Honda (*spit*, we daren't speak their name), with the tag-line "Isn't it nice when things just work?" 2008 Chinese Grand Prix, with the exception of an infobox cite problem, passed with flying colours, thanks in no small part to the suggestions from Diniz and AlexJ.
2008 German Grand Prix became the first peer review as part of this project to be listed by someone other than me, when Darth Newdarasked the community for suggestions. So far, reviews have come from me and AlexJ, and I believe I can speak on behalf of the Sith when I say "more, please!"
If you are reading this because you are scavenging through someone else's talk page, allow me to explain the point of this project. We are here, in our electronic capacity, to make the 2008 Formula One season a Featured topic. This means at least seven articles to FA status, and the rest to GA status. Currently, as you should have been able to work out, we have two FAs and three GAs. While content writing is the key aspect, others such as copyediting, helping with peers reviews or just pointing out where the articles are just plain wrong are quite important.
Reminders
Rather than spam everyone when an article reaches PR or FAC, it would be better simply to leave a message on the project's talk page. For this reason, it may be a good idea to put the page on your watchlists if you want to be alerted to such things.
If you are writing an article, don't be afraid to take your lead from the existing GAs and FAs, particularly the later ones. This includes not just the format (with one section for Practice and qualifying) but paragraphs as well; the explanation of qualifying (which most recently appeared in the Bahrain article), originally written by D.M.N., has been hammered out across several PRs and FACs, to the point that I believe it is quite watertight. It is an important explanation, because modern qualifying practices in F1 are actually fairly hard to understand if you have never come across them before.
There is a project userbox, if you're interested. I don't even use it, but you can if you want.
The status box should be updated whenever an article changes class, which I believe people have been doing to this point anyway. I also use it to indicate (with links) whether an article is at PR, GAN or FAC, so it can be quite a useful page to keep an eye on.
Members
When I created the project page, I wrote that I was "fully expecting that the only name there will always be me". Four months later, we have seven users listed in the members section. I want to thank all of them for the effort they have put in so far, and to remind them that there is still a long way to go.
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Re:2008 German Grand Prix
I've taken a look at the article and left some comments on the peer review page.--Diniz(talk) 22:33, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
There are quite a few quotations from McLaren people in the AUTOCOURSE and Autosport sources; I'll post them soon so you can choose which one(s) would be suitable for the article. I'll copyedit the article soon as well; unfortunately I'm out this evening so you will have to wait until tomorrow at least. Now that I'm back home and have read the sources, there are also some small details I can add when doing so.--Diniz(talk) 19:35, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
Sorry for the delay! I've now posted all the McLaren-related quotations I could find on the talk page. Let me know if and when you have incorporated any of them into the article; I will then start the copyediting.--Diniz(talk) 18:07, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
All done! Please let me know if you have any queries about the changes I've made.--Diniz(talk) 02:18, 28 March 2009 (UTC)
There's nothing major that needs doing to the article, but a copyedit is required. I'd make it easier for Diniz by making sure the simple WP:MoS problems are under control: driver names and linkages (there's still some points where the drivers' full names are given in subsequent mentions), and just make sure all refs follow some form of punctuation (not including dashes). I'd probably just expand the last paragraph in the "Race" section so it covers every driver, so everyone you introduce throughout the article gets their whole story. After that, Diniz can give you the green light to take it to GAN. Good work, and good luck! Apterygial 23:12, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
I say go for it. There seems to be broad consensus. Perhaps a mention could be made in List of Middle-earth animals as well to satisfy those who suggested that and to cover all the bases... -Thibbs (talk) 16:32, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
Balrog
Re your edit [7] -- did you check the referenced text? Tolkien did originally spell "Melkor" as "Melko", and the text in question is a quote. Elphion (talk) 21:48, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
Re:Barnstar
Thank you very much, and sorry that I failed to correct a couple of typos I made! Here's to a successful GAN.--Diniz(talk) 17:33, 28 March 2009 (UTC)
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Categories
Hate to break this to you, but I think you need to file the articles more directly in the categories, under "Grand Prix". So 2009 Spanish Grand Prix would go into the category as [[Category:2009 in Spain|Grand Prix]]. Apterygial 09:09, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
Just "Grand Prix". The reasoning for the this is that anyone looking at a category already knows that it's set in 2009, and that it is in Spain (par example), so the title of the GP is not necessary. Football topics should be under F, alcohol should be under A and the Grand Prix should be under G, even the European Grand Prix, which is really just another Spanish Grand Prix, but by a different name. It might as well be called the Iberian Grand Prix! Apterygial 23:47, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
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Hamilton maintained his startline advantage and led until he made his first pit stop on lap 18. As other cars made their pit stops, Hamilton regained the lead on lap 22. On lap 36 Timo Glock crashed, and the race was neutralized by the deployment of the safety car. Hamilton, on a two-stop strategy, did not stop to get more fuel during this period, while all the cars around him did. Thus when he did eventually stop on lap 50, he rejoined the race in fifth. In the closing stages of the race, Hamilton overtook first his team-mate Heikki Kovalainen, then Massa, and finally Piquet, to take the lead again on lap 60, which he maintained to win the race.
The victory was Hamilton's second consecutive win, having won the preceding British Grand Prix at Silverstone. The win put him ahead of his two main rivals in the Drivers' Championship, Kimi Räikkönen (who finished sixth) and Massa of Ferrari, who were on equal points with him before the race. After the race he was four points ahead of Räikkönen, and seven ahead of Massa. In the Constructors' Championship, McLaren drew closer to the two teams ahead of them, BMW Sauber and Ferrari. Ferrari still led by 15 points from McLaren, and 12 from BMW, whose drivers – Nick Heidfeld and Robert Kubica – finished fourth and seventh respectively.
† After the race, Trulli was originally given a 25-second penalty for passing Lewis Hamilton (4th, +2.914) under yellow flags.[8] However, due to misleading the stewards, Hamilton was disqualified and Trulli's penalty was overturned. [9]
* Timo Glock (1:26.975, 6th) and Trulli (1:27.127, 8th) were both disqualified from qualifying and sent to the back of the grid, as their Toyotas' rear wing elements were in breach of the rules.
The race was red flagged on lap 33 and the results were taken from lap 31.
* Sebastian Vettel (3rd, 1:35.518) got a 10 place grid penalty for his collision with Kubica at the previous Grand Prix. [10]
^ Rubens Barrichello (4th, 1:35.651) got a 5 place grid penalty for a gearbox change. [11]
Well, the question is whether you need it. If you can write the entire article in its absence (and you can) you can remove it as a source. It was probably hooked up to a ref at some point, but your re-writing broke that. Apterygial 23:46, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
Re:2008 Turkish Grand Prix PR
I'll have more. I'm sorry for not moving terribly quickly, I'm a little busy in real life at the moment. I think you should get onto some copyeditors before you take it to GAN though, the grammar needs some tightening up. Apterygial 09:38, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
I think I've got all the problems I can find. Nice job. Apterygial 23:53, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
Sorry, my intention wasn't to revert your edits but removed other unsourced edits. I've added a note regarding the sequel. D.M.N. (talk) 19:48, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
Re:2008 Turkish Grand Prix copyedit
I'm busy at the moment, but I'll get down to it when I can. :) --Diniz(talk) 19:21, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
I've copyedited the whole article, except for the race section. I've also left some comments on the talk page which, amongst other things, explain why I haven't done the race section yet.--Diniz(talk) 20:03, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
Almost finished! :) There's another talk page comment and some invisible notes in the article itself.--Diniz(talk) 16:39, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
That's much better! All finished, good luck with the GAN. :) --Midgrid(talk) 18:20, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
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The race began with Kubica in pole position alongside Massa; Lewis Hamilton, the eventual Drivers' Champion, started from third, alongside Räikkönen. Kubica was passed by Massa into the first corner, and then by Räikkönen on the third lap. The Ferraris dominated at the front of the race, leading to their one-two finish. Hamilton had a slow start after almost stalling on the grid, and dropped back to ninth. The McLaren driver ran into the back of Fernando Alonso's Renault a lap later, breaking off the McLaren's front wing and dropping Hamilton to the back of the field.
Kubica's strong finish promoted BMW Sauber to the lead in the Constructors' Championship, after BMW driver Nick Heidfeld finished fourth. Ferrari and McLaren trailed, one and two points behind, respectively. Räikkönen took the lead in the Drivers' Championship, with 19 points, three points ahead of Heidfeld and five ahead of Hamilton, Kubica and Kovalainen, with 15 races remaining in the season.
Hello, I just wanted to introduce myself and let you know I am glad to be reviewing the article 2008 Turkish Grand Prix you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 14 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. SilkTork *YES! 15:33, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
This should be quick and easy. Points noticed so far: the lead goes into too much detail of the race and could be cut back, while other details, such as the collapse of Super Aguri, should be in there. The images are not from the race. Take a look on Flickr to see if there are any action shots available. SilkTork *YES! 18:44, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
I've just looked through your contributions - you've done some good work on the encyclopedia. Well done. We need more content editors like yourself.
Keep up the good work! SilkTork *YES! 14:22, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
Turkish Barnstar of National Merit award
The Turkish Barnstar of National Merit
Please accept this Turkish Barnstar of National Merit for your fine work to get 2008 Turkish Grand Prix to GA level. I hope you will elevate it also to FA status. CeeGee (talk) 19:35, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
Well, the first question you have to ask is: "what is qualifying for?" If the answer is "to see who can do the fastest single lap" then you have a problem. If the answer is "to determine grid positions", then the problem is reduced. If you favour the latter approach (as I do) then the line in the article Hamilton qualified third is wrong. I toyed around with how to explain this more in a coherent manner, and ended up fiddling with the paragraph itself, the results of which (sans references) are shown below (needs a little bulking out with why certain drivers were quicker than others, though).
Apterygial's quali paragraph
Räikkönen clinched pole position, taking Ferrari's 200th pole, with a time of 1:16.449. He was joined on the front row of the grid by team-mate Massa. Alonso qualified third after Hamilton's penalty moved the quicker McLaren driver to 13th; Toyota's Jarno Trulli qualified fourth. Kovalainen would have started from fifth, but was given a five-place grid penalty for blocking Webber during qualifying and would start from 10th on the grid. Kubica, Webber, David Coulthard, Timo Glock and Piquet rounded off the top ten. Heidfeld qualified 11th, with Vettel ahead of Hamilton in 12th, and Bourdais behind in 14th. Rosberg was next quickest, but after his penalty demoted him to the back of the grid his team-mate Kazuki Nakajima took his place. The final four places went to the Honda and Force India teams, with Button qualifying ahead of Barrichello, Fisichella and Sutil. Barrichello, however, was given a penalty for changing his gearbox, meaning that he started 20th on the grid, one place behind Rosberg.
Do with this what you would. I won't be able to give a detailed review of the article for a little while as I'm quite busy at the moment off-wiki, but I'll get there when I can. Apterygial 10:36, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
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Massa claimed pole, with teammate Räikkönen fourth, the two Ferrari cars sandwiching the McLarens of Heikki Kovalainen and Hamilton. At the first corner Räikkönen clipped Kovalainen's rear tyre and gave him a puncture. The safety car was deployed on the first lap, after a collision, but only remained out for one lap. During the course of the race, Hamilton, intending to make one more pit stop than both Ferrari drivers, was faster than Massa due to carrying a lighter fuel load and overtook him on lap 24. After Hamilton had made his third pit stop, he rejoined in second behind Massa but in front of the Championship leader, Räikkönen. Massa won the race, with Hamilton 3.779 seconds behind, and Räikkönen a further half-second behind. The two BMW Sauber cars of Robert Kubica and Nick Heidfeld took fourth and fifth.
In the week running up to the grand prix, the Super Aguri team had withdrawn from Formula One, due to financial problems, leaving the sport with only ten teams. Massa's victory was his third consecutive pole position and victory in Turkey, having also won the race from pole in 2006 and 2007. This was also Rubens Barrichello's 257th Grand Prix start, breaking Riccardo Patrese's previous record of 256. Due to the race result, Räikkönen's lead in the Drivers' Championship was lowered to seven points. Massa rose to second from fourth, whilst Hamilton dropped to third, both drivers tying on 28 points but separated by Massa's two wins thus far to Hamilton's one. In the Constructors' Championship, Ferrari increased their lead to 22 points ahead of BMW Sauber, with McLaren a further two points behind in third.
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Conditions were wet at the start of the race. Massa maintained his lead into the first corner, but his teammate Kimi Räikkönen was passed for second by Hamilton, who had started in third position on the grid. Hamilton suffered a punctured tyre on lap six, forcing him to make a pit stop from which he re-entered the race in fifth place. As the track dried and his rivals made their own pit stops Hamilton became the race leader, a position he held until the end of the race. Kubica's strategy allowed him to pass Massa during their second pit stops, after the latter's Ferrari was forced to change from wet to dry tyres. Räikkönen dropped back from fifth position to ninth after colliding with Adrian Sutil's Force India late in the race. Sutil had started from 18th on the grid and was in fourth position before the incident, which allowed Red Bull driver Mark Webber to finish fourth, ahead of Toro Rosso driver Sebastian Vettel in fifth.
The race was Hamilton's second win of the season, his first in Monaco, and the result meant that he led the Drivers' Championship, seven points ahead of Räikkönen and eight ahead of Massa. Ferrari maintained their lead in the Constructors' Championship, 16 points ahead of McLaren and 17 ahead of BMW Sauber, with 12 races of the season remaining.
Just wondering if you can do me a favor on the F1 2010 (video game) vandalism issue. Still not eligible for semi-protection because of the autoconfirmed vandalism, but if you could throw a warning template on the vandals' talk page when you revert I can block the vandals after a few warnings. The ((uw-unsourced)) series and ((uw-error)) series are good for this. I'd suggest starting with a level 2 warning on these, as I'm sure these edits are not accidental.
I'll go back and warn the people for the last day or so, but if you could warn on your reverts going forward it would be a huge help. Thanks!--Fabrictramp | talk to me 17:16, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
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Well, if you are still eager to do 2008 articles, you can do 2008 European Grand Prix, as I won't have time to do much for a bit and I still have to do the re-write of 2008 Belgian Grand Prix and take it to FAC. By the way, you have helped (I can't seriously believe we are this far along!) Apterygial 08:05, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
Re: Young-Earth Creationist
No, problem; keep up the good work! Invmog (talk) 19:49, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
One Ring
See response on my talk page. Elphion (talk) 14:42, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
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Räikkönen and Massa both made a clean start. Renault's Fernando Alonso, who started third, was overtaken by Trulli and BMW Sauber driver Robert Kubica. The front three of Räikkönen, Massa and Trulli maintained their positions through the first round of pit stops. On lap 30, Räikkönen led Massa by six and a half seconds, and Trulli by 30 seconds. Just before half distance, Räikkönen's right exhaust pipe broke, which caused the engine to lose power. Massa, in second place, began lapping quicker than Räikkönen, and he caught and passed him on lap 39. Massa maintained his lead through the second round of pit stops, and won the race; Räikkönen finished almost 18 seconds behind. Trulli fended off McLaren's Heikki Kovalainen, who challenged him in the latter stages, to take third.
Massa's win promoted him into the lead of the Drivers' Championship for the first time in his career, overtaking Kubica. Kubica was second, two points behind Massa, while Räikkönen was third. In the Constructors' Championship, Ferrari increased their lead to 17 points ahead of BMW Sauber, McLaren a further 16 points behind in third.
Despite qualifying tenth, Massa missed the race due to suffering an accident in the second part of qualifying. He suffered a cut on his forehead, a bone damage of his skull and a brain concussion. [14]
The F1 2010 game is in fact based on the 2010 season.
See [15]
Also , this contradicts the earlier sentence in the article: F1 2010 is an upcoming video game based on the motor racing series with the same name and the 2010 Formula One season.
Thank You,
Chieframhorn (talk) 21:19, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
PS: are you a F1 fan?
Hello.
This is a dilemma...
I think deleting he features section is the wrong thing to do, as it is a nice section in the article. i suggest deleting the line which says it is based on 2009 for the time being. At first, i thought that, as it is F1 2010, it will be based on the 2010 season, but thinking about how rushed F1 2009 is, it may just be the same game on different platforms
You make the decision, as you are more experienced at wikipedia etc.
Thanks,
Chieframhorn (talk) 16:49, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
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The Brabham BT46 was a Formula Oneracing car, designed by Gordon Murray for the Brabham team, owned by Bernie Ecclestone, for the 1978 Formula One season. The car featured several radical design elements, the most obvious of which was the use of flat panel heat exchangers on the bodywork of the car to replace conventional water and oil radiators. The concept did not work in practice and was removed before the car’s race debut, never to be seen again. The cars, powered by a flat-12Alfa Romeo engine, raced competitively with modified nose-mounted radiators for most of the year, driven by Niki Lauda and John Watson, winning one race in this form and scoring sufficient points for the team to finish third in the constructors championship.
The "B" variant of the car, also known as the "fan car", was introduced at the 1978 Swedish Grand Prix as a counter to the dominant ground effect Lotus 79. The BT46B generated an immense level of downforce by means of a fan, claimed to be for increased cooling, but which also extracted air from beneath the car. The car only raced once in this configuration in the Formula One World Championship—when Niki Lauda won the 1978 Swedish Grand Prix at Anderstorp. The car was withdrawn before it could race again and the concept was declared illegal by the FIA. The BT46B therefore preserves a 100% winning record.
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The race was dominated, however, by the fight between championship protagonists Michael Schumacher (Benetton) and Damon Hill (Williams). Hill, who started from pole position, retained his lead during the opening stages of the race whilst Schumacher, who started alongside him on the grid, fell behind Alesi in the run to the first corner. Despite being held up behind the slower Ferrari until it pitted, Schumacher used a more favourable one-stop strategy to move ahead of Hill, who made two pit stops for fuel and tyres, on lap 41. Four laps later, Hill attempted to pass Schumacher, but the two collided and were forced to retire from the race. This promoted the battling Herbert and Coulthard into the fight for the lead. Coulthard passed Herbert, but dropped back to third after incurring a stop-go penalty for speeding in the pit lane.
* Barrichello had originally qualified fifth, but received a 5-place grid penalty for a gearbox change between FP3 and qualifying. He moved back up to ninth, after Heidfeld's penalty. [16]
Nick Heidfeld originally qualified eighth (1:49.307), but was sent to the back of the grid, for his car being underweight after qualifying. His team also changed the gearbox and engine. [17]
‡ Nakajima set his time during the second part of qualifying, as he failed to make the top ten.
* Sutil and Barrichello received five-place grid penalties for speeding in a neutralised yellow flag zone, following an incident involving Sébastien Buemi in the second part of qualifying. [18]
Jenson Button (7th, 1:32.962) and Fernando Alonso (12th, 1:31.638) also received a five-place grid penalty for the same offence.
Buemi (10th, no time) himself received a five-place penalty for driving his damaged Toro Rosso back to the pits, and impeding other cars.
Heikki Kovalainen (9th, no time) received a five-place grid penalty for changing his gearbox after a crash during Q3.
† All times were recorded in the second part of qualifying, as they did not make the top ten originally.
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Up to you I guess. I just put it in for a release date of some sort...I think it's wrong anyway, because 25/9/10 is a Saturday when UK games usually come out on a Friday. I'll revert. Cs-wolves(talk) 17:32, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
I really should've checked the facts behind it. Like dates and such. But that happens! Cs-wolves(talk) 17:59, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
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Have edited in case for Campos to be known as Campos Meta. I disagree with people saying we should hold off until the FIA confirm because the WMSC is an FIA body, but still, the case is there. Prisonermonkeys (talk) 04:11, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
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The DAMS GD-01 was an unraced Formula One car used by the Frenchmotorsport team, Driot-Arnoux Motor Sport (DAMS). The GD-01 was designed and built by a collaboration of DAMS and Reynard engineers from 1994 to 1995, and was intended to establish the team—which had achieved considerable success in lower categories—in Formula One, but a continuing lack of finance meant that the team never entered the championship, despite completing construction of the chassis and conducting some testing.
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Fittipaldi Automotive, sometimes called Copersucar after its first major sponsor, was the only Formula One motor racing team and constructor ever to be based in Brazil. It was formed during 1974 by racing driver Wilson Fittipaldi and his younger brother, double world champion Emerson, with money from the Brazilian sugar and alcohol cooperative Copersucar. In 1976 Emerson surprised the motor racing world by leaving the title-winning McLaren team to drive for the unsuccessful family outfit. Future world champion Keke Rosberg took his first podium finish in Formula One with the team.
The team was based in São Paulo, almost 6,000 miles (10,000 km) away from the centre of the world motor racing industry in the UK, before moving to Reading, UK during 1974. It participated in 119 grands prix between 1975 and 1982, entering a total of 156 cars. It achieved 3 podiums and scored 44 championship points.
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The WikiProject Formula One Newsletter wishes you a Merry Christmas and all the best for 2010. Year II · Issue 12 · December 8, 2009 – December 31, 2009
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The 2008 Hungarian Grand Prix (formally the XXIII ING Magyar Nagydíj) was a Formula One motor race held on August 3, 2008 at the Hungaroring, Budapest, Hungary. It was the eleventh race of the 2008 Formula One season. The race, contested over 70 laps, was won by Heikki Kovalainen for the McLaren team after starting from second position. Timo Glock finished second in a Toyota car, with Kimi Räikkönen third in a Ferrari. It marked Kovalainen's first Formula One victory, which made him the sport's 100th driver to win a World Championship race, and it was also Glock's first podium finish.
Much of the race, however, was dominated by a duel between Lewis Hamilton and Felipe Massa, who drove for McLaren and Ferrari respectively. Hamilton started from pole position on the starting grid but was beaten into the first corner by Massa, who passed him around the outside. The two championship protagonists commenced a battle for the lead that was resolved when Hamilton suffered a puncture just over half-way through the race, giving Massa a comfortable lead. The Ferrari's engine, however, failed with three laps of the race remaining, allowing Kovalainen to take the win.