2009 Pre-Season thread
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This thread is for news on the upcoming season's driver line-ups, new car launches and test sessions. We begin with the latest revised 2009 race schedule, which sees the Chinese GP moved to April and the Brazilian and Abu Dhabi GPs brought forward by 2 weeks.
March 29 Australia
April 5 Malaysia
April 19 China
April 26 Bahrain
May 10 Spain
May 24 Monaco
June 7 Turkey
June 21 Great Britain
July 12 Germany
July 26 Hungary
Aug. 23 Europe (Valencia)
Aug. 30 Belgium
Sept. 13 Italy
Sept. 27 Singapore
Oct. 4 Japan
Oct. 18 Brazil
Nov. 1 Abu Dhabi -
2009 F1 entry list
1 Lewis HAMILTON (GB) McLAREN MERCEDES
2 Heikki KOVALAINEN (FIN) McLAREN MERCEDES3 Kimi RAIKKONEN (FIN) FERRARI
4 Felipe MASSA (BR) FERRARI
5 Robert KUBICA (PL) BMW SAUBER
6 Nick HEIDFELD (D) BMW SAUBER
7 Fernando ALONSO (E) RENAULT
8 Nelson PIQUET (BR) RENAULT
9 Jarno TRULLI (I) TOYOTA
10 Timo GLOCK (D) TOYOTA
11 Sebastien BUEMI (CH) STR FERRARI
12 Sebastien BOURDAIS (F) STR FERRARI
14 Mark WEBBER (AUS) RBR RENAULT
15 Sebastian VETTEL (D) RBR RENAULT
16 Nico ROSBERG (D) WILLIAMS TOYOTA
17 Kazuki NAKAJIMA (J) WILLIAMS TOYOTA
18 TBA HONDA
19 TBA HONDA
20 Adrian SUTIL (D) FORCE INDIA MERCEDES
21 Giancarlo FISICHELLA (I) FORCE INDIA MERCEDES2009 F1 car launch dates
January 12 Ferrari
January 15 Toyota
January 16 McLaren
January 19 Renault
January 19 Williams
January 20 BMW Sauber
February 9 Red Bull Racing
TBA Toro Rosso, Force India -
Next year Singapore will be using the new Changi Road Circuit?
Or will it be same as this year? -
No Canada and France. =(
AFAIK, the circuit at changi or tuas will not be up to F1 standard.
I thought i saw somewhere that MOTOGP was coming to singapore?
EDIT: ok, it has been confirmed that once the track at changi is completed, it will host the MotoGP.
2010 or 2011 or later.
And also, Force India F1 Drops the ferrari engine.
Shift to mclaren?
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They're likely to get Mercedes powertrains next season (engine, gearbox, KERS).but the announcement will only be made on Monday. Mike Gascoyne has left the team along with Colin Kolles in a "reshuffle" however. There goes one experienced and highly-rated designer.
Interestingly there appear to be no rookies for next season so far. Contesting for the remaining slots at STR and Honda are Senna, Di Grassi, Bourdais, Sato, Button (touted to stay) and Barrichello.
I haven't read anything about the new track but given the current economic climate, I don't think it'll be finished that early, if ever.
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First photos of 2009-spec cars:
They look a lot like the lower formula cars with those wide nosecones.
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Barcelona test day one times (November 17)
1. SATO Toro Rosso 1m20.763s
2. BUEMI Toro Rosso 1m21.071s
3. WURZ Honda 1m21.198s
4. DE LA ROSA McLaren 1m21.417s
5. BADOER Ferrari 1m22.038s
6. PAFFETT McLaren 1m22.235s
7. KUBICA BMW 1m22.341s
8. LOEB Red Bull 1m22.503s
9. PIQUET Renault 1m22.560s
10. KLIEN BMW 1m22.883s
11. HULKENBERG Williams 1m23.467s
12. LIUZZI Force India 1m23.794s
13. SUTIL Force India 1m23.832s
14. GENE Ferrari 1m24.117s
15. SENNA Honda 1m24.343s
16. VAN DER GARDE Renault 1m24.908s
17. DI GRASSI Honda 1m25.512s -
The cleaned-up sides look better.
De La Rosa will test for Force India today and tomorrow on a goodwill basis.
And there is talk that points will be scrapped for medals as early as next year.
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Originally posted by Kuali Baba:
And there is talk that points will be scrapped for medals as early as next year.
http://www.itv-f1.com/News_Article.aspx?id=44628
And BMW drivers say modified car is ugly
http://en.f1-live.com/f1/en/headlines/news/detail/081119101652.shtml -
Barcelona test day two times (18 November)
1. VETTEL Red Bull 1m19.751s
2. SATO Toro Rosso 1m20.017s
3. BOURDAIS Toro Rosso 1m20.034s
4. BUEMI Toro Rosso 1m20.223s
5. PAFFETT McLaren 1m21.340s
6. KUBICA BMW 1m21.521s
7. ROSBERG Williams 1m21.525s
8. BUTTON Honda 1m21.770s
9. SUTIL Force India 1m22.073s
10. DI GRASSI Honda 1m22.283s
11. PIQUET Renault 1m22.348s
12. BADOER Ferrari 1m22.425s
13. GENE Ferrari 1m22.772s
14. HEIDFELD BMW 1m22.945s
15. VAN DER GARDE Renault 1m23.250s
16. DE LA ROSA Force India 1m23.499s
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3 launch dates have been added to the second post.
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Jerez testing times (Tuesday 9 December)
1. BUEMI Toro Rosso 1m18.742s
2. BOURDAIS Toro Rosso 1m19.288s
3. PAFFETT McLaren 1m20.134s
4. DE LA ROSA McLaren 1m20.164s
5. RAIKKONEN Ferrari 1m20.261s
6. HEIDFELD BMW 1m20.678s
7. NAKAJIMA Williams 1m21.338s
8. PIQUET Renault 1m21.547s
9. KLIEN BMW 1m22.098s
Full article:
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McLaren's prototype 2009 front wing:
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Testing times from Jerez (Wednesday 10 December)
1. BUEMI Toro Rosso 1m18.073s
2. SATO Toro Rosso 1m18.601s
3. BOURDAIS Toro Rosso 1m18.673s
4. DE LA ROSA McLaren 1m19.032s
5. RAIKKONEN Ferrari 1m19.334s
6. KOVALAINEN McLaren 1m19.631s
7. ALONSO Renault 1m19.907s
8. ROSBERG Williams 1m20.309s
9. HEIDFELD BMW 1m20.365s
10. MASSA Ferrari 1m20.490s
11. KUBICA BMW 1m20.954sFull Article:
http://www.itv-f1.com/News_Article.aspx?id=44751 -
Testing times from Jerez (Thursday 11 December)
1. BUEMI Toro Rosso 1m17.258s
2. SATO Toro Rosso 1m17.520s
3. KOVALAINEN McLaren 1m18.049s
4. RAIKKONEN Ferrari 1m18.782s
5. MASSA Ferrari 1m19.050s
6. ALONSO Renault 1m19.319s
7. ROSBERG Williams 1m19.388s
8. DE LA ROSA McLaren 1m19.499s
9. KUBICA BMW 1m19.559s
10. KLIEN BMW 1m19.738sFull article:
http://www.itv-f1.com/News_Article.aspx?id=44756 -
Testing times from Jerez (Monday 15 December)
1. BUEMI Red Bull 1m17.704s
2. HEIDFELD BMW 1m19.223s
3. HARTLEY Red Bull 1m19.586s
4. KLIEN BMW 1m19.655s
5. HULKENBERG Williams 1m20.704s
Testing times from Portimao (Monday 15 December)
1. PAFFETT McLaren 1m31.788s
2. MASSA BMW 1m32.926s
Full article:
http://www.itv-f1.com/News_Article.aspx?id=44784 -
Testing times from Jerez (Tuesday 16 December)
1. BUEMI Red Bull 1m17.029s
2. VETTEL Red Bull 1m17.319s
3. HEIDFELD BMW 1m19.303s
4. KUBICA BMW 1m20.006s
5. NAKAJIMA Williams 1m20.332s
Testing times from Portimao (Tuesday 16 December)
1. DE LA ROSA McLaren 1m30.080s
2. BADOER Ferrari 1m31.320s
3. GENE Ferrari 1m33.076s
Full article:
http://www.itv-f1.com/News_Article.aspx?id=44790 -
Testing times from Jerez (Wednesday 17 December)
1. VETTEL Red Bull 1m16.617s
2. BUEMI Red Bull 1m16.988s
3. KUBICA BMW 1m19.013s
4. KLIEN BMW 1m19.066s
5. NAKAJIMA Williams 1m19.341s
Testing times from Portimao (Wednesday 17 December)
1. DE LA ROSA McLaren 1m28.993s
2. BADOER Ferrari 1m30.163s
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Less than a week to go before we get to see how the 2009 cars will actually look like.
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Ferrari to bring back pit lights
http://en.f1-live.com/f1/en/headlines/news/detail/090106092747.shtml -
Toro Rosso confirms Sebastien Buemi for 2009 (so far the only rookie for '09)
http://www.itv-f1.com/News_Article.aspx?id=44893 -
Ferrari have moved the launch of their new car south to Mugello.
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The new Ferrari F60, the first of the 2009 cars to be rolled out:
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Ferrari U-turn on Honda engine deal
http://www.itv-f1.com/News_Article.aspx?id=44914