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Video of 2011 Canadian F1 GP marshall slip

The 2011 Canadian F1 Grand Prix was held this past weekend. Certain on-track antics make for fun viewing. In what looks like amateur hour, one of the race marshalls stepped out onto the track to help clear the debris from a previous incident, all while cars are still racing. And then he slipped and fell. Twice. Continue reading »

Red Bull’s Vettel wins 2010 Abu Dhabi F1 GP for title

Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel is the new world champion, and the youngest in F1 history, after a gripping Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Continue reading »

Red Bull’s Vettel wins 2010 Brazilian F1 GP

Red Bull clinched the constructors’ world championship with a stunning one-two result ahead of points leader Fernando Alonso in the Brazilian Grand Prix, but their insistence on not imposing team orders and letting Sebastian Vettel take a deserved win over Mark Webber puts them in a tricky position for Abu Dhabi next weekend. Continue reading »

Ferrari’s Alonso wins 2010 Korean F1 GP

Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso scored one of the biggest wins of his career in a rain-affected Korean Grand Prix on Sunday afternoon, and a day of total disaster saw neither Red Bull driver finish. Mark Webber crashed out early while running second, and Sebastian Vettel’s engine blew up as he was leading on the 46th lap. Continue reading »

Red Bull’s Vettel wins 2010 Japanese F1 GP

As expected, nobody could hold a candle to the Red Bulls in Suzuka on Sunday afternoon as Sebastian Vettel led home team mate Mark Webber by nine-tenths of a second in a gripping race in which the five title contenders finished in the top five places. Vettel’s third triumph of the season, and Fernando Alonso’s third place for Ferrari, 1.8s behind Webber, moves the German into joint second place with the Spaniard, each on 206 points, as Webber moved out to 220 to extend his lead to 14. Continue reading »

Ferrari’s Alonso wins 2010 Singapore F1 GP

Fernando Alonso scored his fourth win of the season in Singapore on Sunday night after a dramatic battle with Sebastian Vettel that saw them finish only two-tenths of a second apart after a race-long fight. Continue reading »

Ferrari’s Alonso wins 2010 Italian F1 GP

For 36 of the 53 laps at Monza on Sunday a silver car led the reds of Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa, but when McLaren’s Jenson Button ducked into the pits then it was Ferrari’s Alonso who led from Massa until he stopped on Lap 37. When he resumed, Alonso just made it to the first chicane ahead of Button, and thereafter there was never any question about who would win. Continue reading »

McLaren’s Hamilton wins 2010 Belgian F1 GP

McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton won a dramatic Belgian Grand Prix on Sunday, leading throughout and beating Red Bull’s Mark Webber by 1.5 seconds despite one agonizing moment, as the rains came on lap 35 and he slid momentarily into the gravel at Rivage. In the process, on a day when title rivals Jenson Button, Sebastian Vettel and Fernando Alonso all failed to score, Hamilton moved back into the lead of the world championship with 182 points to Webber’s 179. Vettel remains third on 151 ahead of Button on 147 and Alonso on 141. Continue reading »

Red Bull’s Webber wins 2010 Hungarian F1 GP

Mark Webber turned the Hungarian Grand Prix into a nail-biting gripper when a safety-car intervention on the 15th lap upset the form that Red Bull team mate Sebastian Vettel had established from the start. Continue reading »

Ferrari’s Alonso wins 2010 German F1 GP

Felipe Massa handed Ferrari teammate Fernando Alonso a free victory in Sunday’s German Grand Prix as the red team scored their second one-two of the season and the win they were under so much pressure to achieve this year, beating Sebastian Vettel’s pole-winning Red Bull into third place. Continue reading »

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