Bahrain F1 GP

[squala]

Rosberg is German.

[vhenok]

It could have been 1-2 for Ferrari, Massa is still adjusting on what to do....if that were Reubens sure it was a diffferent story, coz alam na ni Barichello papel nya nung asa Ferrari pa sya. Di sana napalampas si Alonso...

Great team performance for Renault, galing ng phase and pit crews, this i think is the play of the day for me yung last pit ni Alonso then paglabas nya wheel to wheel sila ni Schumi going to 1st turn.

Very promising yung pinakita ni Nico Rosberg being a rookie at that....


Team McLaren is also showing power as they share the lead with Renault on the Team Standings, Kimi on 3rd and JPM on 5th. IMO, this is the tandem to watchout...

Toyota is a disappointment also and they blame it on Bridgestone as they claim, nothing is wring with their cars.....

[Monseratto]

I believe Nico's father, KeKe Rosberg is a Finn. I think Nico is also a Finn, barring his mother is a citizen of another EU country.

Nico Rosberg (born June 27, 1985 in Wiesbaden, Germany) is a Formula One race car driver. He is the son of Finnish 1982 Formula One world champion Keke Rosberg, but races under the German flag because of his mother's nationality. He won 2005 GP2 Series for the ART team, having raced in Formula Three Euroseries previously for his father's team.

Rosberg was always going to be connected to motorsport due to his heritage, and the fact it had run in the family previous to his birth. He started out in karting in 1996, at the age of eleven, before moving up to German Formula BMW in 2002. He won the title confidently in Formula BMW, resulting in a move to drive for Keke's team in Formula Three Euroseries, the series being a combination of the several national Formula Three championships which had existed previous to its formation. Nico did well there, and stayed on for 2004.

In 2005 Nico joined the ART Grand Prix team in the newly created GP2 Series. Nico had an excellent year, and went on to capture to drivers championship in the series. GP2 is supposed to be a level playing field, with all cars equal. Some claim that Nico was aided by his team being able to find speed in the car that others could not. Patrick Head of WilliamsF1 rubbishes that claim however, having stated that he has heard from "someone in authority" that ART had no car advantage[1].

Rosberg is tipped to have a bright future. In November 2005, Rosberg was officially confirmed as a WilliamsF1 driver for the 2006 season. In the first Formula 1 race of his young career in Bahrain, he not only placed in the points (he was seventh behind teammate Mark Webber), he also recorded the fastest lap. This was an amazing achievement considering that this was his first ever F1 race and that he was driving a car which was not considered competitive enough to get to the podium.


Trivia
-Despite being only 20 years old, he has already started more races than his father did.
-In 2002 he became the youngest man ever to drive a grand prix car, when aged just 17, he tested for Williams BMW.

[Monseratto]

It could have been 1-2 for Ferrari, Massa is still adjusting on what to do....if that were Reubens sure it was a diffferent story, coz alam na ni Barichello papel nya nung asa Ferrari pa sya. Di sana napalampas si Alonso...

Great team performance for Renault, galing ng phase and pit crews, this i think is the play of the day for me yung last pit ni Alonso then paglabas nya wheel to wheel sila ni Schumi going to 1st turn.

Very promising yung pinakita ni Nico Rosberg being a rookie at that....


Team McLaren is also showing power as they share the lead with Renault on the Team Standings, Kimi on 3rd and JPM on 5th. IMO, this is the tandem to watchout...

Toyota is a disappointment also and they blame it on Bridgestone as they claim, nothing is wring with their cars.....

Rosberg started the race in the last position after a collision in the first corner yet fininshed in the points, while Massa also started in almost in the same position after the Ferrari pit stop foul up but made no impression in the race. I think Toyota didn't do their homework on their tires, Williams-Cosworth also switched to Bridgestone but got two cars up in the points.

[wrcastro_ph]

Pero sa tingin ko.. relatively ay the same pa din ang mangyayari next week. Kasi halos same ang weather temperature ng Bharain and Malaysia. Saka ang track design medyo similar, mas maikli lang ang long straight ng Malaysia.

Pero solid McLaren talaga ako since the time Mika Hakkinen.

[JohnM]

Williams is also using a "seamless shift" tranny from Cosworth. It's supposed to be worth an average of 0.4 seconds per lap.

[jeff1101]

Pero sa tingin ko.. relatively ay the same pa din ang mangyayari next week. Kasi halos same ang weather temperature ng Bharain and Malaysia. Saka ang track design medyo similar, mas maikli lang ang long straight ng Malaysia.

Pero solid McLaren talaga ako since the time Mika Hakkinen.

I dont think so. Bahrain is mostly hot and dry while Sepang (Malaysia) is going to be hot and humid with different effects on the engines. Also the Bahrain cars had difficulty with respect to sand and dust damage which will be negligible in the Sepang track.

[BoyFerrari]

Cosworth have years of experience in building V8 engines for other races as well. Surely enough, their engine would be very competitive.

That's one reason why Jenson Button didn't want to return to Williams, because of the Cosworth engine. He said he will have no chance running for the title on a Cosworth.

[BoyFerrari]

onga about rosberg...am pogi pogi pa niya....ahay!

Sa biglang tingin akala ko nga si Leonardo DiCaprio eh. Hehe. Ayyy, tita!

[BoyFerrari]

Toyota- Very disappointing result for this team as they showed good pace last year.

Did you see in the race when a Toro Rosso overtook a Toyota? I think it was Ralph Schumacher on the wheel.