The Force India is set to be launched today! There will be more on the blog when the car is launched later today.
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The Art of F1: Is the era of sponsor-based liveries over?
Tom Bellingham, a guest poster over at The Art of F1 looks at if the era of sponsor-based liveries is over: “So it looks like the time of classic F1 liveries are over…. or is it? This year colour has come back into the sport with a bang, most noticeably with the new Renault. Many people wondered why Renault didn’t use black and yellow in the first place but of course, they went for team sponsors colours instead. It is a real shame it took the spy scandal, resulting in ING leaving the team, for Renault to go back to their classic colours. Just looking at the testing photos you can see how much the Renault stands out on track and I, like many others, think it looks brilliant.”
Motor Sport Musings: And the Next World Rally Champion is…
Dank tells us who he thinks will win the 2010 World Rally Championship: “The World Rally Championship season commences at Sweden this weekend, and with six titles under his belt already, is there anyone out there who can stop Sebastien Loeb, the undisputed king of modern rallying?”
William F1 Team: Golf adopts Formula One Technology in Unique Williams License Agreement
A press release from the Williams F1 team displaying details of the team’s new license agreement with Williams Sports, a US golf equipment company. Being a golfer myself, this is interesting stuff! “The purpose of the partnership is to inject Williams F1’s Formula One technology into the design and manufacture of Williams Sports’ golfing equipment. The initial areas of technical partnership are in the aerodynamic profiling of golf club shafts, ferrules and heads, and the application of composites and alloys materials science in club design.”
Comment of the day
Today’s comment of the day goes to james for his noting of the change in Kimi Raikkonen’s behaviour since moving to WRC, on my What F1 could learn from rallying post. Well done James!
“fantastic post,I agree in rallying far more freedom no silly politics and not be run by a dictator this is why kimi left f1 its a more relaxed enviornment,no politics teams get on well and the fans get to meet there heroes,since kimi has left f1 he has been a lot more relaxed and has been smiling a lot,f1 is losing touch with the fans in my opinion”
james
On the forum
Yesterday I launched An F1 Blog’s 2010 predictions league! It has an amazing prize if you win! All the details of the league are on the About page in the Predictions League section of the forum.
Pics of the day
Today’s pic of the day is of Norweigan WRC driver Petter Solberg demonstrating his new red & yellow livery. More on this livery here.
Blast from the past
The very successful Red Bull RB5 was launched on this day last year in Jerez. This is an image of Sebastian Vettel sat in the garage during the car’s debut test. The car was arguably the best designed of 2009, and many of the features have inspired the cars which will be sat on the grid this year.
For those who didn’t recognise Seb Vettel’s helmet in this image when I posted a clue to today’s blast from the past pic of the day on Twitter, this is the helmet he used for the opening races of the season. It is known as the ‘disco’ helmet.
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Yey the blog has been linked. Congrats to Tom, it was a great article
I’ve never been much of a fan of that helmet from Seb but I strangely like his eyes in that picture. He looks completely determined.