*wijzigingen onder voorbehoudquote:16 March Australia
23 March Malaysia
6 April Bahrain
27 April Spain
11 May Turkey
25 May Monaco
8 June Canada *
22 June France
6 July Great Britain
20 July Germany
3 August Hungary
24 August** Europe ***
7 September Belgium
14 September Italy
28 September** Singapore
12 October Japan
19 October China
2 November Brazil
* Provisional.
** Subject to circuit approval.
*** The 2008 European Grand Prix will take place in Valencia.
Bronquote:Tost tipped off stewards about video
Scuderia Toro Rosso team principal Franz Tost has confirmed that he approached the race stewards in China to complain about Lewis Hamilton's driving behind the safety car in Japan.
Tost said he was spurred into speaking to the stewards after being made aware of a Youtube video of the incident behind the safety car when his driver Sebastian Vettel ran into the back of Mark Webber.
The video shows Hamilton slowing down on the right hand side of the track, with Webber then braking on the left hand side before Vettel slides into the back of him.
Speaking to autosport.com, Tost said that he believes the video showed Hamilton's driving was not correct.
"You could see quite clearly that Hamilton slows down quite unexpectedly," said Tost.
"Look at the video. Sebastian would have had to have gone between the cars (Webber and Hamilton) and there was no chance. It was totally unexpected. It looked like Hamilton was stopping, that is why I went to the stewards."
Tost has made it clear, however, that his motivation for visiting the stewards was more to see Vettel's 10-place grid penalty for causing the accident annulled, rather than seeing Hamilton punished.
"If anything I want to see Vettel's grid penalty taken away because it is totally unfair," he said.
Ik houd het op Webber en een beetje Vettel (alsof Webber niet weet dat hij tussen rookies rijdt):quote:Op donderdag 4 oktober 2007 23:53 schreef Bernard0s het volgende:
Vettel zijn eigen schuld. De baan is breed genoeg, gewoon dom om zo vlak achter Webber te rijden. Hamilton deed ook niks verkeerd mijn inziens. Gewoon een beginnersfout van Vettel, verder niet voor gaan straffen, dat zou triest zijn.
en dan nog de fijne dollar koers ten opzichte van de euro :\quote:Spyker completes sale of F1 team
Fri 5 Oct 2007, 6:24 GMT
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Struggling Dutch sports car maker Spyker Cars NV has reached a final agreement to sell its Formula One team to a consortium for 88 million euros, it said on Friday.
"Today, after signing of the official documentation, management of the Spyker Formula One Team has been handed over to the new owners: Orange India Holdings," Spyker said, referring to a consortium which includes Indian businessman Vijay Mallya.
The sports car maker said it would now focus on finalising its strategic review and the related refinancing.
Spyker bought the Formula One team from Midland for $106.6 million last year. The team made a 13 million euro loss in the first half of the year, lifting Spyker's overall loss to 29.9 million euros from 1.1 million in the year-ago period.
Spyker shares closed at 3.00 euros on Thursday, a fraction of the 52-week high of 21.60 euros they touched on November 22, 2006.
Dus zit Hamilton gewoon weg fout, maar er zal wel weer niks uitkomen. Anders zal de FIA een en al gezeik krijgen van de McLarens fans dat ze alles voor Ferrari doen en volledig tegen McLaren zijn.quote:Stewards onderzoeken Hamiltons rijgedrag
Webber klaagt over McLaren-coureur
[04-10] Lewis Hamilton is momenteel 'under investigation' voor zijn rijgedrag tijdens de tweede safetycar-fase in Japan. De Brit reed allesbehalve constant, tot onvrede van Mark Webber, die even later botste met Sebastian Vettel.
Hamilton zou zich niet aan de regels hebben gehouden.De FIA zou nieuw bewijs hebben gevonden, al is niet helemaal duidelijk wat dit precies is. Wel is uit een videofilmpje, gemaakt vanaf de tribunes en later geplaatst op YouTube, vast komen te staan dat de McLaren-coureur hard remde, wat mogelijk de inleiding vormde voor de botsing tussen Webber en de achteropkomende Vettel.
Volgens Autosport.com zou Hamilton zich vrijdag bij de stewards op het circuit in China moeten melden. De regels schrijven voor dat de wedstrijdleider een constante afstand van vijf wagenlengtes moet houden van de safetycar tot de ronde voordat deze naar binnen gaat.
Mogelijk zijn de stewards van mening dat Hamilton zich hier niet aan heeft gehouden. Omdat Vettel als schuldige van het ongeval werd aangewezen, moet hij in Shanghai na de kwalificatie tien startplaatsen inleveren.
Komt het toch allemaal weer goedquote:Op vrijdag 5 oktober 2007 16:06 schreef sasquatsch het volgende:
Beide coureurs krijgen geen straf vanwege de extreme weersomstandigheden, die ten tijde van de tweede safetycar erger waren dan bij de start van de race (aldus F1-Live.com). Er wordt dus niet gezegd dat ze niet fout zaten, alleen dat ze geen straf krijgen.
quote:Ecclestone: "Hamilton wonder dat F1 nodig had"
06 oktober 2007
Volgens Bernie Ecclestone is Lewis Hamilton het wonder dat de Formule 1 nodig had. Volgens de Brit betekenen Kimi Raikkonen en Fernando Alonso nauwelijks iets voor de sport en hij hoopt daarom ook dat Hamilton dit jaar kampioen wordt.
"Lewis Hamilton is een frisse wind en heeft de Formule 1 doen herleven", vertelde hij aan de Britse krant The Guardian. "Ik zit al langer in de autosport dan ik me wil herinneren, maar ik heb niet eerder iemand als hij gezien. Hij is een wonder. We hebben een grote held als Michael Schumacher verloren, maar met Lewis hebben we een nieuwe. Ik weet niet waar de sport zou zijn zonder hem."
"Het is voor mij pijnlijk duidelijk dat Lewis degene is die kampioen moet worden", vervolgde Ecclestone. "Mijn angst is juist dat hij het niet wordt. Raikkonen praat nauwelijks met iemand en heeft nauwelijks iets aan de sport bijgedragen. Alonso heeft in zijn twee jaar als wereldkampioen aan de promotie van de sport gedaan. Als Lewis het kampioenschap wint, gedraagt hij zich ook echt als een kampioen. Hij weet exact wat er van hem verwacht wordt en wat hij moet doen."
Hamilton kan dit weekend in China de titel naar zich toe trekken. De McLaren-rijder ligt twaalf punten voor op Alonso en zeventien op Raikkonen.
quote:Alonso slams McLaren near end of nightmare season
''I have another ten teams that could be interested in me''
06/10/07 16:03
Fernando Alonso on Saturday afternoon seemed to uncork a wave of intense frustration as he spoke to journalists from his native Spain.
After oddly qualifying six-tenths behind McLaren team-mate and title leader Lewis Hamilton in Shanghai, the reigning world champion did not try hard to hide his suspicion that the Woking based team had deliberately slowed down his single seater.
"I am really interested to know where I have lost this time, because I do not think I have lost six-tenths in the other 100 laps that I have done this weekend," he said, according to the news agency EFE.
Alonso answered 'no' when specifically asked if he suspects McLaren of sabotage, but he also said he has 'no idea' if he has been weighed down with much more fuel than pole-sitter Hamilton.
He was rebuked on Friday by team boss Ron Dennis for saying he would 'not answer' a question about whether he expects equal treatment at the penultimate race of 2007.
Alonso added after qualifying: "I don't know. I am not going to make a comment about this after each session.
"If I was three or four thousandths behind, it doesn't mean anything - it could be small differences in fuel levels or small details such as that.
"But six or seven tenths... I can't remember any time that I was so far behind anybody. That was the strange thing about (today).
"If you have not had a good weekend, you say 'okay, I did not get comfortable with the car, with this corner'... but I have been fast all weekend, also in qualifying one and two.
"To be so far behind in qualifying three - I am the most surprised of all."
Alonso was asked how much optimism he will now carry to Sunday's grid.
"None. Very little. You are fourth, you have to recover so many points, hope for the rain, hope for the others to have problems and you have the luck to finish," he said.
Alonso was also critical of the 'atmosphere' he encounters at McLaren at every race, and accused Ron Dennis and his other bosses of planting negative stories about him in the German and British press.
"When I joined the team, I hoped for more. I arrived with two world championships, we have improved the car as much as we can - last year they were struggling to go into qualifying three and this year then are going to win the championship.
"The truth is that the treatment has not been very good."
Alonso seemed particularly bitter about Dennis, a day after the McLaren Team Principal said he was 'disappointed' that the Spaniard had not defended the team's principles of equality.
"Sometimes it is better to shut up than to lie," Alonso responded on Saturday. "And if he did that more often, I believe his team would be a better one.
"I believe that many of the things and the scandals that have occurred this year have been caused by him.
"I have spoken a lot with Coulthard, Montoya, with Kimi, and all of them left the team and found great happiness. There must be something.
"If something is going to improve, it has to start with them (the team). You always hear about, or I am always told about, the so-called equality of the team.
"It is impossible to have it in Formula One - there is always a better engine, a better lap to stop, always a better something or other."
Alonso is staunchly quiet about his plans for 2008, but he said he hopes to be able to prepare for next year 'soon'.
"Sometimes, by the things you hear or the actions, it seems like they also do not have any desire (to continue together). I don't have a problem; I have another ten teams that could be interested in me.
"Staying here... it is necessary to look at whether it is the best thing to do or not," he said.
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