[F1] Nieuwtjes topic deel #52; Schumi is (almost) back!

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Op maandag 17 augustus 2009 20:04 schreef Schunckelstar het volgende:
zeker ook voor alle spanjaarden die speciaal voor alonso een kaartje hebben gekocht

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Officieel: Grosjean vervangt Piquet bij Renault

[18-08-2009] Renault heeft bevestigd dat Romain Grosjean het stuur overneemt van Nelson Piquet.

Later meer...

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Op dinsdag 18 augustus 2009 10:34 schreef Atreidez het volgende:
Iemand een idee wie Grosjean gaat vervangen bij Barwa Addox in de GP2?

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Massa targets Brazilian GP comeback

Felipe Massa is targeting a comeback at this year's Brazilian Grand Prix as he continues to make good progress in his recovery from the head injury he sustained in Hungary three weeks ago.

The Brazilian sustained a brain concussion and damage to his skull and left eye after being struck on the helmet by a spring that had fallen out of Rubens Barrichello's car.

Massa is now recovering at home after being released from the Albert Einstein hospital in Sao Paulo two weeks ago, and is hoping to return to Formula 1 as soon as possible - targeting his home race in October.

"I cannot wait to race again, I hope I can do the Brazilian Grand Prix," Massa told Brazilian television channel Globo. "But it's not for me to say, it's for the doctors, and I have to show I can be ready for the grand prix."

He will have to pass an FIA medical test and an eye examination before he will be allowed back into a Formula 1 car.

"I think I am going to do some laps in a go-kart beforehand, then I will go to the FIA to do the examinations and get the authorisation to come back to racing."

Massa says he has no recollections of the accident itself, and just remembers waking up in the hospital in Hungary.

"I lived the accident, but I slept," he said. "I didn't see the spring. Many people ask me: 'the spring came, did you not see it?' But I didn't see it hit me, I didn't see anything. The spring just hit my head and I slept. The car crashed and I carried on accelerating but it almost wasn't me that was doing it. It looks like I move my hands, but I was sleeping.

"When I woke in hospital, I felt that everything was working. I saw that my eye was really really big, but I was breathing and thinking. I could move my arms, I could move my legs, I could move everything."

He confirmed that Barrichello feels no guilt over the incident after he was visited at home by his fellow Brazilian last week.

"Not at all," Massa added. "He didn't even know that I was behind him. It's not a problem at all. We are really good friends and what happened was going to happen, it could have been the spring from anyone."

Massa also said he had been touched by the response from his fans in his native Brazil.

"I had an idea, but the moment I got back to Brazil after the accident everyone was clapping me and shouting and hoping for me to get better and come back and race," he said. "It's a unique feeling and I keep saying 'thank you' all the time."

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Op dinsdag 18 augustus 2009 14:29 schreef Trystar het volgende:

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Op dinsdag 18 augustus 2009 14:33 schreef bodylotion het volgende:
Hoezo is Grosjean eigenlijk Frans?

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Op dinsdag 18 augustus 2009 15:08 schreef wel.o.k het volgende:

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hij is er niet geboren (swiss) maar rijdt onder de vlag.
edit: hij heeft een dubbele nationaliteit.

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Grosjean says he's a French driver, not Swiss
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Romain Grosjean has clarified that, as a Formula One driver, he considers himself French rather than Swiss.

The 23-year-old, promoted to replace Nelson Piquet at Renault for the balance of the 2009 season, was actually born and still resides in Geneva, moving the Swiss media this week to hail Switzerland's second current F1 racer alongside Sebastien Buemi.

But keen eyed and eared observers will have seen only the French flag on Grosjean's overalls and heard only 'La Marseillaise' on the podium after his GP2 race wins.

Grosjean, whose father is Swiss and mother is French, holds duel citizenship and has both a Swiss and French passport, but his racing license is issued by the French federation FFSA.

"In motor sport, my nationality is clearly French, because all of the support in my career was coming from France, never from Switzerland," he is quoted as saying by the Swiss daily newspaper Le Matin.

Grosjean added this week: "Renault has supported me since 2006 and it was only with their help that I could afford to continue racing."

It is reported that until the age of 14, when he began his motor racing career, Grosjean was headed for a future in skiing, until his father baulked at the rising influence of doping in the winter sport.

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Op woensdag 19 augustus 2009 08:15 schreef Googolplexian het volgende:

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Op woensdag 19 augustus 2009 09:55 schreef wel.o.k het volgende:

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kijk dat maakt het duidelijk.
en wat betreft doping, daar hoor je echt nooit wat van in F1, net als "supporters" relletjes.
mooie sport toch hé?

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Kimi Raikkonen is rumoured to be leaving Ferrari at the end of the season to compete in the 2010 World Rally Championship.

The rumours are strengthened by the fact that both Fiat and Volkswagen have confirmed they will be entering the series next year. According to the Financial Times, Neil Duncanson, chairman of the TV company North One (who own the WRC series) has confirmed that Fiat and Volkswagen will be replacing Subaru and Suzuki.

Having tried his hand at WRC in a Fiat Punto earlier this year, it would not come as a shock to many if the Finnish driver chose to leave Ferrari a year early and make the move to WRB. Although Raikkonen is currently contracted to Ferrari until the end of 2010, many believe that the team may offer him a deal which would allow him to leave F1 and pave the way for Alonso to replace him. If rumours are to be believed, Ferrari have already offered the Spanish driver a £175 million contract to drive for Ferrari from 2010.

Raikkonen recently participated in Rally Finland. His Fiat Grande Punto suffered from engine trouble and although he eventually crashed out of the race, Raikkonen ended up finishing in 15th place and his performance was praised by many,

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Op woensdag 19 augustus 2009 09:58 schreef Googolplexian het volgende:

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Je weet niet meer dat Amerikanen stoeltjes op de baan gooiden? Of Spanjolen die als apen verkleed een bepaalde coureur en z'n familie beledigden?

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Op woensdag 19 augustus 2009 09:58 schreef Googolplexian het volgende:

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Je weet niet meer dat Amerikanen stoeltjes op de baan gooiden? Of Spanjolen die als apen verkleed een bepaalde coureur en z'n familie beledigden?

Verder met je eens, hoor ... jammer alleen dat het meeste gezeik meestal van de organisatie komt (teams en sport). Ach ... dat helpt ons weer de winter door

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Op woensdag 19 augustus 2009 10:31 schreef bodylotion het volgende:

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deze bedoel je?

(let ook hoe ze family gespeld hebben _)

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Op woensdag 19 augustus 2009 12:42 schreef Schunckelstar het volgende:

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dat vind ik eerlijk gezegd weinig racistisch... sterker nog, ik denk zelfs dat het fans zijn van hamilton. ik heb mensen er wel vreemder bij zien lopen tijdens een f1 weekend

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Op woensdag 19 augustus 2009 13:44 schreef Trystar het volgende:
Ik kwam gisteren de docu 'Eddie Irvine Living the fast life' tegen op internet, gelijk gedownload en gekeken. Wat een held is die Irvine toch. Het ging over het jaar 1999 waarin hij mee doet om de wereldtitel. ^{[Schumacher had z'n been gebroken in Silverstone, dus Eddie was nu eerste rijder]}
We missen vandaag de dag toch wel echte persoonlijkheden in de Formule 1 zoals Irvine.

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Op woensdag 19 augustus 2009 13:57 schreef bodylotion het volgende:

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heb je daar een link van?