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  • F1 Gallery forum down with MySQL problems

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    I have contacted tech support at the hosting company and hope to have it resolved soon. Update: Fixed now. [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2008, 11:00pm EST
    by Farzad

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    Posted: July 24, 2008, 6:11pm EDT
    by wingnutsc

  • @ Grand Prix du Montreal

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    I’m not a very good blogger because I’ve been in Montreal for 2 days now and I’ve posted nothing. To be honest there is just too much to do so I’ll post some picstures and thoughts when I get back home. [...]
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    Posted: June 07, 2008, 6:41pm EDT
    by Farzad

  • Wired Online covers F1 Spy-gate

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    Over at Wired.com they have posted an in depth article on last years spy-gate and it’s an interesting read. I always like to read how non-F1 media covers our sport. http://www.wired.com/cars/coolwheels/magazine/16-06/ff_formulaone [...]
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    Posted: May 20, 2008, 12:50pm EDT
    by Farzad

  • F1 Gallery down again!

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    farzadsf1gallery.com is down again. I’m working on fixing it. Yes it’s my fault. [...]
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    Posted: May 19, 2008, 11:09am EDT
    by Farzad

  • Danica Patrick Wins!

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    Danica Patrick got her first win in Indy Cars and has become the first woman to do so in a major motorsports open wheel racing series. I wrote about women in F1 back on day 29 of the Countdown. [...]
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    Posted: April 21, 2008, 6:01pm EDT
    by Farzad

  • 0 Days Until the 2008 Australian GP

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    We dedicate this day to the hundreds and thousands of talented drivers out there who have yet to make it into Formula One, who are dreaming of being on the grid one day. Keep the faith, keep pushing, and above all - keep racing! [...]
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    Posted: March 15, 2008, 1:07am EDT
    by Farzad

  • 1 Days Until the 2008 Australian GP

    One is for Formula One, the pinnacle of single seater, open-wheel racing. Since the first Formula One World Championship race in Silverstone 1950, 804 drivers have made it to the big show. 79 of them didn’t actually start a Grand Prix, but they took part nonetheless. Of the 725 that [...]
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    Posted: March 14, 2008, 10:45am EDT
    by Farzad

  • 3 Days Until the 2008 Australian GP

    Peter Gethin came across the finish line in the lead just three times in his Formula One career. This in itself is not very special, since many drivers have led three or more laps. However, one of these three laps was the final lap of the 1971 Italian Grand Prix, [...]
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    Posted: March 12, 2008, 4:20am EDT
    by Farzad

  • 4 Days Until the 2008 Australian GP

    [singlepic=4,150,,,left]Since the team started in 1991, Jordan has won four races. It took until 1998 before the first win arrived. In a rain soaked Spa-Francorchamps, Damon Hill secured the team’s first win. This happened after one of the biggest pile-ups in Formula One history at the first start, where 15 [...]
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    Posted: March 11, 2008, 1:27am EDT
    by Farzad

  • 5 Days Until the 2008 Australian GP

    [singlepic=2,150,,,right]Between 1989 and 1995 Bertrand Gachot scored five points in Formula One. He started his career with the Onyx team but failed to pre-qualify for the first six races. Finally in the French Grand Prix he made his race debut with a 13th place finish. In the final two races [...]
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    Posted: March 10, 2008, 12:00am EDT
    by Farzad

  • 8 Days Until the 2008 Australian GP

    McLaren has won the Constructors’ Championship eight times, ranking third behind Ferrari (15) and Williams (9). The first championship came in 1974 when Emerson Fittipaldi’s driver title formed the basis of McLaren’s championship. The Brazilian scored 55 of the 73 points for the team. However, it wasn’t until the last [...]
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    Posted: March 09, 2008, 11:59pm EDT
    by Farzad

  • 9 Days Until the 2008 Australian GP

    In its 21-year history Ligier scored nine wins. The first of these came in Ligier's second season. In the 1977 Swedish Grand Prix, Jacques Laffite kept his head cool after a mediocre start that saw him drop from eight to eleventh. As others before him developed problems, Laffite got further [...]
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    Posted: March 09, 2008, 11:54pm EDT
    by Farzad

  • 2008 Grid Bids now open

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    The Grid Bids site has been updated and is now open to take your bids for the season opener in Australia. http://www.gridbids.com/ Grid Bids is an F1 picks game that tries to reward skill over luck. For each race you get 30 points and you can pick as many drivers as [...]
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    Posted: March 04, 2008, 1:45pm EST
    by Farzad

  • 14 Days Until the 2008 Australian GP

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    The heavy rain coming down in Adelaide on 3 November 1991 meant the Australian Grand Prix was red flagged after just 14 laps, making it the shortest Grand Prix in Formula One history. As the race got underway, it was immediately apparent that the circumstances didn't allow for a normal [...]
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    Posted: March 01, 2008, 2:39pm EST
    by Farzad

  • 16 Days Until the 2008 Australian GP

    Stirling Moss started from pole position in 16 races between 1955 and 1961. Moss first achieved pole position in his home Grand Prix in 1955, driving for Mercedes. He went on to win the race, also scoring his maiden win. At the next British Grand Prix, Moss was again fastest [...]
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    Posted: February 28, 2008, 9:04pm EST
    by Farzad

  • 17 Days Until the 2008 Australian GP

    After a very bad Canadian Grand Prix in 1968, Jackie Stewart started a very impressive sequence of 17 races in which he led at least one lap. The first race of the series immediately set the tone. Starting from second, Stewart grabbed the lead directly and never looked back. The [...]
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    Posted: February 27, 2008, 3:49am EST
    by Farzad

  • 19 Days Until the 2008 Australian GP

    Between the 2001 US Grand Prix and the 2002 Japanese Grand Prix, Michael Schumacher set a record that’s unlikely to be broken any time soon. The German stood on the podium for 19 consecutive races, more than twice as much as the previous record holders Jim Clark, Niki Lauda and [...]
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    Posted: February 25, 2008, 11:44pm EST
    by Farzad

  • 21 Days Until the 2008 Australian GP

    Today we have a guest blog from Keith Collantine of F1 Fanatic. If you would like to contribute then just drop me a line. It’s 21 days to go until the Australian Grand Prix and there have also been 21 world championship Grands Prix in Australia since the race was [...]
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    Posted: February 23, 2008, 1:02pm EST
    by Farzad

  • 22 Days Until the 2008 Australian GP

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    John Watson was the winner of the 1983 USA-West Grand Prix at Long Beach. Starting from 22nd on the grid, this is win from the worst grid position in history. The first half of the 1983 season was a matter of waiting until the TAG Porsche turbo engine was ready. [...]
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    Posted: February 22, 2008, 3:16pm EST
    by Farzad

  • 25 Days Until the 2008 Australian GP

    Unlike today, there was a time when there were so many teams trying to qualify for a Formula One race that pre-qualification was needed. Gabrielle Tarquini has the dubious record of being the driver that failed to pre-qualify the most times. He failed to pre-qualify in 25 races. Pre-qualifying consisted [...]
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    Posted: February 20, 2008, 1:14am EST
    by Farzad

  • 27 Days Until the 2008 Australian GP

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    The number 27 will always occupy a special place in Formula One history. Since Gilles Villeneuve displayed his unique style with that number in 1981 and 1982, the number is rarely thought of without thinking of the Canadian. That this didn’t have much to do with success, shows in the [...]
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    Posted: February 18, 2008, 5:21am EST
    by Farzad

  • 29 Days Until the 2008 Australian GP

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    While Formula One is predominantly a men only affair, several women have competed with the boys over the years. In total women participated in a Formula One race 29 times. The first woman to participate in a World Championship race was Italian Maria Teresa de Filippis, who entered a private [...]
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    Posted: February 15, 2008, 2:05am EST
    by Farzad

  • 31 Days Until the 2008 Australian GP

    Nigel Mansell was an improbable Formula 1 star. After paying his way through lower formulae, with little encouragement from his family and less from sponsors, suffering a broken neck and back, Mansell finally impressed at a test with the Lotus F1 team. Although he was not generally well thought of [...]
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    Posted: February 12, 2008, 10:30pm EST
    by Waldorf

  • 33 Days Until the 2008 Australian GP

    Since Mika Salo made his debut in the 1994 Japanese Grand Prix he drove for five different teams and scored a total of 33 points. He finished in the points 16 times but only three times higher than fifth position. Salo scored his first points in the 1995 Italian Grand [...]
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    Posted: February 11, 2008, 5:10pm EST
    by Farzad

  • 35 Days Until the 2008 Australian GP

    In the five years between transforming from Ligier and folding at the end of the 2001 season, the Prost team scored 35 points. The majority of these points were scored in the team’s first year, 1997. Olivier Panis started the season very well with a fifth place in Australia and [...]
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    Posted: February 09, 2008, 3:49am EST
    by Farzad

  • 36 Days Until the 2008 Australian GP

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    Between 1989 and 1997, Japanese engine manufacturer Yamaha scored 36 points in Formula One. Yamaha made their F1 debut with the German Zakspeed team in 1989 but they only managed to qualify twice. In all the other races the team failed to even pre-qualify. After the disastrous 1989 season Yamaha [...]
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    Posted: February 07, 2008, 10:37pm EST
    by Farzad

  • Silverstone in the news again

    With all this talk about Silverstone and the British GP I thought I would post a link to a blog entry from last year about the whole sordid story. [...]
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    Posted: February 07, 2008, 8:35pm EST
    by Farzad

  • The Y Series: There’s a Reason They Call Them Fanatics

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    Fan is short for fanatic. Fanaticism is “marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea.” Nowadays there is a distinction between being a fan and a fanatic, but the line between the two can be all too easy to cross. Such was he case this [...]
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    Posted: February 05, 2008, 4:07pm EST
    by wingnutsc

  • 38 Days Until the 2008 Australian GP

    Giancarlo Minardi founded his racing team in 1979 and following several years racing in F2 the Italian took his team to F1 in 1985. In one form or another the team  (and name) survived through to the 2005 season. In those 21 seasons Minardi scored a total of 38 points. [...]
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    Posted: February 05, 2008, 1:32am EST
    by Farzad

  • 40 Days Until the 2008 Australian GP

    Emanuele Pirro is best known for his stellar sports car career, including 5 wins at the 24 Hours of Le Mans but most fans forget he had a brief stint in F1 from 1989 to 1991. He was present at 40 races over those years but only qualified to start [...]
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    Posted: February 04, 2008, 1:27am EST
    by Farzad

  • 41 Days Until the 2008 Australian GP

    With his 41 wins, Ayrton Senna ranks third behind Michael Schumacher (91) and Alain Prost (51). The Brazilian started his winning in 1985 at Estoril, when he won the rain soaked Portuguese Grand Prix in his Lotus. Later in the season he added a second victory when he dominated in [...]
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    Posted: February 02, 2008, 10:22pm EST
    by Farzad

  • Fangio at the Nurburgring in 1957

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    OK I’ll be honest. We couldn’t come up with anything for 43 and 42. If you have suggestions leave a comment or drop me a line. So instead I’ll post some video clips. Earlier this week I mentioned Fangio’s stunning drive at the 1957 German GP. Here is some video. [...]
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    Posted: February 02, 2008, 7:13am EST
    by Farzad

  • 44 Days Until the 2008 Australian GP

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    From 1989 onwards a race at Spa-Francorchamps has been 44 laps long. From the seventeen races held between 1989 and today, Michael Schumacher has won six. In 1992 he won his first F1 race at the Belgian circuit exactly one year after he made his F1 debut. He also won [...]
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    Posted: January 31, 2008, 8:10am EST
    by Farzad

  • 45 Days Until the 2008 Australian GP

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    A driver may be quick, may have great car control, may make witty remarks in press conferences, and may date a string of underwear models. But the real name of the game is winning races and championships. In the history of the Formula One World Championship so far, only 45 [...]
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    Posted: January 30, 2008, 12:24pm EST
    by Waldorf

  • 46 Days Until the 2008 Australian GP

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    Many consider Juan Manual Fangio to be the greatest driver of all time and his achievements were impressive in any era. What seems most astonishing is that he achieved such greatness late in life having won his first World Driver’s Championship at the age 40 in 1951 and his last [...]
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    Posted: January 29, 2008, 12:37pm EST
    by Farzad

  • Countdown to Australia

    Over the next 47 days I plan on counting down to the first race of the 2008 season by posting something significant about the number that represents the days left until the season starts. I wish I could post something everyday but I probably won’t have time to research and [...]
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    Posted: January 27, 2008, 10:51pm EST
    by Farzad

  • Schumacher shines in MotoGP test

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    Last week Michael Schumacher set a lap time just 5 seconds shy of the times set by top riders in MotoGP. Schumacher rode Casey Stoner’s Ducati GP7 around the Valencia track just five seconds slower than Dani Pedrosa’s fastest lap during the final race of the season. Five seconds off the [...]
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    Posted: November 15, 2007, 2:00am EST
    by Farzad

  • Is there a silver lining to the spy scandal?

    Number of comments: 10
    Think of it this way, if McLaren had not cheated then the driver’s championship wouldn’t be so close and Ferrari would be running away with it. Maybe McLaren did the fans a favour by cheating. [...]
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    Posted: September 16, 2007, 1:31pm EDT
    by Farzad

  • Is he for real?

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    I haven’t blogged much since the start of the season. I’m certainly following the season just as intently as I have any other season and I haven’t given up on F1 as someone suggested in an email wondering why I don’t post more items on the blog. To be honest [...]
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    Posted: August 29, 2007, 1:07pm EDT
    by Farzad

  • Farzad’s F1 Gallery is down

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    Due to a .. umm .. technical reason the F1 Gallery is down. It’ll be back very soon. Sorry. [...]
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    Posted: August 11, 2007, 2:08am EDT
    by Farzad

  • Marshall the Marshal

    Number of comments: 6
    If you’re an F1 fan you owe it to yourself to read this story by a track marshal at the Canadian GP this year. He is a fan like any of us but he also works as a marshal so he has a unique perspective which I hope you enjoy reading [...]
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    Posted: June 15, 2007, 3:09am EDT
    by Farzad

  • A/V Odds ‘n Ends

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    A few audio and video clips I’ve been meaning to post for some time. Classic Senna followed by the McLaren team in a candid moment followed by Classic Montoya. Enjoy. [...]
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    Posted: May 05, 2007, 7:11pm EDT
    by Farzad

  • BMW bring F1 back to the ‘Ring

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    Nick Heidfeld drove his BMW F1.07 around the fabled 20.8km Nurburgring Nordschleife on Saturday April 28th. This was a demonstration event which meant the car was equipped with hard demonstration tyres and ran with increased ride height but otherwise the car was in full race trim. The team had instructed [...]
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    Posted: April 28, 2007, 6:05pm EDT
    by Farzad

  • JV on CBC’s The Hour

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    A few days ago Jacques Villeneuve was interviewed on The Hour which is a Canadian Broadcasting Corp. show. It wasn’t an earth shattering interview except that JV made no attempt to hide the fact that he wants to race in NASCAR. Also I realized tonight that the man has absolutely no [...]
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    Posted: April 04, 2007, 2:22am EDT
    by Farzad

  • The Y Series: Australia was just the appetizer

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    In previous seasons, the pre-European rounds of the championship were quite foretelling of the season to come, especially in the past decade. Ferrari best exemplifies this. Typically, Michael Schumacher would have a 15-20 point lead by the time cars turned a single race lap on European soil. This lead would [...]
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    Posted: March 24, 2007, 3:14am EDT
    by wingnutsc

  • Is this the best F1 commercial ever?

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    Number of comments: 10
    You be the judge … Now can you guess the year and model of each car in that commercial? I’ll take a guess: 1. 1952-1953, 500 S4 (first Ferrari championship winner) 2. 1966, 312 V12 3. 1970-1971, 312B V12 4. 1997, F310B V10 5. 2003, F2003GA V10 6. 2006, F248 V8 Thoughts? [...]
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    Posted: March 24, 2007, 2:29am EDT
    by Farzad

  • What on Earth is going on at Honda?

    For the second year on the bounce, it looks as if Honda are set to make a slow start to the new Formula One campaign, with the team admitting that their new RA107 car has fallen short of expectations. “At the moment we are ahead of Red Bull and Toyota, but [...]
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    Posted: March 24, 2007, 12:31am EDT
    by Richard
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