Stefano Domenicali on Kubica coming to ferrari.
Boullier still wants him back.
Bernie Ecclestone on vettel
how wrong can one person be.....
texas is not out yet.
many lols for you.
From Russia With Love
Vitaly Petrov has apologised after his outburst on Russian TV following the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. The Renault driver was bitterly disappointed and thought that strategy mistakes had cost him a points finish and that his team weren't up to the job. Team boss Eric Boullier says that he understands the Russian's frustrations: "The race was tough, he was upset not to have scored points, he was exhausted. Drivers are not robots, they're human beings," reasoned Boullier.
"Vitaly has apologised to the team and sent an email to all the staff at Enstone. And I would just like to add that at no time did he say the phrase 'It's the salt mines for you, comrades!'"
Winging It
It was a case of another flappy Ferrari wing in Abu Dhabi as the Scuderia tried hard to match the performance of Red Bull's aero device. Pitlane pundits have pointed out that the emergence of Ferrari's new wing late in the season, has come after Mark Webber crashed his car at Parabolica during the Italian Grand Prix in Monza. After which his front wing never made it back to the pits. A spokesman for the Scuderia denied that they had received it illegally. "But even if we had, what is their slogan anyway. Red Bull gives you wings..."
Meeting The Main Man
British Prime Minister David Cameron visited Woking on Thursday to open the McLaren team's new production centre. The £50m complex is a state-of-the-art facility designed for the production of the McLaren MP4-12C sports car - which is already sold out. He was shown round by McLaren boss Ron Dennis who introduced the prime minister to Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button his two F1 aces who have been battling it out in the 2011 Championship. A spokesman for No.10 said that the trip to McLaren went exceptionally well, apart from a small incident afterwards where Lewis Hamilton tried to get out of the car park first, gesturing to Mr.Cameron and mouthing 'I'm No.1 round here'.
Seen A Camel Wearing A Wig...?
Eddie Jordan's Wig has been talking about his 'almost hair-raising' adventures in Abu Dhabi. As part of the build-up to the qualifying programme, Jake Humphrey and David Coulthard took a ride on Ferrari World's amazing 150mph rollercoaster that has an acceleration of 0-100 mph in two seconds and the cornering ability of a Red Bull. EJW - who is fast establishing a cult following on Twitter - says that he was in fear of being flung out into the middle of the desert by the G-Forces involved and that modern adhesives can only do so much. "EJ said that if we weren't careful I'd land on a camel or be flapping around like a Ferrari front wing and 'nobody wanted to see that' - apart from the whole of the BBC production team and 5 million viewers!" There is a growing Twitter campaign for EJ to loan out EJW to Adrian Newey or Peter Sauber for Children in Need at the Brazilian GP, the final race of the season.
Texas F1 Massacre
The Austin Grand Prix looks in danger of joining a large pile of failed American F1 enterprises stretching back to Carl Haas's ill-fated Beatrice-Lola project. We've had dodgy GPs in Detroit and Dallas, a Mickey Mouse infield at Indianapolis, the worst ever-designed GP circuit in Las Vegas, Scott Speed, and that rootin' tootin' all-American F1 team, USF1, that failed to make the grid in 2010. "We were hoping that this was going to be an epic like Days of Thunder," said Bernie, "but it's turning into Herbie Rides Again."
Caption: Bernie predicts the Lone Star State GP will be (a) the sphincter of the universe