Aston Martin GT4 Vantage V8

Thought I do some GTs V8s. Found a YouTube video some footage inside a Aston Martin GT4 Vantage V8. I want to say, what a loud noise inside this Aston Martin, watch this YouTube video.

Created by Clash Production, based in France is a Motor Sports Film Company since 2005. Look at the car footage from inside the car. Some other videos from Clash to this link here to view. Enjoy.



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Proper F1 British Grand Prix Review and Red Bull playing Team Orders card

First sorry about the delay, I was going to write it on Wednesday, due to different things going on I wrote this on Friday. So on today's post about F1 British Grand Prix Review from last week and Team Orders?

Good Points

• Fernando Alonso (started 3rd, won the race)
• Sebastian Vettel (finished 2nd)
• Lewis Hamilton (finished 10th, finished 4th)
• Sergio Pérez ( finished 7th)
• Michael Schumacher ( finished 9th dispute a nose change and 10 second stop and go penalty dispute that good race pace)
• Jaime Alguersuari (finished 10th)
• Daniel Ricciardo (finished 19th, first finish for the Australian)

Bad points

• Paul di Resta (started 6th, finished 15th, a poor pit stop from Force India)
• Jenson Button (DNF a poor pit stop from McLaren with a right front wheel/lolly pop guy issue)
• Kamui Kobayashi (started 8th, DNF. a race incidence with M. Schumacher then retired with an engine failure)
• Team Lotus (both Jarno Trulli and Heikki Kovalainen did not finish with different mechanical problems)

Overall a better race than Valencia. Alonso won the race at Silverstone. Beaten both Red Bull's in the middle of the race, while both Red Bull were behind Hamilton in the middle of the race. So well earned Alsonso for winning the race dispite all this BS about the blown diffusers off-throttle, when Both Red Bull and McLaren complain, while the Tofosi kept quiet (well almost), Back to normal with these blown diffusers for the Nurburgring. To be honest bang them for next season!

So these Team Orders with Red Bull from last weeks British Grand Prix where Mark Webber had to stay Sebastian Vettel on last two laps despite Vettel had a KERS issue and Lewis Hamilton was saving fuel and racing against Feillpe Massa. I understand why they did it (a repeat from Istanbul from last year and Sutil and Petrov was still on the same lap) and it is a team sport at the end of the day. But, when the forth place driver is 10 seconds behind it be no difference with championship lead anyway why not lead Webber through. Sorry Red Bull you guys got the team orders wrong. Do you think Webber will be at Red Bull next season, not sure?

End of Blog for now, new post soon. That is all. Bye.

Williams Renault for 2012 (So what about Cosworth?)

Third blog of the week talking about Williams F1 and the future ahead. Because they are returning to Renault engines next season, for the first time in 15 years.

Williams will be using Renault engines for 2012 and 2013 sesason. Becoming the forth team using Renault engines (other Renault clients using Renault engines are Red Bull, Renault and Team Lotus). This could be a first step for Williams to return back to the front of the grid. Also don't forget that Williams will be bringing in Mike Coughlan (shameful ex Mclaren clief for the Spygate in 2007) for designing the cars. The announcement came on Monday 4th July (video below)



You have to remember that Williams are on the up out side of Formula one. Their KERS fly wheel package (what should have use for the 2009 season) uses by Porsche for their 911 GT3 R Hybrid race car. Also. Jaguar as-well, Williams are going to build Jaguar's new Supercar called C-X75.

Also, remember that Williams hasn't won since 2004 with BMW power and Juan Pablo Montoya. Also this Williams worse season so far in their history. remember that the team have lost three of their biggest sponsors for this year (RBS, Phillips and Air Asia). This year their income has come from Pastor Maldonado Venezuela sponsors (includes the state and oil company PDSVA). At this state this is the worse time in Williams History.

So for the Formula 1 romantics this will be great Williams returning to Renault first time since 1997 when Jacques Villenunve won the 1997 Drivers Championship and Williams won their last Constructor Championship. Also sad for F1 romantics that they are leaving Cosworth once again. This is the end of Cosworth in Formula 1? When you think about it, Virgin has a Technical Partnership with McLaren next season (includes using their test rigs and driver-in-the-loop simulator, supply chain experience and CFD and CAE techniques including race strategy tools) which that includes Mercedes engines. Also, HRT has been precise by Thesan Capital, a Madrid-based investment company purchased a controlling stake in the team from owner Jose Ramon Carabante. Does that include the Cosworth V8 for Hispania?. If they do leave after the 2011 season it will be sad day for the British engine Manufacture.

So to finish of a bit of for the romantics of Formula 1 of their Five Constructors Championships and Four Drivers Championships for the French mark past, here is the past of what Williams used to win here is Damon Hill winning the Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka and winning the World championship in 1996. Enjoy.



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Half Term Review of F1 Season so far via Twitter, F1 British Grand Prix at Silverstone Preditions

Second Post of the week F1 predictions at the bottom of the page. But for the half term review of F1 season so far in a twitter way I did last week. I did this early on the season for the F1 Preview this season. So I'm re-donning this via twitter (@Jonnyh5onracing - follow me on twitter). Note I did this via the middle of last week before the announcement of Daniel Ricciardo replacing Narain Karthikeyan at HRT for the rest of the season minus Indian Grand Prix so here is the half term report starting with Red Bull:

Red Bull: best car & best team in the field so far this season, Vettel what more can I say, champion in waiting for his second championship while Webber needs to improve qualify and race pace to match the pace of Vettels.
McLaren: started a poor car came back as a winning car, but still needs to match the ultimate pace of Red Bull. Button has show winning pace but not enough throughout the season so far. Hamilton fast as usual, but attitude needs to improve if he wants to win the championship.
Ferrari: another disappointing team this year, car not at it's best, Massa needs to improve to keep his job as soon as. While Alonso has done some brilliant driving this season (Monaco & Valencia) he will get wins sooner or later for Ferrari this season.
Renault: fast car at the car, feel like they going to finish 5th again the constructors championship, and they still missing Kubica still . As for current drivers Petrov has step up this season, while Hiedfied started well, has dropped a bit of pace to Petrov.
Mercedes: tad disappointing from the team, not a lot improvement from last season. Rosberg hasn't been impressive while M. Schumacher has been fast in a few races, his still slow and too clumsy from the former seven times world champion, not the old Schumi.
Sauber: much improved from last season, and a top 6 in the constructors championship is on the cards, Perez has been impressive as a rookie. Kobayashi has been much improve and much exciting as usual, don't forget that De la Rosa replace Perez with 10 mins before 2nd practice at Montreal for Perez's Monaco accident.
STR: same as Force India hasn't impress so far apart from Alguersuari perforances at Montreal and Valencia. Buemi impressive at Melbourne and Istanbul, but the team needs to improve and add more points to the constructors championship.
Force India: in the Middle of the F1 field, nothing impressive yet from Force India apart from Sutil performance at Monaco and Valencia. As for di Resta, some good performance from the current DTM champion, but Force India needs to improve overall for the rest of the season.
Williams: poor car, not a lot of points (only 4 points), needs to improve fast, big disappointment this season. Drivers at Williams, Barichello is trying his best at Williams, While Maldonado has impress at Monaco, a part from that hasn't impressive.
Team Lotus: a big improvement from last season, still needs half a second/second to match the midfield teams. Drivers at Team Lotus, Kovalainen and Trulli fast at race pace, needs to show it in qualifying form, is it last season for Jarno Trulli?
HRT: bad start to the season at Melbourne (DNQ for both cars) the team have been improving throughout the season so far. Drivers at HRT: Karthikeyan need to improve his race pace, Luizzi has been a big help for Hispania is a great gem for the team itself.
Virgin Racing: another disappointing season so far, that won't change with firing of Nick Wirth, so don't expect anything good this season. Drivers at VR, Glock the best you could ask for, D'Ambrosio match Glock in pace sometimes, but needs to do better.

Predictions for the British Grand Prix this weekend at Silverstone with the brand new pit complex in-between Club corner and Abbey Corner. Saw the new pit complex at the MotoGP race at Silverstone last month looks beautiful. So back to the predictions for this weekends race Red Bull one-two (Vettel ahead of Webber) and Hamilton third place. Don't forget Jenson Button or the Ferrari's as-well (note: I got the top three right from last race at Valencia ).

Note on Top Gear this weekend Sebastian Vettel is on Top Gear as a Star in a Reasonably Price Car in a Suzuki Liana (I bet Rubens Barichello will be watching), later in the week a post about Williams Renault for 2012. End of blog now. Third one soon. That is all. Bye.

MotoGP Mugello and Pikes Peak 2011 record breaker

Hi, three posts this week one will be about half term review of F1 season so far (next 12 hours or so), second one about the news about Williams Renault for 2012 (around Friday), this one will be about MotoGP at Mugello last weekend and Pikes Peak for two weeks back.

Right MotoGP at Mugello last week, Won by current world champion Jorge Lorenzo ahead of Andrea Dovizioso and Casey Stoner in their Hondas. To reduce the gap from 28 to 19points. Oh by the way race highlights from Mugello below in a Cartoony animation way.



And don't forgot about his form last week at Pikes Peak, under ten minutes marker has been broken by Nobuhiro Tajima in his Suzuki SX4, by braking under 10 minute marker by 9:51.278. YouTube footage below enjoy.





Second post tomorrow about the half term review of F1 season so far in a twitter way. That is all. Bye.

European Grand Prix Review and MotoGP back to back weekend

Second Post of the week, Quick review of last week race at Valencia. To be honest a boring race. Four laps in you know Sebastian Vettel was going to win it. However was impress with Vettel and Alonso (as you would) also impress with Adrian Sutil, Sergio Perez and driver of the race Jaime Alguersuari who started 18th finished 8th. And might save him for a job for the rest of the season. While Toro Rosso test driver Daniel Ricciardo is driving for HRT at Silverstone replacing Narain Karthikeyan who hasn't been the best of seasons.

While in MotoGP at Assen last weekend, Ben Spies won his first MotoGP race in the Premier Class with his Yamaha M1. While current champion Jorge Lorenzo crash out of the first lap by Marco Simoncelli by his cold Bridgestone tyres. Still for Lorenzo finished 6th and Simoncelli recovered to finished 9th. While championship leader Casey Stoner finished 2nd in the race. Still contracts again to Ben Spies.

Next stop Mugello this weekend (Rossi/Ducati country) another win for Ben Spies? or the usual two of Lorenzo and Stoner. Or Rossi first win in a Duke? and the return of Dani Pedrosa too. And by the way no Loris Capirossi crashed his Pramac Ducati at Assen and hasn't recovered for his home race.

Next Week blog, a half term review of F1 season so far in a tweeting kind of way of the teams and drivers (previous post about what I done before). End of blog now. That is all. Bye.

Porsche wins 2011 Nurburgring 24 hours race and Porsche Coming Home

Hi first post of the week, F1 Review of F1 European Grand Prix tomorrow (later on today). Lets start with this years Nurburgring 24 hours race, Porsche won the race in their normal Porsche 911 GT3 RSR not a Porsche 911 GT3 R Hybrid from last week. Marc Lieb, Timo Bernhard, Romain Dumas and Lucas Luhr won in the Porsche after 24 hours (highlight video below).

Nurburgring 24 Hour race highlights



Oh by the way. Porsche coming back to Le Mans!, but it won't be for another three years (Doh!). Back in the main class (LMP1) challenging the likes of Peugeot and Audi? (both Audi and Porsche own by VW?) Will we see win number 17 for Porsche at Le Mans? (YouTube video below of the promo - enjoy it!)

2014 Porsche Le Mans Promo



That is all, another post soon. Bye.