Despite his only 57 years young, the former four-times Formula 1 world champion Alain Prost last week drove a 2011 Red Bull RB7 F1 car at the Circuit Paul Ricard HTTT for the World Series by Renault weekend.
Here is an image of Alain Prost driving the 2011 Red Bull RB7 F1 car.
Also, here is some videos of Alain Prost driving the RB7 at the World Series by Renault round at Paul Ricard. One video of a video montage of the World Series by Renault weekend at Paul Ricard from Renault themselves and one video from a fan at the track.
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Quick review and thoughts on the race from last Sundays race (30/9/12) at the Aragón Motorcycle Grand Prix at Motorland Aragón in North East Spain.
The race itself was a very good race, from the start to the middle of the race battle between works Yamaha rider Jorge Lorenzo and Repsol Honda rider Dani Pedrosa. Then mid-race, Dani Pedrosa took the lead from Jorge Lorenzo and took the win at Motorland Aragón, Dani Pedrosa is now 33 points behind Lorenzo in the standings with four races to go. Jorge Lorenzo meanwhile, on his works Yamaha finished second overall, six seconds behind, Pedrosa. While Andrea Dovizioso who had a race battle between Cal Crutchlow and Ben Spies, finished third a tenth of a second ahead of Tech 3 Yamaha team-mate Cal Crutchlow and finished eleven seconds behind Pedrosa.
Quick mention to Jonathan Rea on his works Repsol Honda, started seventh place, a second behind pole sitter Jorge Lorenzo and for Sundays race and did a solid job on the Repsol Honda, eventually taking a fine seventh place, thirty-five seconds behind Pedrosa atthe end. His last race for Repsol Honda for the team, and hope he be back for the 2014 season due to he has signed for Ten Kate Honda in World Superbikes for another season. Also, Casey Stoner is returning from injury for the next round at Motegi in Japan, so he will go out in style from his racing career.
In other news, yesterday (4/10/12) Power Electronics Aspar team has announced that they will retain both Randy de Puniet and Aleix Espargaro at Aspar for MotoGP 2013 season. The Aspar team will use the CRT Aprilia ART bikes once again as-well.
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Back in mid February, Nissan comfirmed it will Enter V8 Supercars in 2013, under its new rules ‘Car of the Future’. Three weeks back, the news that Mercedes will join the V8 Supercars Championship in 2013 as the forth manufacture in the series (well sort of).
One of V8 Supercars’ longest serving teams Stone Brothers Racing will merge with Austrian GT championship team Erebus Motorsport to run three Mercedes-Benz AMG E Class V8 Supercars in the Championship from 2013.
Unlike Nissan, who will enter Kelly Racing as Nissan's factory team and will run four cars next year. But, Erebus Motorsport will not not be an official factory-backed effort for Mercedes but will be a privately funded team instead. similar to a few BTCC teams on the grid who build the car themselves, but not manufactured supported.
Early in the season I hoped that Nissan will bring the Nissan GT-R in a V8 spec car will be nice in my opinion, like they do in GT1-World Championship last season. But, recently been annocced that Nissan will bring in the Nissan Altima instead. Also Kelly Racing, who will run the four works Nissan Altima next season, will be renamed to Nissan Motorsport next season.
By the way, this weekend is the famous Bathurst 1000 race on the famous Mount Panorama Circuit in Bathurst, New South Wales. Highlights of last years race below, enjoy.
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Following last week's announcement that Lewis Hamilton will replace Michael Schumacher at Mercedes next season. It was announced this morning at a press conference at Suzuka that Michael Schumacher will retire from Formula 1 at the end of the 2012 season.
Since last week that Lewis Hamilton will replace Michael Schumacher at Mercedes next season. Speculation had linked Schumacher to a move to Sauber. But, instead the former seven F1 world champion decided to retire at the end of the season.
Like I said a few months back, apart of some great qualifying performances which includes Monaco and China, and the race performance at Valencia to finish in third place, the last two and a half seasons is has been unsuccessful return into Formula One in my opinion. Due to he hasn't won a race in the last two and half season so far and for the last two and half seasons Nico Rosberg has beaten the old seven times world champion time and time again. To me, he should retire for good at the end of the season in my opinion. I think Michael has done the right decision, if not it might ruin his legacy even more if he stayed.
In my opinion is the best driver I have ever seen in Formula 1 despite the last two and half seasons. I hope Michael will stay in motorsports in some sort of way, such as a role in Ferrari/Mercedes ambassador or race for Mercedes in DTM or World GT1 in 2013 because he can still be a big help in that region.
I hope, when we get to the last round at Sao Paulo, Brazil in late November that Michael Schumacher does have another repeat what he did in Brazil 2006 (the first time he retired from F1) does a performance to remember him by.
Six more races to go for Michael Schumacher for good starting with Suzuka this weekend. Anyway end of post/blog for now. New post/blog soon. Bye.
Predictions for this weekends Formula 1 Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka. So predictions for the race itself, Sebastian Vettel for the win in his Red Bull, Fernando Alonso second in his Ferrari and Lewis Hamilton third in the McLaren. Don't forget Mark Webber, Jenson Button, Felipe Massa, the two Lotus drivers, the two Mercedes AMG drivers, the two Force India drivers, Pastor Maldonado, or Sergio Perez either.
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Review of Round six of the 2012 FIA World Endurance Championship at Bahrain International Circuit in Bahrain. Audi Sport Team Joest team won the race overall and WEC LMP1 class too of André Lotterer, Marcel Fässler and Benoît Tréluyerto in their Audi R18 e-tron quattro. Second place was the second Audi of Allan McNish and Tom Kristensen in their Audi R18 e-tron quattro to make an Audi R18 e-tron quattro one-two. Meanwhile, the Strakka Racing team in their HPD ARX-03a with a Honda LM-V8 3.4 L V8 engine of Jonny Kane, Nick Leventis and Danny Watts finished in third place.
While, Toyota Racing team of Alexander Wurz and Nicolas Lapierre in their Toyota TS030 Hybrid did not finished due to an accident with another LMP1 car just before the fifth hour ended with damaged suspension, after an earlier technical issue had already denied the team a chance of victory.
In LMP2 class, the PeCom Racing team of Pierre Kaffer, Luís Pérez Companc and Nicolas Minassian in their Oreca 03 with a Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8 engine won in LMP2 class and 6th overall. While in GTE Pro class, was won by AF Corse team of Giancarlo Fisichella Toni Vilander and Gianmaria Bruni won in their Ferrari 458 GTC, finished 12th overall as-well. While in GTE Am class, was won by Team Felbermayr-Proton of Christian Ried, Gianluca Roda and Paolo Ruberti in their Porsche 997 GT3-RSR and finished 17th overall.
Sadly no race highlights I can not find on Youtube. So enjoy an image instead of the Audi R18's in the pits before the race start of the 6 hour race instead.
Next Stop 6 Hours of Fuji in two weeks time for round seven of the FIA World Endurance Championship. End of post/blog for now, bye.
In 2013, Volkswagen will debut the Volkswagen Polo R WRC in the World Rally Championship next season. The car is based on the Volkswagen Polo, the Polo R WRC powered by a turbocharged 1.6-litre engine producing around 300 bhp.
The Polo R WRC may debut at the 2012 Rally di Sardegna where it will be driven by Sébastien Ogier, only if the rally car is homologated in time. If not the first round of the 2013 World Rally Championship on the Monte Carlo Rally instead. Some YouTube videos below of the Volkswagen Polo R WRC testing on tarmac.
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