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Race Strategy More Important — Drivers Too

Autosport is report­ing that strat­egy is going to be much more impor­tant this year for teams to win races thanks to the wear­ing out of the tires. Teams have noted also that dri­vers’ obser­va­tions are going to be much more impor­tant in terms of tire wear. Indeed, with a vic­tory of Fer­nando Alonso in the Fer­rari in the Malaysian Grand Prix, it is clear that not always the fastest car will win, but the dri­ver and his men­tal approach will no doubt become more important. BetLM's sports betting news features unique sports betting articles as well as current sports news compiled from leading wire services. This arti­cle was dis­trib­uted by Syn­di­cated Sports news wire and aggre­ga­tion ser­vice,... 

McLaren Take Silver Medal at Edison Awards

New York (F1/Newsfeed) — McLaren’s com­mit­ment to car­bon reduc­tion and envi­ron­men­tal effi­ciency has received fur­ther recog­ni­tion with a sil­ver medal at the 2012 Edi­son Awards, held at a glit­ter­ing cer­e­mony in New York last week. McLaren, who have already earned offi­cial carbon-neutral sta­tus after achiev­ing annual sav­ings of over 1,500 tonnes of CO2 emis­sions, were nom­i­nated in the pres­ti­gious Green Imple­men­ta­tion category. “I’m delighted that our on-going efforts to man­age and improve our car­bon effi­ciency have been recog­nised... 

Budapest Demo Run for McLaren’s Jenson Button

Budapest (F1/Newsfeed) — McLaren’s Jen­son But­ton will drive through the heart of Budapest on Tues­day. But­ton will be in action on a specially-constructed 1.6-kilometre street course in the Hun­gar­ian cap­i­tal as part of the ‘Raise Your Game Week­end’ event, which has been arranged by McLaren’s title spon­sors Vodafone. A children’s folk danc­ing group from Debre­cen will per­form for But­ton before he takes to the track, which will see him pass near sev­eral iconic loca­tions includ­ing the Chain Bridge and the Par­lia­ment. He’ll then field ques­tions from... 

Bottas in Action for Williams on Opening Day at Mugello

Williams’ reserve dri­ver Valt­teri Bot­tas will test for the British team on the open­ing day of next week’s Mugello ses­sion. Bot­tas will take to the Ital­ian track on Tues­day, whilst Bruno Senna and Pas­tor Mal­don­ado will be in action on Wednes­day and Thurs­day respectively. Since com­menc­ing his cur­rent Williams role late last year, the Finn has enjoyed plenty of time behind the wheel of the FW34. As well as a pre-season test out­ing, the 2011 GP3 cham­pion par­tic­i­pated in Fri­day prac­tice ses­sions at the Malaysian, Chi­nese and Bahrain Grands Prix. Bot­tas... 

Rosberg, Schumacher to Demo Silver Arrows at DTM Opener

Mer­cedes’ Nico Ros­berg and Michael Schu­macher will join their DTM coun­ter­parts at the Ger­man tour­ing car series’ sea­son opener this week­end. Ros­berg will demon­strate a 1955 Mercedes-Benz W196 on Sat­ur­day at Hock­en­heim, whilst Schu­macher will drive the team’s 2011 car on Sunday. The choice of car for Ros­berg is par­tic­u­larly poignant as he recently claimed the marque’s first win as a works team since Juan Manuel Fangio’s suc­cess in the 1955 Ital­ian Grand Prix at the wheel of a W196. Rosberg’s vic­tory in China came pre­cisely 20,671 days after... 

Sauber’s Kaltenborn Joins F1 in Schools

F1 in Schools, the For­mula One tech­nol­ogy chal­lenge, has enlisted Sauber CEO Mon­isha Kaltenborn as the global edu­ca­tional initiative’s lat­est, high pro­file patron. Kaltenborn joins an impres­sive roll call of F1 names which includes McLaren team prin­ci­pal Mar­tin Whit­marsh, Red Bull’s chief tech­ni­cal offi­cer Adrian Newey, Caterham’s tech­ni­cal head Mike Gas­coyne, and Mer­cedes team prin­ci­pal Ross Brawn. “F1 in Schools is an excel­lent edu­ca­tional pro­gramme which is intro­duc­ing stu­dents to the many dis­ci­plines needed for careers... 

Di Resta: Bahrain Result the Boost Force India Needed

Red Bull may have bounced back to their win­ning ways in Bahrain but there was another suc­cess story from Sakhir, cour­tesy of Force India’s Paul di Resta. Despite high tyre wear at the cir­cuit, Di Resta excelled after bril­liantly exploit­ing his brave two-stop strat­egy to record the team’s high­est fin­ish so far this year with sixth place. The young Scot was the only dri­ver to resist the call of a third pit stop and, although he started to strug­gle on his final set of rub­ber with over 10 laps to go before the che­quered flag, helped by some shrewd KERS usage he man­aged... 

HRT to Miss Mugello Test

After some care­ful assess­ment, HRT have announced they will not be attend­ing next week’s For­mula One test in Mugello, Italy. With planned upgrades to the Span­ish team’s car not due for com­ple­tion until after the ses­sion, they will instead con­cen­trate on mov­ing to their new headquarters. “The start to the sea­son was a lit­tle bit rushed for us and, since the cars were set up for the first time, we have been work­ing on them at the Grands Prix,” explained team prin­ci­pal Luis Perez-Sala. “The team and the mate­r­ial have just got back from Bahrain after leav­ing... 

Eighties Legends Added to Singapore Music Line-Up

Music fans attend­ing September’s 2012 For­mula 1 Singtel Sin­ga­pore Grand Prix will be able to relive some of the great­est hits of the 1980s at a series of free con­certs fea­tur­ing three of the era’s most cel­e­brated per­form­ers. Bana­narama, Pre­tenders and The Pro­claimers have been added to the enter­tain­ment line-up for For­mula One racing’s only night time event, join­ing the already-confirmed Katy Perry, Maroon 5 and Jay Chou on the bill at the Marina Bay Street Circuit. Bana­narama have clocked up a cool 30 mil­lion record sales dur­ing an illus­tri­ous... 

Race — Vettel Holds Off Raikkonen for Sakhir Win

Red Bull’s Sebas­t­ian Vet­tel leapt back into the lime­light — and the lead of the world cham­pi­onship — with vic­tory in Sunday’s 2012 For­mula 1 Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix. The world cham­pion took the lead from the start and imme­di­ately out-paced McLaren’s Lewis Hamil­ton and team mate Mark Web­ber. But it did not take long for the strength of the Lotus team threat to make itself felt. First it was Romain Gros­jean who came thrust­ing up to pass Hamilton’s McLaren on the sev­enth lap. Then team mate Kimi Raikko­nen, who started 11th, moved up to third as the...