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Another Poor Day at the Office for BMW Sauber
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Another bad day at the office just about all you need to say to sum up the British Grand Prix from a BMW Sauber stand point. Once again the car suffered badly with tire heating issues from Friday onward. Robert Kubica had one technical issue after another in every practice session leaving him precious little time to track down the proper setup for the car.
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A plug for Make Roads Safe
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Recently I joined an organization that I’d like to bring attention to. It’s called Makeroadssafe, the campaign for global road safety. It is an initiative calling on the international community to recognize road traffic injuries as a global health epidemic, and to take urgent action to stop the daily tragedy of thousands of preventable deaths and injuries. The Make Roads Safe campaign is calling on governments attending the first Global Ministerial Meeting on Road Safety, in Moscow in November 2009, to agree a global Decade of Action for Road Safety, with an action plan to cut the projected increase in road deaths by 50% by 2020.
Sad Day Today at My House
Posted by: | CommentsIt’s a sad day today for me. Today I had to put my dog, my best friend for 16 years to sleep. He has been suffering from cancer and it progressed much quicker than we had hoped. We hoped he would be able to enjoy one more summer with us, but sadly no and to say goodbye after 16 years is hard. It’s been a tough weekend with the grand prix and knowing this was probably going to happen.
I will get my BMW Sauber race review up as soon as I can.
2009 Season at BMWF1blog
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We’re almost at the start of the 2009 season and it will be the first full season that this blog will be participating in. I started BMWF1blog part way through last season and have largely been covering BMW Sauber through the off season. That said, I just wanted to take a few minutes to let you know what will be happening at BMWF1blog this season.
During the week prior to a grand prix I will be writing on what we might expect from the team for the upcoming race. Come race weekend I will post the results of both Friday practices as well as Saturday practice. I find these practice sessions fairly informative even if they are practice only and we don’t know exactly what setups are being tested etc. I will also post full qualifying times and not just the final grid as well as a BMW Sauber qualifying report.
Robert Kubica Talks on Season 2009
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The final day of testing of the BMW Sauber F1 Team for the 2009 season has now passed. After taking the F1.09 for its maiden outing in Valencia on 20th January, Robert Kubica tested the car in Bahrain, Jerez and Barcelona. Those who know the Pole would not expect him to be happy with every aspect of preparations for the forthcoming season; for Robert this would be tantamount to lethargy. After all, why only be good when you can be better? In addition to fitness training and F1 preparation work he also used the winter to launch a new venture: Robert Kubica Kart.
Robert Kubica, how has testing gone with the F1.09?
BMW Sauber F1 Team driver Robert Kubica: “Winter testing is always important. This year it is even more important because of the drastic changes in the regulations. It is hard to say if the direction is right because every team starts with a completely new package from zero. So there is a lot to do in testing. For example, on the last day of the final pre-season test in Barcelona I covered more than twice the distance of a Grand Prix. That is pretty demanding on the car and on the driver. Neither the BMW Sauber F1.09 nor my body had a problem with that. That shows my fitness training during the winter was as perfect as the work on the reliability of the car. In addition to the race simulation, we evaluated a lot of different solutions for the mechanical set-up and the aero configuration of the car. We were able to make up some of the time we lost the week before in Jerez due to the unfortunate weather. So overall it was a very productive test.”
BMW Sauber Barcelona Day 2
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Weather conditions: Overcast with a damp track early in the morning,
sunny for the rest of the day.
Temperature: Air: 11 – 20 °C, Track: 13 – 26 °C
Number of drivers participating: 10 from 10 teams
Fastest lap overall: Kimi Raikkönen (Scuderia Ferrari) 1:20.314 min
Circuit length: 4.655 km
Nick Heidfeld
Chassis / engine: BMW Sauber F1.09-04 / BMW 86/9
Test kilometres today: 578 (124 laps)
Fastest lap: 1:21.615 min
Lewis Hamilton and an RC McLaren MP-24? You Decide!
Posted by: | CommentsWell, this has nothing to do with BMW Sauber, but was certainly worth viewing and posting here. A couple of tech gurus created a miniature RC McLaren F1 car controlled by a Blackberry Storm. The story goes that McLaren got wind of this and implemented this into a real McLaren MP-24.
The clip shows Lewis Hamilton standing off track apparently controlling the real car with the Blackberry Storm. I don’t believe this, but it is the coolest thing if it is real.
Have a look for yourself.
Is F1 Cost Cutting Already Failing?
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I can’t help but think recently about all of the agreed upon cost cutting measures designed to save F1. I see the list is long with many different ideas that a month ago I thought might just work. Now I wonder because already things are changing and money saved is already being spent.
KERS is the biggest money drain I think so far. Something so optional for 2009 and yet so controversial. Will it help, will it penalize larger drivers, how many tracks will it be beneficial on and the money of course. I would hazard a guess that the money spent developing KERS has already eaten up a portion of future savings for every team. Is there going to be a trickle down effect to our road cars? I can’t see that right now considering the strict rules on it’s use and development, again the cost, it’s lack of reception by many teams, and a future direction I can’t seem to find.
Upgrades at BMWF1bmog
Posted by: | CommentsToday I am upgrading my wordpress to 2.7 and also changing to a better theme. A few weeks ago I tried the upgrade to wordpress 2.7 and ended up with the famous internal server error. My host rolled back the upgrade after my attempt failed.
Since then I have been a little gun shy about this, but it’s now time to try it again. Tech support assured me that it would work this time. Once that’s done (cross my fingers) I will change themes and in a few hours there will be a new look. In the mean time I hope you have patience and some for me as well. 
A Thanks to my Loyal Entrecard Droppers
Posted by: | CommentsI just want to take this time out to put up this post and thank all those Entrecard members who drop their cards on this site. A special thanks goes out to my top 10 droppers of January who are listed below.