Formula 1 Jam

The Renault F1 team made an official announcement of their driver and test drivers lineup for 2007. Heikki Kovalainen will join Giancarlo Fisichella to represent Renault in the quest for the 2007 world championship. The Finn has been the test driver for the French team this year helping Alonso and Renault to hold onto the lead in the Championships.

This leaves Mc Laren and Ferrari to announce their driver lineup for 2007. Ferrari have promised an announcement after the Italian Grand Prix later this weekend. They are expected to announce the names of Michael Schumacher, Felipe Massa and Kimi Raikkonen.

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San Marino and European Grands Prix have been dropped for the 2007 season. While Belgium returns into the calendar…

2007 Schedule

Australia, March 18
Malaysia, April 08
Bahrain, April 15
Spain, May 13
Monaco, May 27
Canada, June 10
United States, June 17
France, July 01
United Kingdom, July 08
Germany, July 22
Hungary, August 05
Turkey, August 26
Italy, September 09
Belgium, September 16
China, September 30
Japan, October 07
Brazil, October 21

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The FIA international court of appeal has offically banned the use of Mass Dampers. They overthrew the decision given earlier by the FIA race stewards declaring Renault’s Mass Damper system as legal.

Renault has been using the system since middle of 2005 season and this decision will not help the French team defend both the Championships.

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Giancarlo Fisichella will partner the Renault challenge in 2007. The official announcement was made earlier today in the Renault F1 website.

He has also hinted that a Finn will be his teammate in 2007. That leaves possibly only Kimi and Hiekki for the other Renault Seat. Kimi has already been linked to a Ferrari drive in 2007 and Hiekki has already taken a place in the heart of Renault fans as the next top Renault Driver. Hiekki had beaten Michael Schumacher in the Race of Champions race in 2004 and has been testing with Renault this year.

Another decisive factor in the fight for a race drive in 2007 will be Michael Schumacher’s decision of his future(expected in Sep). Flavio had offered the Seven times world champ a Renault seat earlier in the season.

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If you are a Michael Schumacher or a Fernando Alonso fan or simply a fan of great racing, 2005’s San Marino Grand Prix would hv been special to watch. Michael fighting tooth and nail with the Spaniard for over 12 laps was possibly the best driver to driver fight in 2005.

The Renault Engineers recently reveled that the victory was much tougher than it ever appeared on the screens. We all hv seen the times from friday and saturday… we saw the race on sunday but how many know about the critical meeting Renault F1 teams across the globe had on thursday…

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The Laureus World Sports Awards announced the nominations for the year of 2006 recently. Fernando Alonso is nominated for the first time in the “World Sportsman of The Year” and Renault F1 team for the “World Team of the Year” awards.

Previous winners include:
Michael Schumacher: 2004 and 2002 (Sportsman of the Year)
Juan Pablo Montoya: 2002 (Newcomer of the Year)

Alonso was nominated for the “Newcomer of the Year” in 2004.
No Formula One team has ever won the award for the “Team of the Year”, Ferrari was nominated everytime for the award in the last 3 years.

The winners will be announced on May 22, 2006. All the best to the team in Blue and Gold.

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A lot of people refer to Michael Schumacher as the “God” of Formula 1, and why not his impeccable record speaks for itself… But the last year and a half as seen the fortunes change and the new (proclaimed) “era” screams the end of the “Domination of God”.

The last 22 Grand Prix (19 in 2005 and 3 in 2006) have seen possibly the worst results of the German’s career and on the contrary Fernando Alonso and Kimi hv had the best races of their comparatively short careers.

Here are some of the Stats that speak for itself

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Ferrari seems to be losing the sharpest edge it had towards it’s competetion. It’s strategies.

They are not the fastest on the field, haven’t been either. 3 years ago it was BMW Williams. Before that, McLaren Mercedes, of late BAR Honda and Renault. What they were the best was in their impeccable strategies, their planning and their clockwork like pit work.

But of late, extremely visible in 2005 and now in 2006, in the first two races, their strategies have been consistently been beaten by Renault and McLaren. Are Ros Brawn, Jean Todt slipping? What is happening to Ferrari?

Even their pit work has deteriorated. For the 2nd race in succession, Ferrari made mistakes when there should be none and where there used to be rare. Today, in the Malaysian Grand Prix, after the strategy fiasco due to which Schumi had come in for pit stop number two, they took far too long for a splash and dash stop which was needed for the last 10 laps..

Sigh, Ferrari need to rethink their strategy..

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F1Jam.com is finally live…. This blog is co-authored by Anant Jain, Chandrahasa and Musavir. The idea behind this particular blog was simple… All 3 of us love F1. Here you can catch us “Jamming” our opinions about races, drivers and teams. The unique thing about our blog is each of us has a different favourite driver(Anant - Michael Schumacher, Haas - Fernando Alonso, MAK - Kimi Raikonnen) and that means only one thing “flame wars” .

Catch us analysing the latest races, gossip from the grid and everything about the fastest sport in the world.

PS: This site has been a while in creation (we got the idea 3 days ago and took us like 6 hrs to get everything from the domain name to the wordpress install up)

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