F1 Fanatic round-up: 10/3/2010
10 Mar 2010
Two days to go two our first F1 action of 2010. Here’s today’s round-up:
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Top Formula One drivers facing slow-motion hazards in Hispania, Virgin and Lotus (The Times)
“Formula One’s top teams fear their best drivers could be driven out of the World Championship by hopelessly slow cars forming dangerous roadblocks.” A tad over-the-top, no?
Lewis Hamilton will be defined by this F1 season (Daily Mirror)
“Against Schumacher, who is statistically the best there has ever been, Hamilton can still be termed a pretender. But if he is crowned world champion this season, no one will be able to question his ability again.”
Comment of the day
HRT have got their first fan – it’s it’s Steph:
I have to say I really like this team and they may well just survive based on the spirit they’ve shown already. The odds are against them and they need sponsors but just a few weeks back they were in an awful situation but then suddenly there was a deal, there was a car revealed and am line up confirmed. It took them a while but then they got moving and found a solution. I like that and I hope it stands them in good stead.
Steph
Site updates
I’m looking into a few technical problems with the site which are causing it to generate some errors. Apologies for the inconvenience.
Happy birthday!
Happy birthday to Fred Schechter!
On this day in F1
Mika Hakkinen made his F1 debut for Lotus on this day in 1991.
By the end of 1992 he had made 30 appearances for them before joining his second and final F1 team – McLaren – as a test driver.