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If you hadn't noticed, some 2012 Formula One cars have strange, "stepped noses." It's as if some engineer accidentally put Owen Wilson into a wind tunnel, looked at the data and shouted, "Eureka!" Indeed, 2012 will be a strange-looking season for F1's return to the US. More »
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A couple of spectators (McLaren engineers?) at today's F1 testing out at Circuito de Jerez in Spain said what we're all thinking about Ferrari's F2012 with traditional internet eloquence. More »
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The international racing community got its last look at the front end of Red Bull's new F1 car, the RB8, unveiled on video today. It's expected to be showing the rest of the field its exhausts for the rest of the season. More »
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Back in the days of Formula One’s 1.5-liter years, there was no winter off-season for the best drivers. Once the Grands Prix in Europe were over, drivers and teams flew down New Zealand and Australia to compete against the locals, who put up quite a fight. More »
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Caving to the wave of backlash over its now-aborted five-seater prototype, Ferrari has hastily redesigned its F1 car overnight, resulting in this ugly little duckling, the F2012. Force India unveiled its own duck-billed racecar as well. Click through for in-depth details on these machines. More »
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Ferrari unveiled its highly anticipated F1 car for the 2012 season in bizarre conditions and many sites, Jalopnik included, are deeply confused and discouraged by the new racer. Click through for more details on this monumental failure. More »
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You ever look at a race car driver's neck and wonder why they're usually so thick? Watch this video of a woman trying to keep her head in one place while being battered around the Abu Dhabi Yas Marina track in a two-seat Formula One car. Whiplash! More »
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In 2011, Williams finished ninth in the Formula One Constructors’ Championship, their worst result since 1978. Two months before the new season kicks off, the team have unveiled a rather unorthodox aspect of their efforts to return to their glory days in the ’90s: they’ve hired ’90s track god Michael Johnson to train their pit crews. Yes, that Michael Johnson. More »
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Former HRT driver Bruno Senna is going to race for Williams F1 in 2012. I kept "Bruno" off the headline for this F1 update because it's a little jarring if you have the proper context and know the history. Senna's uncle, the great Ayrton Senna, died 18 years ago in his third race for Williams. More »
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This has got to be the weirdest and most awesome ad for scotch ever filmed. Johnnie Walker have signed up Jenson Button and Mika Häkkinen for an anti-drink-and-drive spot where they take big maroon C63 AMG’s and donut their initials into the asphalt. There is smoke. Lots of smoke. God I miss Mika Häkkinen. More »
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The latest edition of the FIA’s A Driver’s Guide to Safe Motor Sport has just been published. It’s a short, very good read if you’re considering getting into any sort of motorsport, covering basics like helmets, fireproof suits, good shoes, attention, and, of course, the management of your precious bodily fluids.The guide is illustrated with Sergio Pérez’s huge crash in qualification at the 2011 Monaco Grand Prix, a rather understated way of showing how far safety in motor sport has come: while Pérez was out of the race and decided not to take part in the one after, the almost exactly same crash of Karl Wendlinger at the 1994 Monaco Grand Prix put the Austrian driver in a coma for weeks and basically ended his Formula One career.A Driver’s Guide is not about Formula One. It’s for everyone racing a car in any sort of way. And remember: “It is a good idea to empty the bladder and bowels before driving…nerves may act as natural reminders of this.” Kimi Räikkönen must be an enthusiastic reader.You can download a PDF of the guide from the FIA’s website. More »
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From dead in the water to fit as a fiddle in a single stroke of a pen, Circuit of The Americas management says the track and its United States Grand Prix are now a "go" for 2012. More »
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A year before he became BMW’s test driver in Formula One, Sebastian Vettel raced for the Spanish team Racing Engineering in the Spanish Formula 3 Championship. Team owner Alfonso de Orleans-Borbón has recalled for us meeting the young man who would become Formula One’s youngest world champion. – Ed. More »
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Kimi Räikkönen has only returned to Formula One a few days ago and the Finnish deadpan jokes are already back with him. This one is from Sebastian Vettel and it isn’t half bad. The whole thing is pretty funny but forward to 1:13 if you only have time for the I-just-got-off-the-ferry-from-Stockholm-and-all-I’ve-got-is-a-gallon-of-vodka-a-double-barreled-shotgun-and-my-2007-F1-world-champion-trophy moment. More »
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Just how is it that a single driver with less than five years in Formula One was able to dominate the field in such a devastating way in 2011, a field which includes drivers like Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso? It’s his brains. More »
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Juan Manuel Fangio’s epic win at the Nürburgring in 1957 is perhaps the greatest race in the 62-year history of Formula One. After fifty years in a drawer, an American Private’s Kodachrome slides of the race have been published, and they are utterly breathtaking. More »
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Hate him for poaching Lewis Hamilton’s drivers’ title or love him for his bottomless Scandinavian cool, 2007 world champion Kimi Räikkönen is back in Formula One, after signing a two-year deal with Lotus Renault. It’s time for embarrassingly cool moments at Grands Prix yet again, like his classic line about a pre-race bowel movement at the 2006 Brazilian Grand Prix. More »
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When Formula One’s leaders met in Geneva on November 3rd to vote on the proposed name changes for three teams, they also decided on a minor rule change for 2012: a ban on using helium to drive the wheel guns during pitstops. More »
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Here’s the points chart for the recently concluded Formula One season, total points plotted against Grands Prix. If you’ll ignore the uncanny performance of a certain blond German kid, it was a pretty close fight…for second place. More »
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Zombie season’s over! As always at Interlagos, it was an entertaining Grand Prix, with some rather surprising results. Behind the Red Bulls, that is. Warning: spoilers. More »
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Lewis Hamilton contested the season’s last Formula One race on Sunday in this yellow-and-green helmet, which is even more Senna-esque than his regular yellow helmet. Hamilton, who is something of a Senna incarnation on his good days, is looking to end his stormy season on a roll: hot off his victory in Abu Dhabi, he topped the timesheets in Practice Two. More »
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The man who designed some of the wildest and most successful Formula One cars of all time, as well as the McLaren F1, is indeed something of a prophet of clever aerodynamics. But when this picture was taken, at the 1986 Spanish Grand Prix, Murray’s latest radical design sucked big time. It was also the way to the future. More »
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The Circuit of the Americas in Austin agreed to bump its inaugural Formula One grand prix to 2013 in light of recent financial troubles and F1 Muppet-master Bernie Ecclestone's promise/threat to hold the race back until he gets his money. More »
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The US Grand Prix in Austin has less than three weeks to sort out financial troubles or else it will be absolutely cancelled. Speed's reporting that the race contract is gone, $25 million has dried up, and the track can't get a letter of credit. Prospects look grim. More »
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If you've been thinking that the idea of Formula 1 coming back to America a year from now at a world-class circuit near Austin, Texas, was too good to be true, F1 maestro Bernie Ecclestone says your concern may be justified. Update! More »
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The third non-championship race of the season, on a track where it’s impossible to overtake and where nobody has won a race except the current world champion? It was meant to be a yawnfest—but it was pretty exciting for the first two corners. Warning: spoilers. More »
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The Montreal circuit is so wet for this lap, it looks as if 34-year-old Patrick Depailler is driving his 1978 Tyrrel on some giant mirror. The countersteering required for driving in this weather is immense. More »
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The Formula One season has been over for a month and we’ve still got two races to go. Can you believe it? This Sunday will see the third staging of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, which, after last year’s four-way title battle, will be a non-championship race on a terrible circuit. And you can’t even get booze because it’s the Gulf. Oh dear. More »
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This is a photo which will never be taken again. Not only does it show two Formula One drivers holding their own umbrellas instead of being protected from the elements by a massive entourage, but the guy on the left would go on to become a three-time world champion while the guy on the right was but a silly Dutch lord racing his Porsche at the Nürburgring for the sheer hell of it. His name was Carel Godin de Beaufort, and they competed in the same race. More »
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We've shown you a quick and dirty lap of the new Circuit of the Americas track in Austin. Now we've got a turn-by-turn guide to the layout courtesy of Jalopnik contributor Kevin McCauley who toured the track for CultureMap Austin and brought back this amazing photo gallery. — Ed. More »
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The incredibly confusing mess of the two Team Loti in Formula One has, as expected, apparently been resolved at an FIA meeting. From next year on, the gold-and-black Lotus cars will be called Lotuses, while the yellow-and-green Lotus cars will be called Caterhams. More »
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Stencil artist and Jalopnik reader Xander Walker didn’t wait until 2013 to see the poster for F1's newest race. He created his own and he’s got a run of 300 signed and numbered copies for sale. More »
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It’s only race two into Formula One’s first significant post-season since 2004 and the tedium is already mounting. Even if the new track in India is pretty damn good. Warning: spoilers. More »
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Most Formula One cars end up on display or in the private collections of the über wealthy. A car like the McLaren MP4/6 Ayrton Senna drove to the F1 World Championship in 1991 should be in a museum. That's why I thought it was so strange when I thought we found it collecting dust in the space above the shipping-and-receiving office of an aerospace company in Salt Lake City, Utah. More »
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The official announcement that New Jersey finally gets its own fist-pumping Formula One race in 2013 comes in just two hours. But I didn't want to wait. So last night I took my own "first drive" of the probable 3.1-mile road course in a Jaguar XKR convertible. This is it. More »
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Formula One, the international motorsport that has struggled mightily to gain a foothold here in the United States wherein their open-wheel cars make both left and right turns, is officially coming to New Jersey in 2013. Yo, Pauly D's totally gonna try to jump Tamara Ecclestone, right? More »
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Racing drivers don’t die anymore, right? Wrong. They do. Hours after a wonderful second Grand Prix in the southwestern archipelago of South Korea, Dan Wheldon died in an IndyCar. Warning: spoilers. More »
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