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F1Weekly podcast # 555 - February 25, 2012

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Aditya Patel

The Chennai Express

Aditya Patel is a young Indian talent who is quietly but successfully building his racing credentials on European circuits. His racing career started with victory in his first ever kart race and a podium finish on debut in international competition; the Formula BMW Pacific Championship.

Patel was plucked from the Indian racing scene to race in VW Polo Cup in 2009 courtesy of the German manufacturer. Past two seasons he has raced in the Scirocco-R Cup and was placed fifth in the final standings last year.

Impressed by the competition in tin-tops and enthusiasm of European racing fans, “They bring photos of me for autographs racing in India that I have not seen,” Patel said.

This season he will race for Audi in GT3 category with help from their Indian division.

F1Weekly is very pleased to present our conversation with Aditya Patel on our weekend special podcast # 555.

For more information please visit his www.adityaracing.com

 

– Nasir Hameed



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F1Weekly podcast # 554 - February 24, 2012

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F1weekly podcast number 554 with two special interviews:

Peter Nygaard from Grand Prix Photo and Young and upcoming American driver Ryan Tveter.

Denmark’s Peter Nygaard studied law at Copenhagen University but during his vacations travelled to Formula 1 races to take photographs, working for his local newspaper in Haslev, in the southern part of Denmark.

After graduation in 1982 he established the Grand Prix Photo company and has since attended more than 350 Grands Prix. Today he not only takes photographs but also writes and commentates about the FIA Formula 1 World Championship.

The company covers every Grand Prix and many other international and national events and with contacts all over the world can supply photos from almost any motor race. In addition to current photography the Grand Prix Photo archive is one of the biggest in the world, Nygaard having acquired the archives of a number of F1 photographers, notably Italian photo-journalist Giancarlo Cevenini and France’s Dominique Leroy plus a portion of Australian Nigel Snowdon’s collection. Grand Prix Photo has 25,000 photographs on its website and millions more in its offices, which are decorated with a Tyrrell 021, which Peter acquired from Ken Tyrrell in the 1990s.

Ryan Tveter, a 17 year-old from Oyster Bay, N.Y., has been impressive in extensive private testing, and has produced notable results in his first foray into the ultra- competitive world of open- wheel racing. In 2011, making his professional open-wheel racing debut, he finished 10th in a field of 44 cars in the Quebec-based Formula Tour 1600 support race at the

Montreal Grand Prix. He followed that up with an 11th-place finish on the famed, and highly technical, Trois-Rivières street circuit at the GP3R in a field of 30 cars. Later that same year, making a big step up into the USF2000 National Championship powered by Mazda, he finished 8th in a field of 19 cars at the inaugural Baltimore Grand Prix.



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F1Weekly podcast # 553 - February 19, 2012

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High Hopes from the Highlands


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From Golspie to Grand Prix next season is the goal of Mister Lewis Williamson. The young Scottish talent is interviewed on a special edition of F1Weekly podcast # 553.

Williamson – from the land of Jim Clark and Jackie Stewart – has been on a fast track to success from his early days in karting. Blessed with immense natural talent and a good head on his shoulders, Williamson won numerous Scottish and British karting titles.

His first foray in single-seaters was equally impressive and successful, winning on debut from pole against a strong field of 24 Formula Jedi cars.

In the 2010 Formula Renault Championship Williamson scored five wins – highlight of which was winning both rounds on the Silverstone Grand Prix circuit – five poles and recorded four fastest laps. He was edged out only in the final race of the season for the championship.

The best was yet to come.

Williamson won the demanding and very prestigious 2010 McLaren BRDC Autosport Award, and with it a drive in his namesake’s 2008 British Grand Prix winning car.

Scotland The Brave & Very Quick

Just what the Doctor ordered

Then came the phone call, according to Williamson, “from a foreign number.” On the line laying out a prescription for success and support was Dr. Helmut Marko.

The Red Bull Young Driver Development Program has catapulted the likes of Sebastian Vettel and Jean-Eric Vergne into Formula 1. Their German wunderkind has already won two championships. “JEV” looks set to become the first French world champion after the “Professor.”

Williamson is well aware of the demands of Red Bull but is already delivering on the track for them. In the ultra-competitive GP3 Series last year he finished 8th with a win, a pole and three podium finishes.

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The glorious past and future of Scottish motor racing. Sir Stewart with Sir Speedy.

For the 2012 season, Williamson stays with Christian Horner-owned Arden team but moves up to the Formula Renault 3.5 Series. Both Daniel Ricciardo and Vergne came to Formula 1 from this championship on the wings of Red Bull.

Williamson’s winning ways will also land him at the top echelon of motor racing in the near future.

For more information on his career please visit www.lewiswilliamson.com

 

– Nasir Hameed



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F1Weekly podcast # 552 - February 16, 2012

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Mercedes enjoyed a successful first run of its 2012 Formula 1 car at Silverstone today ahead of its test debut at Barcelona next Tuesday.

The Mercedes F1 W03 completed the 100 kilometers of running permitted on a commercial filming day using Pirelli demonstration tires, with both Nico Rosberg and Michael Schumacher taking turns behind the wheel. VP of motorsport Norbert Haug hopes the “pre-test” will allow the team to hit the ground running next week.

“Judging the performance on a roll-out day is very difficult because you run on demo tires and it was on the short circuit, but the car did everything it was supposed to do,” Haug said. “There’s a limit of 100k, so Nico did 50 in the morning and then we changed to Michael. There were no teething problems and now we are heading to Barcelona.”

Details of the new model are sketchy, but the glimpses seen of the car so far reveal that, like all but one of the teams who have so far unveiled their new machines, it features the so-called “platypus” nose that only McLaren has opted against.

“The nose is the most discussed issue,” said Haug. “It’s a stepped nose as some have seen. It’s a very nice solution really and a very dynamic one.”

Haug added that the extra 10 days of preparation time gained by not running the new car at last week’s first test at Jerez have been put to good use. In addition to mileage completed using the old car at Jerez on the 2012 Pirelli tires, Haug believes that the simulation work done at the team’s Brackley, UK base leaves the team in good shape.

“We have done some very good simulations and calculations and worked a lot inside the company,” said Haug. “We had the car on the rig ahead of time and simulated using the engine, gearbox and KERS for quite a while. So we are positive and the target has to be to hit the ground running [at Barcelona].

“We learned something with the old car concerning the new tires and specifically ran with the blown diffuser because the comparative data with the old tires was gathered under these conditions. We learned a lot and hopefully we can translate what we have learned into the new car.” 

This article originally appeared in Autosport.com



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Felipe Nasr joins DAMS

The aim of the DAMS team is to pursue the success it enjoyed in a particularly fruitful 2011 season, and the French team has given itself the weapons to do so. After Davide Valsecchi, the ideal team leader, it has just signed the very promising Brazilian, Felipe Nasr, creating a particularly complementary duo.

Felipe, who was born in Brasilia on 21st August 1992, has literally exploded on the motor racing scene. He made a stunning debut in single-seaters as he won the Formula BMW Europe Championship in his first season in 2009 with 7 victories and 14 podium finishes. He continued his meteoric rise by clinching the title in the very competitive British F3 Championship in 2011 (7 victories, 17 podium finishes) like his idol and fellow-countryman the late Ayrton Senna did in 1983. He is as consistent as he is quick and has showed real maturity for one so young. The duo he forms with Davide Valsecchi, combining experience and speed, is already an awe-inspiring one. The whole team can’t wait to see him in action on the track starting with the first tests at Jerez between 28th February and 1st March.

Jean-Paul Driot, CEO: “I’m really delighted to welcome Felipe to the DAMS team. We’ve known him and followed his progress since his Formula BMW days, and we immediately spotted his incredible potential. We’ll do what’s necessary to allow him to express his talent and develop it throughout the whole GP2 Series Championship. With Davide’s experience and Felipe’s fieriness and youth we’ve got the best possible driver combination.”

Felipe Nasr: “I am very happy that we managed to get all the details worked out and that I will be able to be in GP2 this year. After Italy in 2009, the UK in 2010 and 2011 it is time for me to move again and head to France, thanks to the combined efforts of my family, my manager Steve Robertson, my Brazilian sponsors and of DAMS, I have a new home where to work, improve my driving and prove my worth. I have so much to learn and I am sure that with DAMS in GP2 and with a strong team mate, I am in the right place to learn the trades of the series and of the new tracks that I will face. Have to say that some of them I already know from the Formula BMW time, but it will be a tough challenge getting out of the British cocoon I comfortably was for the last two years. I have no word to describe how happy I am to be able to continue to wear the colors of Brazil with two strong Brazilian sponsors that believe in me and will be supporting my career in the long run.”


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