When the new Formula One season started at the weekend in Melbourne there was again an AMG Mercedes in the front row when the action started Down Under. The house-tuner for the Mercedes-Benz group will again be the supplier of the safety cars for the 2012 season. The classic safety car itself takes the form of an SLS AMG but there is also a C63 AMG ‘T’ to rush medical staff to the site of any accident which might involve driver injury.
This weekend Formula One racing comes to the Indian subcontinent for the first time. With the world championships for driver and constructor already decided this may seem to some to be of little interest. But no! Not for nothing is the Formula One season often referred to as a circus!
With simplified aerodynamics, adjustable rear wings and a come-back for KERS the activity on the track should be more exciting in 2011. But the new rules are not without their critics. And that is true above all with regard to the controversial issue of ‘team orders’.
In spite of the cancellation of the first race of the new season the Formula One circus looks ahead to a marathon. Although the title favourites are fewer than in 2010 there are the revised regulations to contend with and plenty of excitement is to be anticipated.
As the Formula One circus sets up camp in Germany it is fitting that we turn our attention to the German Grand Prix from a specifically German perspective. This year the event will once again take place on the legendary Nürburgring and this alone gives the race a special quality. How do things look after some quuite turbulent weeks? What could be the role played by the capricious weather in the Eifel?
Some people pay every price to have the loudest car
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former DTM race driver Bernd Mayländer,
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Formula 1 safety car driver Bernd Mayländer,
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