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MARANELLO - A big change in HeadQuater of scuderia,but a big decision is fired Mr. Jean Todt, The french man replace by Amadeo Felisa.

It's very suprice Todt has in CEO is new but why he fired?. Todt be CEO Ferrari in Oktober 2006, after he succes in Principal Team Ferrari.

Now ferrari structure is Luca di Montezemolo, Piero Ferrari, Jean Todt, Amedeo Felisa, Alfredo Altavilla, Diego della Valle, Christopher Gent, Enrico Lippi, Sergio Marchionne, Paolo Monferino, Lindsay Owen-Jones, Marco Piccinini dan Sergio Pininfarina.
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The first time is always special, especially your first Grand Prix as a team owner. For Force India’s maiden race, Dr Vijay Mallya’s only wish was to avoid the back row of the grid. With that mission accomplished, the Australian weekend was a winner before the race had even begun.

And while that race could have gone better, there were plenty of more experienced teams also left with double DNFs, and Mallya came away feeling quietly confident about the team’s future…

Q: Vijay, Melbourne marked your first race as a team co-owner. Were you satisfied with the team’s performance?
Vijay Mallya: I am both satisfied and excited. Excited because this is the debut of the Force India Formula One Team, and satisfied because I think that we have proved this weekend that we are a much-improved team. Our practice time clearly put us amongst the top 15, although the qualifying timing was disappointing. This resulted also because of a little bad luck, with the yellow flag and making a mistake in choosing the tyres. We have learned from these mistakes, which are normal, but it is very satisfying to get acknowledgement of the progress the team has made, because many people came to me and congratulated me on the early progress that we have achieved.

Q: Over the winter, you were present at many tests where the team’s times looked quite competitive. Has the development of the team met with your approval?
VM: Absolutely. Otherwise, we would not have made such an improvement. It is my job to be with the team, to properly lead and direct the team and show that I am involved with them, which is very important for motivation and encouragement. As you can see around us the team is energised and excited, and therefore the people are making their best effort. We invested a lot of money in the right direction, for what I call quick wins of low hanging fruits. First we had to identify what would bring us quick results, and on that we did a very good job, we dedicated sufficient budget to these results. We were able to address those specific issues, so we saw immediate improvement in performance. We have some more aerodynamic improvements to do in Malaysia, which hopefully will further improve performance. Once we are well into the European season, there will be one major step of improvement also. So in the second half of the season we should be truly very competitive, and definitely make it into the top of Q2.

Q: You said that you didn’t expect your drivers to end up on the back row of the grid, and they didn’t - but beating a team that hadn’t tested since December and two rookies, who were unfamiliar with the track, cannot possibly satisfy your ambitions…
VM: If you see the sector time of Giancarlo’s (Fisichella) qualifying lap, he did his personal best time ever in Sector 1 and 2, and in Sector 3 he lost out immediately because of Adrian’s (Sutil) spin and the yellow flag. If there had not been so many interruptions we clearly would have been in Q2. If we could have achieved this, I truly believe that we could have made it up to position 13 or 14. So this was a good start for the first race and we have achieved what we had hoped for.

Q: You’ve long been sponsor in Formula One, but have never had much influence on a team’s development. Now you have every opportunity to mould a team to your liking. What is the most difficult challenge?
VM: There are two challenges. Number one is, as a leader of the team, I am ultimately responsible for the performance of the team. So this is a big level of responsibility that I have to take. You cannot just blame the drivers, engineers or anybody. At the end of the day, the leader has to take the responsibility. Let me give you an example. Yesterday I had a big decision - to change the gearbox. We are probably one of the few teams that do not have a seamless gearbox, so once we introduce the seamless one, we will be even more competitive. So the decision was to buy the seamless gearbox from another team or develop it ourselves. Both have their advantages and disadvantages. We have now decided to do it ourselves, which I hope was the right decision, and I have to accept the responsibility of that decision.

The second challenge is to find sponsors. It is easy to sit on the other side of the fence, but when you are sitting on this side of it, you have to convince a sponsor to sponsor the team. With the performance during the tests in the winter, we were able to demonstrate that we are certainly moving forward. Also the achievements here in Melbourne will further underline this. We have already got top quality sponsors on board, and all of them expect me to deliver all of the benefits to them, as they know I have been a sponsor before. But still all of this is fun and part of the business which I am enjoying as I love challenges.

Q: Your diverse, global business interests demand a lot of your time, but you are very much hands on at Force India too. Has there ever been a moment of doubt over your commitment to Formula One racing?
VM: No. I knew it from the very beginning, as I have been involved in F1 for so many years. I was prepared for this, even before we bought the team.

Q: You do a lot to make Formula One popular in India, but how is Indians’ support for their ‘own’ team growing? What about in terms of sponsorship…
VM: People in India are very excited, and F1 is certainly growing in popularity. Especially young people love the competitiveness and the glamour of F1. Force India already has a lot of fans and they add to it, but it is not only Force India. Formula One itself has a lot of momentum in India, and it will be very interesting to go back and see how many people have watched this race. This is not only good for us, but also for all other teams and their sponsors, as we have a rapidly growing following. Sponsorship of Formula One is expensive, and you have to write big cheques. So the challenge is to increase the team’s performance to raise the team’s exposure, so the sponsors realise the marketing value of this platform. We hope that even more Indian sponsors will follow the ones we already have.
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MARANELLO - Tim Formula One (F1) Ferarri will use a new nose in Grand Prix Bahrain, next month. The new desain may be will help the bad result in GP Australia.

F2008 single-seater will interduce in open of GP Bahrain. "this chage will make good efect in midle part of front wing" Red Bull Geoff Willis to eurosport, Thursday (18/3/2008).

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Lewis Hamilton’s win for McLaren at the Australian Grand Prix almost went unnoticed in Albert Park this afternoon - and that tells you just what sort of race it was. The 23 year-old Briton dominated an event characterised by safety car interventions following a series of dramatic incidents that all happened behind him.

Hamilton would build a lead, lose it behind the safety car, build it again, lose it again. You get the picture. But if he was impressive here a year ago, he was even better on Sunday, never losing his composure as he took the lead of the world championship with almost insouciant ease.

If it was a great day for McLaren, it was a disaster for Ferrari. Felipe Massa spun on the first lap and was then involved in an incident with Red Bull’s David Coulthard before retiring, and Kimi Raikkonen, having benefited from the second safety car intervention, slid off the road trying to pass McLaren’s Heikki Kovalainen and undid all that work. Then his Ferrari let him down when he was running seventh with three laps to go.

Indeed, McLaren should have had a one-two, but a third safety car intervention following a heavy accident for Toyota’s Timo Glock badly hurt Kovalainen’s chances as he had to pit when everyone had closed up. He dropped way back, was passed by Raikkonen, repassed him, then found himself overtaken by Renault’s Fernando Alonso as the Spaniard overtook both of his rivals in a wonderful move.

After fighting back, Kovalainen repassed the Renault with two laps to go, only to have his car falter momentarily as they crossed the line for the 57th time. As he wiped oil off his visor he accidentally triggered the pit-lane speed limiter and a relieved Alonso pounced to head his former team mate home in fourth place.

Ahead of them, Nick Heidfeld brought his BMW Sauber home an excellent second, chased by Nico Rosberg, whose Toyota-engined Williams was the fastest car on the track in the closing stages. It was the young German’s first podium.

The race began with drama as an incident in the first corner involved Honda’s Jenson Button, Force India’s Giancarlo Fisichella, Red Bull’s Mark Webber, Super Aguri’s Anthony Davidson and Toro Rosso’s Sebastian Vettel, and led directly or indirectly to their retirements.

Jarno Trulli looked set for good points until his Toyota let him down, and Nelson Piquet’s debut for Renault was little short of disastrous as he trailed at the back and failed to make it home.

Sebastien Bourdais and his Toro Rosso crew made a great call on strategy and were running fourth, ahead of Alonso and Kovalainen with three laps to go, but were stymied by engine failure. Force India’s Adrian Sutil and Super Aguri’s Takuma Sato similarly failed to make the finish.

“The team did a fantastic job as always, and the car was phenomenal, a complete dream to drive compared to last year,” a delighted Hamilton said. “They pulled me in early on both stops and that kept us out of trouble. Physically the race was a breeze, and great preparation for Malaysia, so bring it on, I’m really looking forward to it.”

result of ausie GP:
1. Lewis Hamilton McLaren 1:34:50.616
2. Nick Heidfeld BMW +5.478
3. Nico Rosberg Williams +8.163
4. Fernando Alonso Renault +17.181
5. Heikki Kovalainen McLaren +18.014
6. Rubens Barrichello Honda +52.453
7. Kazuki Nakajima Williams at 1 lap
8. Sebastien Bourdais Toro Rosso out
9. Kimi Raikkonen Ferrari out
10. Robert Kubica BMW out
11. Timo Glock Toyota out
12. Takuma Sato Super Aguri out
13. Nelsinho Piquet Jr Renault out
14. Felipe Massa Ferrari out
15. David Coulthard Red Bull out
16. Jarno Trulli Toyota out
17. Adrian Sutil Force India out
18. Mark Webber Red Bull out
19. Jenson Button Honda out
20. Anthony Davidson Super Aguri out
21. Sebastien Vettel Toro Rosso out
22. Giancarlo Fisichella Force India out
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MELBOURNE - Big supprice happen in free practice3 in Melbourne Ausie, saturday morning(15/3/2008).two racer of BMW Sauber dominated with Robert Kubica be the fastest .
In this Free practice some uniqe happen, in list of ten racer nothing from two big team ferarri and mclaren. Kubica fastest time 1:25,613, behind him nick heidfeld with 0.337.

Fernando Alonso succes in third post with 1:26,082. Nico Rosberg (Williams), David Coulthard dan Mark Webber (Red Bull), Jenson Button (Honda), Sebastian Vettel (Scuderia Torro Rosso), Giancarlo Fisihechella (Force India) dan Jarno Trulli (Toyota) list of free practice gp f1 in Melbourne, Australia.

Then what happen with ferrari dan Mclaren? Felipe in elevent post,with 1:27,020.
More tereble for another pilot of scuderia, Kimi Raikkonen. The camp of 2007 in 14 post. Kimmi behing of lois hamilton.

Free Practice III GP Australia:

1. Robert Kubica BMW 1:25.613

2. Nick heidfeld BMW +0.337

3. Fernando Alonso Renault +0.469

4. Nico Rosberg Williams +0.558

5. David Coulthard Redbull +0.772

6. Mark Webber Redbull +0.794

7. Jenson Button Honda +0.889

8. Sebastian Vettel Toro Rosso +1.050

9. Giancarlo Fisichella Force India +1.069

10. Jarno Trulli Toyota +1.269

11. Felipe Massa Ferrari +1.407

12. Lewis Hamilton McLaren +1.471

13. Timo Glock Toyota +1.549

14. Kimi Raikkonen Ferrari +1.550

15. Nelson Piquet Jr Renault +1.671

16. Rubens Barrichello Honda +1.720

17. Adrian Suttil Force India +1.876

18. Bourdais Toro Rosso +1.965

19. Nakajima Williams +1.988

20. Heikki Kovalainen McLaren +2.379

21. Takuma Sato Super Aguri +2.750

22. Anthony Davidson Super Aguri +3.299
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Free Practice II, GP Australia :
1. Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes (B) 1:26.559 detik
2. Webber Red Bull-Renault (B) 1:27.473 + 0.914
3. Massa Ferrari (B) 1:27.640 + 1.081
4. Kovalainen McLaren-Mercedes (B) 1:27.683 + 1.124
5. Coulthard Red Bull-Renault (B) 1:28.037 + 1.478
6. Raikkonen Ferrari (B) 1:28.208 + 1.649
7. Trulli Toyota (B) 1:28.292 + 1.733
8. Rosberg Williams-Toyota (B) 1:28.352 + 1.793
9. Fisichella Force India-Ferrari (B) 1:28.469 + 1.910
10. Glock Toyota (B) 1:28.582 + 2.023

11. Button Honda (B) 1:28.632 + 2.073
12. Heidfeld BMW Sauber (B) 1:28.731 + 2.172
13. Alonso Renault (B) 1:28.779 + 2.220
14. Barrichello Honda (B) 1:28.849 + 2.290
15. Kubica BMW Sauber (B) 1:28.860 + 2.301
16. Nakajima Williams-Toyota (B) 1:29.077 + 2.518
17. Sutil Force India-Ferrari (B) 1:29.161 + 2.602
18. Vettel Toro Rosso-Ferrari (B) 1:29.193 + 2.634
19. Piquet Renault (B) 1:29.518 + 2.959
20. Bourdais Toro Rosso-Ferrari (B) 1:29.605 + 3.046
21. Sato Super Aguri-Honda (B) 1:30.663 + 4.104
22. Davidson Super Aguri-Honda (B) 1:31.527 + 4.968
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MARANELLO - Team Formula One (F1) Scuderia make apatner some national airways of United Arab Emirates. In that relationship Scuderia and Etihad sign for 3 year patner.

Before that, Etihad Airways has been sign with Spyker in start of last season 2007. But after the belion richman India Vijay Mallya buy Spyker become Super Aguri, the patner between syker and etihad stop. Why ?, couse Vijay Mallaya also have airways, Kingfisher Airlines.

For the patnership, Ferrari will be place label Etihad In Grand Prix F1 in 3 year front. The Logo of Etihad place at back wing, center body and the helmet of pilot F1.

The bos of Scuderia Luca di Montezemolo say, 'we very happy of this it will more relationship with United Arab Emirates'.

"colaborated Etihad Airways with Mubadala Development Company, prepare some sponsor for their subcon," Montezemolo say on autosport, thursday (13/3/2008).
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MELBROUNE - Kimi Raikkonen start this season for keep his champ 2007 in this season 2008. In free practice I GPF1 in Melbourne Australia he become the fastest Friday(14/3/2008).

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PARIS - Exs chief engineer Ferrari Nigel Stepney at last he can breath. Federation International de automobile (FIA) decide to release the english man, it's all about the scandal for spy ferrari on Juni 2007.

Even release stepney, FIA do not recomend for all F1 team to work that man who ever make the schumi a champ.
Ferrari kick Stepney after accuse a secret data to the biggest rival McLaren Mercedes. Stepney predicted give the data to chief designer McLaren Mike Coughlan.
cause that scandal McLaren must pay alot. the constructor champ and rancor USD 100 billion.
Stepney give a letter by own self to FIA. the content is a statent that he's gulity in that case.
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