Ovidiu Panzariu

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Ovidiu has been watching Formula 1 since as long as he can remember. In time, he has learnt that every racing series has a little secret of its own so he took it upon himself to create one of the most complex motorsport databases available on line. If Kimi falls from the yacht after completing the first few rounds of the World Drinking Championship or some Nascar driver hits his crew chief for messing up his race, this motorsport addict will give you extensive coverage and keep you up to date the very next minute.

Favorite quote: “Winning is everything. The only ones who remember you when you come second are your wife and your dog”, Damon Hill, 1996 F1 champion

UK Police Find Drugs, Gun in Kawasaki Superbike Truck

2 May 2011, 08:42 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Drug dealers have now found a great way of transporting their “goods” from one destination to another. Well, for all we know, they may have been doing it for years, but it's only this weekend that a police check in the UK found som...

Italian Hospital Demands EUR100,000 for Kubica Stay

2 May 2011, 08:17 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Robert Kubica had told the media several times that he was grateful to the medical staff at the Santa Corona hospital (in Pietra Ligure) for the way they have taken care of his condition from the time he was brought in and until he was released. Wa...

Di Resta Not Denying Mercedes Interest

2 May 2011, 06:27 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Paul di Resta's promising start of the season in 2011 – his first F1 campaign – has caught the eye of Mercedes GP's senior management. After out-qualifying his more experienced teammate Adrian Sutil in all 3 races this year, a...

Pedrosa Wins Portuguese GP, Defeats Lorenzo

1 May 2011, 16:43 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Honda’s Dani Pedrosa should no longer fear fitness will be a factor in his quest for the MotoGP title this season, as the Spaniard put in a phenomenal effort to end Jorge Lorenzo’s winning streak at the Estoril track on Sunday, by scori...

Toro Rosso Confirm Major Update for Monaco

29 Apr 2011, 13:30 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Scuderia Toro Rosso will wait until the Monaco Grand Prix before introducing a completely new aerodynamic package for their STR6 challenger. While most of the teams will come to Istanbul two weekends from now with an improved package to kick off th...

Ferrari Have Biggest Budget in F1

29 Apr 2011, 07:31 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Ferrari are reportedly the highest spending team in Formula 1 at the moment, if we are to trust a financial report issued by “Business Book GP” and brought in front of the media by Spain's daily El Mundo Deportivo. According to ...

Honda Resolve Clutch Issue for Stoner

29 Apr 2011, 06:50 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Casey Stoner lost a lot of valuable points when he crashed out of the Spanish Grand Prix a few weekends back, and it wasn't so much because he was taken out by Valentino Rossi, but due to a clutch problem with his Honda RC212V. When trying ...

Hayden Will Ride Improved GP11 Next Week

29 Apr 2011, 06:20 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Nicky Hayden will have the honor of riding the revised Ducati Desmosedici GP11 on Monday, less than 24 hours after the Portuguese GP, on the Estoril race track. As reported earlier this week, Ducati will be unable to debut their revised chassis thi...

MINI Drivers Expect Tough Start in Rally Italy

28 Apr 2011, 14:30 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / There is one more week remaining until Rally Italy opens its doors for WRC action this year, marking the official return of the MINI brand in the FIA's premier rallying series. And apart from the diehard fans of the British brand, there's...

Bridgestone Man to Advise MotoGP Promoter

28 Apr 2011, 13:36 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Dorna Sports, the commercial rights holder of the MotoGP series, has today confirmed the addition of former Bridgestone motorsport boss Hiroshi Yasukawa as new advisor of CEO Carmelo Ezpeleta. Yasukawa, who is known by all motor racing fans than...

Miss World Will Attend 2011 DTM Opener

28 Apr 2011, 13:23 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / As the 2011 DTM season will kick off this very weekend at Hockenheim, championship big guns Mercedes-Benz and Audi are both seeking to secure as many fans as possible at their garage and hospitality facilities trackside. After the Stuttgart-bas...

Aston Martin Will Sacrifice Spa Race for Le Mans

28 Apr 2011, 12:48 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / With the Le Mans 24 Hours race less than two months away, Aston Martin has gone full speed with their AMR-One testing and development programme for the aforementioned event. Unfortunately however, this means the team will not be able to make the...

Button Will Retire from F1 at McLaren

28 Apr 2011, 12:06 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Of course we have heard these things before from drivers who are in their first couple of years of contract with their new teams – especially when referring to historic squads such as Ferrari and McLaren Mercedes – so it shouldn't ...

Ecclestone Pushes for Bahrain Deadline Extension

28 Apr 2011, 11:30 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Bernie Ecclestone doesn't seem too impressed with the open letter addressed to him by a Bahraini pro-democracy activist group, via Facebook. As the aforementioned group asks him to keep F1 out of the country for the 2011 campaign due to ongoin...

Audi Present Innovative Mono-Turbo Tech for R18 TDI [Gallery]

28 Apr 2011, 10:35 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Yes, they scored an impressive 1-2-3 finish in the famous Le Mans 24 Hours race last year, but Audi doesn't plan to stop there, as the German carmaker will be looking to build on that success and continue its domination in the LMP1 class. A...

Schumacher to End F1 Career in 2012

28 Apr 2011, 09:38 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Michael Schumacher insisted once again that he has every intention of fulfilling his 3-year contract with Mercedes-Benz as an official Formula 1 driver, but confirmed he doesn't plan on extending that deal for the future. Even though the 7-...

Rosberg to Drive DTM Car at Hockenheim

28 Apr 2011, 08:59 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Nico Rosberg will use the spare time he has before the European season of Formula 1 kicks off to fulfill one of his many motor racing dreams. According to the Bild newspaper, the German driver is set to do his first proper run at the wheel of a DTM...

Mitsubishi Confirms Interest in FIA's Electric Car Series

28 Apr 2011, 08:36 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / While Formula 1 figures are looking with distrust at the FIA's attempts to create a parallel, global racing series for electric cars, it seems that some car manufacturers are actually fancying the idea to be part of it. As shown in one of o...

McLaren Linked with Libya Sponsorship in 2010

28 Apr 2011, 08:05 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Considering the complex international situation of Libya during the past couple of months, this may not come as a flattering media report for British team McLaren Mercedes. According to Britain's Daily Mail, the Woking based organization was i...

Ferrari Boss: We're Building Cars, Not Airplanes

28 Apr 2011, 07:31 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Ferrari's president Luca di Montezemolo has once more called for a dramatic change in Formula 1 regulations for the future, that would allow top teams to field a third car in the series and bring the focus down to engine power rather than aero...

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