Ovidiu Panzariu
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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
Hamilton Skips Malaysia Preparations to Watch Brother Racing Debut
30 Mar 2011, 13:08 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Lewis Hamilton will make a 21,000 km round trip from Malaysia to Great Britain in order to watch the racing debut of his younger brother Nicolas this weekend. As confirmed a couple of months back, 19-year old Nicolas Hamilton will be one of the ...
Red Bull Cannot Resist Without KERS - Hamilton
30 Mar 2011, 12:21 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Red Bull did not use their Kinetic Energy Recovery System (KERS) in Australia last weekend, yet they dominated the running from one end to another. And from the looks of it, we'll likely see an even tougher Red Bull team in Malaysia, since the...
Guintoli Has Broken Ankle, Arm after Phillip Island Crash
30 Mar 2011, 11:58 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Former MotoGP rider and current Effenbert-Liberty Ducati competitor in the World Superbike Championship, Sylvain Guintoli, was handed one bad news and one good news following the second round of the 2011 campaign held at Donington Park last weekend...
Gronholm Conquers US Rallycross Event
30 Mar 2011, 11:45 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Marcus Gronholm has flirted with many rallying competitions since his retirement from the World Rally Championship, and maybe his commitment in the Global RallyCross Championship this year will follow the same path. However, following a fun weekend...
Lorenzo Trustful in Jerez Win
30 Mar 2011, 09:55 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Jorge Lorenzo admitted that he looks with plenty of optimism at this weekend's MotoGP round at Jerez, as this may be the perfect place to challenge and dismiss Honda's supremacy in the 2011 campaign of the series. Having completed this...
Volkswagen, Honda and Hyundai Tipped for F1 Entry
30 Mar 2011, 09:33 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Bernie Ecclestone might not be very keen on implementing the FIA-desired 1.6 litre turbocharged 4-cylinder engines in Formula 1 in 2013, but the move might help his series in the long run. While some threaten to leave the series if these engine...
Alguersuari Blames Buemi for Heidfeld Contact
30 Mar 2011, 09:14 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / The in-team battle between Scuderia Toro Rosso drivers Jaime Alguersuari and Sebastien Buemi has started already, as both are fighting to keep their seats with the Red Bull-backed squad for the rest of the 2011 campaign. The first spark between ...
Briatore Tells Ferrari to Give Up on 2011 F1 Campaign
30 Mar 2011, 07:56 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Only one race in the 2011 Formula One season has passed and certain high-ranked figures connected to the Great Circus in the past have already started giving verdicts for the year. Flavio Briatore, the former manager of Benetton and Renault F1 Team...
Karthikeyan Confident New Wing Will Qualify HRT for Malaysia Grid
30 Mar 2011, 07:24 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Hispania Racing F1 Team had a weekend to forget in Australia, as it struggled with getting its car on the track from the early stages of the first practice session on Friday until the last minute of Q1 on Saturday. Not to mention that they had to w...
Rossi Expects Less Shoulder Pain in Jerez
30 Mar 2011, 07:00 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / When the MotoGP caravan will travel to Spain this weekend, at Jerez, for the second round of the 2011 season, Ducati will probably not be the most enthused of the teams in the premier motorcycle racing series, as they haven't won a race there ...
Sauber Cancel FIA Appeal to Disqualification
30 Mar 2011, 06:39 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Sauber F1 Team decided not to continue their appeal to the International Automobile Federation (FIA) regarding the disqualification of both its drivers from the 2011 Australian Grand Prix. Sergio Perez and Kamui Kobayashi finished 7th and 8th, r...
Raikkonen to Begin NASCAR Career This Summer
29 Mar 2011, 14:35 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Kimi Raikkonen has made a surprising switch from Formula 1 to rallying a couple of years back, but it seems that the Finn is not committed entirely to his WRC programme for the future. According to a recent report issued by Finland's Turun San...
Sauber to Also Copy Red Bull-Style Exhaust
29 Mar 2011, 14:01 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Sauber F1 Team is the last team to debut a Red Bull-like exhaust layout in Formula 1, although it won't happen anytime soon. The team's technical director James Key hinted that the new exhaust blown diffuser design might be implemented on...
Biaggi Regrets Altercation with Melandri
29 Mar 2011, 13:23 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Last weekend's World Superbike meeting at Donington Park was full of incidents, from Maxime Berger losing the rear wheel of his Ducati in Race 1 to Marco Melandri scoring his first WSBK win in career at his only 3rd start in the series. Howeve...
Alonso Not Frustrated with Result in Australia
29 Mar 2011, 12:48 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Fernando Alonso fended off claims that the Australian Grand Prix last weekend was a total failure for Ferrari. While many expected a strong Scuderia, able to challenge the Red Bulls in the timing reports, the 150 Italia hardly proved a contender fo...
Alonso Is My Prost - Hamilton
29 Mar 2011, 12:11 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Sebastian Vettel might have easily won the Australian Grand Prix last weekend, but runner-up Lewis Hamilton doesn't think much of the German driver when it comes to naming his true rivals in Formula 1. Even though Vettel became the youngest...
Spanish FIA Official Frustrated with Hispania Struggles
29 Mar 2011, 11:34 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Hispania Racing F1 Team has let a lot of Spanish fans down last weekend, when they weren't able to put a single car on the starting grid in Melbourne. The new 107 percent qualifying rule took care of that, as neither Vitantonio Liuzzi, nor Nar...
Sauber Confirm Illegality in Wing Construction, Still Lodge Appeal
29 Mar 2011, 10:05 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / After they have launched an internal investigation on the legality of their front wings during last weekend's Australian Grand Prix, Sauber F1 Team have found out that the breach of the rear wing rules was indeed true, even if it was by as lit...
Kubica Watched F1 Opener on TV
29 Mar 2011, 09:40 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Robert Kubica may have missed the grid in Australia last weekend, but he certainly didn't miss a single detail of the season opening round, as he watched the whole thing on TV from his hospital room at Santa Corona, in Italy. While in the m...
Hamilton Says Red Bull Has Flexible Front Wing
29 Mar 2011, 09:19 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Who says the flexible front wing saga in Formula 1 was over? After endless discussions and several tweaks brought to the FIA's technical rulebook last season, the problem has now come back to the attention of some drivers in the paddock. Mc...