Archive for: October, 2009

The Abacus of Accuracy for Abu Dhabi

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For the final time this year and for at least the next couple, here’s Badger’s Abacus of Accuracy – our highly reliable spreadsheet of drivers, their times, their fuel weights and most importantly the calculations on how many laps each car has onboard, as well as pointing out just how well/badly qualifying was for them.

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Who's light, Who's heavy? Abu Dhabi Fuel Weights

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Disaster for the championship winning BrawnGP team – they are the lightest in the top six.  Sebastian Vettel will be chuffed to see how much fuel he’s carrying compared to Hamilton in front and Webber behind, while Hamilton will be pleased to know his McLaren still has KERS to help past any troublesome rivals.  We’re [...]

Qualifying: Lewis shines in the twilight

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Full marks for Yas Marina so far in it’s Grand Prix weekend debut – a thrilling qualifying session ended with Lewis Hamilton calmly taking pole position ahead of the Red Bull cars, who surprised everyone with their late front-of-the-grid form.  Jarno Trulli will be pleased with 6th position, not only because it’s in the top [...]

It's Not Shabby in Abu Dhabi – Final Practice

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Final practice at Abu Dhabi saw both of the current Brits in Formula 1 dominate – the season drawing to a close with Jenson Button in P1, just two thousandths of a second ahead of Lewis Hamilton.  McLaren and Lewis’ side of the garage look particularly strong here this weekend and with KERS on board [...]

CAPTION IT! – Press Conference from Abu Dhabi

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Yas Marina – it’s not shabby in Abu Dhabi is it!?  After a long time without one, it’s the return of Badger’s CAPTION IT! feature.  You know the score, look at the photo and give it a caption below in the comments…

Yes Marina! Friday Practice at Abu Dhabi

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All the Friday practice action from the brand new Yas Marina circuit in Abu Dhabi… Hamilton tops the table for McLaren in practice 1, and Kovalainen put in a shocker to come fastest in practice 2!

Grand Prix POP! It's Podium or Pits…

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It’s a sad week for Formula 1 … this weekend’s race at Abu Dhabi is the last grand prix of the decade! Sad times indeed. Also in this week’s fickle barometer of Formula 1 news: Jean Todt, Jenson Button, Adrian Sutil and Nico Rosberg

Badger Meets… 5Live's Anthony Davidson and David Croft

Badger Meets… 5Live's Anthony Davidson and David Croft 5Live

If you are one of the more ‘hardcore’ F1 fans who avidly watches the Friday and Saturday practice sessions then you’ll probably be familiar with the voices and brilliant banter of David Croft and Anthony Davidson. Badger was lucky enough to catch up with them both at the launch of the new Formula 1 [...]

Latest images from Yas Marina

Mr Jon Noble of Autosport fame arrived at the new circuit this morning and has been busy twitter and sending us all photos.  The media centre certainly looks plush, as do the yachts.
The first four images are from Mr Noble and the rest have been released today from the circuit’s media office.

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F1 2009 The Game: All You Need to Know

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For the first time in over half a decade there’s a new official Formula 1 game arriving on the shelves of your local shops and it’s (rather unoriginally) titled F1 2009.  This highly anticipated release is due to be out on November 20th and will be available for the Nintendo Wii and Sony PSP.
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