I think nobody missed Fernando Alonso’s statements shortly after the end of the Grand Prix of Australia. Perhaps without stopping to think for a moment, Alonso said that despite the “bad” outcome, the good thing is that Albert Park had been ahead of its rivals in the standings. A little early to be left in the ink to those who had been ahead. Right?. It takes just two races.

The good news is that I have fallen behind rivals at this time for points, Vettel and Hamilton, and I have increased the gap. I have known very well be in front of them

For those rivals were put name and are none other than Sebastian Vettel and Lewis Hamilton. The German left, while Lewis Hamilton’s comeback was cut short by a Mark Webber with excessive ardor. For his part, after the initial incident, Fernando Alonso was getting a great fourth. A result that does not win world but if you avoid that loss.

But, why Fernando Alonso failed to Felipe Massa?. Does it assume that is a rival or not?. His comeback came up where he left his teammate. And there are voices that speak of the Spaniard’s superior pace should have been translated into some “order” to Massa. In any case, Felipe Massa is the only driver to have stepped on the podium in the first two races of the year and is only four points adrift of Alonso. Nothing if we consider the score of this year.

And if we say that Massa, could say the same about Jenson Button?. It seems that no one takes into account the current world champion. It is clear that we can not underestimate the McLaren MP4-25 and after that seen in Albert Park, we can almost say the same of Button. English may have in the McLaren this year something like Brawn GP of the past. The car runs a lot and under these conditions usually can expect Jenson Button to the victories. And the victories can take you without wanting the title. The next chapter has already begun.

In the morning sun and good weather, no nothing. The third grand prix of the season promises to give us the show, but that they do not like the drivers. The weather during the 2010 Malaysian Grand Prix will not be very different from last year. High temperatures and fairly high chance of rain.

The maximum exceed 30 º while the probability of rain is near 100%. Come in short, that the drivers are going to have to deal with water in some of the sessions or even worse, during the race. If the show is pure and simple, it rains a little during the exit, type Australia Grand Prix and then the thing will calm down.

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The second round of the Superbike World Championship at the Portuguese circuit of Portimao has brought back to the top of the podium for Max Biaggi, and also because it has managed to duplicate the double . A doublet that has worked because now it is the strongest driver of the category, Leon Haslam, did not put it all easy.

Both the first and second race, made close to Italian and almost snatch the top position last. However, old dog Max is well known to do in the long curvón Admission to goal. Jonathan Rea in the first and Cal Crutchlow in the second would complete the drawer.

Supersport

was also extremely interesting career of http://www.moto22.com/superbikes/kenan “Sofuoglu-joan-lascorz-duel-to-death-in-portimao, with a very feisty Joan Lascorz that nearly carried the cat into the water. However, the Turk Kenan Sofuoglu managed to get inside the final three corners and left the Spanish driver with honey on the lips.

Who was the leader for more than half of the race, Eugene Laverty, he crashed a few laps to go and it still managed to rejoin the race and finish eleventh, left tray, the third to Michele Pirro.

Trial

The World Championship Indoor Trial held its last meeting in Mallorca and at the end of it, the title went to the strongest driver of the current scene: Toni Bou. Thus, Bou get the title for the fourth consecutive time, that is not small, and sets his sights on the outdoor starting in a few weeks.

Albert Cabestany finished second in the test and second in the general, ahead of Adam Raga also Spanish. We have a right to feel proud because in Trial, Spain remains a reference for other countries.

Motocross

The third round of the Motocross Championship of Spain was held in Tenerife with a Jonathan Barragan hit, winner of both races. With them is completely full, six wins from a possible six. It is clear that Jonathan is one step ahead of the rest.

Back, you could say that the two usual but this time reversed the order. Carlos Campano and Alvaro Lozano finished second and third but at no time Barragán troubled over the two legs.

Enduro

The second round of the Enduro Championship of Spain has shown, like motocross, Ivan Cervantes has one point more than the rest but this time, Cristobal Guerrero placed it difficult to finish within two days.

behind Ivan and Christopher would end Oriol Mena the first day and the second Juha Salminen, the only test of the Championship which is held two days, a format identical to the endurance world.

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Third round of the season. We travel to one of the greatest influx of viewers are the almost uninhabited Rally of Jordan. A Rally which is characterized by its heat and almost desert landscape that reminds us many times more to rally to a test that World Rally Championship.

The tour combines fast tracks with curves / medium denominator is the main rapid accumulation of stones and low grip. This may have changed a bit due to the numerous rainfall during the past months and even forced the organization to use heavy machinery to clean up a little sign of the track. We can therefore expect that after the first return after a few stones to get to the surface, increasing the risk of a puncture.

Few developments regarding the entry list. The only noteworthy may be the news that this year we’ll have another more disputing Spanish Junior Championship. I am referring to Yerai Lemes, who after trying their luck in the Pirelli Star Drivers Championship and winning the Rally of Spain Earth, will hit the jump to its first World Cup season together with others such as Xavier Pons, Dani Sordo and Egoi Valdés.

As for the championship all, touch us to see the fight between the two official teams with possibly some interference from other Junior Team Citroën and Petter Solberg. It is clear that both Ford and Citroen will share the top positions. The Oval has been during these weeks trying all sorts of solutions to recover from the fiasco of Mexico. As a result, nearly 1,000 kilometers of test on the lands of Sardinia to try to find the perfect settings for this test.

The French Citroen have not been left with arms crossed and have also had a few sessions tests. Loeb also used to ride back into the DS3 Citroën WRC and go on with its development for next season. For its part Dani Sordo will certainly eager to recover from the first two mediocre results and its current seventh place. Hopefully have more luck this time.

Teledeporte programming is as follows:

Thursday, April 1: 23.00 pm and repeated on day 2 12.40 pm
Friday, April 2: 21.30 hours and repetition on day 3 at 11.00 am
Saturday, April 3: 21.45 am and repeated on day 4 at 10.45 am

Remember that this rally has the characteristic that begins Thursday and ends tomorrow a day before what we are accustomed on Saturday.

The longer you follow it you will have Racingpasión usually discovered, others have gone unnoticed for the moment, so it is good time to announce it as it deserves. Since last Wednesday we have a banner in prominent area that leads you directly to the competition calendar 2010. A calendar that will be supplemented and amended so as not to overlook you no competition. But that is not everything.

Last year we had at home with the classification of Formula 1 drivers as both teams. The needs of the new template we opened a few months ago made the space becomes smaller and only had space for the top three in each classification. As we know so little, we decided that we will offset the loss with an improvement that I hope you enjoy it. Under the classification now going to find a link “So the rankings are” where you can find a post with the classifications of Formula 1, World Rally Championship, the WRC, the FIA GT1, DTM and IRC. We hope you enjoy it.

Last week he jumped in surprise. The cars of Virgin, the VR-01 have a deposit too small to not allow them to finish races. Specifically we are talking about 15 or 20 liters that they would lack to reach the final. Today we met an interesting story. The redesign of the chassis will pay Wirth Research and will cost around one million pounds (just over one million euros ).

Graeme Lowdon, CEO of Virgin revealed that the problem comes from the supplier. ” When supplier said, the first idea was the ruling would have come from the supplier of the deposits, to be calculated wrong and would have the same capacity in liters, rather than kilograms. Nothing is further from the truth. The fact that she agrees to pay Wirth himself redesigning let us guess who was the ruling.

To confirm the end of initial suspicion, Nick Wirth acknowledged that the failure has been his company. So Virgin Racing should not pay anything and the aforementioned redesign of the car will not cost you a pound. Good news and bad in everything, for a team that is not especially about money. Richard Branson, the moment you take it philosophically.

All this means that we have time to practice with the car, to discover more about him. During the next two races we learn more and more about the car.

Apparently, the car, which as planned will premiere on the occasion Montmelo Grand Prix in Spain, not only have the new chassis. The team’s intent is to leap forward with all new aerodynamic parts that could lead to this great prize. It seems that the race between Richard Branson and Tony Fernandes at the moment is favorable to the latter.

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After an exciting weekend in Melbourne, with a career full of emotions, we have the Malaysian Grand Prix in just six days. Team Lotus, which in Melbourne only lead to Kovalainen got the finish after Trulli could not just go out on track, has decided that his career “home” will give to Fairuz Fauzy to overcome the Friday instead of Heikki Kovalainen.

Who does not remember the end of the famous Paris-Dakar Rally in 1989 where Jean Todt, now president of the FIA, he let a coin decide the winner? Back then, the two Peugeot drivers who risked their victory with a coin toss was Vatanen and Ickx. You may wonder, I suppose, what’s all this, right?

The fact is that a coin which has been decided which of the two race drivers stayed out on Friday. The proposal came from crew chief Mike Gascoyne, who thought she was as fair, since both Trulli and Kovalainen are working hard. But, as usual, Lotus wants to shoot its pilot of the future, and what better place to do that at home?

Perhaps this serves to equalize a little shooting Lotus drivers, since Trulli could not give a single round yesterday, while Kovalainen finished the race. “Divine Justice? Most likely not, but it is curious. Moreover, as detailed in the news, we know that Kovalainen “chose to cross.” The obvious question is: Did you choose Jacky Ickx cross, at the time?

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What a way to begin National Rally Championship Asphalt. We all hoped that Miguel Fuster was strong at home as in the latest editions, but the Alicante curl curled and swept all present S2000 Rally Villajoyosa. And this despite the fact that after the first passes to the portions of the regular drivers and participants in the Championship of Spain the track was very dirty, something that certainly was not conducive at all to the muscular Porsche.

( #) Its domain also began from the first tranche. The Benidorm is vented in some stretches that is known almost perfectly, and has four straight victories there, and set the scratch in six of the eight special which consisted of the test. Just gave some time in the last two stages when the rally was almost in the palm of the hand.

That time I took advantage of Alberto Hevia which so far had to settle for second place and with maintain as far as possible the Ford Fiesta S2000 Vallejo brothers. The lucenses not at this time that they lacked pace and at no time could not stand up to any of the drivers who preceded him in the standings. Sergio was happy with the change to the Fiesta, but stressed repeatedly that the car is much more boring to drive his old Porsche 911 GT3.

In the battle for the top three positions near the focus was resolute in the fight for victory between vehicles of category N +. Victor Senra began as a real shot, it was even placed in the top four during the first stages of the day. But soon he had to finish the rally with a mechanical problem on your turbo.

Enrique Garcia Ojeda could not do anything and you could see clearly passed a Pedro Burgo who was still adjusting to his new machine, a Mitsubishi Lancer EVO X. Apparently the introduction of the new gasoline, Panta, made them lose the Subaru power. Specifically around 15-20 hp power in their cars.

Was also very nice battle between the two Suzuki Swift S1600. But Joan Vinyes invoked its experience and its power to overcome a Antxustegui Gorka which was shown at all times can make things very difficult for his “head ranks”. Some problems of wear on his tires and his constant complaints about a track with too many stones removed any possibility of lifting the Basque two-wheel drive category. In the Mitsubishi Evo Cup was the first Xabier Lujua, Miguel Arias what was in the Challenge Cup and Clio Trophy Ruben Gracia Production.

Ranking Championship Asphalt Rally Spain (pilots ):

1. M. Fuster – 35 pts

2. A. Hevia – 30 pts
3. S. Vallejo – 27 pts
4. P. Burgo – 25 pts
5. E. Ojeda – 23 pts
6. A. Muñiz – 21 pts
7. X. Lujua – 19 pts
8. J. Vinyes – 17 pts
9. G. Antxustegi – 15 pts
10. M. Arias – 13 pts

Ranking Championship Asphalt Rally Spain ():

marks

1. Mitsubishi – 57 pts

2. Suzuki – 45 pts
3. Renault – 36 pts
4. Peugeot – 28 pts
5. Seat – 11 pts

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No time to recover from the hustle almost lived during the Grand Prix of Australia, I remember the times I threw her hands to her head right back to Formula 1 have the same end of week. So, here are the times of the Malaysian Grand Prix 2010. And if the water in Australia played a key role when the show, vendita rain, in Malaysia we can expect the liquid element plays a leading role again. Of course, good news. We will not have to get up early to excess. The training and races to a more than adequate time, 10 in the morning. An hour before that in 2009, so of light.

Do not have to work hard to make our memory to recall the flood, universal, last year. For the first time in many years, a career ended before reaching the 75% of its total distance, so only shared half of the points. But come, all this hardly matters. The Malaysian Grand Prix 2009 will always be remembered for the brilliant time of Kimi Raikonnen ice. While the entire grid race expected to address a decision, the Finnish street was already dressed and eating ice cream … Grande Kimi. As we missed you.

Friday, April 2nd

Libres1 04:00 h
Libres2 08:00 h

Saturday, April 3rd

Libres3 07:00 h
Ranking 10:00 am

Sunday, April 4th

Close: 08:00 h
Malaysian GP Race: 10:00 am

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Just finished the third practice session of the Grand Prix of Australia, Albert Park, one can say that things are even more interesting than they were yesterday. Mark Webber, who has been declaring that he wanted to fight for victory in the race home to get his candidacy with a bat while nothing less than a second time the very rapid and Lewis Hamilton made yesterday.

(# ) It McLaren, who yesterday seemed to be one step ahead of others, appears to be now the fourth of the teams on track. Red Bull has shown, with Vettel Webber first and fourth, they are strong. Ferrari has come to show their pace (basically Alonso), following the not especially good impression given yesterday with its pilots to practice on your weaknesses. Alonso soft tires and short runs, simulating a classification, while Massa has focused on long runs with hard tires.

Mercedes, meanwhile, is now before Again, the hand of Michael Schumacher. If in Bahrain and during the practice session yesterday primers saw a Kaiser a little decaf, it now appears that the giant is waking up again. A Schumacher saw him loose today, with a nimble car, coming in with aggressive curves and, ultimately, himself again. It seems that the predictions of Lauda on we might see the truth in Sepang Schumacher could be fulfilled soon.

As it seems it will be usual this year, the fifth team in contention has been Force India, with Sutil eighth, despite having a session less on their backs, and Liuzzi tenth. Beware of the Indian team, because if rapid improvement in the circuit as it did last year, could end up even striving for a victory, again, as happened in Spa. About Force India Renault and Williams are in a pretty tight group, so the fight for points could be remarkable.

A remarkable information about Sauber is that after analyzing the telemetry of free practice, has rejected the use of air channeling system that premiered yesterday. It was expected to help them improve, but explains Pedro de la Rosa, the system still lacks enough to be usable.

As for HRT, the situation has not improved much. Bruno Senna has been forced to stop mid-session with mechanical problems in his car, while Karun Chandhok, meanwhile, has finished his session with more mechanical problems, two minutes from time. Moreover, their times have been farther from the pilots of Virgin and Lotus. In fact, have been slower today than yesterday in the first practice session, a fairly worrying.

As concern are also times and particularly Sauber Pedro de la Rosa. Being the last rider out of all the regular teams are not where we want to see Peter, because we know he is capable of much more. It is clear that Sauber is a car that shows what the race is worth more than a lap, but the fragility they showed in Bahrain and yesterday, and the times you just do not seem to be too fast, does not look too good to Catalan.

Finally, in regard to our other pilot house, the youngest, Alguersuari, finished in fifteenth position, barely two tenths of Sebastian Buemi, improving the image he gave yesterday. It seems that with Buemi begins to form a little rivalry. Hopefully this does not affect the team’s performance, which is working in a very correct line so far this year.

Times the 2nd practice session

1 6 Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 1:24.719 16

2 8 Fernando Alonso Ferrari 1:24.929 0,210 19
3 3 Michael Schumacher Mercedes Benz Ltd GP 1:24.963 0,244 17
4 5 Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault 1:25.122 0,403 19
5 4 Nico Mercedes Benz GP Ltd Rosberg 1:25.366 0,647 16
6 1 Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 1:25.399 0,680 20
7 2 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1:25.505 0,786 14
8 14 Adrian Sutil Force India – Mercedes 1:25.525 0,806 18
9 7 Felipe Massa Ferrari 1:25.549 0,830 20
10 15 Vitantonio Liuzzi Force India-Mercedes 1:25.782 1,063 19
11 9 Rubens Barrichello Williams-Cosworth 1:25.852 1,133 17
12 16 Sebastien Buemi STR-Ferrari 1:26.104 1,385 21
13 11 Robert Kubica Renault 1:26.184 1,465 21
14 23 Kamui Kobayashi BMW Sauber-Ferrari 1:26.275 1,556 21
15 17 Jaime Alguersuari STR-Ferrari 1:26.368 1,649 17
16 12 Vitaly Petrov Renault 1:26.661 1,942 19
17 10 Nico Hulkenberg Williams-Cosworth 1:26.804 2,085 19
18 22 Pedro de la Rosa BMW Sauber-Ferrari 1:26.818 2,099 18
19 19 Heikki Kovalainen Lotus-Cosworth 1:29.539 4,820 19
20 18 Jarno Trulli Lotus-Cosworth 1:29.800 5,081 16
21 25 Lucas di Grassi Virgin-Cosworth 1:30.800 6,081 18
22 24 Timo Glock Virgin-Cosworth 1:31.114 6,395 12
23 20 Karun Chandhok HRT-Cosworth 1:34.334 9,615 11
24 21 Bruno Senna HRT-Cosworth 1:36.649 11,930 8
( #) At seven o’clock, when Spanish, will begin the qualifying session. A session that, in fact, I think we will be few surprises. So, whenever it does not rain, a fact which, though unlikely, is possible. We have three cars in the top three, and Ferrari, Mercedes and Red Bull are very close, without ever having to leave Mclaren. Behind them, De la Rosa and Alguersuari will aim to get into Q2. What is clear is that things will be in Melbourne closer than they were in Bahrain. The times they testify.

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