Shortly after the news that Felipe Massa will be joining the Williams F1 team, we’ve got some more news about driver lineups concerning Kevin Magnussen, Sergio Perez, and Heikki Kovalainen.
Ferrari has announced that Kimi Räikkönen with take Felipe Massa’s place on the Formula 1 team. The Finn will join Fernando Alonso as the Scuderia takes another attempt at the championship next year.
Under the watchful eye of what we think were undercover Carabinieri, we snapped a few photos of Ferrari’s Formula 1 contender for the 2012 season.
Racing is a dangerous sport, and our beloved Formula 1 is no exception, as we were reminded with Felipe Massa’s frightening injury in July of 2009. Thankfully, safety has come a long way throughout motorsports history, and gone are the days when deadly accidents were a regular part of racing. We put together this graph to illustrate the fatal history of one of the world’s favorite racing series, Formula 1.
The Brazilian Grand Prix is this weekend, and, as the end of the season approaches, a lot can hinge on this single race. Take, for instance, the Brazilian Grand Prix of 2008, the final event of that particularly close season, where the champion was decided in a final-lap upset.
At the Ricardo Tormo circuit in Valencia, Spain, Ferrari busted out several examples of the new 599XX on the racetrack, and they were nice enough to film it (and put it to a groovy flute jam).