Abu Dhabi wins FIA award as best race
December 12, 2009 by SJ Skid
Filed under People & Events
So that explains the change in the calendar.
At the big FIA award event, where Jenson Button and Brawn GP won their championship awards officially, the Abu Dhabi track won the Race Promoters Trophy.
The news is over at the FIA’s site.
Abu Dhabi Takes Promotional Awards
11/12/2009
Alongside the FIA champions, two trophies were presented for best [...]
Your View: Does it matter where F1 season ends?
December 11, 2009 by SJ Skid
Filed under Parc Fermé, Prime & Option, SJ Skid
Amid all the FIA news today — women’s commissions, a focus on building up fan-friendly programs — I can’t help but focus on the switch that has occurred at the back-end of the 2010 calendar.
On the original “draft” schedule, Brazil was set to host the season’s final race. Abu Dhabi, which was the last race [...]
Fisi: Wouldn’t change a thing, or his sunglasses
October 29, 2009 by SJ Skid
Filed under People & Events, SJ Skid
While I anxiously await Grace’s “Come to Fisi” moment, after which she will acknowledge that our favorite huge sunglasses-wearing Italian driver is the greatest thing this side of Ron Dennis, I will just have to placate myself with words from the man himself, Giancarlo Fisichella, on the eve of what most likely will be his [...]
Inside Ferrari World in Abu Dhabi
October 26, 2009 by SJ Skid
Filed under Prime & Option, SJ Skid
I’ve been holding this one off for a news hook… and Formula 1 going to Abu Dhabi this week seems to be the ticket.
Ferrari has plans to open the “world’s largest indoor theme park, sitting under a roof designed in the style of a classic double-curve body shell of a Ferrari,” in 2010.
Links to [...]
Op-Ed: Something more behind Loeb’s failed F1 drive?
October 23, 2009 by SJ Skid
Filed under F1B Op-Ed, Prime & Option, SJ Skid
As we posted yesterday, Sebastian Loeb has announced that he would not be competing at the Abu Dhabi GP.
[As for his day job, Loeb is off to a great start as he attempts to defend his World Rally title. At the end of the first day of the Rally GB, Loeb leads Mikko Hirvonen [...]
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