Formula 1 World

Saturday, 21 July 2012

Kamui Kobayashi Pictures

Kamui Kobayashi ( born September 13, 1986 in Amagasaki, Hyogo, Japan) is a Japanese racing driver. He has competed in the GP2 Series, won the GP2 Asia Series, and made his Formula One debut with Toyota in the final two races of 2009 when he replaced Timo Glock after the German was injured in a crash during qualifying for the Japanese Grand Prix. He has driven for Sauber since the 2010 season.

Kamui Kobayashi Picture

Tuesday, 17 July 2012

Paul di Resta Pictures

Paul di Resta (born 16 April 1986 in Uphall, Livingston, Scotland,) is a Scottish racing driver, currently competing in Formula One with Force India. He is also a former DTM and Formula 3 Euroseries champion beating team mate and future Formula One World Champion Sebastian Vettel.

Paul di Resta Picture

Pastor Maldonado Pictures

Pastor Rafael Maldonado Motta (born March 10, 1985 in Maracay) is a Venezuelan Formula One driver, currently with the Williams team. Before making his Formula One debut in 2011, he won the 2010 GP2 championship. He became the first Venezuelan to win a Formula One Grand Prix when he won the 2012 Spanish Grand Prix from his first pole position.

Pastor Maldonado Picture

Sunday, 15 July 2012

Sergio Pérez Pictures And Bio

Sergio Pérez Mendoza (born January 26, 1990 in Guadalajara, Jalisco), also known as "Checo" Pérez, is a Mexican racing driver currently racing for Sauber in the 2012 Formula One season.[2] Pérez, who currently resides in Schindellegi, Switzerland,is the younger brother of former champion NASCAR Corona Series driver Antonio Pérezand is also a member of the Ferrari Driver Academy. He also took his first Formula One podium at the 2012 Malaysian Grand Prix, a drive which won him plaudits and fuelled speculation of a move to Ferrari in the near future.However, Pérez later told reporters that he expected to stay with Sauber until at least the end of the 2012 season.

Formula One World Championship career:

Nationality     Mexican
2012 team     Sauber-Ferrari
2012 car #     15
Races             28 (26 starts)
Championships     0
Wins            0
Podiums                2
Career points        53
Pole positions    0
Fastest laps     1
First race     2011 Australian Grand Prix
Last race     2012 British Grand Prix
2011 position     16th (14 pts)

Pérez started the 2012 season with eighth place at the Australian Grand Prix, losing several places on the final lap due to excessively-worn tyres.In the second round at Malaysia, he went on to battle with Fernando Alonso for the win. In the dying laps of the race he was able to close the gap to 0.5 seconds, but was not able to make the pass as he went wide at turn 14 and fell back, finishing 2.2 seconds behind Alonso in second. Many observers praised the performance of Pérez during the race despite his late-race error,taking Sauber's best result as an independent team.

Sergio Pérez Pictures

Romain Grosjean Pictures And Bio

Romain Grosjean (born 17 April 1986 in Geneva, Switzerland) is a racing driver for the Lotus F1 Team. He races under the French flag[1] in Formula One although he has lived his entire life in Switzerland. He was the 2007 Formula Three Euroseries drivers' champion and the inaugural GP2 Asia Series champion and first drove in Formula One in 2009. He is the 2011 GP2 Asia Series and GP2 Series champion and is the first – and as of April 2012, only – two-time GP2 Asia champion and the only driver to hold both the GP2 Asia series and main GP2 series titles simultaneously.

In 2012, Grosjean returned to Formula One with the Lotus F1 Team, alongside Kimi Räikkönen.

Formula One World Championship career:

Nationality     French
2012 team     Lotus-Renault
2012 car #     10
Races             16
Championships     0
Wins        0
Podiums    2
Career points     61
Pole positions     0
Fastest laps     1
First race     2009 European Grand Prix
Last race     2012 British Grand Prix

On 9 December 2011, it was announced that Grosjean would make his comeback to Formula One in 2012, taking the second seat at the newly renamed Lotus F1 Team (formerly Renault, the team that Grosjean raced with in 2009) alongside 2007 World Champion Kimi Räikkönen.

Apart from being a racing driver, Grosjean has a job at a bank in his home town Geneva.He married his long-term partner, Marion Jolles (who works for French TV channel TF1 as a motorsport reporter), at Chamonix on June 27, 2012.

Romain Grosjean Pictures

Thursday, 12 July 2012

Narain Karthikeyan Pictures And Bio

Kumar Ram Narain Karthikeyan (born 14 January 1977, in Coimbatore) is the first Formula One motor racing driver from India.He has previously competed in A1GP, and the Le Mans Series. He made his Formula One debut in 2005 with the Jordan team, and was a Williams F1 test driver in 2006 and 2007. Like several other former F1 drivers, Karthikeyan moved to stock car racing and drove the #60 Safe Auto Insurance Company Toyota Tundra for Wyler Racing in the 2010 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series. In 2011 he returned to F1 with the HRT team, and has again signed with them for the 2012 season.

Formula One World Championship career:

Nationality     Indian
2012 team     HRT-Cosworth
2012 car #     23
Races             37 (35 starts)
Championships     0
Wins     0
Podiums     0
Career points     5
Pole positions     0
Fastest laps     0
First race     2005 Australian Grand Prix
Last race     2012 British Grand Prix
2011 position     26th (0 pts)

Karthikeyan was born in Madras, Tamil Nadu. Karthikeyan did his schooling at Stanes Anglo Indian Higher Secondary School in Coimbatore. He belongs to PSG Family in Coimbatore. His father Mr.G.R Karthikeyan has been "Managing Trustee" of PSG and Sons Charities which runs PSG industrial Institute, PSG Polytechnic College,PSG College of Arts and Science, PSG College of Technology, PSG Institute of Medical science and Research, PSG Hospitals, PSG Institute of Management etc.Narain Karthikeyan also runs Karthikeya Spinning Mills LTD and a wind energy sector and many other companies in Coimbatore. Karthikeyan's interest in motorsport began at an early age, as his father was a former Indian national rally champion winning South India Rally seven times.

He is also related to the late S. Karivardhan, India's most famous racing driver until Karthikeyan came along. With the ambition of becoming India's first Formula One driver, Karthikeyan finished on the podium in his first ever race, at Sriperumpudur in a Formula Maruti (a.k.a.FISSME). He then went onto the Elf Winfield Racing School in France, showing his talent by becoming a semi-finalist in the Pilote Elf Competition for Formula Renault cars in 1992. He returned to India to race in Formula Maruti for the 1993 season, and in the same year, he also competed in the Formula Vauxhall Junior championship in Great Britain. This gave him valuable experience in European racing, and he was keen to return for the following year.
On 3 February 2012, it was confirmed that Karthikeyan had again signed for the HRT team for the 2012 season partnering Pedro de la Rosa.

Narain Karthikeyan Pictures