The 2010 Formula 1 season is just weeks away and the excitement has reached a feverish pitch. Arguably the greatest champion of all time returns after a three year hiatus, perhaps the only driver to defeat this great champion has finally made it to a team that justifies his talent, the last two world champions team up together for the first time in F1 history…these unprecedented, unexpected and totally unbelievable developments has made F1 fans salivate at the prospect of the “Greatest Season Ever”. IndianAutoTalk provides you with a rundown of all the leading contenders and the machines that will be powering them. This is Part 1 of a three part series.
1) Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro- Alonso in red, enough said.
Ferrari had a woeful 2009, the car was just not fast enough to compete. The horrific injury to Filipe Massa just worsened what was already a pathetic year for them, with just one race victory and a few podium finishers. This was undoubtedly the worst season for them in recent memory and hopefully, this has fired people up at Maranello. Brightening their chances even more this year is the arrival of golden boy, Fernando Alonso from Renault. That Alonso was destined for Ferrari was an open secret, but after years of maneuvering the move has finally happened and seeing him in scarlet red has the ‘tifosi’ all worked up. Add to the equation, the return of Massa from his life threatening injury and the good form he has displayed in testing with GP2 cars, there is much room for optimism.
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Asia Motor Works, one of India’s very own heavy duty truck and components manufacturer is recruiting Engineering and Diploma candidates in Automobile, mechanical and mechatronics. This is a training program in AMW’s manufacturing, R&D, sales and service departments. At the end of the training program, a job at AMW is given based on Performance. Interviews are conducted in various parts of the country during the coming 2 weeks. It is a good prospect as it pays out 2.4lakh p.a for B.E grads and 1.2lakh p.a for Diploma candidates during training.
Here are the complete details: http://www.amwasia.com/interview.html
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American Choppers is the only custom chopper building show on TV that actually caught on. Though there were better similar shows none could reach the heights Paul Teutul Sr. and his sons took the show to. During its successful run of 7 years, Orange County Choppers have built every kind of Chopper for every occasion. Other than building one-of-a-kind choppers, the show was also about running a family business, which involved constant feud between Paul Sr. and Paul Jr., though this was construed as a show act, it turned out to be the reasons for the ultimate axing of the show.
American Choppers took the toll on the Teutul family as key members kept rolling out of the turf, this included popular OCC employee Vincent DiMartino who left the show to start V-Force Customs in 2007 but the real blow was when Paul Teutul Jr. left the company in 2009 to start Paul Jr Designs. This lead to a court room drama between the Paul and there was no turning back from that.
The last episode was aired on the 11th of this month. A representative from Travel n Living Channel said in a statement about the end of ‘American Chopper’, “The Teutuls will always be part of the Discovery family and we congratulate them on a tremendously successful series run.”
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Rule changes are inevitable as well as invigorating for any form of sports, more so for Racing and even more for Formula1. Thought the reason for FIA changing rules every year is change for the sake of change, the main reason is to prevent F1 racing from changing into a parade. Besides that, this season’s regulations require an acknowledgement of economic hampering. All these contribute for one heck, I mean two hecks of changes.
No Refueling for the entire race
As the teams are used to designing their cars and their race strategies considering the option of refueling during race, this rule of no refueling changes everything the teams have learnt from their past experience. This is good for the sport as the 4 new teams Lotus, Campos, Virgin and US F1 even out with the biggies in this perspective at the least.
New Points System
FIA has become generous with the points as it lashes out 25 for the race winner and points for the top 10 finishers. Finishing second is good enough for 18 points, rest of the positions get 15-12-10-8-6-4-2-1. FIA hopes the difference of 7 points between the first and the second places will lead to some serious racing for the top spot rather than drivers doing math and settling down for second place.
There is a third change regarding improving the credibility of the Race Stewards. Race Stewards include 2 international and 1 national Steward who review race incidents. This bench will now be headed by a former F1 driver. This could be good as a driver will comprehend the necessity of certain actions during high speed racing better than well, the current bunch. These being the changes made to the new season, some interesting considerations which didn’t make it were points for fastest lap and pole position.
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If bond comes back to India he won’t be going after the baddie in auto-rickshaws anymore, for we have when I say we, a tycoon from Chandigarh has just added this hardcore carbon fibred version of DB9 to his garage which already has a Murciélago, R8, M3, M5 and a lot more of car pornography which anyone would love to stuck in their cabinet garage. This being the more rarest of Aston Martins sub one-77, we are truly in the presence of exotic, elegance and exclusivity.
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For starters Maxximo is a mini commercial vehicle from Mahindra & Mahindra which has just gone into sales in the same segment as Tata’s Ace. Ace is the first of its kind creating this niche of CVs. It was soon followed by similar vehicles from Piaggio and Force motors but no one has been able to match Ace’s performance and productivity until now, but from the looks of it Ace has gotten itself a worthy adversary in Maxximo.
For instance the accelerator is connected to the engine through drive-by-wire technology instead of mechanical linkages, this on top of an electronically controlled fuel pump increases mileage by controlled fuel supply. The gear shift again is not linked mechanically but by cables which make gear shifts smooth like cars. This is significant as one of the major advantages of mini trucks is their ability to squeeze through congested lanes which require constant gear change, it doesn’t mean Ace’s gear shift is a handful but this shows M&M has thought things through.
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