In the round-up: Sebastian Vettel and Romain Grosjean's alternator failures during the Euoprean Grand Prix were caused by overheating.
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Renault: European GP Alternator Failures (ScarbsF1)
'In an F1 car the alternators function is constantly monitored, the power output and the unit's temperature are visible via telemetry by the team in the pits. In the case of the Valencia failures, the teams already knew before the Safety Car the units were overheating and would fail.'
Glock: I'll be fighting fit for Silverstone (F1)
'I still feel a little weak in the legs, but otherwise I am okay. It was obviously very disappointing that I was forced to miss the race in Valencia, but that is the way it goes sometimes. You cannot just ignore the symptoms I was experiencing.'
Boullier urges caution as F1 costs deadline looms (Autosport)
'We made some decisions already in the past which cost us money now; and may cost us more money in the future. So we need to make sure that we go the right way and don't rush.'
Attention on Ecclestone after German banker jailed (The Guardian)
'Prosecutor Christoph Rodler yesterday rejected Ecclestone's defence. 'Ecclestone was not a victim of blackmail, but a fellow participant in bribery,' he told the court in his closing statements.'
London GP a distant dream despite hype (Reuters)
'The idea, at this stage no more than a bit of fun to create some headlines and buzz ahead of the country's annual race in the rural heart of England, won the support of Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone.'
Boris Johnson 'broadly positive' over London Grand Prix plan
'Mr Johnson said he was 'broadly positive' about the plan as long as air quality and noise issues were addressed.'
Sir Stirling Moss hopes London Grand Prix will finally be possible (The Guardian)
'I think it would be tremendous for London and for our sport and it would bring an enormous amount of money in. When you get a whole lot coming in where expense doesn't really matter, it's an enormous filler.'
Comment of the day
Should we have grid guys as well as grid girls? Or is the whole thing a bit dodgy? Chris Goldsmith offers a view:
The only thing with using 'grid boys' for female drivers, is that it makes an implicit sexual connection between the driver and the person holding their grid number.
While I do agree it's fairly archaic to have grid girls, isn't the problem more that there are people being employed solely for the sexual gratification of people around them, rather than some kind of gender inequality?
If you replace women with men for female drivers, what you're doing, in effect, is confirming that they are there specifically because the driver is supposed to be physically attracted with them.
Of course, we know that the purpose really is to add a little bit of eye candy for the (historically predominantly male) viewers. That people are being employed as eye candy at all is something which should be addressed, and gender equality in this case only reinforces the negative connotations of why these people are there in the first place.
Chris Goldsmith
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On this day in F1
Michael Schumacher scored a comfortable victory in the French Grand Prix 15 years ago today, winning from pole position and setting fastest lap. Fellow German Heinz-Harald Frentzen was second.
Their team mates were third and fourth, Eddie Irvine holding Jacques Villeneuve back, the Williams driver spinning at the final corner in his attempts to pass the Ferrari.
Famously, the elder Schumacher even had the presence of mind to allow brother Ralf Schumacher to unlap himself in the closing stages. The Jordan driver went on to take sixth place from David Coulthard on the final lap.
Here's the start of the race:
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