May 23, 2009
Mercury on a rise in the French Riviera
Forbes magazine moved him to the list of 355 ex-billionaires but he still has loads of wealth and which place is better to show it in style then Monaco. Dr. Vijay Mallya owner of the Force India Team threw the opening party on his mega yacht, The Indian Empress. The party was attended by 150 guests for dinner and 500 for dancing afterwards. The king of good times certainly proved his credentials right, even thought his team is yet to score any points but he certainly scored amongst the who’s and who of formula 1. Amongst the guest who attended the lavish event were Renault’s Flavio Briatore, Red Bull’s Christian Horner, BMW’s Mario Theissen, Williams’ Adam Parr, Formula One Management CEO Bernie Ecclestone, CVC’s Donald McKenzie, Sir Richard Branson, Sir Philipp Green, Michael Johnson, Nigel Mansell, Jacques Villeneuve, Adrian Sutil, Giancarlo Fisichella and Vitantonio Liuzzi. On top on the guest list was HSH Prince Albert of Monaco who commented “Vijay’s parties have established themselves as a tradition that I always attend with great pleasure”.
On the racing front there have been some changes in the various cars. Farrari F60 has a revised wing which is the similar to Brawn to improve the channel of air away from the front tyres. The Red Bull team has introduced a revised rear wing to their RB5. The Brawn team has introduced a new rear suspension and dampers to their BGP001 car.
As per the practice session on Thursday, Nico Rosberg of Williams-Toyota was the fastest doing 45 laps which the fastest time being 1:15.243. Lewis Hamilton is sparked after his engagement declaration and was the second fastest. Brawn team showed its form as the season leaders and was places third and fourth fastest. Despite the fact that Ferrari has lately been in news mainly due to budget capping issue yet Felipe Massa managed finished fifth fastest in the practice. But things changed in the Saturday practice with Spaniard Alonso clocked the fastest time thus far this weekend. The time was enough to remove Button from the first spot. Some other drivers who clocked good timing in the practice were Kovalainen as third fastest, Barrichello was fourth, Massa was fifth followed by Kimi and Lewis for sixth and seventh fastest timing. Now all wait for the Saturday qualifying with one team hoping to score it first point of the season.
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