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Belgian Grand Prix
Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps
31, 01, 02 September 2012
Length of lap: 7.004 km (4.352 mi)
Total number of race laps: 44
Race length: 308.052 km (191.410 mi)
Most wins (constructors): Ferrari (16)
Fastest lap 2011: Mark Webber Red Bull 1:49.883

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Hungarian Grand Prix

Hungaroring Circuit

1 Lewis Hamilton McLaren
2 Kimi Räikkönen Lotus
3 Romain Grosjean Lotus
Fastest Lap
Sebastian Vettel Red Bull 1:24.136
Pole Position
Lewis Hamilton McLaren 1:20.953

2011 Cars images

Spanish GP, Catalunya Circuit - Race. F1 image 2011 (HD PHOTO)
Michael Schumacher, Mercedes MGP W02
Spanish GP, Catalunya Circuit
Formula 1 image 2011 (Photo 1920x1280)
Turkish GP, Istanbul Park Circuit - Race. F1 image 2011 (HD PHOTO 1920x1280)
Lewis Hamilton & Jenson Button, McLaren MP4-25
Turkish GP, Istanbul Park Circuit
Formula 1 image 2011
Chinese GP, Shanghai International Circuit - Race. F1 wallpaper 2011 (HD PHOTO 1920x1280)
Fernando Alonso. Ferrari 150° Italia
Chinese GP, Shanghai International Circuit - Race.
Formula 1 image 2011

Positive start for new Williams

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Williams are confident they may be able to celebrate their historic 30th year of Formula One racing with a bang, after the teams 2008 challenger passed its first test with flying colours. The new car completed over 1,400 kilometres at Spains Valencia circuit this week during the British teams four-day session.


On Monday, tester Nico Hulkenberg was charged with debuting the FW30 for a brief 20-lap shakedown. Hulkenberg then handed the new car over to race driver Nico Rosberg, who managed to complete a comprehensive Grand Prix simulation. Rosberg eventually finished third fastest in the times with a best lap of 1m 12.721s.

“Its always special to finally get to test the new car,” he said. “It was a positive start for us, particularly as we completed a race distance with the FW30 on its debut without any problems. It is quite different to last years car in many ways so it will be very important that we make the most of the upcoming tests to try and extract its full potential.”

The young Germans team mate, Kazuki Nakajima, was also in attendance but charged with testing the older interim car over Tuesday and Wednesday, while Rosberg acclimatised to the FW30. Nakajima eventually got his first taste of the new machine on Thursday and recorded the fourth-fastest time of the day, a 1m 11.971s.

“This week marked the initial test for the FW30 and it was a good beginning from a reliability and performance point of view,” explained the teams technical director, Sam Michael. “After Nico Hulkenberg shook the car down on Mondays installation day, Nico Rosberg carried out the initial setup and reliability work and Kazuki took over for the last day to work on long runs and some set-up items.”

The team will now stay in Spain but will move to Barcelona for next weeks multi-team test where Rosberg and Nakajima are both expected to drive FW30s over the three-day session.

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2012 Race Drivers

Sebastian Vettel
Mark Webber
Lewis Hamilton
Jenson Button
Fernando Alonso
Felipe Massa
Michael Schumacher
Nico Rosberg
Kimi Räikkönen
Romain Grosjean
Paul di Resta
Nico Hulkenberg
Kamui Kobayashi
Sergio Perez
Daniel Ricciardo
Jean-Eric Vergne
Pastor Maldonado
Bruno Senna
Heikki Kovalainen
Vitaly Petrov
Pedro de la Rosa
Narain Karthikeyan
Timo Glock
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