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Can you motor racing lovers believe on 3 events happening the same Sunday? If not, be prepare because this coming Sunday, 3 major races are taking action in different parts of the world. Read the rest of this entry »
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F1 Spain Grand Prix
Starting lines:
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1. Jenson Button (GBR/Brawn GP)
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The Germany Formula One Race Team BMW-Sauber announced last Wednesday they are going to show their new car for the 2009 season next January 20th.
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The current World Moto GP Champion, Valentino Rossi, showed he can be as fast on four wheels as he is on two, giving a great impression when he was practicing with the worldwide known Italian racing team, Ferrari.
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Ron Dennis, Mc Laren’s head chief, still remembers how a 10 year old Hamilton told him once; he wants to become Mc Laren’s official race driver.
Not so many people will believe that kid will become the youngest Formula One Champion in the history 13 years later.
He started his career at the early age of 8 years running karts. His father encouraged and inspired him to love the motors and velocity to be what he is now.
It was precisely in a kart race when Hamilton knew Dennis, a fact the probably changed the future of the current champion.
Mc Laren’s chief expects a brilliant future for the British, who with his last Sunday’s victory broke a 12 years non-title patch for the British team.
Lewis has everything to become a great champion. He can match or even be better than Michael Schumacher.
In the last two year statistics, there are no better racers than Hamilton; he got more points than any other racer.
He is the youngest champion in the history and he started his career just two years ago.
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A British will request 125.000 pounds because he bet on Lewis Hamilton to become the Formula 1 champion 10 years ago, according to a sport book.
The customer, who wasn’t given its name, bet a 100 pounds on Lewis Hamilton to become champion of the Formula one before been 25 years old.
The driver, became the youngest Formula 1 champion of the history with 23 years old, he was by the time of the bet, a young 13 years old kid driving on kart races. The line at the moment was 500 to 1, so you can make the maths.
The customer also won about 40.000 pounds last year betting also 10 years ago on Lewis Hamilton to win his first Grand Prix before the 23 years.
The final outcome for the customers is 165.000 pounds thanks to Hamilton, not bad at all for a 350 pounds bet.
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The British racer Lewis Hamilton, first black male Formula 1 Champion in the history, said that the racism he was a victim of these last season was not a joke as states Bernie Ecclestone, owner of the Formula 1.
Last February, in some preseason races in the Cataluña circuit, Spain, Hamilton received racist jokes from Fernando Alonso fans, black painted and wearing wigs and t-shirts stating “Hamilton family”.
FIA started and NO-RACISM campaign since that day. Also last Friday racist comments about Hamilton were found in a website.
For Bernie Ecclestone, these past events has nothing to do with racism, is just about a few fans among Spain and its more probably just a joke that an insult.
In the other side, Hamilton said those events and comments are not a joke at all.
He said he knows and respect Mr. Bernie from a long time ago; Hamilton became the first black male and youngest champion in the Formula 1 ever, thanks to the fifth place he ran in the GP Brazil.
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Más de 500 participantes de casi 50 países participarán en el Rally ‘Dakar Argentina-Chile 2009′, que fue presentado este miércoles en Issy Le Molineaux, en las afueras de París, y que se disputará del 3 al 18 de enero, con 5.656 km de especiales en un total de 9.500 km.
Un año después de ser anulado por amenazas de atentados terroristas en Africa, el Dakar, mítico rally africano creado en 1979 por Thierry Sabine, cambiará de continente para aventurarse en una “edición excepcional con un gran recorrido”, según su director, Etienne Lavigne.
Después de una salida simbólica el 2 de enero por la tarde, el Dakar arrancará el día 3 en Buenos Aires con la participación de 530 aventureros de 49 nacionalidades distintas, un tercio de ellos llegados de Francia, nación más representada por delante de Holanda y España.
La caravana del Dakar estará integrada por 230 motos, 30 quads, 188 autos y 82 camiones y un 65% de los frustrados participantes del Dakar-2008 participarán en esta nueva edición.
La Patagonia, el desierto de Atacama o la cordillera de los Andes serán el escenario de ensueño del Dakar-2009, divido en 14 etapas con una jornada de descanso en Valparaíso (Chile) el sábado 10 de enero.
Las primeras etapas, en las llanuras de la Pampa, técnicamente fáciles y muy rápidas, servirán de rodaje para los participantes antes de atravesar el norte de la Patagonia rumbo a la dificultad, con especiales cada vez más técnicas y complicadas que comenzarán a marcar las diferencias.
La trilogía chilena será “el corazón del rally”, juzgó David Castera, director deportivo. Son “la firma del Dakar por la diversidad de paisajes”, unas etapas muy difíciles con cientos de kilómetros de dunas que garantizan “un gran espectáculo” y donde se alcanzarán los 4.700 metros de altura en el Paso San Francisco en la vuelta del rally a Argentina.
“El Dakar se renueva”, señaló Frédéric Lequien, director adjunto, sobre una edición que contará con un 20% de debutantes en autos y un 40% en motos.
El mítico rally sigue siendo una “carrera para aficionados”, quienes representan el 80% del total de los participantes, aunque serán los ‘profesionales’ quienes se jueguen la victoria final.
Mitsubishi, con cuatro nuevos autos con motor diésel, defenderá su título ante la amenaza del equipo Volkswagen con un Carlos Sainz más en forma que nunca.
Por primera vez, los tres primeros equipos (Mitsubishi, Volkswagen y BMW) rodarán con la misma tecnología.
“Será un Dakar extremadamente abierto, la carrera debería ser emocionante”, aseguró Lequien, que destacó la participación del chileno Eliseo Salazar, que debutará en el Dakar después de una larga carrera con experiencias en la Indy Car y la Fórmula 1.
Entre los ‘outsiders’ figura el polifacético Robby Gordon, primer estadounidense en ganar una etapa del Dakar. “El recorrido está hecho a su medida, podría acabar entre los tres o cuatro primeros”, señaló el director adjunto del Dakar.
En motos, al menos una decena de participantes pueden aspirar al podio, entre ellos el español Isidre Esteve y el francés Cyril Despres, ganador del Dakar en 2005 y 2007.
Frente a un recorrido desconocido, “todo el mundo partirá de cero, será una carrera abierta y apretada”, vaticinó Lequien.
El ‘Dakar Argentina-Chile 2009′ será retransmitido en 189 países y 25 cadenas estarán presentes sobre el terreno.
En un futuro, el mítico rally podría volver a Africa, “pero es complicado en este contexto”, aseguró el director del Dakar, quien explicó que podría prolongar su estancia en América Latina en función del éxito de esta edición y de la evolución de la situación en Africa.
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The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today began distributing food to over 135,000 people displaced by fighting in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which has forced an estimated 250,000 people to flee their homes in recent months.
The distributions are aimed at internally displaced persons (IDPs) in six camps around Goma, the provincial capital of North Kivu, which has been the scene of deadly fighting between Government forces (FARDC) and the rebel National Congress for the Defence of the People (CNDP), led by renegade general Laurent Nkunda.
While clashes are continuing in some parts of North Kivu, a recent ceasefire is reportedly stillWFP is responding as quickly as possible to deliver food to people who’ve been brutalised too many times over many years holding in Goma, which has a swelling population of between 700,000 and 1 million.
“WFP is responding as quickly as possible to deliver food to people who’ve been brutalised too many times over many years,” said Mustapha Darboe, WFP Regional Director for Southern, Eastern and Central Africa.
“Now they are suffering again. Tens of thousands have been uprooted in North Kivu and we are doing everything we can to find them and help them.”
The 10-day rations will be distributed in all camps at the same time to avoid any disturbances, as well as to ease the pressure on food supplies in Goma since the violence temporarily cut off many delivery routes.
The agency is moving food stocks to Goma from its office in Bukavu in South Kivu, and bringing in supplies from Uganda, Rwanda and Tanzania.
Assisting WFP with the relief effort is the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), which will handle distributions to the estimated 65,000 IDPs who are now gathered at Kibati camp, 15 kilometres north of Goma.
The agency reported that a UN assessment mission to the Rutshuru area – the scene of much of the recent fighting – was forced to cut short its work on Tuesday when it found itself in close proximity to new clashes around Kiwanja, north of Rutshuru town.
The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) has confirmed that three IDP camps in the area were destroyed and emptied, and is trying along with WFP and other agencies to determine what happened to the inhabitants.
“This is a dangerous and unstable environment and it’s going to be challenging to deliver food to where it is needed most. We need proper security in place to ensure everyone involved is safe and that we reach the most vulnerable,” Mr. Darboe said.
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El piloto británico Lewis Hamilton, del equipo McLaren-Mercedes, se convirtió hoy en campeón mundial de la Fórmula Uno al concluir quinto en el Gran Premio de Brasil, última prueba del calendario, la cual fue ganada por el brasileño Felipe Massa, de Ferrari, en el circuito de Interlagos, Brasil.
Hamilton tuvo que sobrevivir a un agüacero tardío para conservar un quinto puesto que a la postre le posibilitó ganar el título.
Massa ganó la prueba y durante algunos instantes tuvo la corona en sus manos debido a que Hamilton venía de sexto detrás de Fernando Alonso (Renault), segundo, Kimi Raikkonen (Ferrari), tercero, Sebastian Vettel (Toro Rosso), cuarto, y Timo Glock (Toyota), quinto.
Pero en la última vuelta el británico superó a Glock, cuyo monoplaza llevaba llantas para piso seco y falló en la tracción.
De esta forma el británico, de 23 años, pasó a ser el corredor más joven en dejarse la F 1.
Hamilton se adjudicó el Mundial con 23 años, nueve meses y 26 días, superando así a Alonso como el monarca más joven.
Los italianos de Ferrari ganaron el campeonato de constructores, al igual que en la temporada anterior.
McLaren-Mercedes, por su parte, festejó su primer título de pilotos en nueve años, el último había sido del finlandés Mika Hakkinen, en 1999.
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