STONER SENSATIONAL AND HAYDEN HEROIC IN QATAR

Casey Stoner took a dominant victory in the opening round of 2009 MotoGP World Championship and his third in consecutive years at the Grand Prix Qatar in tonight’s rescheduled race under the floodlights of Losail. With torrential rain forcing the postponement of the original contest last night, the riders returned to the track today for a 20-minute warm-up at 1830h ahead of a 2100h start. The nervous wait didn’t seem to affect the Australian, who launched from pole position to lead the entire distance, maintaining his searing pace in the second half of the race to keep the chasing Valentino Rossi at bay.

Nicky Hayden produced an equally impressive display and whilst the result was not as spectacular as Stoner’s his determination certainly was. The American suffered a heavy crash during Saturday’s qualifying session that left him nursing an extremely sore back and three stitches in his chest but he valiantly battled through to take twelfth place, almost snatching eleventh from Dani Pedrosa on the line with an exciting late charge.

CASEY STONER (Ducati MotoGP Team) 1st

"I’m so pleased with this victory because it is fruit of the hard work done by everybody at Ducati over the winter. It has been difficult to work in such short sessions here this weekend and going into the race last night we took a gamble with a setting change that we weren’t sure about, but we got the opportunity to try it in warm-up and it felt great, so thank you to the team that worked really hard during the whole week-end. That gave me more confidence ahead of the race. We knew this circuit is demanding for fuel consumpionts and I had to adapt my style a little to keep the pace up and hold the advantage over Valentino but finally we didn’t have problems at all with it. My wrist felt 100% tonight but I still need to work on my overall fitness after the down time over the winter and I’m sure we can keep progressing."

NICKY HAYDEN – (Ducati MotoGP Team) 12th

“It’s been a tough weekend and we’ve had a lot of issues – obviously a 130mph high-side doesn’t help things but nothing really went smooth. In the beginning of the race I was quite slow, I didn’t get a great start but actually as the fuel load changed and I got a better feeling I got faster and faster and the last five or six laps were my fastest of the whole weekend. It would have been nice to nick Dani at the end there but I think the team have showed that even though a lot of stuff has gone against us this weekend we’re not going to give up. Hopefully the bad stuff is behind us now and Casey has shown the potential of the bike, so crazy as it sounds I’m leaving here in a really positive mood and looking forward to Motegi.”

Circuit Record: Casey Stoner (Ducati - 2008), 1’55.153, 168.193 Km/h
Best Pole: Jorge Lorenzo (Yamaha - 2008), 1’53.927, 170.003 Km/h

The Ferari Enzo

The Ferari Enzo is a high powered supercar from Ferari, it's name is taken from the companies founder, Enzo Ferari. The car was first built in 2003 and uses state of the art materials such as carbon fibre. The Ferari Enzo was designed to be a formula 1 car, for the road and as such it employes all sorts of F1 technology including: sequential shift transmission, and carbon-ceramic brake discs.

The amazing 12-cylinder Ferari Enzo engine churns out an amazing 660 bhp at7800 rpm that sort of power gives the Ferari Enzo a top speed of 217.5mph, sensational speeds by anyones standards.

The Ferari Enzo, not only has F1 performance, but also drop dead good looks, with the design by Pininfarina.

Ferari Enzo stats:

Dimensions and weights:
Overall length 185.12 in
Overall width 80.12 in
Height 45.16 in
Wheelbase 104.33 in
Front track 65.35 in
Rear track 64.96 in
Weight 2767 lbs
Kerb weight 3009 lbs
Fuel capacity 22.2 gallons (29.06 UD gal)

Tyres:
Tyres Bridgestone tubeless radial tyres
Front tyres 245/40 ZR 19
Rear tyres 345/35 ZR 19

Brakes Brembo ventilated brakes discs
Front brakes 380 mm x34 mm
Rear brakes 380 mm x34 mm

Engine:
No. of cylinders 65� V12
Bore & stroke 3.62 x 2.96 in
Unit displacement 499,8 cc
Total displacement 5998 cc
Compression ratio 11.2:1

Maximum power 485 kW (660 bhp) at7800 rpm
Maximum torque 67 kgm (657 Nm) at 5500 rpm

Performance:
Maximum speed 217.5 mph
0-62 mph 3.65s

Ferari Supercars

Ferari F430

Ferari is an international symbol of not only automotive engineering, but also of technological excellence. Ferari manufacturing operation is based in the Italian town of Maranello, Ferari also have a plant at Carrozzeria Scaglietti, in Modena, its at this arm of Ferari that they make the aluminium chassis.

Ferari's main factory site is seperate from the Gestione Sportive Racing department, and of course the Fiorana racing track just off Marenello's main road. The main Ferrari factory dates back to the 1940's and has recently under gone huge redevelopment and investment under the guidance of the Ferari president, Luca di Montezmolo in 1991.

Ferari has always prided itself on not only cutting edge and beautiful sumpercar designs, but also hi tech aero dynamics. Ferari designs have no less than 3 wind tunnels onsite, the latest of which was opened in 1997 and is dedicated to the Ferari formula 1 team. Much of the work carried out in the development of the Ferari F1 cars find its way into its production cars sooner or later, the 2 operations go somewhat hand in hand.

Ferari are currently producing some 4,500 supercars a year, thats broken into 2 major catagories, the V8 cars like the F430 and the spider and then the V12 cars like the 599GTB Fiorano and the 612 Scaglietti.

There are many exotic sports cars available on the market today, but few can match the pedigree and history of Ferari, the very name evokes the feeling of motoring passion. The cars are designed not just to perform and look good, but to feel good, when you own a Ferari, it becomes a part of you.

If you are not lucky enough to own a Ferari, there are many places that offer Ferari driving experience days, you can also hire Ferari's from a number of specialist suppliers.

Don't forget many Ferari's come with a variety of gear boxes you may not be familiar with, so enure you check how to how to change gears in an Automatic car, vice versa, if you have never driven a manual gearbox, please get some lessons

News Two Cars Show In January

Could be, the race season F1 2008 will go more advanced.
His article, teams F1 has released the launching schedule of their car.

The team that now dipunggawai Jarno Trulli and Timo Glock this was ascertained slid exact on January 10.
The new Toyota car, that was named TF108 will be introduced to the public in their post in Cologne, not in Japan.
The car of Toyota TF107, that this year appeared disappointing, then
Launched in the same place, that is in Cologne.
The difference is, that time was introduced in Expo XXI, not in the Toyota post.
It was clear, the car anyar Toyota this will appear the difference.
The "car 2008 we will be different."
Not revolutionary, but the evolution that berkelanjut him.
Because we began the car 2008 was early enough, that is in January, said Pascal Vasselon, the manager of the chassis of Toyota F1.
One team of the other big manufacturer also would meluncukan the car in the same month, namely BMW Sauber.
This team was planned melaunching BMW F1.08 exact on January 15, also in the BMW post in Munich.
With launching early, so BMW has had preparations was better.
Moreover, they have appointed the target to gain the victory in the season 2008.
That was certain, the car F1.08 this immediately was dropped off in the session test Jerez, a day after launching official.
SCHUMACHER MASIH DIPERCAYA
Sementara, the appearance of Michael Schumacher that still was superfast in Catalunya then made the Ferrari team not wanted to lose moment.
Michael Schumacher didaulat descended again, mengetest the Ferrari car next month in the Jerez circuit.

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