Kobayashi Moscow Crash Onboard

Not to harp on this too much but it's nice to see Ferrari get in the full Russian spirit with the "dash cam" of Kobayashi's crash in Moscow...

In any case,  crash happens and both Kamui and Ferrari made a great "recovery" by presenting the nosecone of the battered car to Evgeny Kaspersky, founder of Scuderia Ferrari sponsor Kaspersky Labs during a visit to the software company's headquarters.

Well played!

(ht Timur)

Kamui Kobayashi Crashes Ferrari F1 in Moscow

Kamui Kobayashi, now a Scuderia Ferrari driver  tried, perhaps a little too hard, to blend in with the local Russian driving style  this week end during a demo event in Moscow....

Somewhere Pastor Maldonado is smiling.





Kamui could have used a refresher..."How I stopped worrying and learned to love driving in the rain" and "Speed Secrets Saturday: Rain"

Button and Kobayashi on the front row at Spa

Photo: David Morecambe

For Button it was the first pole position in over three years, since Monaco in 2009. For Kamui Kobayashi it was almost historic, only the second time a Japanese drive qualified on the front row (the first was Takoma Sato at the European GP at the Nürburgring in 2004 driving for BAR Honda) while the last time a Sauber was on the front row was in 1999 at Magny Cours driven by Jean Alesi. I believe it's also the first time a team led by a woman is on the front row of a Grand Prix, cool.

Brain Fade

I apologize, but the whole Hurricane Irene thing got in the way this week end, I'll have our usual summary later in the week.
Meanwhile, here was a key incident of the Belgian GP, discuss....

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I got it, I got it....I don't got it

Kamui Kobayashi dealing with a wet Silverstone in FP1 today.
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Kamui Gets a Ride!

Kamui Kobayashi gets a 2010 seat with Sauber-Ferrari, cool!





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Why Kamui Kobayashi may be the most important man in F1

Without a doubt Kamui Kobayashi's has had the most exciting debut in Formula 1 for a long, long time. How was that for complete refusal to be intimidated combined with impressive consistency?

After his first F1 race in Brazil, Kamui had been pidgenholed by a lot of media who talked about his, open your book of clichés, "kamikaze" move on Nakajima usually without mentioning Mark Webber had made precisely the same move on Kimi Raikkonen (what, he gets no "Crocodile Dundee" comments?).

Button slammed him for daring not to let him through without a fight ("he moved in the braking zone, GP2 stuff") and irony of ironies in the very next race, the two had another date on track....

Entertainment value aside, even David Couthard had to admit that based on his two race performance Kobayashi had earned a place in F1 for next season. Compare that with the debut of the much touted Roman Grojean or Jaime Alguersauri or even, one step up , Sebastian Buemi not to mention Piquet Jr. last year.

A viable Japanese contender would be huge for Formula 1, huge for attracting new sources of sponsorship at a time when F1 is not even sure where it will get its tires from after next season.

Go Kamui!

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