January 2013

Daimler Purchased full control of Mercedes One Motor Racing Team

Daimler, the German Luxury Carmaker purchased 40 percent stakes of the Mercedes Formula One Motor Racing Team owned by the Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund Aabar Investments in the third week of November 2012. With this purchase the teams’ full control went into the hands of Daimler. The amount of purchase of the 40 percent stake remained undisclosed. The deal of selling out the stakes of the formula 1 team now awaits regulatory approval.

The Two companies Daimler and Aabar came together into motor racing in 2009 after they purchased Brawn GP, the then World Champion and re-launched it the next season with the name, Mercedes. At present Mercedes stands at fifth position in the 12-team Formula One Standings. Team Mercedes has signed a three-year deal with the former world champion Lewis Hamilton, who would be driving for the team in the next season.

Youngest Triple Champion in Formula One History

Sebastian Vettel of Germany, the Red Bull driver became youngest triple champion in the history of Formula One on 25 November 2012 by finishing 6th behind Jenson Button in the Brazilian Grand Prix. Vettel, 25 got himself involved in opening lap collision and made very little damage to his Red Bull car in the run in rain-swept conditions at Interlagos circuit. The only title rival of Vettel was two-time champion Spaniard Fernnando Alonso who finished in the second position in his Ferrari. However he had pre-race 13 points deficit while Vettel won the title by merely three points.
Vettel was the third driver in the history of Formula One to win three consecutive titles. Others who have done this before are Michael Schumacher and Argentine Juan Manuel Fangio. The Red Bull team of Vettel took the third constructors’ championship in the sequence on 18 November 2012 in Texas and finished with 281 points while Alonso with 278 points.

Mahi Racing Team India

Indian cricket team Captain M.S. Dhoni’s Superbike championship team on 7 November 2012 changed its name from MSD R-N Racing Team India to Mahi Racing Team India and had signed two new members. The two new members that had been signed up are world champion Kenan Sofouglu and former world champion Fabien Foret. Sofouglu is a driver from turkey and had won the championship three times in 2007, 2010 and the recently-concluded season with the Kawaski team after the Portuguese Grand Prix. While, Fabien Foret is a driver from France and is a 2002 World champion. At the end of 2008, he had 24 podium finishes under his name which includes 11 wins and 12 pole positions.

The riders are going to test the Kawasaki Ninja ZX-6R machines during the official winter testing season. Earlier named MSD R-N Racing Team India, the Indian skipper’s team competed in the 600cc class in 2012, becoming India’s first FIM world superbike championship team. The Budh International Circuit is hosting the superbike world championship event in March 2013, leading to a rush in interest for India’s first bike racing team, involving Dhoni, who had passion for speed and bike.

About Superbike Race

The Superbike race first started in year 1970 when super bike race is held in many countries mainly in USA and Australia. At that time the races were of large capacity bike of up to 1100cc and were strictly limited to four stroke machines. But soon the grand prix bikes arrived in the states which were accompanied and later replaced by 700 and 750 two stroke, three or four cylinder machines.

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