Maybe he was mentally recreating what could have been at the Brazilian Grand Prix where he lost the F-1 championship to Kimi Raikkonen, but it appears Lewis Hamilton has lost another race, this one to French gendarmes.

Hamilton has been banned from driving for a month after being caught speeding on a French highway. The British driver was at the wheel of a Mercedes when he was clocked at 120mph near the northern town of Laon this past Sunday.
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It is apparently the largest sporting penalty ever handed down against a team. 100 million dollars!
I don’t care if it is McLaren, that’s a big chunk of change and it’s gotta hurt.

For those who haven’t been following things, let’s condense it a bit. Disgruntled, ex Ferrari engineer, Nigel Stepney provided now suspended McLaren chief designer Mike Coughlan with a 780 page document. Call it “How to build a Ferrari F1 car”. Mister Mike claimed he didn’t use any of the info, but eventually it came out that he had passed some key info on to test driver Pedro De La Rosa. Pedro in turn shot those little secret gems to reigning World Champion Fernando Alonso. De La Rosa and Alonso have received impunity for their cooperation, but there doesn’t seem to be any info on what will happen to Stepney and Coughlan. Suffice it to say that Mr. Dennis is not impressed.

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It’s going to be a big day here in The Garage, as we head down the the Champ Car race so I thought it would be appropriate to post a video from Mosport. Youtube user FetishHose (nice handle) has posted the following video of qualifying taken from the front straight. While the video quality isn’t great, the sound is great. Turn up the speakers and fill your office with the sounds of a dozen Cosworth DFV powered F1 cars.
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March 711-6 as raced by Ronnie Peterson

846 photos and a sunburn. I don’t have a clue where to begin. Do I write or do I edit photos. It’s going to take days, maybe even weeks to tell all the stories and edit all the images. For now, it’s time for bed and one quick story.

I watched a Formula 1 race at Mosport today. Now if that in itself wasn’t cool enough, the company I watched it with made it almost surreal. I finished my day by watching a Formula 1 race with 2005 Canadian rally champion Peter Thomson, 1981 Canadian rally champion Randy Black and none other than legendary Canadian F1 team owner and constructor Walter Wolf!

Quote of the day goes to Mr. Wolf. “The last time I watched my cars race, they won”

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It’s been forty years since the first Canadian Grand Prix at Mosport. To celebrate, the 2007 VARAC festival will be featuring vintage Formula 1 cars, giving fans the opportunity to see some incredible machinery up close and on the track. Joining the F1 cars will be Historic Sports Racers, along with a paddock full of vintage sedans, sports cars and a variety of open wheeled classes.
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Ayrton Senna will always be considered one of the finest drivers ever to compete in Formula 1. In fact he stood upon the top spot of the podium at Monaco, the crown jewel of F1, no fewer than 6 times. The 2007 edition of the famed Monaco event takes place this coming weekend and marks the twentieth anniversary of Senna’s first win on the historic circuit. There is a whole host of events planned to celebrate the occasion.

Full press release by Celia Sankar of Monaco Revue after the break
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Named for the legendary Scottish driver, the Jim Clark Memorial Award is awarded annually to a Scottish citizen who has made a difference to motor racing. The 2007 recipient is TV host Lee McKenzie. 28 year old Lee has been chasing her journalistic dreams since the ripe old age of 15 and has covered F1, DTM, Porsche Supercup and currently is traveling with A1GP. She even got her WRC co-driver’s license and has competed in several WRC rounds, proving that she can put her knowledge of the sport to good use inside the car as well as on screen.

Ford Media release after the break
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While much of the world thought of the Midland Formula 1 team as a Russian operation, in reality it’s owner, Alex Shnaider is a Toronto guy. In an exciting move, Shnaider has lent 2 of the Midland F1 team cars to the Canadian Motorsports Hall of Fame. Located inside Legendary Motorcar, the CMHF has a nice collection of significant Canadian race cars. Now, these two modern cars share space with the Wolf WR1 F1 car that was driven by Jody Scheckter.

Press release and photo after the break
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Spring 2007 seems to be the season of the big budget promo video. We’ve had high end shorts from Ferrari/Shell, Red Bull F1 and now Audi is getting in on the action with a pair of shorts for the upcoming A8 supercar.

Shot over 6 days in Mexico with 1050 extras, the films cover Audi’s motorsports heritage from each of the past 7 decades. Shot in HD by veteran camerman Ian Foster, this promises to be a great ride. The spots will debut in Germany on April 6th during the first airing of Will Smith’s I Robot on the RTL Channel.

Full story from Audi after the break
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When it was announced that the Uber Champion F1 driver would stay with Ferrari as Jean Todt’s underling, was there any doubt that this would be a temporary role? For a while it began to look like Mikey would in fact replace the little Frenchman at the top of the Ferrari F1 ladder.

Given the return on money involved in owning an F1 team, is it any wonder that Herr Schumacher might be looking for something grander than managing someone else’s team? Even if it is Ferrari, it will always belong to someone else. For that reason, today’s rumour makes sense.
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