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About 50,000 fans braved the cold on the streets of Heppenheim, birthplace of Sebastian Vettel, to receive his famous champion

Has gone through a long week for Heppenheim, the birthplace of Sebastian Vettel, would pay tribute to his famous world champion in Formula 1.

After winning the title Abu Dhabi, the Red Bull driver made two flying visits to the headquarters of the energy drink brand, in Salzburg, as the team’s facility in Milton Keynes, before returning to the Emirates to participate in the first preseason test with Pirelli tires in the Yas Marina circuit. Read the rest of this entry »

The owner of the Formula 1 team Red Bull, the Austrian billionaire Dietrich Mateschitz, believes his team and the German driver Sebastian Vettel, the new world champion, will be even stronger in 2011

“From the beginning the plan was to open an era like Michael Schumacher at Ferrari,” Mateschitz said in an interview published in the newspaper “Welt am Sonntag.”

Despite the accolades, Mateschitz ruled that Vettel has the number one status over his fellow Australian Mark Webber, next year. “Mark and he will be treated in the future the same way. Sebastian must once again demonstrate its potential next year and Mark Webber will not be so easy,” he told the Sunday “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.” “The extra winning the title will not help,” the billionaire energy drinks. Read the rest of this entry »

A second part of the championship very sound really great and has allowed the Spaniard to go around the Formula 1 World

Brazil and Abu Dhabi, two Formula 1 races that are consecutive and technically seem matched to the characteristics of the Ferrari and Red Bull, sentencing. Predictions are open, although there are five drivers still remain possibilities, the fight appears to center and between Alonso and Webber, who are solely dependent on themselves.

Fernando Alonso has a first-ball match at Interlagos, as it would sentence her third title if he wins the race and the Australian is fifth, but it also depends on yourself and that despite not being able to be champion in Brazil if it would be in Abu Dhabi if he can win both remaining races.

One wonders now if Red Bull will be decided finally by tipping in Australia or maintain parity policy that has led him into the ropes despite having the best car. There is much talk of whether a circuit is favorable to the characteristics of a car or the other, but the last reference we have is daunting: Red Bull won last year in Brazil and Abu Dhabi.

The contribution of teammates can also be decisive. A good and for evil. While Red Bull nobody dares to tell me to do squire Vettel while Webber’s 14 points with 50 in play and being the ‘darling’ of the team, Ferrari is not openly to point out that Massa will have to take a Alonso cable. However, since the controversy Hockenheim overtaking maneuver, which sued the Scuderia team for giving orders, Felipe has been cleared and has not benefited or even at one point the race for the title of Asturias. And in Brazil, where he has gone from hero to villain, will suffer. Read the rest of this entry »

The two Ferrari drivers always struggle to gain Formula 1 Championship. Having a car as competitive as that of the Italian team has caused and will cause tension between the two drivers. Of the controversial Schumacher-Barrichello have spent at Alonso-Massa and the controversial team orders in the German Grand Prix continues to generate reactions.

The paddock of Formula 1 has been pronounced and therefore “Nelsinho” Piquet, Alonso’s former teammate at Renault, as the former driver Gerhard Berger are sympathetic with the attitude of Ferrari in the Hockenheim circuit. The ‘cheeky’ message Ferrari Massa, “Fernando is faster than you. Can you confirm that you understand this message?” has found new support. Read the rest of this entry »

The magazine Sports Illustrated has published its annual list of athletes with higher incomes in the world. Valentino Rossi is the athlete with sport’s highest-paid motor world, with total revenues of 26 million euros.

Rossi is listed as the seventh athlete with more earnings in 2010, ahead of F1 drivers like Lewis Hamilton, Jenson Button, Fernando Alonso and Kimi Raikkonen Ferrari ex.

Italian revenues are as follows: 14 million euro from his contract with Yamaha factory team, which expires this 2010 and the remaining 12 million of its technical partners (Dainese, AGV) and personal (Fastweb, Nutella, Monster Energy.)

Pedrosa and Lorenzo, light years away
Italian rider revenues tripled following motorcycle rider in the hierarchy, the 2007 MotoGP world champion Casey Stoner, who receives EUR 5 million in his last years with Ducati, while Jorge Lorenzo and Dani Pedrosa are still light years away from Italian, but this World Cup could begin to redress the balance, especially for the pilot’s Balearic Islands. Read the rest of this entry »