Fun F1

A Spanish pastry chef from Ibi in the Alicante province has created a chocolate McLaren Mercedes MP4/22 powered by cocoa (jokes ). It weighs 120 kilograms and is 220 cm long and is intended to be a tribute to dual world champion Fernando Alonso (or a publicity stunt if you ask me ).

Now I don’t know much about chocolate (other than how to send it to my stomach at 320 kph), but if you ask me this is a rather crappy effort. First of all it’s so square that it looks more like a Minardi F1 car from a few years back. And what’s with those triangular sidepods and those bulges on the front wing end plates?

In reality this has nothing on the McLaren F1 ice car.. although it would taste better than the ice… :)

All I want to know is how do you get in and out of the darn thing?

Autosport has revealed a clever letter sent by McLaren to the FIA that may outlaw a system used by Ferrari on their F1 vehicle. At the Australian Grand Prix, Ferrari ran a sprung device attached to the floor of their car to help reduce drag at high speeds.

Instead of simply writing to the FIA to ask whether the device was legal, McLaren’s Paddy Lowe wrote to the FIA asking if McLaren could fit a device to their car that does “*insert description of Ferrari device here*”. The FIA stated they could use the device, but the flexibility of the floor would have to be tested without the device attached.

As a result, teams currently using the device (believe to be Ferrari and BMW) will have to ensure their floor is stiff enough to pass the flexibility test in Sepang without the sprung device attached (which was allowed in Melbourne).

Very clever McLaren!

Here’s a little list I’ve compiled of the current F1 drivers and how many times they get searched on Yahoo each month. I’ve also included some recently retired drivers as an interesting comparison.. even better, check out the comparison with searches for some other sports stars and celebrities.. ;)

Current F1 Drivers

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This screen capture shows just how close Alexander Wurz was to being seriously injured in Sunday’s Melbourne Grand Prix:

For a man over 6 feet tall, Wurz was extremely lucky Coulthard’s Red Bull Racing vehicle didn’t come into contact with his helmet. We wish Alexander a safer return to racing for the rest of the year.