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Conditions were wet at the start of the race. Massa maintained his lead into the first corner, but his teammate
Kimi Räikkönen was passed for second by Hamilton, who had started in third position on the
grid. Hamilton suffered a punctured
tyre on lap six, forcing him to make a
pit stop from which he re-entered the race in fifth place. As the track dried and his rivals made their own pit stops Hamilton became the race leader, a position he held until the end of the race. Kubica's strategy allowed him to pass Massa during their second pit stops, after the latter's Ferrari was forced to change from wet to dry tyres. Räikkönen dropped back from fifth position to ninth after colliding with
Adrian Sutil's
Force India late in the race. Sutil had started from 18th on the grid and was in fourth position before the incident, which allowed
Red Bull driver
Mark Webber to finish fourth, ahead of
Toro Rosso driver
Sebastian Vettel in fifth.
The race was Hamilton's second win of the season, his first in Monaco, and the result meant that he led the Drivers' Championship, seven
points ahead of Räikkönen and eight ahead of Massa. Ferrari maintained their lead in the
Constructors' Championship, 16 points ahead of McLaren and 17 ahead of BMW Sauber, with 12 races of the season remaining.
Hi Typ932. You may be able to contribute to
this discussion - from looking at the article history, I think you were the one who added that statement into the article. Regards.
DH85868993 (
talk)
09:58, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
A
Hundredweight (pronounced "a hundred weight", for reasons you probably should not wish to understand: I don't) is a pre-metric British unit of measurement. It converts almost precisely to 50kg. No doubt the wiki entry gives the precise formula. But please be a little bit careful about converting it. It was also used to name vans on the UK market. So a "Ford 5 cwt" was a small van able to carry 250 kg. But if you converted its name to Ford 250 kg you'd confuse people and end up with a vehicle name that no one would understand (any better than they would understand it when people (no ... not you) confuse tax horsepower with bhp and "convert" the 2CV of the Citroen 2CV into a bhp number or the "8 hp" of a Morris 8 into bhp).
I hope this provides helpful clarity. Actually I think the
Hundredweight entry says it all.
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Räikkönen and Massa both made a clean start.
Renault's
Fernando Alonso, who started third, was overtaken by Trulli and
BMW Sauber driver
Robert Kubica. The front three of Räikkönen, Massa and Trulli maintained their positions through the first round of
pit stops. On lap 30, Räikkönen led Massa by six and a half seconds, and Trulli by 30 seconds. Just before half distance, Räikkönen's right exhaust pipe broke, which caused the engine to lose power. Massa, in second place, began lapping quicker than Räikkönen, and he caught and passed him on lap 39. Massa maintained his lead through the second round of pit stops, and won the race; Räikkönen finished almost 18 seconds behind. Trulli fended off
McLaren's
Heikki Kovalainen, who challenged him in the latter stages, to take third.
Massa's win promoted him into the lead of the
Drivers' Championship for the first time in his career, overtaking Kubica. Kubica was second, two points behind Massa, while Räikkönen was third. In the
Constructors' Championship, Ferrari increased their lead to 17 points ahead of BMW Sauber, McLaren a further 16 points behind in third.
Despite qualifying tenth, Massa missed the race due to suffering an accident in the second part of qualifying. He suffered a cut on his forehead, a bone damage of his skull and a brain concussion.
[2]
I´ve seen that you´ve fixed
AC ME3000 (it was AC 3000ME before, first the number, than the "ME"), because the article started by
user:Charles01 has this title. I think the correct title must be AC 3000ME, because this is the offical name by AC when production and sellings started; my sources are here
[3] and the offical sales brochure here
[4].
"AC 3-Litre", "AC 3000" and "AC ME 3000" were unofficial and official names only in the prototype/pre-production era (see also AC (manufacturer) page on WP.en, so I think the main-article should me moved. I´ve been in discussion about that with Charles01, see his disc. We hadn´t done it right now, because he´s not totally sure about the most professional way to save the history and I - as a member of the german wp - am not sure how to handle it technically too, because in the german wp we have a simple button at the heading on each page.
I have conducted a reassessment of the above article as part of the
GA Sweeps process. I have found some concerns with the article which you can see at
Talk:Lancia Flaminia/GA1. I have placed the article on hold whilst these are fixed. I am letting you know as you are a major contributor to this article. Thanks.
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22:19, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
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Fiat 500
Please don't revert my edits. I have already give you the reason why the 500 Jolly and the Special Versions don't belong to the article.
The Fiat 500 Jolly is not made by Fiat but by Ghia, in fact, the car is called Fiat 500 Ghia. There are hundredes of modified 500 not made by Fiat. Open a new page called "Fiat 500 Ghia" and add link the page if you want, but don't add it the 500 page please.
I can't understand why you reverted the image: it is some sort of personal attack? The Giardineria image is unusable, the restored 500 has a lot of non-original parts.
The rest is okay, i hope we'll end this useless edit war here.
The article is called Fiat 500, not Fiat 500 Ghia. The problem are not the "special versions" per se, but the fact that they are not MADE BY FIAT. I own a 500 so i know what i'm talking about. Don't revert my edits if you don't have a good reason to do so, or you'll be reported for edit war.
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The Brabham BT46 was a
Formula Oneracing car, designed by
Gordon Murray for the
Brabham team, owned by
Bernie Ecclestone, for the
1978 Formula One season. The car featured several radical design elements, the most obvious of which was the use of flat panel heat exchangers on the bodywork of the car to replace conventional water and oil
radiators. The concept did not work in practice and was removed before the car’s race debut, never to be seen again. The cars, powered by a
flat-12Alfa Romeo engine, raced competitively with modified nose-mounted radiators for most of the year, driven by
Niki Lauda and
John Watson, winning one race in this form and scoring sufficient points for the team to finish third in the constructors championship.
The "B" variant of the car, also known as the "fan car", was introduced at the
1978 Swedish Grand Prix as a counter to the dominant ground effect
Lotus 79. The BT46B generated an immense level of
downforce by means of a fan, claimed to be for increased cooling, but which also extracted air from beneath the car. The car only raced once in this configuration in the Formula One World Championship—when Niki Lauda won the 1978 Swedish Grand Prix at
Anderstorp. The car was withdrawn before it could race again and the concept was declared illegal by the
FIA. The BT46B therefore preserves a 100% winning record.
No attempt at humor - read the cited Newsweek article. Your edit will be reverted to restore the widely cited use. In light of recent events involving Chrysler and Fiat, this is indeed significant. In fact, removing it would be a violation of
WP:NPOV.
B.Wind (
talk)
17:02, 19 September 2009 (UTC)
Wikipedia is not censored. There are many things in Wikipedia that I find personally offensive, and I must deal with them, too. If you are objecting because you find the reference to the acronym offensive, put it in context by writing a section on Fiat's history with its North American cars (covering both the positives and the negatives in an objective way is actually required by
WP:NPOV) and the institutional changes in Fiat since then, as I have suggested on my talk page. As this doesn't deal with a redirect, any further discussion should be done on the article's talk page, not RfD.
B.Wind (
talk)
18:30, 19 September 2009 (UTC)
Hi there my friend. Just thought i'd let you know some moronic user has decided to take
Fix it again Tony issue further by initiating an ANI thread here...
ANI. It's seems as though there is some progress there. You may like to discuss. Thanks
G87 (
talk)
21:49, 05 December 2009 (UTC)
Things are getting a beat heated in the discussion. May I suggest a break for all concerned to
cool down before an admin starts issuing blocks? My break starts now. My you have a wonderful evening (or morning, depending upon where you live).
B.Wind (
talk)
19:09, 19 September 2009 (UTC)
In order to stop edit warring I am trying to start a discussion to which you may wish to contribute. Bridgeplayer (talk) 23:01, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
car>automobile
Thanks for the note. I'm quite surprised I managed to miss that, scanning the page - goes to show the importance of edit summaries when moving pages, I suppose :-)
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11:04, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
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The race was dominated, however, by the fight between championship protagonists
Michael Schumacher (Benetton) and
Damon Hill (Williams). Hill, who started from
pole position, retained his lead during the opening stages of the race whilst Schumacher, who started alongside him on the grid, fell behind Alesi in the run to the first corner. Despite being held up behind the slower Ferrari until it pitted, Schumacher used a more favourable one-stop strategy to move ahead of Hill, who made two pit stops for fuel and tyres, on lap 41. Four laps later, Hill attempted to pass Schumacher, but the two collided and were forced to retire from the race. This promoted the battling Herbert and Coulthard into the fight for the lead. Coulthard passed Herbert, but dropped back to third after incurring a
stop-go penalty for speeding in the pit lane.
* Barrichello had originally qualified fifth, but received a 5-place grid penalty for a gearbox change between FP3 and qualifying. He moved back up to ninth, after Heidfeld's penalty.
[6]
Nick Heidfeld originally qualified eighth (1:49.307), but was sent to the back of the grid, for his car being underweight after qualifying. His team also changed the gearbox and engine.
[7]
‡ Nakajima set his time during the second part of qualifying, as he failed to make the top ten.
* Sutil and Barrichello received five-place grid penalties for speeding in a neutralised yellow flag zone, following an incident involving
Sébastien Buemi in the second part of qualifying.
[8]
Jenson Button (7th, 1:32.962) and
Fernando Alonso (12th, 1:31.638) also received a five-place grid penalty for the same offence.
Buemi (10th, no time) himself received a five-place penalty for driving his damaged
Toro Rosso back to the pits, and impeding other cars.
Heikki Kovalainen (9th, no time) received a five-place grid penalty for changing his gearbox after a crash during Q3.
† All times were recorded in the second part of qualifying, as they did not make the top ten originally.
I just did a general copyedit on the Sprint article - it was quite shockingly badly written. I'd appreciate it if you'd just scan it over and see how it reads to you. I didn't make any fundamental changes, just rewrote some of the very Italian English and deleted a few dubious statements.
Dino246 (
talk)
21:46, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
Out of interest, is the
standard size you made reference to documented anywhere?
MOS:IMAGES sets 300px as an upper limit currently, but that's traditionally been the default size for landscape lede images. In this case it actually reduces the height of the infobox because less lines wrap.
Chris Cunningham (not at work) -
talk22:56, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
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The DAMS GD-01 was an unraced
Formula One car used by the
Frenchmotorsport team,
Driot-Arnoux Motor Sport (DAMS). The GD-01 was designed and built by a collaboration of DAMS and
Reynard engineers from 1994 to 1995, and was intended to establish the team—which had achieved considerable success in lower categories—in Formula One, but a continuing lack of finance meant that the team never entered the championship, despite completing construction of the chassis and conducting some testing.
I don't know what you were thinking, but do not revert any bot adding links to the same article in other languages. It is standard operating procedure to link articles of the same subject in all the different Wikipedia languages.
Killiondude (
talk)
20:18, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
I think these edits were at least made with good intentions whether or not they were correct or not. There are two articles,
Fiat and
Fiat Automobiles, which are not the same thing. (To say nothing of the sense of fiat as a noun.) I think that it will take some time to sort out which of the interwiki links are correct and which aren't, and in order to get them to stay we will have to go to every single wiki and make the same changes there, which is something I dont have the time right now for. -- SoapTalk/Contributions20:27, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
Those bot adds wrong articles, thats why removed, the wlinks it adds should link to main Fiat page, I explained it already in edit summary I wonder why you didnt see it or understand? --Typ932T·
C20:22, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
I believe in keeping discussions centralized, so I moved your comment back here. I've clicked on several of the links, in languages I can understand or at least tell what's going on. It looks like some of them are the same article, while some of the languages incorporate both en.wiki's
Fiat and
Fiat Automobiles include (to varying degrees). Maybe if we can find any language that doesn't cover anything found in
Fiat Automobiles at all, we can remove those selectively.
Killiondude (
talk)
20:30, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
Yep, Im bit frustrated to those bots, because they dont work so good... I wonder why they dont make difference if those are already linked to main Fiat page, still they add double link to other articles... --Typ932T·
C20:37, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
Yeah, I'm sorry my wording was so harsh originally. I didn't know it was linking to the wrong articles sometimes. The bots just keep the links all the same in all the languages, so if you want it fixed, I think we'll have too take out the links to the enWP article, in those languages' wikis.
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Fittipaldi Automotive, sometimes called Copersucar after its first major sponsor, was the only
Formula One motor racing team and constructor ever to be based in
Brazil. It was formed during 1974 by racing driver
Wilson Fittipaldi and his younger brother, double world champion
Emerson, with money from the Brazilian sugar and alcohol cooperative
Copersucar. In 1976 Emerson surprised the motor racing world by leaving the title-winning
McLaren team to drive for the unsuccessful family outfit. Future world champion
Keke Rosberg took his first podium finish in Formula One with the team.
The team was based in
São Paulo, almost 6,000 miles (10,000 km) away from the centre of the world motor racing industry in the UK, before moving to
Reading,
UK during 1974. It participated in 119 grands prix between 1975 and 1982, entering a total of 156 cars. It achieved 3 podiums and scored 44 championship points.
It was moved because
User:Slfi asked for it to be moved. If there's a reason why it shouldn't be moved, let me know and I'll move it back. Whatever you decide, can we get more redirects created? I don't think anyone could have found the article first time by guesswork.
Angus McLellan(Talk)20:47, 18 December 2009 (UTC)
What can I say? Sorry, I clicked on the wrong link and moved the wrong page. Stupid me. Still, more redirects would be nice ... should all be fixed now though.
Angus McLellan(Talk)21:04, 18 December 2009 (UTC)
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The 2008 Hungarian Grand Prix (formally the XXIII ING Magyar Nagydíj) was a
Formula One motor race held on August 3, 2008 at the
Hungaroring,
Budapest,
Hungary. It was the eleventh race of the
2008 Formula One season. The race, contested over 70 laps, was won by
Heikki Kovalainen for the
McLaren team after starting from second position.
Timo Glock finished second in a
Toyota car, with
Kimi Räikkönen third in a
Ferrari. It marked Kovalainen's first Formula One victory, which made him the sport's 100th driver to win a World Championship race, and it was also Glock's first podium finish.
Much of the race, however, was dominated by a duel between
Lewis Hamilton and
Felipe Massa, who drove for McLaren and Ferrari respectively. Hamilton started from
pole position on the starting grid but was beaten into the first corner by Massa, who passed him around the outside. The two championship protagonists commenced a battle for the lead that was resolved when Hamilton suffered a
puncture just over half-way through the race, giving Massa a comfortable lead. The Ferrari's engine, however, failed with three laps of the race remaining, allowing Kovalainen to take the win.
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Formula One, abbreviated to F1, is the highest class of
open-wheeledauto racing defined by the
Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), motorsport's world governing body. The "formula" in the name refers to a set of rules to which all participants and cars must conform. The F1 world championship season consists of a series of races, known as
Grands Prix, held usually on purpose-built
circuits, and in a few cases on closed city streets. Drivers are awarded points based on their position in each race, and the driver who accumulates the most points over each calendar year is crowned that year's
World Champion. As of the
2009 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, there have been 820 FIA
World Championship races since its first event, the
1950 British Grand Prix.
Seven-time champion
Michael Schumacher holds the record for the most championships, while his 91 wins, 154 podium finishes and 68 pole positions are also records.
Rubens Barrichello has entered more Grands Prix than anyone else—288 times in total—as well as having made an unsurpassed 284 race starts. The
United Kingdom is the most represented nation, having produced a total of 157 different drivers. Eight nations have been represented by just one.
Poland became the latest country to be represented by a driver when
Robert Kubica made his
Formula One debut at the
2006 Hungarian Grand Prix.