Personnel

The Man that keeps Felipe Massa calm in the Ferrari Car. Rob Smedley was Born in Middlesbrough in 1973 and grow up in the Normanby area of the town. Smedley started his Motorsport's career by been a suspension design engineer for the Peugeot Touring car team in 1997. He then went on to work in the F3000 series and the Williams Touring Car team, before ending up at Jordan F1 racing team until 2003. After 2003 Smedley moved to the Scuderia Ferrari team and half way between 2006 he took over as Felipe Massa's race engineer and has been in the same role for the past 6 years. Smedley is now well famous around the world for his radio message to Felipe Massa in Malaysia 2009 by telling him to stay cool baby. Smedley also was behind the...

EJ Former race driver, Former F1 team owner, he is also a business man an entrepreneur and a mentor. At present he is lead analyst for the BBC's F1 coverage and seems to know before anyone else exactly what is going with both, the drivers and teams. So what are your thoughts of the man in the know...

Someone has said it on this site before, I think it was Brogan, but the problem isn't that Tilke is necessarily a bad designer but the only one that is used to design tracks and therefore they all seem to be the same. This problem is further compounded when his hands are tied by Bernie - "you must have so and so corners and so many straights". So a creative man is not even allowed to be creative - a sad indication of the times :(

Nicholas Richard Fry is the CEO of Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One team. He was MD of BAR Honda, coming from Dave Richards ProDrive operation, from 2002 and continued in that role when Honda bought the team out in 2006. When Honda withdrew from F1 in 2008, having won only a single race, Fry continued in a senior management role at the newly born Brawn GP and then became CEO when Mercedes bought Brawn at the end of 2009, having won both the Drivers and Constructors Championship. To read this in Nick Fry speak please add a comma and and an "Ah" after every 3rd word. Nick Fry is one of F1's great survivors. Every time the Brackley team are sold there are rumours about his position but he keeps hanging in there. No idea how, but...

Well this woman is an inspiration for women wanting to get into F1. In 2010 she became the CEO of the Sauber F1 team and by 2012 she's now become the first woman to be an F1 team principal. I think this achievement is a thread deserved on its own. Rumors are also mounting that Bernie Ecclestone has targeted Monisha as an heir to his F1 empire as well :). All I can say is :goodday: off to this extraordinary women, who will surely inspire women like myself to get into F1 :).

Fernandes came into F1 as an unknown Quantity but everyone knows who he is now. Fernandes came into F1 with the intention on bringing the Lotus name back to this much loved sport. Fernandes has had struggles with regards for the rights over the Lotus name and was taken to an FIA court over the name when Renault bought the rights to have the Lotus name. Lotus Renualt won the row and Group Lotus were forced into changing their name. Now the team goes under the name of Caterham. Fernandes and his team are now considered to be many peoples second favourite team on the grid. Since entering the sport Fernandes has spread his wings and has entered into the world of Football having bought London Club Fernandes. Will Fernandes's...

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/99862 Dany Bahar has been suspended from his role as chief executive officer. I read in a German article, that although DRB-HICOM are trying to blame him for financial irregularities, the main reason is that they just simply wanted to get rid of him and were looking for a way to avoid compensation.