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Red Bull RB9F1 Car launch

Red Bull Racing launch at the team's headquarters in Milton Keynes

Mercedes AMG F1 W04, Circuit Permanente de JerezesF1 Car launch
Toro Rosso STR8, Circuit Permanente de JerezesF1 Car launch
Caterham F1 CT03, Circuit Permanente de JerezesF1 Car launch

Car presentation in the pitlane, before testing kicks off

Marussia MR02, Circuit Permanente de JerezesF1 Car launch
Jerez, Circuit Permanente de JerezesF1 Test
Jerez, Circuit Permanente de JerezesF1 Test
Birthday of Christian KlienBirthday
Jerez, Circuit Permanente de JerezesF1 Test
Jerez, Circuit Permanente de JerezesF1 Test
Birthday of Ronnie PetersonBirthday

Bengt Ronnie Peterson was a Swedish racing driver nicknamed 'Super Swede' for his aggressive driving style. He raced in F1 between 1970 and 1978 and is regarded one of the greatest drivers never to have won a World Championship. Peterson died on September 11, 1978 after suffering a crash at the start of the Italian GP.

Birthday of Graham HillBirthday

Graham Hill was born in Hampstead, London. He is a double F1 World Champion (1962, 1968) and is the only man to have won the Triple Crown of Motorsport. Therefore he won the Indianapolis 500 (1966), the 24 hours of Le Mans (1927) and the Monaco GP in Formula One 5 times (1963, 1964, 1965, 1968, 1969).

Graham is also the father of Damon Hill, the F1 World Champion of 1996.

In November 1975, Graham was killed when his Piper Aztec aeroplane (which he was piloting at the time) crashed in foggy conditions over Arkley Golf Course in North London. Five members of the Embassy Hill team, including up-and-coming driver Tony Brise, also died in the accident.

Birthday of Enzo FerrariBirthday

Enzo Ferrari is the founder of the renowed Ferrari team. The famous Italian was born in Modena. Ferrari raced test cars for a small automobile company in Milan after World War I. In 1920 he became a racing-car driver for the Alfa Romeo Company, and in 1929 he formed his racing stable

In 1940 Enzo Ferrari left his employer Alfa Romeo and started a new company Auto-Avio Costruzioni Ferrari. In 1946 work began on the first ever Ferrari motorcar, the 125 Sport. This car started a grand tradition of winning for Ferrari. Since it's first race in 1947, Ferrari's have had over 5,000 successes on race tracks around the globe.

In 1969 Enzo Ferrari sold 50% of Ferrari's share capital to the Fiat group. That figure grew to 90% in 1988. Enzo Ferrari died at the age of 90 in Modena on August 14, 1988.

Barcelona, Circuit de CatalunyaesF1 Test
Birthday of Enzo FerrariBirthday

Enzo Anselmo "Il Commendatore" Ferrari was born in Turin, Italy. He was an Italian race car driver and entrepreneur, the founder of the Scuderia Ferrari Grand Prix motor racing team, and subsequently of the Ferrari car manufacturer.
Enzo Ferrari died August 14, 1989 at Maranello, the manufacturer's home base. He was 90 years old.