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星期三的BBC F1小道消息
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(一) Australian driver Mark Webber has admitted that last season was his best
chance to win the World Championship but insists he will be a much stronger
competitor in 2012 after struggling this year.


澳洲車手Mark Webber承認去年是他贏得冠軍的最好機會，
但他堅持在今年的掙扎之後，2012年他將會是個更有力的競爭者。



(二) Webber on Twitter: "I'm hearing about a misquote about my plans to fight
for the title next year, always possible to miss/add a few words for a good
story."


"我聽說了一些我對明年冠軍爭奪說法的不當引用，
(媒體)總是對一個好的故事額外的加油添醋。" Webber在Twitter說道。



(三) Ferrari's Felipe Massa has played down the comment from his race engineer
Rob Smedley asking him to 'destroy' Lewis Hamilton's race during the Singapore
Grand Prix. The Brazilian says he doesn't recall the comment and it had
nothing to do with the subsequent collision between the two drivers.

法拉利車手Felipe Massa對於Rob Smedley在Singapore大賽中給他
"破壞"Hamilton比賽的指令做出了回應。

他表示他不記得這項指令，且這也與之後兩位車手的碰撞沒有關係。



(四) Formula 1 boss Bernie Ecclestone expects the upcoming Indian Grand Prix to
run without a hitch despite concerns over security following a bomb explosion
in Delhi last month.


即使上個月才在Delhi發生的炸彈攻擊事件引發安全上的擔憂，
F1老闆Bernie Ecclestone認為即將到來的India大賽會順利舉行。



(五) Sebastien Buemi is the latest driver to dream up his fantasy F1 options.
The Toro Rosso driver would love to have a race in his home country of
Switzerland, choose Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel as his lead driver if he was
team boss and add a swimming pool to his team's motorhome.


Sebestien Buemi 有了fantasy F1的選擇。
這位Toro Rosso車手希望能在他的家鄉瑞士有比賽，
如果他是車隊老闆的話，
他會選擇Red Bull 車隊的Sebastian Vettel作為頭號車手，
並且在車隊的行動總部旁邊加設一座游泳池。

(六) F1 teams are set to be asked once again to approve a tweak to next year's
tyre regulations, so Italian manufacturer Pirelli do not have to take wasted
sets of rubber to every race.


F1車隊將會再次被徵求同意微幅修改明年的輪胎規則，
如此Italy輪胎製造商Pirelli不再需要再帶著不必要的輪胎到每場比賽去。


(按:根據內文，目前規則下，
Pireli每年要多帶共2500套成分較硬車隊卻沒用到的胎到處飛，
這些未被使用的硬胎在星期天的賽後會被銷毀，
而車隊們之前不同意更動規則，
Pirelli目前的想法是說服車隊同意改在周五測試時使用這套胎。)



(七) World champion Alan Jones, who won the title in 1980, will be the driver
representative on the stewards panel for this weekend's Japanese Grand Prix.


1980年世界冠軍Alan Jones將會是本周末Japan大賽裁判組的車手代表。



(八) Virgin Racing driver Timo Glock has arrived in Japan to find some rather
disappointing weather. "Nice workout session!! Unfortunately lots of rain here
so no chance for biking up to mount Fuji."


已經抵達日本的Virgin Racing車手Timo Glock對當地天氣有些失望。

"很棒的健身課程!
很可惜下大雨沒機會騎單車攻富士山。"



(九) Team Lotus driver Heikki Kovalainen is feeling under the weather having
arrived in Tokyo. "Not feeling great today, like getting a flu, donno if still
jet lag or what, need to keep an eye on it. Raining in Tokyo."


(十) Team Lotus車手 Heikki Kovalainen抵達東京後感到不舒服。

"今天的感覺不太好，
像是得了流感，
不知道是不是由於時差或其他因素，會多加注意。
東京正在下雨。"

(十一) Construction work has resumed at the Circuit of the Americas, the venue for
next year's United States Grand Prix, after several weeks of delays.

在幾個星期的延遲後，
將在明年舉辦US大賽的Circuit of the Americas恢復了建築作業。

(按:根據星期一的新聞，
延遲的原因是由於US大賽的承辦者可能換人，
連帶可能影響賽道的資金來源。)



新聞來源: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/motorsport/formula_one/9607730.stm

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