Felipe Massa is a Brazilian Formula One racing driver, currently engaged in the Ferrari team.

In his rookie year in Formula 1, Massa was paired with 1999 F3000 champion Nick Heidfeld at the Sauber team, fortunately the Sauber team haven’t been disappointed with his performance. Felipe Massa got a good start at Ferrari, qualifying second at the opening race in Bahrain. In October 2007, Massa extended his contract with Ferrari to the end of 2010.

Recently Felipe Massa won the French Grand Prix ahead of team-mate Kimi Raikkonen.

At first, F1 world champion Kimi-Matias Räikkönen of Scuderia Ferrari was leading ahead of his team mate Felipe Massa with a few seconds. But Raikonnen has suffered some mechanical problems. He started wasting time due to a broken exhaust, banging and burning the side of his F2008.

With the difficulty of the champ, Massa was able to surpass his rival and took the lead up to the end of the event. He won with a 17 second advantage against Raikonnen. With this accomplishment he is now the newest leader of the Drivers' Standings.

Jarno Trulli held off the attacking Heikki Kovalainen to finish third, his first podium finish since Spain 2005.

Kimi Raikkonen's is so optimistic that he’d obtain the French Grand Prix victory if not only with the big misfortune that happened but he is confident of racing well for the rest of the season.

"We maybe should have won, but I still took eight points and we're in a more comfortable position in the championship," said Raikkonen.

Fernando Alonso a Spanish Formula One driver and a two-time world champion is having a good time with his return to French team Renault. On December 10, 2007 he has signed a two-year contract to drive for Renault F1 along side Brazilian driver Nelson Angelo Piquet.

With his return to Renault, the first two rounds of the 2008 Season was not enjoying life at its top, which is later made worse by car race incident that happened in the 2008 Bahrain Grand Prix with the Spaniard Lewis Hamilton. But the year goes on better and better which is proven by a spectacular performance in the 2008 Monaco Grand Prix.

According to Reuters, Fernando Alonso, although enjoying success on his return to Renault stated that he is still undecided whether to continue or to vacate the team. He said that his decision would probably come out by the end of the season. "I don't know (if I will stay with Renault)," he told a news conference on Monday. "It's not been a good year so far and it has been worse than we expected. We have not been on the podium, let alone won a race.” He added.

"We have a lot of work to do. I will take a decision on my future towards the end of the year when we'll be able to see how far we have come."

Despite the negative results of his last two races, he is still determined to win the next weekend's French Grand Prix.

"In France we have a lot of support and for me it's like racing in Barcelona," he said. "I feel full of confidence at the moment and we are on the right track." He added.

Ove Andersson was a Swedish rally driver and the first head of Toyota's F1 program. He was also known as "Paven" or "the Pope".

He started his career in 1964 and made his first serious rallying activity with Saab. He first competed internationally at the 1964 Acropolis. And at the late sixties, Andersson had settle for a while with teams such as Ford and Lancia

It was the year 1971 when he won several rallying competition including the Monte Carlo Rally, Rallye Sanremo, Österreichische Alpenfahrt and Acropolis Rally. In 1973, he started driving a Toyota Celica, which made him won the 1975 Safari Rally.

Despite of being a driver, he also has his own rally team name Anderson Motorsport, which later was named the Toyota Team Europe. This team had much success in the World Rally Championship.

In 2002, he got involved in F1 racing as the first head of Toyota's F1 program. He retired from the position in 2003 but continued to work for Toyota Motor sports as a consultant.

O June 11, 2008, Andersson killed in an accident during a classic rally in South Africa. He is believed to have been involved in a head-on collision with a truck during the Milligan rally.

With what happened, Toyota has expressed their profound sadness at his untimely death. Tadashi Yamashina, Chairman of Toyota Motorsport GmbH, stated: "Everyone at Toyota is extremely shocked and truly saddened at this terrible news. Ove was an inspiration to our team and too many in motor sports. His passion for motorsport was legendary and he is a great loss to our sport. The thoughts of everyone at Toyota Motorsport are with Ove's family at this difficult time."

Lately, the reigning Formula 1 world champion Kimi Raikkonen has not denied the reports that he is thinking of not renewing his contract after its end next year.

There is a constructed rumor that Fernando Alonso a Spanish Renault racing driver and a two-time world champion has signed an agreement with Ferrari, (Raikkonen’s current team) for the year 2010. It was due to a rumor last week that says the Italian team's current star driver might not intend to pen another contract.

On a news conference in Montreal, Raikkonen established a statement saying that he still doesn’t have plans for the following years of his career. The champ said "I don't know what is going to happen, I haven't made my mind up, and maybe I will make my decision this year."

There were also reports that a close friend of Raikkonen said that driving is Raikkonen’s passion but he hates everything else about Formula One.’ It includes the public appearances and the life under the spotlight. He now wants a quiet and simple life after many years of being celebrated. It may also be due to management, or any financial aspect. It has been supported by Kimi’s words saying "When there are too many things you don't enjoy it is time to go away."

Auto racing is one of the world's most watched sports on television.

Here’s some trivia; the first contest was organized by Paris magazine Le Perit Journal, a reliability test to determine best performance. But the race was changed to Paris to Rouen 1894. Competitors included factory vehicles from Karl Benz's Benz & Cie. and Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach's DMG.

The basic concept of racing has remained the same, to get from point A to point B before anybody else does. On some events, the racers are ranked by speed, acceleration, and cornering.

But to provide more enjoyment and variety for the sports, the means and ways of how it is done has been added with many additional ideas.

The categories for car racing includes Single-seater racing, touring car racing, production car racing, one-make racing, stock car racing, rallying, targa racing, drag racing, sports car racing, off-road racing, kart racing, and historical racing.

Formula One, or F1, is the highest class of open wheeled auto racing. The "formula" in the name refers to a set of rules to which all participants and cars must conform.

Modern Formula One cars are mid-engined open cockpit, open wheel single-seaters. The whole car, including engine, fluids and driver, weighs only 600kg.

Michael Schumacher, a former Formula One driver, and seven-time world champion is one of the greatest drivers the sport has ever seen.   He and Ferrari won an unprecedented five consecutive drivers’ championships and six consecutive constructors’ championships between 1999 and 2004. He is truly an amazing driver.

That is all for now. This is an introductory post for a continuous blog about the world of Auto (Formula 1 racing). Hope this gives interest to every reader.

Danica Patrick ended up fifth place in the Honda Indy 200 last weekend. This was her great tournament so far in the name of Indy car race, even if she might have completed even good if it were not for Tony Kanaan pushing and pacing her into grass for a small time in the first round. Kanaan exempt himself by declaring that Danica was sliding.  For his third directly time, Scott Dixon got the price. Also it’s his 27^th birthday.

But wait. It’s been a while - Danica Patrick succeeds the Indy Japan 300 at Twin Ring Motegi racetrack held in Tokyo to turn into the very former woman to win in a main open-wheel racing tournament.

I've been a little bit follower of this lady since her first Indy 500. I really think this is going to be excellent for open-wheel racing, lifting its profile and name on top of the "boys-only" discussions that motorsports fall into.

Danica Patrick turns into the first woman in record to triumph an IndyCar Series tournament. The success came in her 50th career IndyCar Series begins in where she handle the #7 Motorola car with the top-eight auto for the complete 200-lap series.

These Results came from avenuevine.com for the Indy Japan 300 event:

1) Danica Patrick, Andretti Green, 200 laps
2) Helio Castroneves, Penske, 200, +5.8594 seconds
3) Scott Dixon, Target Ganassi, 200
4) Dan Wheldon, Target Ganassi, 200
5) Tony Kanaan, Andretti Green, 200
6) Ed Carpenter Vision, 200
7) Ryan Hunter-Reay, Rahal Letterman, 200
8) Darren Manning, Foyt, 199
9) Ryan Briscoe, Penske, 199
10) Townsend Bell, Dreyer & Reinbold, 199
11) Hideki Mutoh, Andretti Green, 199
12) Buddy Rice, Dreyer & Reinbold, 198
13) Jay Howard, Roth, 192
14) Roger Yasukawa, Beck, 134, mechanical
15) A.J. Foyt IV, Vision, 103, accident
16) Vitor Meira, Panther, 92, accident
17) Marty Roth, Roth, 44, accident
18) Marco Andretti, Andretti Green, 0, accident

Victory must be "smoky" the second time around for Anthony Wayne "Smoke" Stewart, two-time winner in the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) Nationwide Series race. 

In a 1 to 2 Toyota Sweep at the Daytona nationwide season opening, Stewart won against his Sprint Cup Series teammate Kyle Busch with 136 out of 150 laps on the former 2-mile California Speedway track. 

The result of the said series came as a surprise since it was popularly known as the Busch series.  According to tampa bay online, this was Stewart's fourth victory in the NASCAR nationwide Series but his first time to claim the victory on a track other than the Daytona International Speedway. Aside from that, Stewart had also recorded 32 wins in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series.

Stewart attributed his success to Dave Rogers, his crew chief, and his staff saying that they were the ones who made his car really good and awesome. 

He added, "We could stay out front and those other guys would wear their tires out and wear themselves out and we could just take care of our tires and do what we needed to do."

According to wikipedia, 36-year-old Stewart, a native of Columbus, Indiana, has been receiving multiple awards in the racing field since 1995.

Stewart beat other former NASCAR Series champions including Kevin Harvick , David Reutimann and Carl Edwards.

Q: Pat, what are you most excited about ahead of the 2008 season?
Pat Symonds: This time last year, I said I would be disappointed if we didn't win a couple of races during the season. I was disappointed… but I don't intend to stay disappointed in 2008!

Q: How confident can you be that the team's 2007 problems are behind it?
PS: Very confident. We have worked hard to make sure we don't fall into the same traps again, and I don't think we will.

Q: With comparative stability in the rules, how can the team catch up the deficit we saw last year?
PS: We have had to take a more radical approach to the aerodynamics. Having solved the problems with the wind tunnel that we found last year, we are confident to do that. The results from the tunnel show we have made significantly more progress than normal. It now remains to be seen if that is enough relative to the competition.

Q: The 2008 car employs a very different design philosophy to its predecessors…
PS: The design of any new car is driven by a number of different factors, including new regulations and new discoveries. For this year, we have largely worked to overcome limitations we found in our on and off-track development in 2007. The 2008 car incorporates the lessons we learned, and it should allow us to get more performance from the car/tyre/aero package.

Q: What does Fernando (Alonso) bring to the team?
PS: Firstly, it is important to make one thing clear: Fernando would not have made up for the deficiencies of last year's car. We are now confident we have overcome those problems, and we are desperate to give him the car his talent deserves. I am certain that the combination of Fernando in a revitalised Renault will see him challenging for race wins. He knows what he wants from the car, and we have shown in the past that we can deliver it.

Q: What are your expectations for his new team mate Nelsinho (Piquet)?
PS: Nelson has a challenge in front of him. Just like with Heikki last year, we need to give him time to develop, to make the inevitable rookie mistakes - and we must help him learn from those mistakes. It is important to give him a car he can trust, and I hope this is where it turns out differently to 2007. We have to be sure that the R28 is not just a race-winning car, but one that inspires confidence from the drivers.