2013 Formula One Mario Kart season

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The 2013 Formula One Mario Kart season was held on 32 tracks in the Mario Kart DS universe.

Constructors and drivers[edit | edit source]

Team # Driver Rounds
Flag of Austria svg.png Red Bull-Renault
0 Flag of Portugal.svg.png Antonio Felix da Costa 5
1 Flag of Germany svg.png Sebastian Vettel 1-4
2 Flag of Australia svg.png Mark Webber 1-4
Flag of Italy svg.png Ferrari
3 Flag of Spain svg.png Fernando Alonso 1-4
4 Flag of Brazil svg.png Felipe Massa 1-4
Flag of the United Kingdom svg.png McLaren-Mercedes
5 Flag of the United Kingdom svg.png Jenson Button 1-4
6 Flag of Mexico svg.png Sergio Perez 1-4
Flag of the United Kingdom svg.png Lotus-Renault
7 Flag of Finland.svg.png Kimi Raikkonen 1, 3-4
Flag of Italy svg.png Davide Valsecchi 2
8 Flag of France svg.png Romain Grosjean 1, 3-4
Flag of Belgium svg.png Jerome d'Ambrosio 2
Flag of Germany svg.png Mercedes
9 Flag of Germany svg.png Nico Rosberg 1-4
10 Flag of the United Kingdom svg.png Lewis Hamilton 1-2
Flag of the United Kingdom svg.png Anthony Davidson 3-4
Flag of Switzerland svg.png Sauber-Ferrari
11 Flag of Germany svg.png Nico Hulkenberg 1-4
12 Flag of Mexico svg.png Esteban Gutierrez 1-4
Flag of India svg.png Force India-Mercedes
14 Flag of the United Kingdom svg.png Paul di Resta 1-4
15 Flag of Germany svg.png Adrian Sutil 1-4
Flag of the United Kingdom svg.png Williams-Renault
16 Flag of Venezuela svg.png Pastor Maldonado 1-4
17 Flag of Finland.svg.png Valtteri Bottas 1-4
Flag of Italy svg.png Toro Rosso-Ferrari
18 Flag of France svg.png Jean-Eric Vergne 1-4
19 Flag of Australia svg.png Daniel Ricciardo 1-4
Flag of Malaysia svg.png Caterham-Renault
20 Flag of France svg.png Charles Pic 1
Flag of the United Kingdom svg.png April Anderson 2-4
21 Flag of the Netherlands.svg.png Giedo van der Garde 1-2
Flag of the United States svg.png Alexander Rossi 3-4
Flag of Russia.svg.png Marussia-Cosworth
22 Flag of France svg.png Jules Bianchi 1-4
23 Flag of the United Kingdom svg.png Max Chilton 1-4
Flag of the United Kingdom svg.png April's-Ford*
24 Flag of the United Kingdom svg.png Jordan King TBA
25 Flag of Germany svg.png Nick Heidfeld TBA
  • *April's Racers applied for a place in the championship, but is currently pending verification.

Season summary[edit | edit source]

Mushroom Cup[edit | edit source]

Figure-8 Circuit[edit | edit source]

Defending champion Sebastian Vettel took pole for the first race of the season. However, on race day, things didn't look too promising for the German as his Red Bull stalled on the grid. This enabled his rival Lewis Hamilton of Mercedes to take the lead. Vettel was forced to start from the pit lane.

On lap 15, Charles Pic was involved in a collision with fellow Frenchman Romain Grosjean as Grosjean was about to lap him. Pic's Caterham was catapulted 10 feet into the air before it smashed into the tyre wall. Pic was lucky to survive but he would be out for the next 3 races, therefore ending his Mushroom Cup season there. Grosjean was disqualified from the race for causing the accident and had to serve a one-race ban. Their replacements were April A. Anderson and Jerome d'Ambrosio, respectively.

Hamilton duly took the win ahead of team-mate Nico Rosberg as third went to Mark Webber in the other Red Bull. Vettel would finish down in 12th, starting his season on a low. Hamilton also took the fastest lap of the race; 1:37.249.

Results[edit | edit source]
Pos. Driver Constructor
1 Flag of the United Kingdom svg.png Lewis Hamilton Mercedes
2 Flag of Germany svg.png Nico Rosberg Mercedes
3 Flag of Australia svg.png Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault
4 Flag of Finland.svg.png Kimi Raikkonen Lotus-Renault
5 Flag of Spain svg.png Fernando Alonso Ferrari
6 Flag of Germany svg.png Adrian Sutil Force India-Mercedes
7 Flag of Brazil svg.png Felipe Massa Ferrari
8 Flag of Australia svg.png Daniel Ricciardo Toro Rosso-Ferrari
9 Flag of the United Kingdom svg.png Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes
10 Flag of Venezuela svg.png Pastor Maldonado Williams-Renault

Yoshi Falls[edit | edit source]

Lotus was having a bad start to their year after their other driver, Kimi Raikkonen. who finished fourth in the last race, ate too much Magic Mushrooms and went on a rampage, attacking all the Yoshis in the land and forcing Lotus to change their line-up completely. The #7 car was to be taken by Italian driver Davide Valsecchi, last year's GP2 champion.

Jerome d'Ambrosio, making a one-race appearance for Lotus, took a surprise pole position, beating Sebastian Vettel by half a second. Vettel was so annoyed at the Belgian's performance that he refused to start the race the next day.

d'Ambrosio led from his first-ever pole position, with Vettel failing to start for the second race running. Lewis Hamilton, the winner of the first race, ended up stuck behind April Anderson (making her debut, and being the first woman from the UK to successfully start a Grand Prix) and lost second place, infuriating the 2008 World Champion so much that he flipped her off. Hamilton, as a result, was slapped with a 20-second time penalty. This pushed him to the limit and he parked his car up, refusing to take any further part in the race.

d'Ambrosio and Ferrari's Fernando Alonso battled for the lead all race long. However, the star of the show was Anderson who took tenth from Toro Rosso's Jean-Eric Vergne, putting a Caterham into the points for the first time.

The race was won by d'Ambrosio, who scored the first victory for Belgium since 1990 when Thierry Boutsen won the Hungarian Grand Prix. Alonso took second while third went to Mercedes' Nico Rosberg who scored his second podium in a row. Red Bull's day went from bad to worse as neither Vettel nor Mark Webber scored points for the Milton Keynes-based team, with Webber retiring on lap 22 with an engine failure.

Caterham team boss Cyril Abiteboul gave Anderson a £1,000 prize after scoring the Malaysian team's first-ever point, only to be interrupted by a furious Hamilton, who crushed Anderson's hand as she apologised to him. This sparked a fight between Hamilton and Anderson's team-mate Giedo van der Garde, which resulted in injuries to three spectators. Hamilton and van der Garde were each given two-race bans.

Three drivers, Max Chilton of Marussia, Esteban Gutierrez of Sauber and Felipe Massa of Ferrari, retired after crashing their cars into the lake. The fastest lap (0:56.942) was set by d'Ambrosio completing a hat-trick for the Belgian driver.

Results[edit | edit source]
Pos. Driver Constructor
1 Flag of Belgium svg.png Jerome d'Ambrosio Lotus-Renault
2 Flag of Spain svg.png Fernando Alonso Ferrari
3 Flag of Germany svg.png Nico Rosberg Mercedes
4 Flag of Germany svg.png Nico Hulkenberg Sauber-Ferrari
5 Flag of the United Kingdom svg.png Paul di Resta Force India-Mercedes
6 Flag of Mexico svg.png Sergio Perez McLaren-Mercedes
7 Flag of Italy svg.png Davide Valsecchi Lotus-Renault
8 Flag of Australia svg.png Daniel Ricciardo Toro Rosso-Ferrari
9 Flag of Germany svg.png Adrian Sutil Force India-Mercedes
10 Flag of the United Kingdom svg.png April Anderson Caterham-Renault

Cheep Cheep Beach[edit | edit source]

Romain Grosjean was back in the #8 Lotus after his suspension in which his replacement Jerome d'Ambrosio won, much to Grosjean's chagrin. Grosjean's team-mate Kimi Raikkonen was also well enough to return to the cockpit. Pole went to Sebastian Vettel, his second of the year. Lewis Hamilton and Giedo van der Garde were suspended for two races for their bust-up in the last race, their respective replacements being Anthony Davidson and Alexander Rossi.

Vettel got a better start this time, leading into the first turn. No accidents on lap one. Just then, debutant Rossi's Caterham broke down on the grid, ending his first race before it even started.

Fernando Alonso of Ferrari took the lead from Vettel and led to the point where Vettel lost his temper and smashed him off the track, regaining the lead. Vettel was handed a 2-minute time penalty, making him even more annoyed, and he deliberately stopped in the middle of the track, endangering other drivers.

Alonso recovered, however losing 4 positions and handing the lead to Grosjean in the Lotus and putting the Frenchman on track for his first-ever win. And it was to be. Grosjean got what he wanted, scoring Lotus' second win in a row as second went to Felipe Massa in the other Ferrari and third to Jenson Button, who scored McLaren's first podium of the year. Fastest lap went to Button.

Results[edit | edit source]
Pos. Driver Constructor
1 Flag of France svg.png Romain Grosjean Lotus-Renault
2 Flag of Brazil svg.png Felipe Massa Ferrari
3 Flag of the United Kingdom svg.png Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes
4 Flag of Australia svg.png Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault
5 Flag of Spain svg.png Fernando Alonso Ferrari
6 Flag of Germany svg.png Adrian Sutil Force India-Mercedes
7 Flag of the United Kingdom svg.png Anthony Davidson Mercedes
8 Flag of the United Kingdom svg.png Paul di Resta Force India-Mercedes
9 Flag of Finland.svg.png Valtteri Bottas Williams-Renault
10 Flag of France svg.png Jean-Eric Vergne Toro Rosso-Ferrari

Build-up to the final race[edit | edit source]

A lot has happened between the last two rounds of the Mushroom Cup season.

  • Kimi Raikkonen gulps another dose of Magic Mushrooms and is sent to the Helsinki Funny Farm, where he has four wild fantasies. They are;
    • Raikkonen's car flying into purgatory.
    • All of Raikkonen's team-mates through the years playing Whack-a-Kimi. Felipe Massa does exactly what it says on the tin.
    • Raikkonen turning into a dog.
    • Lewis Hamilton running off with Raikkonen's 2007 trophy as the TV commentators (including Murray Walker, Martin Brundle, James Hunt, James Allen and so on) play Operation with a hypnotised Wendy Corduroy as the patient. Walker plucks out Wendy's tooth, using the pun "Nothing but the tooth".
  • Charles Pic, who is in a wheelchair, helps Romain Grosjean, who caused his crash in the first race, wash his car, rekindling their friendship.
  • Hamilton and Giedo van der Garde are still fighting, blaming each other for their bust-up at Yoshi Falls.
  • Alexander Rossi does practice laps at Circuit of the Americas as an American hypnotist promotes his products while waving the American flag in support of Rossi.

Luigi's Mansion[edit | edit source]

The race that decided who won the Mushroom Cup saw Sebastian Vettel on pole again. Despite having scored no points at all, the German was determined to get his way for once. But it was not to be, for his Red Bull fell apart at the very start, all thanks to his rival Fernando Alonso.

Alonso's Ferrari led until lap 37, when his car fell apart as well, forcing him to retire and denying him a 100% points record. Rosberg zoomed through and led the remainder of the race to win it, along with the Mushroom Cup and his first major motorsport title! Second went to Felipe Massa in the other Ferrari (the second time in a row) while Kimi Raikkonen completed the podium in third. Rosberg was also the fastest lap setter.

Vettel, upset at having scored no points towards the Mushroom Cup, decided to quit Red Bull until he calmed down and was ready to drive again. This allowed Portugal's Antonio Felix da Costa, the Red Bull test driver, to make his Formula One debut.

Other retirees during the race included Jules Bianchi, whose Marussia caught fire, Anthony Davidson, who crashed out, and Mark Webber and Adrian Sutil, who collided with each other, in another bad race weekend for Red Bull.

Results[edit | edit source]
Pos. Driver Constructor
1 Flag of Germany svg.png Nico Rosberg Mercedes
2 Flag of Brazil svg.png Felipe Massa Ferrari
3 Flag of Finland.svg.png Kimi Raikkonen Lotus-Renault
4 Flag of the United Kingdom svg.png Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes
5 Flag of the United Kingdom svg.png Paul di Resta Force India-Mercedes
6 Flag of France svg.png Romain Grosjean Lotus-Renault
7 Flag of Australia svg.png Daniel Ricciardo Toro Rosso-Ferrari
8 Flag of Germany svg.png Nico Hulkenberg Sauber-Ferrari
9 Flag of Venezuela svg.png Pastor Maldonado Williams-Renault
10 Flag of Mexico svg.png Sergio Perez McLaren-Mercedes
Mushroom Cup standings[edit | edit source]
Pos. Driver FIG YOS CHE LUI Points
1 Flag of Germany svg.png Nico Rosberg 2 3 12 1 58
Flag of Spain svg.png Fernando Alonso 5 2 5 Ret 38
Flag of France svg.png Romain Grosjean DSQ 1 6 33
Flag of the United Kingdom svg.png Lewis Hamilton 1 Ret 25
Flag of Belgium svg.png Jerome d'Ambrosio 1 25
Flag of Germany svg.png Nico Hulkenberg 13 4 11 8 16
Flag of the United Kingdom svg.png Anthony Davidson 7 Ret 6

Young Drivers' Test[edit | edit source]

A young drivers' test was held between the Mushroom Cup and Flower Cup seasons at the GCN Baby Park Circuit. Kevin Magnussen of McLaren set the fastest time in 0:52.295.

Pos. Driver Constructor Time
1 Flag of Denmark svg.png Kevin Magnussen McLaren-Mercedes 0:52.295
2 Flag of Portugal.svg.png Antonio Felix da Costa Red Bull-Renault 0:52.463
3 Flag of the United Kingdom svg.png James Calado Force India-Mercedes 0:53.014
4 Flag of Italy svg.png Davide Rigon Ferrari 0:53.349
5 Flag of New Zealand svg.png Brendon Hartley Mercedes 0:53.886
6 Flag of the Netherlands.svg.png Robin Frijns Sauber-Ferrari 0:54.473
7 Flag of Italy svg.png Davide Valsecchi Lotus-Renault 0:55.942
8 Flag of Russia.svg.png Daniil Kvyat Toro Rosso-Ferrari 0:57.584
9 Flag of Spain svg.png Daniel Juncadella Williams-Renault 0:58.942
10 Flag of Venezuela svg.png Rodolfo Gonzalez Marussia-Cosworth 1:00.539
11 Flag of the United States svg.png Alexander Rossi Caterham-Renault No time