Archive for November, 2009

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The FIA have today published the 2010 F1 entry list on their official website. A few interesting points of note from this entry list are as follows: Although Brawn GP are listed , it also says; This team has indicated its intention to change its team name to Mercedes Grand Prix prior to the start [...]

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McLaren have today announced that 22 year old Brit Oliver Turvey will test for the team at the young drivers test in Jerez, which starts tomorrow and runs to December 3rd. Turvey is currently driving in the GP2 Asia series for the iSport International team. Turvey gets to drive the 2009 McLaren as a prize [...]

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McLaren boss Martin Whitmarsh has given the green light for Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button to fight it out for the F1 crown next season, believing the freedom to race will yield the greatest results for the team. He as added that the team will back both drivers equally, and that it will be their [...]

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The Canadian Grand Prix will be back on the F1 calendar on 2010 after a 1 year absence through a $15 million annual investment over the next five years. This investment is paid by the Government of Canada, Tourisme Montréal, the Government of Québec and Montréal. The Honourable Christian Paradis, Minister of Public Works and [...]

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Former team owner Peter Sauber will have a team back in F1 in 2010, provided that they are allocated grid places after he bought the outgoing BMW team. Sauber were previously an F1 team from 1993-2005 before they were purchased by BMW. They competed 206 times and scored 6 podiums, despite never taking a race [...]

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Force India have today announced their drivers for next season – the two who finished the season with the team; Adrian Sutil and Vitantonio Liuzzi. The team will announce the third driver following the Young Driver’s Test at Jerez in early December. Force India’s team boss Vijay Mallya said; “We are very pleased to retain [...]

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Jaime Alguersuari says he has signed a deal to keep him at Toro Rosso for next season. Alguersuari said;  “We signed a deal a few months ago.” On the subject of next year’s hopes, he said; “It would be seriously brilliant to be capable of points or podiums, seriously fantastic. But in all honesty is [...]

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The new Mercedes team have today announced their two drivers for the Young Drivers Test at Jerez, Spain which will take place later this month – Mike Conway and Marcus Ericsson. Mike Conway, the 26 year old from Kent, England has previously won the Formula Renault and British F3 titles. This year he has competed [...]

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A new season of Formula 1 beckons, and already – only a few weeks since the season ended – so much has changed. Of course, you can follow all the latest developments here, but as the pieces of the driver puzzle have still yet to fall into their final resting place, let’s talk about something [...]

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Codemasters have just released F1 2009 on the PSP and Wii – the first fully licenced F1 game since F1 Championship Edition/F1 2006, and I have managed to get a copy of the Wii version, and have reviewed it for anf1blog.com. To start with you can drive all of the 10 teams and 20 drivers [...]

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