Archive for November, 2009

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Accelerating through the start finish line, dab on the brakes for the gentle left into the sweeping long right hairpin Estoril, accelerating right up the straight until the tight right hairpin Adelaide, g-forces jolting your neck forward. Accelerating out of the hairpin onto another straight, with the quick left right complex Nurburgring and tight hairpin [...]

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Argentine Jose Maria Lopez has revealed on his official website that provided he can get his sponsorship agreements sorted, he will drive for new team USF1 next season. Lopez visited US F1′s Charlotte headquarters this week to conclude a conditional deal with team founders Peter Windsor and Ken Anderson. Lopez won the 2002 Formula Renault [...]

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The BBC’s F1 pundit and former team owner Eddie Jordan has tonight sensationally suggested that Michael Schumacher could be on his way back into F1, driving for Mercedes. Jordan told the BBC website: “The possibility is being actively pursued and I believe it is going to happen. “It started with a meeting between Michael, Ross [...]

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Bernie Ecclestone has given Silverstone a final ultimatum to sign the contract for the 2010 British Grand Prix. The outline of the ultimatum is that if by the time the FIA World Motor Sport Council (WMSC) next meets in Paris on 11 December to ratify the 2010 calendar, Silverstone don’t have the contract signed, Ecclestone [...]

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Brawn GP chief executive officer Nick Fry has blasted Jenson Button on his move away from the Brackley based team to McLaren for the 2010 season. Button has signed a £6mill deal to join the team next year. According to the Daily Express, the relationship between Button and Brawn ‘broke down so badly that they [...]

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Force India are obviously keeping their options for 2010 drivers open – no less than 6 drivers are in the running for the seats, including the drivers who ended last season with the team; Adrian Sutil and Vitantonio Liuzzi. Giancarlo Fisichella who went to Ferrari last season to cover for the injured Felipe Massa will [...]

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Earlier on today McLaren confirmed they had signed Jenson Button to drive alongside Lewis Hamilton in 2010 and lets be honest, it was news we were all expecting. However there has just been a shocking news story by Brazilian journalist Lito Cavalcanti, saying that Kimi Raikkonen has signed for Brawn GP who will run under [...]

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Today it has been confirmed that Jenson Button will join Lewis Hamilton in an all British, World Championship winners line-up for 2010 at McLaren – the first time two British F1 World champions have been paired together since Graham Hill and Jim Clark at Lotus back in 1968. Button said on the McLaren switch: “It’s [...]

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It seemed that Button was on the verge of signing for McLaren, but the newspaper The Times is tonight reporting that Brawn GP have offered Button what he wanted – an £8mill deal to keep him at the team which will run under the Mercedes name next season. It was expected that Mercedes had their [...]

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We had all guessed it after the Mercedes purchase of Brawn, but it has now been confirmed that Kimi Raikkonen will leave F1 and not partake in the 2010 season after negotiations with McLaren were over and unsuccessful with Jenson Button still looking like a good bet for the drive at the British team. The [...]

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