Archive for November, 2009

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One of the new teams in town for 2010, Manor Grand Prix have today announced their first driver – Timo Glock. Glock made his debut in F1 in 2004 when he got to drive 4 races for Jordan who he was test driving for. However Glock fell out of favour and didn’t get to drive in [...]

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We have been expecting the news for a while but according to The Guardian newspaper, Jenson Button has finally signed a deal to join McLaren. The Guardian says that Button has agreed terms to join McLaren on a £6m-a-year deal and could sign his formal three-year contract to partner Lewis Hamilton in an all-British, world [...]

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Mercedes Benz have today bought a 75% stake in the Brawn GP team. On the official Brawn GP website they explained the details of the transaction: Daimler AG together with Aabar Investments PJSC will take over 75.1 per cent of the Brawn GP team, with Daimler taking 45.1 per cent and Aabar 30 per cent. The [...]

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The Lotus team boss Tony Fernandes has announced through his Twitter account that the team have signed a driver for the 2010 F1 season, but he hasn’t revealed the driver’s identity. This is the first driver that Lotus have signed for their rookie season. Fernandes said their would be an official announcement soon. “One Malaysia [...]

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It has all gone on at the McLaren factory in Woking today; first we hear that Kimi Raikkonen‘s management team have been spotted at the team’s HQ and now that Jenson Button has been given a guided tour around the state-of-the-art facility. According to The Guardian newspaper, the tour was given to Button and his [...]

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It has been a rumour spreading for a while, especially after Raikkonen himself said: “If I want to drive [F1] cars, then McLaren in the only option.” But today it seems that rumour of Raikkonen rejoining the team he competed for from 2002 to 2006 may be one step closer to reality after the Finn’s management team [...]

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Italian Mirko Bortolotti will test for Toro Rosso next month. The 19-year-old, who finished fourth in this year’s Formula Two Championship, is a member of the Red Bull Junior programme and won the 2008 Italian F3 title. Mirko Bortolotti has driven a Formula 1 car before, when he impressed testing for Ferrari in 2008. Bortolotti [...]

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2009 Formula Renault 3.5 series champion Bertrand Baguette will test for Renault in Jerez next month – his first time in an F1 car. The Belgian driver will take to the wheel on December 1st. Baguette said: “This will be a great first for me. It’s all my childhood dreams come true and, at the [...]

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The Benetton car in which Michael Schumacher drove to his first F1 championship is going under the hammer on online auction site eBay. In the 1994 season Michael Schumacher won 8 races and took the world championship by 1 point from Brit Damon Hill while driving for the Benetton team. The eBay description of the [...]

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