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15 wins out of 16 races. 10 1 – 2 finishes. Driven by a certain Mr Senna and a Mr Prost… The McLaren MP4/4. Pretty little thing isn’t it? It didn’t just look good either, it was one of the most dominant Formula One cars ever created. Coming off the back of a poor 1987 [...]

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Red Bull continued to dominate and Daniel Ricciardo continued to impress on the second and final day of Young Driver Testing at Abu Dhabi, with the Australian setting the fastest lap of the day once more. The Red Bull protégé Ricciardo smashed the Yas Marina circuit’s previous fastest lap, setting a time nearly nearly 1.4s [...]

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Red Bull continue to dominate the world of Formula 1 as Daniel Ricciardo impressively set the fastest time of the day, a time which would have put him right up in third on last weekend’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix grid. The Aussie impressed greatly, beating drivers with decent F1 experience, including Force India test driver [...]

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Despite his sensational pole position at Brazil last week, it appears that Nico Hulkenberg will be replaced by GP2 champion Pastor Maldonado at Williams for the 2011 F1 season. The Cologne tabloid Express quoted Hulkenberg’s manager Willi Weber as saying: ”Nico is leaving Williams.” However Weber added that ‘Hulk’ should be able to secure a drive [...]

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“There is not one bit of me that feels I will ever want to drive for Red Bull,” Lewis Hamilton was quoted as saying yesterday in The Mirror newspaper. “It doesn’t have the character, the history or the appeal to me that McLaren has. “My hero Ayrton drove for this team and I have always [...]

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McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton‘s slim championship hopes are still alive after escaping a penalty which could easily have been awarded following him appearing to hold up Felipe Massa in today’s qualifying session, during his out-lap in Q2 at the spectacular Yas Marina circuit. The duo came close to contact, with Hamilton appearing not to realise that Massa [...]

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The legendary black and gold JPS livery sported by the original Team Lotus will return for the 2011 F1 season, for the first time since 1986. Lotus Racing’s CEO Riad Asmat explained the decision to bring back the classic design: “When we first unveiled our 2010 car there was unanimous praise for our decision to [...]

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The future of Virgin Racing has today been secured after they bagged a big-money deal with Russian Marussia Motors, who are now significant shareholders in the team. From 2011, the team will be known as Marussia Virgin Racing, with the sports car company increasing their role in the team after having their logo plastered all [...]

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Red Bull must have been pretty happy with how the infighting and the Helmut Marko affair was swiftly brushed under the carpet and forgotten about. That is until Mark Webber brought it all back up again in a sensational press conference yesterday. It was suggested to the Aussie that the team were emotionally behind him. [...]

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Felipe Massa could face jail if he lets teammate Fernando Alonso through on Sunday’s Brazilian Grand Prix in order to help the Spaniard win the championship, according to a Sao Paolo newspaper, Folha.com. When asked whether he would let Alonso win this year if he was in a position to, Massa told reporters: “I already [...]