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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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AT&T Williams enjoyed their first double points-paying race of the season today in front of a home crowd at the British Grand Prix. Rubens Barrichello’s competitive form continued at Silverstone, where he took two places off the line to move into sixth place before gaining a further position in the second half of the race. [...]

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Rubens Barrichello is ‘satisfied’ after taking 8th place in qualifying for Williams at Silverstone today, though the Brazilian says the team still have to improve and will be looking to make up a couple of places in the race tomorrow. “Top eight in qualifying is a good effort by the team,” said the veteran Brazilian. [...]

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Rubens Barrichello (10th, 10th) “I was very surprised by Silverstone today. I really love this circuit, it is one of my favourites, but it’s really, really bumpy. It’s quite odd and I’m sorry to say this because I’m usually such a fan. We weren’t anticipating such a bumpy track, so we had to make a [...]

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Williams will be bringing considerable updates to the British Grand Prix, in the hope it will boost their performance in what has been a disappointing first half to the 2010 season. Technical director Sam Michael explained the changes, but added that they will not definitely be used on Saturday and Sunday: “The FW32 will have [...]

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McLaren Lewis Hamilton “The first session looked quite good for us. But it was always going to be interesting to see how quickly the blown-diffuser cars could get up to speed – and they looked very competitive this afternoon, particularly over a single lap. And the grip they appear to have through the high-speed stuff [...]

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Hello there! Scott Wilkes here, with my first foray into blogging, and I must say thanks to Mr Jack Sargeant for letting me loose on his fantastic blog. So, to make a splash on AnF1Blog.com, I thought I would delve into the annulls of Formula One history, to bring you some of the most iconic [...]

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Rubens Barrichello and Patrick Head have defended the Brazilian’s decision to throw the William’s steering wheel out of the car after crashing during the Monaco Grand Prix. The $50,000 wheel was subsequently ran over by Karun Chandhok, who was not happy with Barrichello, saying: “What was he doing? Charlie Whiting actually asked me about it. [...]