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Nico Rosberg joins Mercedes for 2010
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Mercedes has confirmed Nico Rosberg will drive for them in 2010.
It’s a massive opportunity for Rosberg, who joins the team which were the championship winners this year as Brawn, despite not yet having won a Grand Prix.
The news had been widely expected since Rosberg confirmed...
Michael Schumacher: the Mercedes years
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While everyone waits to see if Michael Schumacher will make a dream switch to Mercedes’ new F1 team in 2010, take a look back on the two years he spent racing for them as his F1 career was just beginning.
In 1989 Mercedes drivers Jean-Louis Schlesser, Jochen Mass, Mauro Baldi...
F1 2009: Memorable moments (Part 1)
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Starting today we review the highlights of 2009 as nominated by you. We begin with your low points of the season and tomorrow we’ll take a look at the best bits of 2009.
F1 2009: The worst moments
Massa’s accident, the way his head tilted still gives me shivers
LAK
Pretty...
Jose Maria Lopez: out of single-seaters for three years but set for USF1 drive
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Anyone who saw Lewis Hamilton win the 2006 GP2 championship may remember Jose Maria Lopez, who finished tenth in the championship that year.
Despite not having raced single-seater cars since then, Lopez is now a front runner for a drive at the new USF1 team, whose headquarters he visited...
Silverstone gets new Grand Prix deadline
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Silverstone has been given a new deadline of December 11th to get a deal in place to hold the British Grand Prix.
Bernie Ecclestone had previously given the circuit until November 7th to sign a contract but, not for the first time in his negotiations over the 2010 British Grand Prix...
F1 links: Mercedes-Schumacher speculation
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Early in Michael Schumacher’s F1 career there were many rumours he was about to join a Mercedes-powered team, as he was part of their young driver scheme in sports car racing.
Could he finally be about to make the connection, three years after his last F1 race? It seems to be...
Button and Hamilton join McLaren’s roster of world champion driver pairings
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It’s been said the driver policy at McLaren is simple: find the two best drivers available and hire them.
Once again they have hired a pair of champion drivers, something which is not that common in F1. The surprise 2010 pairing of Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button is the latest...
Prost to race Duster on ice
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The Dacia range of cars isn’t sold here in Britain and the brand is probably best known for Top Gear’s running joke about James May’s fixation with its Sandero model.
But Renault is to give its economy brand a boost by entering it in the annual Trophee Andros ice...
Will you miss Kimi Raikkonen? (Poll)
4 days ago by
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Kimi Raikkonen has scotched rumours that he could join Mercedes and now looks set to spend at least one year out of the F1 cockpit.
Reading comments here and on other sites I’ve been surprised by the outpourings of dismay over Raikkonen’s departure from F1 and sympathy...
“F1 2009″ by Codemasters (Wii)
4 days ago by
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Codemasters picked two formats for their new official Formula 1 game “F1 2009″.
Yesterday we looked at the handheld Sony PSP version – but what’s the game like played in full screen on a Nintendo Wii? Read on to find out.
It’s not hard to see why the...
McLaren confirm Jenson Button will join Lewis Hamilton for 2010
5 days ago by
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After days of intense speculation Jenson Button has finally been confirmed as a McLaren driver for 2010.
He will team up with Lewis Hamilton in a move that will see McLaren retain the number one on their car.
Ross Brawn earlier told The Independent he was “amazed” about...
“F1 2009″ by Codemasters (Sony PSP)
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After a three-year wait, F1 fans finally have an official Formula 1 game.
New licence-holders Codemasters have produced a game based on the 2009 season for the Sony PSP and Nintendo Wii, while a 2010 game is under development for the more sophisticated PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 platforms...
Kimi Raikkonen to take sabbatical in 2010 as McLaren talks end (Updated)
6 days ago by
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Kimi Raikkonen will not drive for McLaren in 2010.
One of them is Raikkonen’s manager Steve Robertson, who told Finnish newspaper Turun Sanomat negotiations between the two parties had ended. An undisclosed source confirmed the story.
There are still many places available for...
Mercedes or McLaren? Button’s decision
6 days ago by
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Depending on who you believe, Jenson Button may already have signed for McLaren.
But many people thought the same about Kimi Raikkonen a few weeks ago. And it’s hard to believe Button would voluntarily leave the team that made him champion after sticking by them for so long....
Timo Glock happy with move to Manor Grand Prix for 2010
6 days ago by
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The 2010 F1 driver line-up took another step closer to completion today – but not with the widely predicted move by Jenson Button to McLaren.
It was another of the new F1 outfits, Manor Grand Prix, who announced ex-Toyota racer Timo Glock had joined them for 2010.
Glock told...
Toyota in F1 2001-2009 in pictures
6 days ago by
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Toyota: they arrived, they spent staggering amounts of money without winning anything, and then they gave up.
It’s not the kind of inspiring story that’s likely to get made into a film any time soon. But it wasn’t without its high points and interesting moments. Have...
Mercedes Grand Prix take over Brawn for 2010 – but what about Jenson Button?
7 days ago by
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Mercedes has announced it is taking over Brawn GP and rebranding it Mercedes Grand Prix for 2010.
But it remains to be seen whether they will keep world champion Jenson Button in the team.
They are expected to bring in Nico Rosberg and may partner him with a second German driver &...
F1 2009: Year in stats (Part 2)
7 days ago by
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The final part of our look at the 2009 F1 season in numbers will shed some more light on which were the best-performing drivers, and looks at how 2009 compared to other F1 seasons.
Plus there’s a recap of all the major records broken in 2009 – from the youngest ever F1...
Alonso gets Ferrari stuck in gravel trap in first appearance for team (Pictures)
8 days ago by
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The first public appearance at Ferrari for Fernando Alonso didn’t go entirely according to plan.
While driving future team mate Felipe Massa and Ferrari chairman Luca di Montezemolo around the Valencia circuit in a Ferrari California, the Spanish champion got the car stuck in...
Indian F1 track design revealed
8 days ago by
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India is set to host its first F1 Grand Prix in 2011 – and here’s the first glimpse of the track where the race will take place.
The circuit in the Jaypee Greens Sports City bears the usual hallmarks of a Hermann Tilke-designed track. But from this first impression it seems to...
F1 2009: The year in stats (Part 1)
8 days ago by
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Next week’s installment of the F1 Fanatic post-season review will include the driver rankings, which I’m writing at the moment (and keeping a close eye on your suggestions in the forum).
To help me work out who’s done the best job this year I’ve compiled some...
Why the government must protect live F1 broadcasts on free-to-air television
9 days ago by
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F1’s return to the BBC in 2009 was a success story to rival that of Brawn GP. Formula 1 coveage in Britain has at long last emerged from the dark days of ad-ridden and suffocatingly populist ITV.
What a shame, then, that the British government is about to pass up on its first...
BMW: Ten years in F1 in 100 pictures
10 days ago by
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BMW entered F1 at the beginning of this decade and left at the end of it.
But as well as being an engine supplier to Williams for six years, then winning a race after taking over a team of their own, BMW also recognised the importance of doing something a bit special.
They put Alessandro...
F1 2009: Which races did you go to?
10 days ago by
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Yesterday we looked back on another F1 season packed with live blogging fun.
But the one thing better than seeing F1 on TV is being there are the track. Tell us about the races you went to this year.
This year I went to the British Grand Prix having skipped it last year. My personal record [...]
F1 links: Briatore demands £900K from FIA
11 days ago by
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Flavio Briatore to demand €1m payout from FIA (The Guardian)
"Documents seen by the Guardian reveal that Briatore is asking for a total annulment of the FIA's instruction to its members – race organisers, teams or drivers – not to have any dealings with him...
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