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World champion Jenson Button may not have a home race next year
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 ...
F1
Silverstone
British Grand Prix
Bernie Ecclestone
Donington
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 more ...
F1
Jenson Button
Ross Brawn
How well will Button and Hamilton get on next year?
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 ...
F1
McLaren
Lewis Hamilton
Jenson Button
Fernando Alonso
Kimi Räikkönen
Vodafone
Dacia Duster 4x4, Trophee Andros, 2009
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 ...
F1
Alain Prost
Renault
Raikkonen's absence means someone else will have to win the next Belgian GP
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 ...
F1
Kimi Räikkönen
McLaren
Ferrari
Scuderia Ferrari
Jenson Button
Vodafone
F1 2009 for Nintendo Wii ahas an up-to-date roster of teams and tracks
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 ...
F1
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
McLaren
Ross Brawn
Jenson Button
Lewis Hamilton
Nico Rosberg
Vodafone
The Sony PSP and Nintendo Wii are the first consoles to get the new F1 game
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 ...
F1
Kimi Raikkonen is running out of options for 2010
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. ...
F1
McLaren
Kimi Räikkönen
Vodafone
Either Mercedes or McLaren will have the coveted number one next year
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 ...
F1
McLaren
Jenson Button
Ross Brawn
Lewis Hamilton
Nico Rosberg
Vodafone
Timo Glock will drive for new F1 team Manor in 2010
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 ...
F1
Timo Glock
Toyota
The Toyota F1 story is at an end
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 ...
F1
Toyota F1
Toyota
Panasonic
Under new management: Mercedes will take over Brawn
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 ...
F1
Ross Brawn
McLaren
Jenson Button
Nico Rosberg
Lewis Hamilton
Vodafone
In a year of remarkable reliability Heidfeld set a new record for finishing races
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 ...
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Massa entertained the crowd with some doughnuts
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, ...
F1
Ferrari
Felipe Massa
Fernando Alonso
Scuderia Ferrari
2011 Indian F1 track design
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 ...
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Sebastian Vettel was the best qualifier of 2009
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 ...
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It's essential for F1's continued popularity that it remains on free TV
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, ...
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Ralf Schumacher's Williams-BMW gets airborne in 2002
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 ...
F1
Robert Kubica
BMW Sauber
One of my pictures from the British Grand Prix
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 ...
