Car Industry's 2010 Face Off... ... If 2009 was the year of thundering bankruptcies and an almost total collapse of the American car industry - while the Japanese more or less flourished - 2010 seems to be the exact opposite. General Motors, Ford and even Chrysler – who were technically dead as ... Continue reading >
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The fact that Bernie Ecclestone is strongly supporting the candidature of Stefan Grand Prix for a place on the 2010 Formula One entry list is no news to anyone. He admitted to this plenty of times before, and continues to do it throughout every media intervention ...
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While other teams are preparing for their car launches prior to the second test of the off-season, at Jerez de la Frontera, Ferrari confirmed their testing schedule for the aforementioned meeting. If Felipe Massa debuted the new Ferrari F10 in Valencia last week ...
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Kamui Kobayashi turned from a full-of-perspectives GP2 Series driver into a Formula One certainty in a matter of months. While testing for Toyota last season, he was given the chance to show himself in the TF109 when replacing Timo Glock for the final two races of ...
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Although there are only 2 more seats up for grabs for the upcoming season of Formula One – one with Campos Grand Prix and the other with US Grand Prix Engineering – Austrian driver Christian Klien refuses to let go of his chances to be on the starting ...
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Campos' Deadline for Dallara Payments ExtendedF1Campos Grand Prix's deadline to come up with the money for their Dallara chassis prior to the start of the 2010 Formula One season has been further extended by the Italian manufacturer until next Wednesday. The latest deadline for the payments expired last week, but it seems the Spanish team was given one more chance to pay up their 4M euro debt to Dallara before losing the rights for the car. As we've reported last week, citing several media connected to the Campos-Dallara situation, the Italian manufacturer has already built a Formula One chassis for the Spanish outfit, but is yet to receive the money for it. Although it was initially believed that the Italians' patience had already run out and Dallara has sold the car's rights to Serbian team Stefan GP, it now seems that ending ... >> Read more |
Although Nick Heidfeld was signed as test and reserve driver for Mercedes GP this season, the German will not see too much of this year's car prior to the season opening Bahrain Grand Prix. The former BMW racer will not get to test the new W01 for one day this ...
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Ferrari have undoubtedly become the hit of the day in Formula One, as the Italian team dominated the Valencia test meeting from one point to another earlier this week. Both Felipe Massa and Fernando Alonso posted fastest lap times throughout the days they took the ...
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It has recently surfaced in the media that Red Bull Racing veteran driver Mark Webber will have the honor to drive first the newly-developed RB6 single-seater during the upcoming test meeting in Jerez. Although the team did not issue any statements on the matter, a ...
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Following the recent reports that Force India Mercedes might face dissolution as a result of failing to register its accounts with Companies House for 2008, the team's co-owner Vijay Mallys played down such a prospect and ensured the media that everything is under ...
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Despite the few critics received by Bridgestone from some drivers during the 2009 Formula One championship – regarding the one-compound gap between tire allocations throughout last year's campaign – the Japanese tire manufacturer announced it has no ...
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The famous British betting house of Skybet today released the latest odds for the upcoming 2010 season of the Formula One Championship. Quite logical, the odds suffered some dramatic changes following the first test of the winter in Valencia, during which Ferrari's ...
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The teams that preferred to skip the maiden test meeting of the winter in Valencia – at the Ricardo Tormo Circuit – in order to further develop their 2010 single-seaters are now looking at the prospect of having even less than 12 days to prepare their ...
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For former F1 team owner and boss Eddie Jordan, the upcoming season of Formula One doesn't hold too many secrets, at least as far as the title fight goes. According to the eccentric British figure, Lewis Hamilton has the best chances of bagging the 2010 F1 title ...
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Force India has now become the third team from the current FIA entry list for the 2010 Formula One Championship that might not make the grid of the season opening Bahrain Grand Prix in mid-March. And it's not because they don't have the money to sustain their F1 ...
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While Campos Grand Prix is constantly playing down the rumors about them losing the Dallara license for the 2010 car, Stefan GP is moving fast in their plans to secure a decent, competitive team for this season's Formula One Championship.
Long story short, the ...
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Felipe Massa admitted, for the first time in years, that leaving Ferrari might actually happen in the future. Entering his 5th consecutive year as a Ferrari-an driver, the Brazilian is well aware of the fact that his deal with the Italian company runs out at the end of ...
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As most of you already know by now, one pit stop is mandatory in Formula One. That's the way it's always been and, since refueling was permitted back into the series during the early '90s, 2-pit stop strategies have dominated the championship.
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Virgin Racing yesterday unveiled their first ever Formula One single-seater, designed and prepared for the team's maiden campaign in the Great Circus. While becoming the first team from the newly-entrants to reveal their 2010 car to the public, it was also ...
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Bernie Ecclestone's criticism of Formula One's newly-entrants US F1 and Campos Grand Prix was taken to a whole new level on Wednesday, as the F1 supremo made it very clear that he does not believe in those two teams making the starting grid of the season opening ...
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After weeks of negotiations between Formula One driver Nick Heidfeld and German-British team Mercedes GP, it has finally been confirmed that the veteran racer will complete the team's driver lineup as test/reserve driver for the 2010 season.
The rumors about ...
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