Author Profile: Jamie Hibbard

Jamie Hibbard is the news editor of TopGear.com and is, well, a massive Formula 1 geek. As evidenced by his blog posts...

The year in pictures

Posted by Jamie Hibbard at 12:20 pm on Tuesday November 10, 2009 23 Comments

This is just a quick note to say that BBC Sport has put together a brilliant F1 season review entitled The Year in Pictures, which takes a look back over the highs and lows of 2009.

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Ballsy Brawn

Posted by Jamie Hibbard at 2:48 pm on Monday November 9, 2009 50 Comments

BBC Sport’s Ted Kravitz always comes up with some great insider type blogs, and his latest episode post-Abu Dhabi is more of the same.

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Toyota pulls out

Posted by Jamie Hibbard at 12:00 pm on Wednesday November 4, 2009 96 Comments

Toyota has this morning announced that it is pulling out of F1 with immediate effect.
It cites the global economic downturn as the reason for the withdrawal, after posting the company’s first ever operating loss back in March.

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Rubens to Williams

Posted by Jamie Hibbard at 3:35 pm on Monday November 2, 2009 39 Comments

News reaches us this morning that’s about as surprising as the clocks going back, that we didn’t have a proper UK summer and that Fernando Alonso is driving for Ferrari next year: Rubens Barrichello and Nico Hulkenberg are in at Williams.

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Abu Dhabi do

Posted by Jamie Hibbard at 4:25 pm on Sunday November 1, 2009 79 Comments

The first ever Abu Dhabi GP didn’t really live up to all of the off-track bluster once the race actually got going, until about two laps to go when Jenson Button got close enough to second place man Mark Webber for a bit of an on-the-edge ding-dong.

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Lewis poles in

Posted by Jamie Hibbard at 4:02 pm on Saturday October 31, 2009 26 Comments

Well it wasn’t the all-British front row that we’d hope for, but McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton stuck his car on pole position for the inaugural Abu Dhabi GP, the last race of the year.

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Hamilton vs Button

Posted by Jamie Hibbard at 1:04 pm on Friday October 30, 2009 36 Comments

Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton traded places at the front during the first practice session at the inaugural Abu Dhabi GP this morning, and it was good.

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Nico’s off

Posted by Jamie Hibbard at 1:06 pm on Thursday October 29, 2009 35 Comments

Ahead of this weekend’s Abu Dhabi GP, Nico Rosberg has announced that it will be his last race with Williams.

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