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Kubica in at Renault

Posted by Jamie Hibbard at 3:15 pm on Wednesday October 7, 2009 49 Comments

Like we speculated a few weeks ago, Fernando Alonso’s move to Ferrari in 2010 has well and truly kicked off the silly season, with Robert Kubica now being confirmed to replace the Spaniard at Renault.

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Lotus back, BMW saved

Posted by Jamie Hibbard at 1:02 pm on Tuesday September 15, 2009 87 Comments

It’s been 15 years since Lotus last competed in F1, but as of 2010, they’re back. Lotus F1 will occupy the 13th spot on the grid next season, backed by a group of Malaysian entrepreneurs.

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More Brawn for Merc?

Posted by Jamie Hibbard at 12:50 pm on Tuesday September 8, 2009 31 Comments

Mercedes-Benz is set to buy a chunk of championship leaders Brawn GP, according to F1’s rumour mill. The German manufacturer already has a long-standing stake in McLaren, and supplies engines to Force India, but it’s apparently keen to tie up something more substantial with the Brackley-based team.

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Pause Button

Posted by Jamie Hibbard at 3:15 pm on Sunday August 30, 2009 93 Comments

Jenson Button will look at today and think that it could have been a lot worse. Taken out by Renault rookie Romain Grosjean on the first lap, Jenson could then only watch on from the pit wall, with his fingers crossed.

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Spa break

Posted by Jamie Hibbard at 2:50 pm on Saturday August 29, 2009 67 Comments

We expected the Brawns not to be the quickest in Spa this weekend, but we certainly didn’t expect Button to not even make it into Q3 for qualifying at the Belgian GP.

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Pray for rain

Posted by Jamie Hibbard at 5:30 pm on Friday August 28, 2009 27 Comments

It looks like it’s going to be a struggle this weekend for the Brawns – if you really can take anything from practice times – with both Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello only managing 17th and 18th respectively today.

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Belgian GP preview

Posted by Jamie Hibbard at 5:41 pm on Thursday August 27, 2009 30 Comments

This weekend sees the F1 circus roll into the legendary Spa-Francorchamps circuit in Belgium, for an anti-Monaco weekend. But what it lacks in glamour and glitz, it more than makes up for with pure, flat-out racing.

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The Brawn supremacy

Posted by Jamie Hibbard at 3:27 pm on Sunday August 23, 2009 99 Comments

As much as it was a brilliant day for Euro GP winner Rubens Barrichello, it was an awful afternoon for his teammate Jenson Button.

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