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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.
After what seems like ages of speculation, Giancarlo Fisichella has been confirmed for a Ferrari drive from Monza next weekend.
Yeah, OK, Luca Badoer was ‘hapless’ in Valencia, but all his performance did for me was to highlight just how amazing F1 drivers are – all of them.
As much as it was a brilliant day for Euro GP winner Rubens Barrichello, it was an awful afternoon for his teammate Jenson Button.
Lewis Hamilton took a convincing pole at the European GP in Valencia today, confirming that his McLaren is now genuinely fast and that his first win of the year in Hungary wasn’t simply a fluke.
Renault’s Fernando Alonso posted the quickest time of the day during practice for the Euro GP in Valencia, despite having a spin and driving into BMW’s Nick Heidfeld during the session.
Jenson Button will be hoping to regain his charge on the title race, that he had earlier in the season, this weekend at the Valencia sort-of street circuit.
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Williams, Ferrari, Lotus; we have to admit we can be a little old-school here at Sunday Afternoon Club so that’s a result that made us smile.
Our apologies for not getting back to you sooner. Obviously we had wanted to wait for the jury to return first. And when they did and gave us the verdict we needed to have a little sit down, count to ten. Then we had to take a little walk outside to get some air. And [...]
The road leading to the entrance of Ferrari’s Fiorano test track is called Viale Gilles Villeneuve. There’s a small statue at the top of it, honouring the man most tifosi regard as the greatest of all Ferrari’s fallen heroes.
There’s something about a racing car in the sunshine and, for those with nothing better to do and a Sky subscription, there’s been plenty of that on the airwaves today. F1 cars are back in Europe in all their bonkers, curvy, pointy, aero beauty. And, for once, it seems the teams are finding it as [...]
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