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Max’s tier drop?

: Posted by Sam Philip; 4:47 pm on Monday May 18, 2009

The FIA will ditch the idea of a two-tier F1 championship, but aren’t prepared to budge much on the £40m budget. That’s what seems to have come out of Max ‘n’ Bernie’s Big Budget Cap Meeting.

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Tags:: budget cap,; F1 2010,; ferrari,; FIA,; gossip,; Luca di Montezemolo,; max mosley,; racing,; renault,; rule change,; two-tier

Bunking Brigade

: Posted by Jamie Hibbard; 10:28 am on Thursday May 14, 2009

How important is it that Ferrari stay in Formula 1? You’ll have seen in the papers that the Scuderia are talking a lot about leaving if the FIA’s proposed rules don’t change for 2010.

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Tags:: bernie ecclestone,; budget cap,; dietrich mateschitz,; F1 2010,; ferrari,; FIA,; gossip,; max mosley,; racing,; red bull

Three teams for 2010?

: Posted by Jamie Hibbard; 5:12 pm on Monday May 11, 2009

After Lie-gate and Diffuser-gate comes We’re-not-racing-in-a-two-tier-F1-gate, as a number of teams have started ganging up on the FIA with big dirty threats of quitting the show next season.

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Tags:: F1 2009,; racing,; World Constructors Championship,; World Drivers Champsionship

Championship standings

: Posted by Jamie Hibbard; 12:02 pm on Monday May 11, 2009

I’ve updated the World Drivers’ and Constructors’ Championship standings following the Spanish GP, so we can see where everyone’s at.

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Tags:: Brawn GP,; F1 2009,; fernando alonso,; gossip,; incidents,; Jarno Trulli,; jenson button,; mark webber,; racing,; red bull,; renault,; rubens barrichello,; sebastian vettel,; Sebastien Bourdais,; Sebastien Buemi,; Spanish GP,; str,; toyota

Spanish class

: Posted by Jamie Hibbard; 1:56 pm on Sunday May 10, 2009

Jenson Button stormed ahead to the win in Spain, leaving teammate Rubens Barrichello wondering how he threw it all away. Still, Brawn will be happy.

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Tags:: Brawn GP,; F1 2009,; jenson button,; mark webber,; racing,; red bull racing,; rubens barrichello,; sebastian vettel,; Spanish GP

A Spanish lesson

: Posted by Jamie Hibbard; 1:06 pm on Saturday May 9, 2009

Jenson Button showed everyone how it’s done at the Spanish Grand Prix, qualifying fastest for pole position at the last possible moment in Barcelona.

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Tags:: bmw,; Brawn GP,; F1 2009,; fernando alonso,; ferrari,; jenson button,; Kazuki Nakajima,; kimi raikkonen,; lewis hamilton,; mclaren,; nelson piquet,; nick heidfeld,; Nico Rosberg,; racing,; renault,; robert kubica,; Spanish GP,; williams

Spanish practice

: Posted by Jamie Hibbard; 2:59 pm on Friday May 8, 2009

Jenson Button topped first practice this morning for the Spanish Grand Prix in Barcelona, with Williams’ Nico Rosberg going fastest in the afternoon.

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Tags:: Barcelona,; F1 2009,; Frank Williams,; Kazuki Nakajima,; Nico Rosberg,; racing,; Spanish GP,; williams

Williams for the win

: Posted by Piers Ward; 2:50 pm on Friday May 8, 2009

I’ve just seen the practice times for this weekend’s Spanish GP and declared to the office – or the two people within earshot anyway – that I’d love to see Williams win another GP.

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