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OK, this has eff-all to do with this blog’s core topics of British drivers in open-wheel racing cars. But it’s a subject of considerable interest to the Brits on Pole management, so you’ll just have to put up with that - or skim past.
Top Gear’s Jamie Hibbard has just published his review of the new-shape Impreza WRX STI. And this is required reading for anyone still ...
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Mark Webber broadened the smiles on the faces of Red Bull strategists after topping the timesheets on the third day of Jerez testing - securing a Spanish lock-out for the Red Bull Racing and Toro Rosso teams.
For the first two days it was Sebastian Vettel who beat the McLaren and Ferrari testers into submission putting in a time that rose high enough to break the 1 minute 19 barrier on the ...
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Fancy a lap of the Hockenheim circuit with Mike Conway, GP2’s sole British racer, at the wheel acting as an official taxi-driver?
That’s exactly what some lucky fans and journalists got, according to the series’ blog, which has just been updated following the latest round in the championship.
Writer David Cameron takes up the story:
Giorgio Pantano and Javier Villa ...
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Michelin is the tyre manufacturer chosen to supply A1GP during the forthcoming season, according to the series organisers.
The French company, which recently withdrew from Formula One after that competition was restricted to a single supplier, is set to continue its relationship with A1GP through a further three-year deal.
It will thus be providing tyres for a car famous for its ...
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We bring you, without further comment, this from former Mirror editor and media pundit Piers Morgan:
“I am obviously very pleased that celebrities can now get spanked by hookers in German uniforms without fear of the tabloids exposing them, and am just off to my local dungeon.”
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Max Mosley
As few British Formula One fans will need reminding, Bernie Ecclestone announced on the eve of the British Grand Prix that he had signed a deal with Donington Park to host the race from 2010.
This move, requiring as it does a massive investment to secure infrastructure and access improvements at the East Midlands track, has caused considerable unease among everyone keen to see Formula ...
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Logging into our McLaren Grand Prix League 2008 team account has been a bit less of a chore recently since our season took a welcome turn for the better round about the British Grand Prix.
Much like Lewis Hamilton’s, really.
And the positive trend has continued in Germany. From a low point at Monaco, where we scored just 312 points after a run of low-scoring races, we are now ...
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FIA chief Max Mosley has won his court action against the News of the World following the newspaper’s revelation that he took part in sadomasochistic orgies with prostitutes.
Mosley admitted in court that he had deceived his wife for decades by regularly paying to take part in S&M sessions - but he argued that this was purely a private matter.
The High Court accepted that the ...
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Max Mosley
Toro Rosso’s Sebastian Vettel has proved he is no one-hit wonder by topping the Jerez timesheets for the second day running.
He was the only driver to post a time under 1 minute 19 on the second day of testing - having been the sole person to leap the 1 minute 20 hurdle on Tuesday.
And, in yet another parallel with the previous day at the southern Spanish track, McLaren’s ...
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Just when you were thinking that it’s been a while a while since McLaren were handed a penalty, Martin Whitmarsh has revealed that the team were called in by the stewards following German Grand Prix qualifying.
This time its offence was apparently to use standard refuelling equipment in an insufficiently standard way. In his Hockenheim debrief, Whitmarsh says the following:
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Sebastian Vettel’s timesheet-topping performance on the first day of Jerez testing was overshadowed after a malfunctioning component on Christian Klien’s BMW injured a team mechanic.
The man was knocked to the ground by an an electric shock after test driver Klien did his initial laps in a car equipped for the first time with the new Kinetic Energy Recovery System (KERS), due to ...
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Team Penske stamped their mark on the Honda Indy 200 by scoring a 1-2 in both qualifying and the race itself - but the luckless Justin Wilson came away with nothing despite a racy afternoon in the field’s fastest car.
The race is wrecked for Wilson and Wheldon
Ryan Briscoe and Helio Castroneves tip-toed through the after-effects of a downpour that had hit the Mid-Ohio Sports Car ...
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Team Penske
Helio Castroneves
Scott Dixon
Darren Manning
Dan Wheldon
Short of time, patience or attention? Get the low-down on the German Grand Prix in less than a minute with our six-word summaries of drivers, teams and the overall race:
Overall race report
Hamilton gets McLaren off the hook
Drivers
1. Lewis Hamilton
Cool head, fast car, race saved
2. Nelson A Piquet
Congratulations on a well-deserved podium
3. Felipe Massa
Neither ...
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Lewis Hamilton fought back from a strategic blunder by his team to win a processional German Grand Prix that was transformed into a thrilling contest by a long safety car period.
The Briton lost the lead when his pit stops were pushed out of sequence with the rest of the field, but fought back to take victory in style.
“I would have much preferred a comfortable afternoon out in ...
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It’s 1pm on Sunday and we’re off to Hockenheim for what promises to be a thrilling German Grand Prix. Lewis Hamilton’s on a high following his Silverstone victory and his dominant performance in qualifying.
But Ferrari’s Felipe Massa is next to him on the front row and is tipped for a heavy fuel load which could see him grabbing the lead then powering away up the ...
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Kimi Räikkönen
Giorgio Pantano has retained his GP2 championship lead in Germany this weekend - despite being overtaken five laps from the end of the first race and failing to finish the second.
In Saturday’s feature race he was the victim of an inspired late overtake in the wet from Romain Grosjean - only to see the ART driver penalised for overtaking FMI’s Marko Asmer under a yellow flag, ...
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Behind-the-scenes and on-track photos from the practice and qualifying days at Hockenheim in the run-in to the German Grand Prix, courtesy of the PR operations of most of the teams.
Red Bull and Toro Rosso haven’t released their photos yet, and a couple of teams (which shall remain nameless) won’t let you see theirs, but here are the best of the rest.
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Lewis Hamilton won a shoot-out with Ferrari’s Felipe Massa for pole at the German Grand Prix, while their title rival Kimi Raikkonen trailed home in an underwhelming sixth place.
The Brazilian seemed to have put his Silverstone nightmare firmly behind him as he set the pace through the third session of qualifying, and in the end it came down to whether Hamilton could find a ...
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Lewis Hamilton has thrown down a challenge to his Ferrari rivals for the World Championship title after topping both of today’s practice sessions for the German Grand Prix.
In the fastest lap of the day Hamilton came within a few hundredths of a second of breaking the 1:15 barrier with a timesheet-topping 1:15.025. His nearest rival, Ferrari’s Felipe Massa, was more than ...
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Kimi Räikkönen
Honda team principal Ross Brawn has blocked speculation about his team’s activities on the driver market by confirming it will retain Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello for the 2009 season.
Rumours had begun to grow linking the Brackley-based team with a move for Renault’s double world champion Fernando Alonso, but Brawn used a Q&A session with the Formula One ...
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