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http://www.britsonpole.com/ - Brits on Pole is a news site covering British drivers in all major forms of open-wheel motor racing worldwide. We're here to remember the legends and cheer on the Brits in F1, GP2, A1GP, IndyCar and more.
britsonpole.com - 16 hours ago
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The deafening silence surrounding the negotiations to hold
the British Grand Prix at Silverstone next year has
been broken by the circuit’s managing director Richard Phillips, who went on BBC Radio to say a deal is close to being struck. “I’m pretty convinced that it will ...
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F1: British Grand Prix deal is almost done, says ...
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britsonpole.com - 39 hours ago
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Britain’s Sam Bird worked his way through the
field to take third place in the Macau Grand
Prix, behind Signature team-mates Edoardo Mortara and Jean-Karl Vernay. The result went some way towards making up for the ART driver’s disappointment of 12 months ago when, also running ...
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F3: Mortara wins Macau on third attempt
britsonpole.com - 3 days ago
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“The company is still entirely within my control
and that is not going to change,” said Sir
Frank Williams after announcing the sale of a shareholding in his Formula One team to Austrian investment specialist and occasional race driver Toto Wolff. 'Formula One is my life,' says ...
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F1: ‘It’s still my team’ says Sir Frank as he sells a ...
britsonpole.com - 3 days ago
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Indy Lights hopeful Stefan Wilson has cashed in
his prize for winning the Autosport BRDC Young Driver
award – a Formula One test drive at Silverstone in Lewis Hamilton’s championship-winning McLaren. Stefan Wilson He managed 20 laps of the National circuit in the wet, setting ...
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Wilson tests for McLaren at wet and windy Silverstone
britsonpole.com - 3 days ago
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Remember last year, when the F1 world couldn’t
get enough of the idea of young Scots DTM
star Paul di Resta stepping up to the top-flight series? The 23-year-old Mercedes driver, a cousin of IRL champion Dario Franchitti, was widely tipped for a Force India drive after the team ...
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F1: Di Resta in Force India car for young driver test?
britsonpole.com - 3 days ago
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The new GP3 feeder series has launched its
new car at the Paul Ricard circuit in France
with none other than Red Bull F1 driver Mark Webber behind the wheel. Webber is involved in the series as a team owner after joining forces with Red Bull boss Christian Horner. He also runs the existing ...
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GP3: First car test takes place at Paul Ricard
britsonpole.com - 3 days ago
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British race fans will have the chance to
attend two race weekends on home soil with the
2010 Formula Two championship, including a season-opener at Silverstone. The nine-meeting calendar also includes a provisional date in Morocco as well as visits to Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Italy, ...
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F2: Series to call at Silverstone and Brands next year
britsonpole.com - 3 days ago
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It’s our habit to review the first episode
of Top Gear in a new season to see
how well the formula is still working – and this time around we’ve come to rather a startling conclusion. Increasingly, it’s all about James May. Why on earth would we think this? Surely ...
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Top Gear: Why James May is becoming the ultimate geek ...
britsonpole.com - 5 days ago
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It’s barely been two weeks since the F1
season drew to a close with a mostly unexciting
race in the opulence of Abu Dhabi that gave little indication of the thrilling eight months that preceded it. Last weekend we fans suffered our first real withdrawal symptoms as we coped with our second ...
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Opinion: A Silver Arrow through Brawn’s heart?
britsonpole.com - 5 days ago
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Wanted: people of vision to keep the dream
of Formula One at Donington Park alive and bring
a race to the ailing circuit in 2011. That’s the appeal made today by Nigel Price, one of the partners at corporate recovery specialists Begbies Traynor which has been appointed to handle the ...
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F1: Donington throws its hat back into the Formula One ring
britsonpole.com - 5 days ago
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What motivates a football club to diversify into
backing a race team? Superleague Formula put this question
to Ian Ayre, the commercial director of Liverpool FC, in the wake of its affiliated team winning the 2009 championship with driver Adrian Valles. Adrian Valles and the Liverpool ...
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Superleague: a shift in the thinking of British sports ...
britsonpole.com - 5 days ago
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It’s official at last – McLaren has confirmed
that Jenson Button will be leaving the team with
which he won the 2010 drivers championship to drive alongside fellow Brit Lewis Hamilton next year. And the Woking outfit describes its new driver line-up, which now consists of the ...
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F1: Button to join Hamilton at McLaren for 2010 season
britsonpole.com - 7 days ago
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Will Jenson Button be in the running for
this year’s BBC Sports Personality of the Year? Will
the Formula One World Champion fight off the likes of heavyweight boxing champion David Haye, Ashes-winning cricket captain Andrew Strauss or Olympic gymnast Beth Tweddle? Well, here’s ...
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Your last chance to grab a SPOTY ticket
britsonpole.com - 7 days ago
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One perfect year – and then it was
all over. The news today of German motoring giant
Mercedes shifting its weight from McLaren to Brawn GP means that this season’s double champions will become the ultimate motorsport one-hit wonder. Brawn GP: one glorious season is all we get ...
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Sadness for fans as Brawn’s perfect year ends in ...
britsonpole.com - 10 days ago
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Nick Ledger, a keen photographer and mate of
Superleague’s Tottenham Hotspur driver Craig Dolby, was in Spain
for the final Superleague meeting as part of a large contingent of Dolbyistas. He’s written us this great trackside report of the events at Jarama where Dolby pursued his ...
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Superleague: Jarama – so near yet so far for Craig Dolby
britsonpole.com - 10 days ago
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Three days of GP2 testing at the Circuit
Paul Ricard saw James Jakes twice top the timesheets
and every session feature at least one British driver among the top three fastest performers. Jakes, who scored a podium in GP2 Asia last year for Super Nova but did not transfer into the main ...
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GP2: Bumper crop of Brits shine in Ricard testing
britsonpole.com - 13 days ago
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Carlin Motorsport, one of Britain’s most succcessful F3
squads, has been restructured following major investment by Capsicum
Motorsport – a company established by the father of racers Tom and Max Chilton. According to a press statement from the team, it will know be known simply ...
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Carlin restructures after Chilton investment
britsonpole.com - 13 days ago
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Jonathan Kennard is hoping for a second season
in football-themed racing series Superleague Formula in 2010, after
representing Italian and Brazilian clubs this year – and says he would like to drive for an English team. The 24-year-old from Tunbridge Wells, who races with the Cross ...
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Superleague: Kennard hopes for English club in 2010
britsonpole.com - 13 days ago
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The Rockingham Motor Speedway in Northamptonshire offered racing
fans their final fix of the 2009 season on
Saturday by hosting the final event in the BARC Winter Series. The day was dominated by Tom Blomqvist, the 15-year-old son of former World Rally Champion Stig Blomqvist. The young ...
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BARC Winter Series: Blomqvist Jr makes his mark at ...
britsonpole.com - 14 days ago
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Rob Tarlton, a 21-year-old aerospace engineering student from
the University of Illinois, USA, flew over to Britain
last week with his twin brother Tom. Both were finalists in the Phillips Driving Academy competition to drive a Williams F1 car, and Rob progressed through a day at Palmer ...
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Q&A with Rob Tarlton
