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Bruno Senna lies second in the GP2 standings and has been linked to a 2009 F1 drive
Bruno Senna is one of the names being linked with the vacant seat at Toro Rosso next year as current driver Sebastian Vettel moves up to the Red Bull team.
Relatives of past champions reaching F1 themselves is nothing new - from Nelson Piquet Jnr today, to Damon Hill in the 1990s and even earlier. But, as ...
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I did a review of the latest Lewis Hamilton DVD earlier this week and although it’s not bad the lack of racing footage on it is a disappointment.
But if you like the sound of a video with more of a historical angle, which packs in four decades of F1 racing action, I’ve got a great pick for you. And with a bit of luck you can pick it up for pennies…
I first started ...
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Giancarlo Fisichella was only 2.78s slower than Kimi Raikkonen at Silverstone
The past two seasons have seen the gap between the fastest and slowest cars shrink. A fairly basic assessment of the data suggests the F1 field is more closely matched now than it has been at any point in the last ten years.
How has this happened?
To find out how the gap between the fastest and slowest teams ...
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Fernando Alonso in his Renault R28 at Silverstone
For years F1 fans asked this question: “Who will finally beat Michael Schumacher?” Finally the answer came: Fernando Alonso.
The 2006 season was unquestionably the high point of Fernando Alonso’s career. With a car that, on balance, no more than matched Schumacher’s Ferrari over the year, he beat the seven-times ...
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Max Mosley has won £60,000 compensation in his case against the News of the World for invasion of privacy.
However the FIA President failed in his bid to extract exemplary punitive damages from the newspaper.
Mr Justice Eady said:
I found that there was no evidence that the gathering on March 28 2008 was intended to be an enactment of Nazi behaviour or adoption of any of its attitudes. ...
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Max Mosley
Is Lewis Hamilton the title favourite after his Hockenheim win?
Sunday was one of those rare occasions when it was almost impossible to find fault with motorsport.
F1 produced its best dry weather race for some time (even if the safety car helped) and the US Moto GP was the best the series has produced for some years.
Throughout the Hockenheim weekend the McLaren/Hamilton combination ...
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Kimi Räikkönen
Will the 2009 British Grand Prix be the last at Silverstone?
The moving of the British Grand Prix from Silverstone to Donington Park in 2010 was discussed in Parliament yesterday . Mark Lancaster, MP for North East Milton Keynes, had this to say:
Although I realise that this is not a matter directly for the Government, the Minister concerned has recently had meetings with Bernie ...
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Here’s an exclusive competition for F1 Fanatic readers to win one of five “Life behind Lewis” DVDs in an exclusive competition.
Simply email your answer to the question below to be in with a chance of winning. You can read a review of “Life behind Lewis” here .
To win one of five “Life behind Lewis” DVDs send your answer to this ultra-tough ...
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Pat Symonds, executive director of engineering at Renault, was at the British Motor Show yesterday and I managed to get a brief five minute one-to-one chat with him.
He shared his thoughts on Fernando Alonso’s return to the team, Nelson Piquet Jnr’s drive to a surprise second at Hockenheim last weekend, and the team’s technical developments for the rest of the season and ...
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The fire brigade were called to the Red Bull factory after a problem with a KERS
The new-for-2009 Kinetic Energy Recovery Systems (KERS) are starting to make their first appearances on F1 test machinery. However two teams have run into early problems with the devices.
First Red Bull suffered a fire at their factory while working on the systems. And today a BMW mechanic got an electric ...
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Grand Prix Legends' editorial hit out at the poor marketing of Formula 1
Anyone who’s shopped for F1 clothing, a model Formula 1 car or some other kind of memorabilia will likely have heard of Grand Prix Legends. Their adverts have been running on this site for some time.
Their new catalogue dropped through my letter box today and I was surprised to see they’d given over ...
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Nigel Mansell winning at Hockenheim 16 years ago
A round up of highlights from F1 blogs and other sites including: Is Nigel Mansell about to make another comeback to international motor sport? How would the 1994 season have ended if Ayrton Senna hadn’t been killed?
And why is Ralf Schumacher struggling so badly in the DTM?
The encounter down under: An alternative version of the ...
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The tidal wave of books and DVDs on Lewis Hamilton that burst forth last year has eased to a trickle. Now one of the better efforts at a documentary about Britain’s most unavoidable F1 star has made it onto DVD.
But although Hamilton’s name and face are plastered across the front of the package, the video is actually more about Anthony Davidson, who made his full-time debut ...
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The McLarem-Mercedes MP4/23 has become the car to beat
McLaren have made a clear step forward in performance in the last two races and Ferrari have struggled to compete.
What has made McLaren so competitive all of a sudden? Like every other team they constantly develop their car through the season but three particular changes seem to have made a significant different: a new front wing, ...
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Lewis Hamilton was one-third of the youngest podium trio ever
The 2008 German Grand Prix saw the youngest ever podium. Plus Kimi Raikkonen failed to match the record for most consecutive fastest lap, while Nick Heidfeld goes after the record of most consecutive finishes.
More stats and facts from the German Grand Prix below.
Lewis Hamilton scored his eighth career victory giving him ...
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Kimi Räikkönen
Fernando Alonso, Renault, Hockenheimring, 2008
Here’s a look back at the German Grand Prix weekend with a gallery of 33 high-resolution photographs of all the teams.
Click once to preview, click again for the hi-res version.
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Kimi Räikkönen
Lewis Hamilton was dominating the German Grand Prix until a safety car appearance threw his race into disarray.
His McLaren team made a clear mistake by failing to bring him into the pits - leaving him to fight his way back to the front of the field the hard way.
After taking his delayed stop Hamilton hunted down and passed first Felipe Massa then surprise leader Nelson Piquet Jnr in the ...
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Kimi Räikkönen
Nelson Piquet Jnr has not had the best of seasons so far. I picked him as the worst driver of the year so far when I ranked them all after the British Grand Prix and few of you seemed to disagree.
Today he gave Renault their first podium finish of the year. But how much of it was down to luck?
The safety car period that followed Timo Glock’s crash could not have been timed more ...
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Timo Glock escaped this major crash in the German Grand Prix without serious injury:
Glock lost control of his car on lap 36 after an apparent right-rear suspension failure. It happened at the exit of the final corner, where drivers have been running wide all weekend.
The failure occured on a bend taken at around 150mph. it spun him backwards into the pitwall at significant speed.
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Lewis Hamilton takes a four-point lead in the constructors’ championship with his win in the German Grand Prix. Felipe Massa is second ahead of team mate Kimi Raikkonen.
Ferrari remain the team to beat in the constructors’ championship but McLaren have closed to within four points of second-placed BMW. And the battle for fourth place is getting even closer.
Drivers’ ...
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