Archive for February, 2010

Formula One Testing Wraps Up

McLaren, Red Bull, Ferrari and Mercedes GP confirmed their positions as front-runners for Formula One’s championship.
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Heikki Kovalainen interview: Lotus better than expected

Heikki Kovalainen admits that the new Lotus team is exceeding all expectations following its first winter testing. Now the only Finn in the field, the 28-year-old hopes to iron out niggling hydraulics-related issues before the start of the season in two weeks’ time, as he explained to GPUpdate.net’s Gregory Haines in Spain on Sunday.
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Barcelona Sunday – back to Bonn

Well, it’s over, and many moments too soon for my taste.
As Vic’s already told you all – while my airline battled high winds as ineffectively as the teams – Lewis Hamilton was the quickest man of the Barcelona test. Bad for me, as I didn’t happen to get many shots of…
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USF1 asks to defer 2010 entry to 2011

USF1 has, apparently, asked the FIA to defer its 2010 entry in the Formula1 championship to 2011, going so far as to “post a ’substantial, seven-figure’ surety bond as proof of their intentions to race next year,” according to an article posted on the website of American…
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Barcelona day four – Hamilton in charge on final day

McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton was the quickest runner as pre-season testing drew to a close at Barcelona’s Circuit de Catalunya on Sunday. Hamilton clocked a best time of 1m 20.472s around the Spanish circuit and finished over two-hundredths of a second ahead of the Red Bull of Mark Webber.
The British driver spent the morning fine-tuning the [...]

Schumacher upbeat about his chances

After progress in the final test, Michael Schumacher is ‘feeling good’ heading for his first GP in four years.
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Sutil: Rapid Force India must deliver

Adrian Sutil is thrilled with the VJM03 but knows he has to produce the pace in GPs.
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Gascoyne proud of Lotus efforts

Tech boss Mike Gascoyne says Lotus has already achieved something special.
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Own-made Toro Rosso ready to race

The start of the upcoming campaign will be a particularly poignant moment for the Toro Rosso team as it prepares to race the first car to have been designed and constructed domestically at its Faenza base.
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Winter Testing Analysis: A faux championship makes Ferrari most likely to succeed

After fifteen days of watching lap times and red flags and hearing the teams bemoan wet and windy conditions, one has to wonder, what does it all mean?  Simply put, those watching have really no idea what any of the faster or slower lap times mean, if only because each team used the on-track time…
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