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Ross Brawn believes team orders ban has lost credibility and that teams and FIA need to devise a better rule.
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While this may be no surprise to some, Ross brawn has weighed in on the team orders issue that plagued Sunday’s German Grand Prix. It seems the man, who has used team orders with great efficacy at Ferrari, is against the ban on team orders as stated in FIA’s sporting regulation article…
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Nico Rosberg was relieved to finish in the points, after Mercedes GP endured a difficult weekend in Germany. The 24-year-old later admitted that the Brackley-based team’s race strategy had been damage limitation, in an attempt to prevent its drivers falling further behind in the title scrap. Rosberg, who eventually finished in eighth place, is now [...]

To mark his homecoming after three years in retirement, Michael Schumacher has his own official merchandise stalls at Hockenheim.
Many of the goods on sale – model cars, badges, T-shirts and mugs – bear the slogan ‘Comeback – his biggest challenge’. That tag-line has turned out to be uncannily accurate.
Schumacher’s marketing team are putting a positive [...]

By guaranteeing that he will be driving in Formula 1 in 2011, Michael Schumacher has at least silenced the growing speculation that his comeback would be a one-year wonder.
But the doubters and the critics remain to be convinced that he will ever recapture the brilliance that set him apart from his rivals and took him [...]

The 1986 German Grand Prix is the chosen race in the latest edition of our classic Formula 1 series.
That means we will broadcast the full ‘Grand Prix’ highlights programme of the time as well as the shorter edits we produce for the other races in the selection – which in this case were 1994, 1996, [...]

Robert Kubica has said he is not expecting great things from his Renault team this weekend. The Pole struggled last time out at Silverstone with a car that does not yet have a blown diffuser or an F-duct, devices which can bring distinct downforce and straightline speed advantages respectively. And he says there is no [...]

On paper it was a dream team – the clout of Mercedes backing, the technical and managerial genius of Ross Brawn, the young driving talent of Nico Rosberg and the living legend that is Michael Schumacher. With such expectation, anything less than perfection would have been disappointing, and the reality of Mercedes GP’s first season [...]

Ferrari boss Stefano Domenicali has issued a rallying call to his troops, as Ferrari attempts to rescue its faltering title bid. Since Bahrain, the Maranello-based outfit has failed to keep in touch in both championships, and now sits 113 points behing McLaren in the constructors’ standings. However, speaking at a meeting between the team’s senior [...]

Formula One teams have elected to close a loophole in the sport’s in-season testing regulations to ensure that competitors will not gain an advantage from testing new parts during ‘filming days’. Last month, Ferrari angered a number of its rivals when it elected to run its ‘blown diffuser’ system during a day of filming at [...]