Post from An F1 Blog
Tuesday, February 9, 2010, 1:00 am
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The Force India is set to be launched today! There will be more on the blog when the car is launched later today.
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The Art of F1: Is the era of sponsor-based liveries over?
Tom Bellingham, a guest poster over at The Art of F1 looks at if the era of sponsor-based liveries is over: “So it looks [...]

Post from An F1 Blog
Monday, February 8, 2010, 5:18 pm
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The 2003 WRC champion – Petter Solberg’s car has undergone a distinctive yellow and red makeover ahead of it’s WRC debut, when the 2010 season kicks off in Karstadt for Rally Sweden on Friday.

The Norweigan has backing from Mad Croc energy drinks and Shell, hence the new colour scheme. Solberg believes that it’s not just [...]

Post from Crash.net
Monday, February 8, 2010, 3:01 pm
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BBC F1 pundit and former team owner Eddie Jordan has tipped ‘class act’ Lewis Hamilton to be spurred on to title glory in 2010 – but he has fewer words of encouragement for Jenson Button…
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Monday, February 8, 2010, 1:40 pm
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Ferrari might have been comfortably quickest at Valencia, but the Scuderia’s President Luca di Montezemolo has urged caution, revealing that the team still has ‘lots of problems to resolve’.
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Post from Crash.net
Monday, February 8, 2010, 10:43 am
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Adrian Campos insists all is being done to ensure his troubled, eponymously-named Campos Meta 1 outfit makes the grid in F1 2010 – despite some of the ’stupid’ rumours swirling around.
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Post from An F1 Blog
Monday, February 8, 2010, 1:00 am
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We are set for another quiet day in F1, but the Force India launch is tomorrow.
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The Bull Run is GO GO GO!
Tommy B’s excellent Toro Rosso blog, Forza Toro Rosso has become The Bull Run, as it moves to focus more on both of the Red Bull sister teams: “After much deliberation, I decided to [...]

Post from An F1 Blog
Sunday, February 7, 2010, 7:35 pm
Read more: Formula 1, Motor Sport, Rally

When I was sat, earlier on today watching the World Rally Championship season preview on Dave, seeing all the drivers having discussions with their fans, and signing caps etc, it got me thinking about how, in some respects, rallying is so much better than Formula 1.
In Formula 1, everything is so corporate, with the McLaren [...]

Post from An F1 Blog
Sunday, February 7, 2010, 1:00 am
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There is nothing of note scheduled in the world of Formula 1 today.
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Autosport: Valsecchi takes last gasp GP2 win
Autosport’s report of the second GP2 race in Abu Dhabi, which was won by Davide Valsecchi.
“Davide Valsecchi extended his GP2 Asia lead by denying Michael Herck victory with a late pass in the second Abu Dhabi [...]

Post from An F1 Blog
Saturday, February 6, 2010, 9:45 am
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Yesterday Virgin Racing completed their two day shakedown at Silverstone. Check out the post for images, interviews and a video of the VR-01 rolling out for the very first time.
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Weather Underground: Jerez forecast
According to Autosport, the Jerez weather is looking bad, and it claims that some, if not all four days of the test will [...]

Post from An F1 Blog
Saturday, February 6, 2010, 12:33 am
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Virgin Racing have completed their two-day shakedown today, with Timo Glock kicking things up a notch from yesterday’s exploratory laps, completing 42 laps of the 1.8km Stowe circuit during the morning.
Lucas di Grassi then took over in the afternoon recording his first 36 laps as an F1 driver, before saying:
“It feels good. It feels like [...]

Post from An F1 Blog
Friday, February 5, 2010, 9:51 pm
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This is the first in our new daily post series titled F1 links. This series will feature links to the best motorsport articles I have read on the internet, as well as features such as pics of the day, and my favourite forum posts and comments. So, lets get started!
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Autosport: Turvey scores maiden GP2 win
A [...]

Post from Crash.net
Friday, February 5, 2010, 3:57 pm
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Ferrari boss Stenfano Domenicali remains cautious despite the Scuderia s strong form in testing this week ahead of F1 2010.
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Post from Motorsport - Believe the Spin
Friday, February 5, 2010, 2:00 pm
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It feels like a lifetime but at long last motorsport returns to our screen this weekend with the NASCAR Budweiser Shootout – live from Daytona Florida!
It’s a new season but unfortunately it may not be a fresh start as an old feud once again rears its head. It seems that incidents in Texas last November are [...]

Post from An F1 Blog
Friday, February 5, 2010, 8:53 am
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2007 Formula One world champion Kimi Raikkonen remains confident ahead of his World Rally Championship campaign despite crashing his Citroen C4 WRC during last week’s Arctic Rally.
The Rovaniemi-based event was the Iceman’s competitive debut in a WRC spec car, but it appeared to be all over after just two stages when the Finn went off [...]

Post from An F1 Blog
Friday, February 5, 2010, 8:48 am
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FIA President Jean Todt has insisted that he wll not be rushed into making important decisions about the future of rallying, but has admitted that the sport faces a number of challenges in the coming years.
Todt talked about the sport for the first time publicly this week at the launch of the World Rally Championship [...]

Post from An F1 Blog
Thursday, February 4, 2010, 11:58 pm
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Timo Glock has today taken the all-CFD designed Virgin Racing VR-01 for its first taste of track action.
The shakedown will continue tomorrow before the team fly to Spain for the second pre-season test in Jerez on Wednesday.
The livery sure does look as good on track as it does in the studio shots!
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Images (C) Virgin Racing

Post from An F1 Blog
Thursday, February 4, 2010, 8:19 pm
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Mercedes GP have announced that Nick Heidfeld will be their test and reserve driver in 2010. It was
The 32-year-old German Heidfeld has participated in every F1 season from his debut in 2000, and has amassed 219 career points, and 12 podiums, but unfortunately has never won a Grand Prix.
“I am very pleased to be joining [...]

Post from An F1 Blog
Thursday, February 4, 2010, 8:04 pm
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Fast in Free Practice earlier today in Abu Dhabi, Arden’s Charles Pic gave his absolute best during qualifying and fended off Davide Valsecchi’s attacks to claim a maiden pole position on his second GP2 race weekend. iSport’s and rookie Oliver Turvey will start next to him on tomorrow’s grid.
On a still [...]

Post from An F1 Blog
Thursday, February 4, 2010, 7:58 pm
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Last November during the opening round of the third season of the GP2 Asia Series at the Yas Marina Circuit, Luca Filippi showed an impressive pace, setting up the track record in a 1:51.415. Today, on the same track, the Meritus driver once again set the pace during Free Practice of [...]

Post from Crash.net
Thursday, February 4, 2010, 3:28 pm
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F1 comeback king Michael Schumacher insists that it is still far too early to talk about winning again with Mercedes Grand Prix in 2010 – but his outward aura of confidence suggests otherwise.
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