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Sunday, February 28, 2010, 8:08 pm
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Lewis Hamilton set the fastest time of the day on the final day of pre-season testing before the opening Grand Prix of the season in Bahrain, which is now under two weeks away!
The McLaren man clocked a 1:20.472 from 134 laps. Hamilton spent the morning fine-tuning the MP4-25’s set-up while also carrying out a number of [...]

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Sunday, February 28, 2010, 6:55 pm
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Lewis Hamilton posts the quickest time of the final pre-season test of the F1 season in Barcelona to leave McLaren on top heading to Bahrain
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Sunday, February 28, 2010, 5:24 pm
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Lewis Hamilton tops the times as pre-season testing for the 2010 F1 season draws to a close in Barcelona
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Saturday, February 27, 2010, 7:23 pm
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Nico Rosberg puts Mercedes Grand Prix at the head of the pack as the Barcelona F1 test moves into its third and penultimate day.
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Saturday, February 27, 2010, 3:02 pm
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Mercedes GP’s Nico Rosberg leads way at Barcelona halfway through day three – although rain late morning disrupted proceedings.
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Post from An F1 Blog
Saturday, February 27, 2010, 10:55 am
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In 2009 McLaren were in a position they did not expect to be in – at the back of the grid. The MP4-24 was branded by Eddie Jordan as “possibly the worst car McLaren have ever designed.” Team principal Martin Whitmarsh admitted the team “had not done a good enough job”.
However the team made great [...]

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Friday, February 26, 2010, 8:40 pm
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Williams’ Nico Hulkenberg set the fastest lap on the second day of testing in Barcelona. Hulkenberg clocked a 1:20.614 from 99 laps in the FW32. Williams technical director Sam Michael explained the team’s order of the day:
“Nico finished his last day of winter testing today with a good run of laps. Our programme included the [...]

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Friday, February 26, 2010, 3:56 pm
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Mark Webber reckons Red Bull is in pole position as the 2010 F1 World Championship campaign speeds into view – praising the team as ‘one of the best if not the best in the pit-lane’.
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Friday, February 26, 2010, 1:04 pm
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New Campos Meta 1 team principal Dr. Colin Kolles has confirmed that the under-pressure Spanish outfit is in the final stage of negotiations with Karun Chandhok for F1 2010.
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Friday, February 26, 2010, 11:24 am
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Rumours suggest that Bruno Senna could yet lose his ride with Campos Meta as the team looks for the funding to make it to Bahrain.
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Post from Ibadan Motorsports
Friday, February 26, 2010, 1:51 am
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By Charles Oladeji.I admire Italians. I’ve worked with numerous Italians and found them equally passionate and petulant. Then there’s the undeniable sense of fashion, food and feistiness. Whenever I’ve engaged an Italian in a heated exchange they…

Post from An F1 Blog
Thursday, February 25, 2010, 7:45 pm
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On the first day of Barcelona testing, it was Aussie Red Bull driver Mark Webber who set the pace, with a 1:21.487 from 109 laps. Nico Hulkenberg was 2nd in the Williams, with a 1:22.407.
Mercedes GP’s Nico Rosberg was 3rd, on what he described as a ‘productive’ day:
“We had a productive day today and we [...]

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Thursday, February 25, 2010, 10:11 am
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Fernando Alonso insists his years spent in the wilderness at Renault have made him ‘a better driver’ than before – and says the smart money will be on him to claim a third F1 title in 2010…
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010, 6:40 pm
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(L to R) James Key, Willy Rampf
The 56-year-old German Willy Rampf has stepped down as technical director at the BMW Sauber team, after 10 years in his position at the Hinwil-based team.
Rampf is to make way for 38-year-old Englishman James Key, who will take up his position at the team on April 1st.
Key started off [...]

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Wednesday, February 24, 2010, 3:03 pm
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Popular BBC F1 commentator Martin Brundle has warned Lewis Hamilton, Fernando Alonso, Jenson Button, Felipe Massa et al not to underestimate the threat of Michael Schumacher in 2010…
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010, 9:09 am
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Painted as the villain after leaving McLaren at the end of a single acrimonious campaign in 2007, Fernando Alonso insists his year alongside Lewis Hamilton helped to prepare him for anything.
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Post from An F1 Blog
Tuesday, February 23, 2010, 6:32 pm
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Oliver Turvey is Britain’s next up-and-coming motorsport star, currently competing in GP2 Asia. Turvey has quickly progressed through the ranks, and recently won his first ever GP2 Asia race. Turvey tested for McLaren in the MP4-24 late last year at the young driver tests, and won the McLaren Autosport Award in 2006 – an award [...]

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Tuesday, February 23, 2010, 5:22 pm
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Ferrari has unleashed a relentless and scathing rage against the changing landscape of Formula One, on the team’s official website. It was so impassioned and contained a plethora of hyperbole that at times it was comical:
“The thirteenth team, USF1, appears to have gone into hiding in Charlotte, North Carolina, to the dismay of those like the [...]

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Tuesday, February 23, 2010, 3:32 pm
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Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso has defended his besmirched image in the wake of two damaging F1 scandals over the last three years – insisting he was simply in the ‘wrong place at the wrong time’.
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Tuesday, February 23, 2010, 2:08 pm
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In an extraordinary outburst, Ferrari has labelled Stefan GP ‘vultures’ and blamed the poor state of some of the F1 2010 new arrivals on Max Mosley’s ‘holy war’ against the manufacturers.
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