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McLaren Returns to Winning Pace at Hungaroring

July 27, 2009

Lewis Hamilton wins the first race of the season for McLaren at the Hungarian Grand Prix today. Lewis’s win combined with Hiekki Kovalainen’s dramatically improved performance and fifth place finish prove what many F1 pundits were predicting, the modifications to the MP4-24 chassis introduced on Hamilton’s car at the German Grand Prix have transformed the [...]

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Renault Lockout at Hungaroring Qualifying

July 25, 2009

After a confusing end to the third and final qualifying session of the Hungarian Grand Prix caused by the failure of the on track timing system Fenrnado Alonzo discovered that he had claimed his first pole position since 2007. Renault not only claimed pole position after the brilliant drive by Fernando Alonso, but also the [...]

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Next Race “Hungaroring” – McLaren, Renault, Looking To Show Improved Pace

July 19, 2009

Several Teams are expecting improved results at the Hungarian Grand Prix especially McLaren and Renault following their increased race pace displayed at Nürburgring last week. While at the German Grand Prix, McLaren and Renault only had the upgrade packages fitted to the cars of Hamilton (McLaren) and Alonso (Renault), at the Hungaroring each Team will [...]

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Red Bull Finish 1, 2 at Nürburgring

July 13, 2009

The infamous weather at the Nürburgring was not a huge factor in the results with the forecasted rain holding off for the race. For the second time in the last two races Red Bull Racing dominated the field, with Webber having an outstanding day, completely out driving everyone else on track and easily claiming the [...]

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German Grand Prix Qualifying – Many Firsts!!

July 11, 2009

The changeable weather at the Nürburgring lived up to its reputation during qualifying today creating challenging driving conditions and resulting in an unexpected grid with several new names making it through to the final 10. Mark Webber drove an outstanding qualifying lap in challenging conditions to claim his fist ever Pole position for Red Bull [...]

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British Grand Prix Qualifying – What happened to Lewis?

June 20, 2009

For the third straight race Lewis Hamilton failed to make it out of the first qualifying session and his team mate Heikki Kovalainen only just manage to squeeze into Q2 but made it no further. Lewis’s final qualifying lap was interrupted when Adrian Sutil in the Force India VJM02 had a heavy crash into the [...]

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British Grand Prix – Friday Practice

June 19, 2009

While not much can be predicted from the results of the first two F1 practice sessions it certainly appears that Red Bull Racing have made real improvement in their car with the new aero package. Both Red Bull Drivers ended up at the top of the time charts with Sebastian Vettel being fastest in Both [...]

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Turkish Grand Prix

June 7, 2009

Race Summary I was routing for Rubens Barrichello he seemed to have had good pace in Qualifying and like Brawn GP team mate  Jenson Button was carrying more fuel than Sebastian Vettel. Unlike Jenson, Rubens was on the clean side of the track so if he had as good a start as he has had in [...]

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