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Turkish Grand Prix Qualifying – Webber Takes Third Pole in a Row

May 29, 2010

Webber turns up the heat in the third session of Qualifying at the Turkish Grand Prix today setting fastest lap of the weekend. On his last and only flying lap of Q3 webber nailed each sector, setting a blistering time of 1:26.295 securing his third Pole Position in a row and extending Red Bull’s dominant [...]

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Turkish Grand Prix Friday Press Conference

May 28, 2010

I find the Friday Press Conference of a Grand Prix race weekend one of the most interesting. You get a different view point of Formula One than that shown by the Drivers. Todays press conference in turkey was no exception with Team principals from Ferrari, Mercedes GP, Wiliams F1 and Torro Rosso answering questions on [...]

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FIA Agree to Change Safety Car Rules

May 21, 2010

The FIA have come out in favor of revising the safety car rules, acknowleging a lack of clarity in the current rules that cost Michael Schumacher a twenty second penalty at the end of the Monaco Grand Prix, effectively ruining what otherwise would have been his best finish of the season. The FIA’s official press [...]

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Monaco Grand Prix Results Stand – No Appeal From Mercedes

May 18, 2010

The Monaco Grand Prix results were in question for the last few days after Mercedes GP had said that they would be appealing the penalty imposed on Michael Schumacher for overtaking Fernando Alonso on the last corner of the race after the Safety car had entered pit lane. Today, in a statement released by Mercedes [...]

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Webber Dominates Incident Filled Monaco Grand Prix

May 16, 2010

Monaco lived up to its reputation today as the most difficult challenging circuit of the F1 Season, it had everything, great racing, dramatic crashes and even controversy, but through it all Mark Webber controlled the race from the drop of the checkered flag. It must have been a frustrating race for Webber, with several crashes [...]

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Monaco Grand Prix – Webber Grabs Pole From Kubica

May 15, 2010

The Monaco Grand Prix qualifying session ended with Mark Webber claiming Pole position again. On pole at the last Grand Prix in Barcelona, todays performance marks the fourth pole of his carreer and his first back to back Pole position finish. The big news even before qualifying started was Fernando Alonso’s heavy crash in the [...]

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Monaco Grand Prix – Wednesday press Conference Part 2

May 13, 2010

Part 2 of Wednesday Press Conference consists of Jenson Button, Felipe Massa, Robert Kubica, Timo Glock and Sebastien Buemi fielding questions from members of the world press. To read Part 1 of the Wednesday Press Conference Click Here QUESTIONS FROM THE FLOOR Q: (Sarah Holt – BBC Sport) Jenson and Felipe and anyone else if [...]

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Monaco Grand Prix – Wednesday Press Conference Part 1

May 13, 2010

In the first Press Conference of the Monaco Grand Prix race weekend five drivers answered questions on their expectations for the race. Here is the transcript of the initial part of the press conference: For Part 2 of the Press Conference/ Click Here 2/05/2010 DRIVERS: Sebastien Buemi (SB) [Toro Rosso], Jenson Button (JB) [McLaren], Timo [...]

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Spanish Grand Prix Friday Press Conference

May 7, 2010

Following today’s practice session at the Spanish Grand Prix race weekend the FIA held a press conference with Formula One Team Technical Directors: Ross BRAWN (Mercedes); Aldo COSTA (Ferrari); Sam MICHAEL (Williams) and Nick WIRTH (Virgin) For those of you that are real gear heads this press conference had a lot of great information about [...]

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Spanish Grand Prix Friday Practice -Red Bull Fastest Again

May 7, 2010

Friday Practice for the Spanish Grand Prix began in unseasonably cold conditions. During the morning session Cosworth saw their first engine failure of the season when the engine in Nico Hulkenberg’s William FW32 let go. Hulkenberg’s bad luck continued in the afternoon session when he ran wide, the car appeared to dig into to the [...]

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Formula One Returns to Europe

April 25, 2010

Formula One returns to Europe for the next three rounds of the 2010 World Championship. The first Race in the European series will be the Spanish Grand Prix held at the Circuit de Catalunya just outside Barcelona on May 9th followed a week later at the famous street circuit in Monaco. Turkey follows Monaco, just [...]

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