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Preview to Virgin Racing’s GP Debut
Well, they say time flies and after an exhaustive nine month programme of car design and development, team-building and pre-season testing, Virgin Racing’s Grand Prix debut has finally arrived. The 45-strong race team are up and running in the Kingdom of Bahrain for the opening round of the 2010 FIA Formula One World Championship on [...]
Cosworth ready for return in Bahrain
Cosworth is making its return to Formula One racing as an engine supplier at this weekend’s Bahrain Grand Prix, supplying engines to one-third of the teams on the grid.
A total of four teams and eight race drivers will be powered by Cosworth’s CA2010 V8 unit this season; AT&T Williams (Rubens Barrichello and Nico Hülkenberg), as [...]
All change for 2010
The return of Michael Schumacher, no more refuelling, new teams and a new width Bridgestone front tyre are all important factors for what is already one of the most talked about Formula One seasons for decades.
Bridgestone enters the 2010 season with the knowledge that this is the final year of the contract for Official Tyre [...]
Williams working on improvements
Sam Michael, Technical Director
The FW32 completed almost 7,000kms during winter testing with the new Cosworth engine installation. We have made great progress on reliability and we’re still working on improving that, albeit at high mileages that we shouldn’t encounter during race weekends.
Performance has been solid throughout the test sessions, but Bahrain will tell us where [...]
Bridgestone Bahrain GP Preview
Bridgestone enters the final season of its contract as Official Tyre Supplier to the FIA Formula One World Championship with the commencement of the Bahrain Grand Prix on March 14 with Bridgestone’s super soft and medium 2010 specification dry slick tyres.
Changes for this year include a narrower front tyre, to give a more even grip [...]
McLaren and X-Trade Brokers partners
X-Trade Brokers, a Warsaw-based brokerage house specialising in foreign exchange (FOREX), commodity and stock market investments, has today announced an historic partnership with the Vodafone McLaren Mercedes Formula 1 team.
X-Trade Brokers becomes the first Polish company to sign a partnership with Vodafone McLaren Mercedes, and its logo (‘XTB’) will appear on the overalls of reigning [...]
Interview with Philippe Girard
Fuel is at the centre of the biggest regulatory change to Formula One this season. There will no longer be refueling during the race. As a consequence, TOTAL has developed a new fuel.
TOTAL supply the fuel and other fluids that keep the Renault F1 Team a well-oiled machine. Elf, which merged with TOTAL in 2000, [...]
Lotus Racing Set For Bahrain
By 3am on Saturday morning Lotus Racing had finally finished packing up the six airfreight boxes needed for the journey to Bahrain and the beginning of the 2010 Formula One™ season. Two cars and a 60-strong team have now made their way to the Kingdom of Bahrain and the Bahrain International Circuit for the first [...]
Q+A with Eric Boullier
The Team Principal gives his verdict on winter testing and looks ahead to Bahrain.
Eric, how would you rate the quality of the team’s preparations over the winter?
If we discount the bad weather, then overall our preparations have gone very well. We had a couple of minor glitches, which is quite normal for winter testing, but [...]
Q+A with Robert Kubica
Robert sums up winter testing and reveals his hopes for the year ahead.
After four weeks of testing, do you feel ready to go racing?
I feel as ready as I can be considering that winter testing has been so limited. I’ve spent a lot of time with the team and we already have a strong working [...]
Q+A with Vitaly Petrov
As the first Russian driver in Formula 1, Vitaly has a big weekend ahead. He sums up his emotions ahead of his Grand Prix debut.
Vitaly, how excited are you ahead of your first race?
People are asking me if I feel nervous, but I’m used to racing and I know what I need to do. Of [...]
Force India encouraged going to Bahrain
2010 marks the third year of competition in the FIA Formula One World Championship for the Force India F1 Team. After a positive finish to 2009, the team is hoping this season will be the one that firmly establishes it as a strong, competitive outfit regularly challenging for points and podiums whenever possible.
Consistency has been [...]
Q+A with Fernando Alonso
Just one week ahead of the 2010 Formula 1 Championship Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso spoke to Pino Allievi from the “Gazzetta dello Sport” daily.
Alonso, Italy is waiting for a miracle.
“My father always told me that a driver can win races and even titles, but if he doesn’t drive a Ferrari he hasn’t achieved anything. So here [...]
McLaren positive and encouraged
It’s been a busy winter… but at last the 2010 FIA Formula 1 World Championship is almost under way.
Testing has been busy but, as ever, a little inconclusive – simply because although all the teams have been working as hard as possible to get their cars to go as fast as is humanly possible in [...]
Q+A with Felipe Massa
Felipe Massa and the new season: the Brazilian ahead of the 2010 Championship talking to Arianna Ravelli, Corriere della Sera.
Before we start: how can you not like a driver who lost a Championship like Felipe Massa did in 2008, who had an accident like Massa last summer and who’s never the favourite, but always there [...]
India’s Chandhok in – USF1 out
India’s Karun Chandhok will make his Formula One race debut with HRT this season, the new Spanish-based team said in a statement on Thursday.
The 26-year-old Chennai-born driver will partner Brazilian rookie Bruno Senna at the cash-strapped team, who have changed their name from Campos Meta, when the season starts in Bahrain next week.
“We have been [...]
Sauber F1 previews the Bahrain GP
One thing is certain: after it has slimmed down and transformed into a private team the BMW Sauber F1 Team is very happy to line up with two C29s for Pedro de la Rosa and Kamui Kobayashi at the season’s opening race. But just turning up is far from what the team is aiming for. [...]
Ian Phillips to depart Force India F1 Team
The Force India Formula One Team’s long-standing Director of Business Affairs, Ian Phillips, is now leaving the Silverstone-based team after 19 years with the outfit.
In his tenure for the team, starting with Jordan Grand Prix, Ian has been responsible for sponsorship acquisition and activation, commercial direction and ongoing negotiations with the FIA and commercial rights’ [...]
Mercedes not too optimistic of Bahrain
The much-anticipated 2010 Formula One Season gets underway in Bahrain next week and marks the return of a Mercedes-Benz works team to the sport for the first time in 55 years. The MERCEDES GP PETRONAS Formula One Team go into the season with the prestige of being the current Constructors’ World Champions, led by Team [...]
Renault F1 confirms Lada partnership
The Renault F1 Team today confirmed a cooperation agreement that will see branding from Lada, Russia’s leading automotive marque, feature on the chassis of the Renault F1 Team R30 race cars during the 2010 season.
Lada branding will also appear on the overalls and team uniform of 25-year-old Vitaly Petrov, who will make history this year [...]
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