October 28, 2009
The driver line-up for the Williams Formula 1 team for 2010 will be this year’s Brawn pilot, Rubens Barrichello, and current Williams tester Nico Hulkenberg, according to an interview with Willi Weber in Germany’s Bild am Sonntag. Weber, who guided Michael Schumacher’s ultra-successful career, is now the manager of the younger German driver, Hulkenberg.
Weber indicated [...]
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October 26, 2009
While 2009 has been a disappointment for the Mercedes-McLaren Formula 1 team, current world champ is sanguine about the team’s prospects for 2010, and he rates his own efforts as being critical to the team’s ultimate success.
As quoted in The Daily Mail, Hamilton said, “I’m looking forward to next year’s new McLaren. I don’t think [...]
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New Win-Weighted Points System Approved for 2010
The FIA has agreed to implement a new points system for Formula 1 in 2010. The new scheme will award points to the top 10 finishers, respectively, in the following increments: 25-20-15-10-8-6-5-3-2-1.
This replaces a system that was put in place in 2003, largely as a countermeasure to prevent the kind of drama-deflating dominance that Michael [...]