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Double Diffuser Ban Set to Be Approved for 2011

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The Formula 1 Technical Working Group has voted to ban douuble diffusers, effective for the 2011 season and beyond.  The move still needs approval by the Formula 1 Commission and the FIA’s World Sport Council, but this is expected to be a mere formality at this stage.
Double diffusers were introduced by three teams (Brawn, Williams [...]

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Button Believes McLaren Will Be Strong in 2010

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The 2009 Formula 1 world champion Jenson Button, who will make his testing debut with  McLaren on February 3, predicts a strong showing for his new team.  Whilie acknowledging that McLaren poured substantial resources into their 2009 car, in order to raise its performance, which was dismal at the start of last season, to a [...]

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Nico Rosberg Confirms Exit from Williams

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On the eve of the final race weekend of 2009, in Abu Dhabi, Formula 1 driver Nico Rosberg has confirmed that he’ll be leaving the Williams team at the end of the this season.  As reported in The Guardian, Rosberg said, “It is my last race for Williams so it’s a bit strange.  “It’s been [...]

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Barrichello and Hulkenberg at Williams in 2010

Thumbnail image for Barrichello and Hulkenberg at Williams in 2010 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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Button’s Contract Hangs on Mercedes Deal

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It has been reported for some weeks that negotiations between Jenson Button and Brawn GP have been at a standstill, the two parties unable to come to terms about salary.  Button agreed to a pay cut for 2009, as the team was left in financial straits at the begainning of the season, after the withdrawal [...]

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Button Might Join McLaren in 2010

Thumbnail image for Button Might Join McLaren in 2010 October 23, 2009

The latest rumbling in this year’s hyperactive silly season is that Jenson Button might partner Lewis Hamilton at McLaren in 2010.  It’s been widely reported that Button and Brawn GP are currently at a stalemate in trying to hammer out a new contract for the new world champ. Button’s manager Richard Goddard recently told the [...]

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Kimi Undecided and Driver Market Stalled

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It has been widely assumed that once Fernando Alonso made his long-anticipated announcment regarding his move to Ferrari next season the drivers’ market for 2010 would begin to heat up in earnest. In fact, this is exactly what hasn’t happened.  Thus far, the only move that has occurred as a direct consequence of Alonso’s team [...]

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Brawn Says Button’s No Schumi

Thumbnail image for Brawn Says Button’s No Schumi October 17, 2009

In the context of assessing Jenson Button’s decline in performance over the second half of the 2009 Formula 1 season, team head Ross Brawn recntly offered a comparison between Button and seven-time world champ Michael Schumacher, with whom Brawn worked for nearly 15 years, both at Benetton and Ferrari.
In a recent an interview with The [...]

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Barrichello Denies Williams Deal for 2010

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Brawn Driver Rubens Barrichello now says that he has yet to sign a deal for 2010 and beyond.  It had been reported previously in the Brazilian press that Barrichello had already inked a deal with Williams for $8 million per year, a four-fold increase over his current salary at Brawn.  But this report might have [...]

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Barrichello Joins Williams for 2010

Thumbnail image for Barrichello Joins Williams for 2010 October 13, 2009

Rubens Barrichello will join the Williams Formula 1 team in 2010 according to a report in the Brazilian newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo.  Barrichello, who reportedly is driving for Brawn GP this year at a salary of $2 million, will apparently join Williams at a salary of $8 million.
Both Barrichello and team mate Jenson Button [...]

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