February 6, 2010
Virgin Racing conducted shakedown runs for the new VR-01 on Thursday and Friday at Silverstone, making them the first of the four new teams to actually put rubber to the road. Timo Glock put in some installation laps on Thursday, and then ran 42 laps on Friday, before handing over the car to team mate, [...]
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December 15, 2009
At a London press conference today, Sir Richard Branson formally launched his new Formula 1 team, Virgin Racing. The new team was initially formed as Manor GP, but was rebranded after Branson acquired an equity stake in the team.
Present at today’s event was Virgin’s new driver team, Timo Glock and Lucas di Grassi. Glock has [...]
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