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Mark Webber

Webber Quickest on Day One in Barcelona

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Mark Webber set the pace in the opening day of testing at Barcelona today, in the Red Bull RB6.  The Aussie set several quickest laps, with a best time of 1:21.487.  He was nearly a full second clear of the number two driver, Nico Hulkenberg, in the Williams, and the only driver to record a [...]

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Webber Quickest at Jerez on Day Three

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Mark Webber in the Red Bull RB6 posted the quickest time on the third day of testing at Jerez.  He was the only driver to post a time in the 1:19’s, and was 0.78 quicker than runner up Fernando Alonso, in the Ferrari.  In fact, his time was the best of both Jerez test meetings, [...]

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Kimi Turns Down Toytota Deal

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Kimi Raikkonen has been offered a drive by the Toyota Formula 1 team for 2010 and beyond, but apparently the Finn has turned it down.  According to a report by the Reuters news service, Toytota refused to meet Raikkonen’s salary demand, which is thought to be in the neighborhood of 25 million euros per year.
Said [...]

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Does Button Deserve the Title?

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Does Jenson Button deserve the Formula 1 World Champion’s title?  In purely statistical terms, the fellow who racks up the most points deserves the title, so the short answer to the question is yes.  Button did what he needed to do, and had luck when he needed it, while his rivals, for one reason or [...]

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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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Vettel Leads in Stats

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If you discount Sebastian Vettel’s retirements this year, he has been more effective at scoring points than any of the other top title contenders this year.  It’s the retirements that make the difference.  As has often been noted, the current points system rewards consistency, and even a single retirement is apt to have a serious [...]

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Button’s Lead Bulletproof?

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It has often been noted that the current point system in Formula 1 favors consistency.  More than that, it favors a driver who attains an early lead.  The the current system was adopted largely as a foil to Michael Schumacher, who, in his most successful years at Ferrari, was seen as sewing up the championships [...]

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Crashgate Settled

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The Crashgate saga appears to have come to an end. Renault have been handed a two-year suspended ban from the sport for their inadvertent participation in the conspiracy. Engineering head Pat Symonds has been ousted from the sport for five years, and team boss Flavio Briatore has been banned permanently.
To many, this seems [...]

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Mercedes Has the Power

September 13, 2009

Once again, qualifying had its share of surprises today.  But there was a method to the madness.  Six out of the first seven spots on the grid were the beneficiaries of Mercedes power.  Kimi Raikkonen, once again showing a return to form for Ferrari, was the only driver of that group using a powerlant badged [...]

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