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Horner Makes Driver and Team Predictions for 2010

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Red Bull honcho Christian Horner recently made some rough predictions about how the coming season might unfold.  The emphasis here is on rough, as the Big Four teams (Ferrari, Mercedes, Red Bull and McLaren) have shown a tight cluster of performance levels thus far in testing this year.
“Our analysis is showing us that you have [...]

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Horner Predicts “Titantic” Struggle for Top Honors in 2010

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Red Bull team principal has reaffirmed that his team’s primary goal this year will be to win both the drivers’ and manufacturers’ championships.  “The title is what we all want to achieve,” Horner recently told Autosport. “They are the only two trophies missing from the cabinet, so the objective has got to be to go [...]

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Is Mercedes Really Off the Pace?

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Mercedes motorsports boss Norbert Haug has said that he doesn’t expect Mercedes GP to be battling for podiums at the outset of the season.  As reported on ESPNF1, Haug said, “In my opinion, we will not challenge for the podium in the first few races, but we will definitely show up afterward.  Judging our competitiveness [...]

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Hamilton’s Mock Race with Schumacher at Barcelona

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During the recent test at Barcelona, Lewis Hamilton got a taste of wheel-to-wheel racing against Michael Schumacher.  Granted, it was only testing, and the two cars were carrying different fuel loads.  Even so, the two drivers staged what was in effect a mock duel which, with any luck, will be a harbinger of things to [...]

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Button Thinks Ferrari Might Be Quickest

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While lap times might have been misleading during the first three rounds of pre-season testing, with teams running an assortment fuel loads and test programs, Jenson Button has surmised that Ferrari might have a performance edge over the other top contenders, i.e. Mercedes, Red Bull and his own team, McLaren.
“I think the Ferrari is very [...]

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Vettel Quickest on Day One at Jerez

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Testing got underway again today at Jerez, in a four-day meeting that will run through Saturday.  Weather consitions were mixed, which once again made comparisons between teams problematic.  Quickest on the day was Sebastian Vettel, in a Red Bull, who was nearly half a second quicker than the runner up, Lewis Hamilton, in a McLaren.
Vettel [...]

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Hamilton and McLaren Quickest at Jerez on Day Four

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Today Lewis Hamilton in a McLaren was quickest overall in the final session of four days of testing at Jerez.  He managed to record the only lap of the day in the 1:19’s, and he was more than half a second clear of the timed runner up, Adrian Sutil, in the Force India.
Although the morning [...]

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McLaren MP4-25 Launched at Vodafone Headquarters

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The McLaren-Mercedes Formula 1 team formally launched its 2010 challenger, the MP4-25, at Vodafone’s UK headquarters in Newbury today.  Although Mercedes is no longer an equity partner in the team, the new car sports the predominantly silver livery that has been a fixture on McLarens since 1997.  Prior to that year, of course, McLarens were [...]

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Martin Brundle Says Schumacher Will Face Stiff Competition

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Martin Brundle, a former Formula 1 driver, as well as a driver manager (for David Coultard) and ITV commentator, seconded an opinion offered by Sterling Moss recently at the Autosport International show that Michael Schumacher would have his hands full trying to add an eighth world title to his already impressive list of accomplishments.
Brundle doesn’t [...]

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Schumacher’s GP2 Test: Recap and Video

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By all accounts, Michael Schumacher’s GP2 test at Jerez was a success.  Schumacher posted impressive lap times, and was able to put his body to the test of lateral G loading, something which no amount of physical training can adaquately simulate.  Methodical as always, Schumacher had a doctor from the Bad-Nauheim sports clinic join him [...]

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