November 17, 2009
Jenson Button has agreed in pinciple to a three-year deal with McLaren, according to a report in The Guardian. The contract, which could be finalized by the end of this week, would pay him in the neighborhood of 6.75 million euros per year, or about 20 million euros for the length of the contract.
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November 10, 2009
For a number of weeks, rumor mongers in the Formula 1 paddock have been hinting at a pending deal which would see Mercedes acquire a 75% stake in Brawn GP. While there is a certain logic to this deal, for both Mercedes and Brawn, there are also some obstacles.
The buy-in would obviously be a lifeline [...]
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Schumacher’s Return: an Ironic Chain of Events
It seems as though it might be a series of miscalculations that will ultimately place Michael Schumacher behind the wheel of a Mercedes F1 car next year . The first error in judgment, you might say, was Schumacher’s own, when he retired at the end of 2006.
As reported in a story in today’s Daily Mail, [...]