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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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Schumacher’s Return: an Ironic Chain of Events

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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 [...]

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Jenson Button Agrees to Three-Year Deal with McLaren

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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. This [...]

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Brawn’s Mercedes Deal Still Pending

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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 [...]

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Will Kimi Take a Sabbatical?

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It seems that both Kimi Raikkonen and his once and possible future team, McLaren Mercedes, are playing a waiting game with respect to finalizing their plans for 2010.  Apparently, Raikkonen’s severance agreement with Ferrari gives him 17 million euros if he takes a sabbatical from Formula 1, as opposed to 10 million euros if he [...]

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McLaren Chasing Big Talent, Not Big Names

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Norbert Haug, president of the Mercedes motorsport division, has indicated that Mclaren-Mercedes will choose a team mate for current number one driver Lewis Hamilton based on the driver’s raw talent and motivation, rather than simply hiring a marquee-name driver at an exhorbitant price. In a pointed reference to Kimi Raikkonen, Haug recently told Autosport, “Kimi [...]

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No Brawn Guarantee for Rubens in 2010

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According to a report in The Guardian today, Ross Brawn has offered Reubens Barrichello little assurance of a seat at the team table next year.  While Brawn conceded that both of his current drivers, Barrichello and Jenson Button, were doing “a fantastic job,” he went on to say, regarding the 2010 driver lineup, “It’s still [...]

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