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Max Mosley Condemns Bahrain Decision

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Although it hasn’t been officially confirmed yet, there have been reports that the Bahrain Grand Prix has been reinstated to the 2011 calendar, with a tentative date of October 30.  The Indian Grand Prix will be pushed back to accommodate the change. There had been some talk of holding the Bahrain event in December, but [...]

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Does Schumacher Regret His Comeback?

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Do you think Michael Schumacher has any regrets about making a comeback?  Much has been said, and much of it negative, about Schumi’s return to active racing at the pinnacle of motorsport.  Such greats of earlier eras as Sterling Moss, Jackie Stewart and even Niki “the Rat” Lauda have suggested that Schumi’s comeback has been [...]

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Ross ‘the Maestro’ Brawn Cashes In

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Mercedes GP boss Ross Brawn isn’t known as “the Maestro” for nothing.  He helped mastermind uberdriver Michael Schumacher’s seven world titles at Benetton and Ferrari, and he later went on to snooker the field in 2009 with his eponymously badged Brawn, which cleverly exploited a loophole in the tech regs by employing a controversial double [...]

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Mercedes One Second Adrift of Leaders

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Although test times notoriously reveal little during the pre-season phase, there are some who are willing to draw a few conclusions.  Among them, are Mercedes GP honchos Nick Fry and Ross Brawn, who admitted recently that the Merc was perhaps a full second adrift of the pace of the leaders (the leaders being Red Bull [...]

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Schumi Gets Woozy in Team Simulator

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Many excuses have been offered to explain Michael Schumacher’s lackluster performance during his comeback season in 2010, but perhaps the strangest of all has now been released by Mercedes GP.  They now claim that the team’s simulator makes Schumi carsick. According to the team, “Throughout his career, Michael from time to time has been susceptible [...]

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Rosberg on Schumi: ‘No Way He’s Going to Put Me in the Shade.’

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Nico Rosberg is obviously growing more comfortable in his position at Mercedes.  One year ago, he was a bit concerned once it had been announced that the legendary Michael Schumacher would be his team mate.  After all, not only was Schumi the most successful F1 driver in the history of the sport, he also had [...]

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Brawn Admits Schumi Hampered by Lack of Decent Simulator

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The ban on in-season testing, which took effect beginning in 2009, has, like many Formula 1 rules changes, been subject to the Law of Unintended Consequences.  The purpose of the ban was to help rein in team budgets.  The better funded teams had actually maintained parallel crews during the racing season: a primary squad for [...]

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Brawn Predicts Comeback for Mercedes in 2011

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Whenever an F1 team is in the doldrums, rumors of staffing changes begin to circulate.  This year was no exception for the Mercedes (nee Brawn) squad.  In 2009 the team, newly morphed from Honda, seemed to launch from somewhere close to the very back of the grid to become the class of the field.  That [...]

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Former Arrows Boss Tom Walkinshaw Dies

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Tom Walkinshaw has died.  For those who have forgotten or never knew the name, Walkinshaw was a fixture in Formula 1 from 1991 to 2002.  He entered the F1 world as Benetton’s engineering director, having moved from the Jaguar sports car team.  Perhaps his two most notable contributions to the sport occurred during this season.  [...]

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Michael Schumacher Reveals More Technical Issues

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Michael Schumacher’s technical difficulties (although some would call them excuses) at Mercedes this year have been widely publicized, and the common consensus has been that he was unable to adjust to the inherent understeer of the W01, exacerbated by the narrow Bridgestone front tires which seemed to have a terminal lack of grip for the [...]

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