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Williams See Hulkenberg as a Future Champion

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The Williams 2010 driver line-up, which pairs veteran Rubens Barrichello with rookie Nico Hulkenberg, is notbable at least in one respect, for matching the most experienced driver on the grid with a relative novice.  This is by design.  Williams have been using Hulkenberg as a tester up to now (although, under the current rules, this [...]

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Williams Confirm Barrichello and Hulkenberg

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The Williams Formula 1 team have formally announced their driver line-up for 2010.  The new pilots will be veteran Rubens Barrichello and rookie Nico Hulkenberg.  It had been anticipated for several weeks that both of the current Williams drivers, Kazuki Nakajima and Nico Rosberg would be replaced, and in recent days the addition of Barrichello [...]

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Nico Rosberg Confirms Exit from Williams

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On the eve of the final race weekend of 2009, in Abu Dhabi, Formula 1 driver Nico Rosberg has confirmed that he’ll be leaving the Williams team at the end of the this season.  As reported in The Guardian, Rosberg said, “It is my last race for Williams so it’s a bit strange.  “It’s been [...]

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Drivers’ Salaries Revealed – $135 Million Total

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In advance of this weekend’s race in Abu Dhabi, ArabianBusiness.com has released the results of a survey of Formula 1 drivers’ salaries for 2009.  The survey was conducted by Tom Rubython, the author of the The Life of Senna, a biography of the late three-time world champion, and racing great, Ayrton Senna. Rubython commented on [...]

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Barrichello and Hulkenberg at Williams in 2010

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The driver line-up for the Williams Formula 1 team for 2010 will be this year’s Brawn pilot, Rubens Barrichello, and current Williams tester Nico Hulkenberg, according to an interview with Willi Weber in Germany’s Bild am Sonntag.  Weber, who guided Michael Schumacher’s ultra-successful career, is now the manager of the younger German driver, Hulkenberg. Weber [...]

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Button Might Join McLaren in 2010

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The latest rumbling in this year’s hyperactive silly season is that Jenson Button might partner Lewis Hamilton at McLaren in 2010.  It’s been widely reported that Button and Brawn GP are currently at a stalemate in trying to hammer out a new contract for the new world champ. Button’s manager Richard Goddard recently told the [...]

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Button Too Dear for Brawn?

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It is common knowledge that drivers Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello took pay cuts this year when the moribund Honda works team morphed into the privateer Brawn GP.  There have been suggestions that pay cuts were as much as 80%.  Last March, this seemed like a valid option for both drivers, as their choices were [...]

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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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Brawn Says Button’s No Schumi

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In the context of assessing Jenson Button’s decline in performance over the second half of the 2009 Formula 1 season, team head Ross Brawn recntly offered a comparison between Button and seven-time world champ Michael Schumacher, with whom Brawn worked for nearly 15 years, both at Benetton and Ferrari. In a recent an interview with [...]

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