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McLarens on Top, Ferraris Near Bottom, in Melbourne’s Second Free Practice

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The McLarens of Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button topped the time sheets in Friday’s second free practice session in Melbourne.  The session was punctuated by spells of intermittent rain, which created narrow windows of optimal track conditions, and made the session’s final times somewhat inconclusive. Ferrari, for example, finished the session well down the roster, [...]

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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 The [...]

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Brawn Thinks Button is Choking

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Much has been made about Jenson Button’s decline in form over the second half of this season, and Ross Brawn has weighed in with his own evaluation.  He has suggested that Button’s driving became more conservative once he realized he was the odds on favorite to take the championship this year.  Button took five victories [...]

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Button’s Lead Bulletproof?

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It has often been noted that the current point system in Formula 1 favors consistency.  More than that, it favors a driver who attains an early lead.  The the current system was adopted largely as a foil to Michael Schumacher, who, in his most successful years at Ferrari, was seen as sewing up the championships [...]

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Kimi to Return to McLaren in 2010?

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Ferrari have officially confirmed that they will be joined by driver Fernando Alonso beginning in 2010, in a deal that will see the Spaniard in red livery for the next three years.
To make way for Alonso, Finnish pilot Kimi Raikkonen will be leaving the team with one year remaining in his contract.  It is thought [...]

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Brawn Back on Top at Monza

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Ross Brawn today once again proved why he has long been known as The Maestro.  While the top three qualifiers, Hamilton, Sutil and Raikkonen all gambled on a light fuel load, and a two stop strategy, Brawn ran his cars with a heavier load, sacrificing grid position, but reclaiming the lost ground during the race, [...]

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Schumi to Return in 2010?

August 25, 2009

The Ferrari brass have been very publicly lobbying for a rule change to allow a third car entry for 2010, and Luca de Montezemelo has been frank about wanting to see Schumacher in the third car. If Alonso moves to Ferrari next year, I think that would make the possibility of a 2010 Schumi [...]

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