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Hulkenberg Quickest at Barcelona on Day Two

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Nico Hulkenberg in the Williams topped the time sheets in today’s testing in Barcelona.  Unlike yesterday, when nearly a second separated the first and second best times, today Hulkenberg edged out second quickest Fernando Alonso by a mere 0.023 seconds.
Moreover, the top half of the time sheets was more tightly clustered than yesterday.  The three [...]

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Double Diffuser Ban Set to Be Approved for 2011

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The Formula 1 Technical Working Group has voted to ban douuble diffusers, effective for the 2011 season and beyond.  The move still needs approval by the Formula 1 Commission and the FIA’s World Sport Council, but this is expected to be a mere formality at this stage.
Double diffusers were introduced by three teams (Brawn, Williams [...]

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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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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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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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Barrichello Denies Williams Deal for 2010

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Brawn Driver Rubens Barrichello now says that he has yet to sign a deal for 2010 and beyond.  It had been reported previously in the Brazilian press that Barrichello had already inked a deal with Williams for $8 million per year, a four-fold increase over his current salary at Brawn.  But this report might have [...]

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Williams Terminate Toyota Deal

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Williams Grand Prix have confirmed that they are terminating their engine contract with Toyota one year ahead of schedule. Both Renault and Cosworth have been mentioned as possible replacements for Toyota.
As reported in The Guardian, team principal Frank Williams said, “At a time of great difficulty for us as a team, Toyota stepped forward and [...]

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Williams Close to Renault Deal

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Williams Formula 1 is close to a decision on a new engine deal for 2010.  Williams have been using Toytota powerplants since 2007, but they have gone public with their decision to terminate their deal with Toyota a year early. Toyota, for their part, would be more than happy to see the deal through to [...]

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