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Williams Announce a New Renault Engine Deal

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The Williams team have had their worst season start ever, and they’ve scrambled into damage control mode hoping to reverse the trend, or at least stop it in its tracks.  It was recently announced that technical director Sam Michael would step down (as in leave the team entirely) at the end of this season, and [...]

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Williams Management in Disarray?

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The Williams team has gotten off to a shaky start this year, and now it appears that the team’s management team is completely unraveling.   It was announced this week that the team’s technical director and chief aerodynamicist, Sam Michael and Jon Tomlinson, respectively, would resign from the team at the end of this season. Moreover, [...]

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Lewis Hamilton and Tony Stewart to Swap Rides at Watkins Glen

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Lewis Hamilton and NASCAR driver Tony Stewart will do a car swap for a demonstration test at Watkins Glen, NY this summer.  The event should be reminiscent of the test staged a few years back at Indianapolis, when Juan Pablo Montoya (then a Williams pilot) and NASCAR ace Jeff Gordon traded seats for a demo. [...]

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Friday and Saturday at Jerez: Germans Rule

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German drivers topped the time sheets on the second and third days of testing this week at Jerez.  On Friday, Michael Schumacher showed there’s life in an old dog yet.  In the morning, on super-soft tires, he set a quick time that no one else was able to match for the remainder of the day.  [...]

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Newey Is Confident Red Bulls Will Maintain Competitve Edge in 2011

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Adrian Newey is on a roll.  While the Brawn squad seemed to be the darlings of the 2009 F1 season, Red Bull has taken their place this year.  The fact is, Brawn’s dominance began to be eclipsed in the second half of last season, and it was only because they’d been so successful during the [...]

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The Great F1 Rivarly of the 1990s and 2000s: Adrian Newey and Rory Byrne

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If there’s one name that comes to mind as being at the forefront of Formula 1 car design, it’s Adrian Newey’s.  Newey has been the brains behind several successful title-winning cars over nearly three decades, first at Williams, then McLaren and now at Red Bull.  During Michael Schumacher’s early years at Ferrari, one paddock pundit [...]

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Patrick Head Hints at the Return of Ground Effects

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According to a recent report by BBC Sports, ground effects will be part of a suite of technical changes mandated by the FIA for F1 cars as soon as 2013. The ground effects concept is a method of managing airflow along the underbody of a car’s chassis to reduce air pressure beneath the car, thereby [...]

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Nico Hulkenberg Eyes a Force India Drive

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When Force India first took to the grid several years ago, they were considered something of a joke.  The pedigree of the team was distinctly hand-me-down.  The team wasn’t started from scratch, in the manner of the 2010 rookie teams, but was acquired from the Spyker team for 88 million euros.  Spyker, of course, had [...]

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Pastor Maldonado Announced as Hulkenberg’s Replacement at Williams

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In a move that was widely anticipated, the Williams team has announced Venezuelan GP2 driver Pastor Maldonado as Nico Hulkenberg’s replacement.  While the Hulk had been touted by Williams as the most promising rookie since Lewis Hamilton, they dismissed him after his first season. It’s understood, of course, that the move had little to do [...]

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Hakkinen Calls Schumi a ‘Tragic Ex-Hero’

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Former Michael Schumacher rival, Mika Hakkinen, has once again added his two cents to the ongoing argument as to whether or not Schumi (a) made a huge mistake in attempting a comeback, and (b) should hang up his driving gloves and call it a day.  Hakkinen has come down firmly in the yes camp on [...]

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