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Williams Drops Hulkenberg for 2011

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When Wiliams driver Nico Hulkenberg took pole at this year’s Brazilian grand prix, Williams team co-owner Patrick Head was asked if the rookie driver’s performance at Interlagos would secure his seat during the coming season.  Head was cagey.  While he admitted that Hulkenberg deserved to remain in Formula 1, he refused to concede that the [...]

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Vettel Takes the Champagne in Brazil

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While many Alonso fans were saying that Brazil was the race where the Spaniard could sew up his third world title, it was not to be.  Instead, the Red Bull squad put their stamp on the event, as if that were simply the natural order of things.  Although Williams driver Nico Hulkenberg was able to [...]

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Nico Hulkenberg Grabs Pole in Brazil

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Weather was set to be the primary story in today’s qualifying today in Brazil, as all three sessions were run in the wet.  But the real story was Nico Hulkenberg’s capturing pole position for Sunday’s race.  For the most part, there were no surprises today, with the usual suspects coming to the fore with predicable [...]

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Rubens Out, Hulkenberg In, at Williams?

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The driver line-up at Williams still seems to be up in the air.  It had been thought earlier that Rubens Barrichello’s contract had been extended to 2011.  Barrichello had made positive remarks in this regard, and most of the paddock gossip has been around team mate Nico Hulkenberg’s future with the team. There was a [...]

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After Singapore, Williams Will Focus on 2011 Chassis

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The Williams team have revealed that they will deploy their final upgrade to the FW32 chassis at the Singapore Grand Prix in three weeks’ time, and will thereafter focus their efforts on the development of the FW33, for 2011.  This might seem a bit counter-intuitive, as the Williams cars have been making progress up the [...]

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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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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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