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• Uncle Walter Drives a Van...

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  First time I've ever seen Walter Röhrl look nervous... I can't imagine why?I mean a 790HP, 195mph VW van with a MclarenF1 driving position on a wet track, what could possibly go wrong?More after the jump [...]

  Posted: December 17, 2009, 10:30am EST
  

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• Branson launches Virgin

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  Sir Richard Branson surprised the F1 world by officially launching Manor GP as Virgin Racing.
  
  Oh, you knew that was going to happen? Well, now it is official, and we have learned:
  Virgin Racing will have the smallest budget on the grid: £40millionVirgin Racing will have the most [...]

  Posted: December 15, 2009, 9:01pm EST
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• Schumacher drives a Mercedes

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  Formula 1 is desperate for a positive storyline and it might strike some as desperate for F1 to be looking back to Michael Schumacher for redemption. Without a doubt, the return of a seven time world champion would be the story of the 2010 season (as might be his failure [...]

  Posted: December 15, 2009, 7:02am EST
  

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• Trulli, Kovy for Lotus

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  Lotus F1 have confirmed its drivers for 2010: Toyota refugee Jarno Trulli and Heikki Kovalainen, late of McLaren.
  
  
  
  Both were signed to three-year deals.
  
  Malaysian Fairuz Fauzy fills the test driver role.
  
  The team also revealed its new logo [...]

  Posted: December 14, 2009, 8:33pm EST
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• New Points System For 2010

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  The FIA have announced that a new points system will be implemented for the 2010 season, increasing the points awarded to each position and extending the award to the top-ten finishers. The F1 Commission, made up of key members of Formula One and chaired by Bernie Ecclestone, proposed the change [...]

  Posted: December 12, 2009, 11:25am EST
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• New scoring system

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  The FIA announced a new scoring system, in part due to the expanded grid for 2010, during the first meeting of the F1 Commission.
  
  The Commission was created as part of the new Concorde Agreement.
  
  Points will be awarded for first through tenth:
  
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  Other decisions [...]

  Posted: December 11, 2009, 7:04pm EST
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• Monza Rally Show.

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  Kimi Raikkonen's switch to the WRC may have caught many by surprise but competing across various motorsport disciplines is really nothing new. In the past drivers, well, they just drove whatever, for money or for sport. Jim Clark drove F1, F2 but also Lotus Cortinas and Ford Fairlanes not to [...]

  Posted: December 07, 2009, 9:24pm EST
  

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• Kimi 's Kool as Ever

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  How many other F1 drivers would happily go to a Jr. team ? And the pairing of Red Bull and Raikkonen seems perfect. I hope he wins in the WRC and maybe he'll do the 24hr du Mans next (...ok that may requirre an extra dose of ice cream or' [...]

  Posted: December 04, 2009, 7:01am EST
  

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• Winter Testing

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  The idea of instituting stringent restrictions on testing in F1, in order to save money, has perhaps been one of the most effective cost-saving measures to have emerged from the work of the FIA and FOTA to save the sport from financial suicide. I remember, not so many years ago, [...]

  Posted: December 01, 2009, 5:43am EST
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• USF1 Funnies

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  Have any of you missed the USF1 sendup on YouTube? Brutal and Brilliant and, here, all on one page for your snickering convenience! Full series after the jump. [...]

  Posted: November 29, 2009, 4:25am EST
  

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• BMW nixes Qadbank, sells team to Sauber

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  BMW canceled its deal with Qadbank Investments and has reached an agreement to sell the F1 team back to founder Peter Sauber.
  
  Though yet to be confirmed as the 13th entry on the grid for 2010, it appears likely it will be on the list when the FIA [...]

  Posted: November 27, 2009, 8:14pm EST
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• Pair of Californians to get taste of F1

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  US F1 may be ruling out running Americans in its debut season, but a pair of youngsters are getting tests for other teams in early December.
  
  21-year-old Indy Lights champion JR Hildebrand tries his hand in a Force India, joining DTM’s Paul di Resta at Jerez.
  
  “As [...]

  Posted: November 24, 2009, 11:19am EST
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• Trulli : NASCAR Superior to Formula 1

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  OK, trick headline but check it out: this from an interview Jarno Trulli gave Gazzetta Dello Sport (Italy) after his NASCAR test in Florida with Michael Waltrip Racing.Q. What was the biggest adjustment coming from F1?JT. Getting used to fenders, a closed cockpit and of running such mass. The proximity [...]

  Posted: November 20, 2009, 9:36pm EST
  

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• Kimi Raikkonen takes hiatus from F1, Button joins McLaren F1

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  Yesterday was a huge day as far as formula one news goes, Kimi Raikkonen decided to take an year off from formula one, he is supposed to return in 2011, apparently he will be spending 2009 as a rally driver. It [...]

  Posted: November 19, 2009, 2:01pm EST
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• Colors

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  So we got a couple of Brits in a British car, some Germans in a German car and two.... ok well, they both SPEAK Italian, in an Italian car.Follow Ferrari's lead and start painting them in the proper colors and F1 may be onto something!....end of post [...]

  Posted: November 18, 2009, 12:46pm EST
  

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• How Kool is Kimi?

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  Sure he's getting 17 Million NOT to drive but still, how many would walk out of F1 over the number of promotional appearance obligations and a rallying clause? Guess Mclaren was so 2006, party on Kimster!read more about it HEREMore Kimi Raikkonen on Axis [...]

  Posted: November 17, 2009, 11:41pm EST
  

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• Twitter Updates for 2009-11-18

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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 9:00pm EST
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• Glock signs up with Manor

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  Newbies Manor Grand Prix have signed Toyota refuge Timo Glock to a two year deal, with an option for a third.
  
  The BBC reports he will likely partner with Lucas di Grassi, while rumors still suggest Manor will run as Virgin F1 in its 2010 debut.
  
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 5:49pm EST
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• The Motorsports Ramblings Top 10 - 2009

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  It's become something of an annual tradition here at Motorsports Ramblings for me to produce an annual top 10 list of the best drivers in F1 each year, in the same vein as that which appears in Autocourse. As usual, my own list, if rather less definitive, is at least [...]

  Posted: November 17, 2009, 5:35pm EST
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• Checkpoint 10: or how I got out of the fictional F1 media

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  It was four-thirty on Sunday morning, somewhere on the outer edge of the Formula 1 universe. In the little suburb, twenty miles from the nearest city, the streets lie deserted beneath the lampposts. Only occasionally, there would be a vague roar of a high-flying jet or [...]

  Posted: November 15, 2009, 7:30am EST
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• USF1 Replies to Rumors, Blames "Zee Germans"

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  Formula1Blog.com interviewed Peter Windsor about the rampant rumors on the actual state of affairs at the North Carolina based team. Windsor rubbished all attributing them mostly to "zee Germans" but also on anti-American feelings, jealousy, bureaucratic delays, internet so called journalists, Sauber and the Swiss and of course. Mr Windsor [...]

  Posted: November 10, 2009, 10:46pm EST
  

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• Every Dog Has Its Day - F1 2009 In Review - Part Two

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  Only Brawn, Red Bull, Mclaren and Ferrari actually won races this year. Yet the strangest thing about this season, in many ways, what marked it out from the 25 or so I've seen before, was that almost all of the remaining six teams on the grid had days when they' [...]

  Posted: November 10, 2009, 2:01pm EST
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• F1 light: Don't be rude to the boss' daughter

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  I mean why would you be rude to Tamara Ecclestone to begin with...even is she wasn't Bernie's daughter?From the Daily Mail:"'I don't think Jenson Button deserves to be the world F1 champion,' said Tamara, at the opening of Mayfair members' club The Red Room. 'He has been in it such" [...]

  Posted: November 09, 2009, 2:00pm EST
  

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• Vaporware...

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  Vaporware is a term associated with Silicon Valley startups that are not quite what they claim to be. USF1's first major sponsor was a huge coup: YouTube... Or at least that's what everyone thought at first. The truth was somewhat less exciting as you will remember, Chad Hurley, one of [...]

  Posted: November 07, 2009, 11:00pm EST
  

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• Raikkonen will make more money going on vacation...

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  ...rather than driving F1 in 2010. Incredible isn't it? It boils down to Ferrari, in what can only be described as a brilliant Machiavellian move effectively priced him out of the market, Raikkonen would be paid by Maranello US$10 M. if he races in 2010 but $17 M if he' [...]

  Posted: November 06, 2009, 9:38am EST
  

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• Tears from Toyota

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  Toyota F1 team boss Tadashi Yamashina was apparently overcome by emotion when he announced the company would "do what it can" to help find jobs for it's Formula 1 team employees and especially the two Japanese drivers Kamui Kobayashi and Kazuki Nakajima.Just for the record: Toyota and Honda left F1' [...]

  Posted: November 04, 2009, 12:54pm EST
  

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• Toyota leaves F1

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  Concerns over Toyota's commitment to Formula 1 were answered today as the company announced its immediate withdraw from the sport.
  
  
  
  "TMC (Toyota Motor Corporation), which had viewed its participation in F1 as contributing to the'" [...]

  Posted: November 04, 2009, 8:38am EST
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• Japan Calls it Quits on F1

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  Honda, Bridgestone, now Toyota, as was hinted at back in August, is said to be out of the game leaving no Japanese involvement in the world's leading motor racing series. It remains to be seen if they will continue as an engine supplier and how they will deal with the [...]

  Posted: November 03, 2009, 7:24pm EST
  

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• Why Kamui Kobayashi may be the most important man in F1

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  Without a doubt Kamui Kobayashi's has had the most exciting debut in Formula 1 for a long, long time. How was that for complete refusal to be intimidated combined with impressive consistency?After his first F1 race in Brazil, Kamui had been pidgenholed by a lot of media who talked about [...]

  Posted: November 02, 2009, 12:11pm EST
  

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• Twitter Updates for 2009-10-31

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     #f1 2009 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix – Q1 – Eliminated drivers – ALO LUI SUT GRO FIS # #f1 2009 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix – Q1 Results – HAM BUT TRU KUB HEI BAR VET WEB KOV ROS BUE KOB NAK RAI [...]

  Posted: October 30, 2009, 11:00pm EDT
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