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• 2009 Formula 1 Highlights

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  The FIA really stepped up it's game this year and I must say, for once eclipsed the efforts of fan produced clips which in the past have put the big boys to shame. Next season may be the beginning of the austerity and cost saving era in Formula 1 but [...]

  Posted: December 22, 2009, 9:31am EST
  

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• Renault sells majority stake to investment group

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  Team retains engine manufacturing base
  
  Renault will remain in Formula 1, but the French auto manufacturer has sold approximately 75 percent of the Enstone operation to Luxembourg-based investment firm Genii Capital.
  
  
  
  Renault maintains control over [...]

  Posted: December 16, 2009, 7:10pm 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 : 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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• 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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• Checkpoint 8: Books

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  I'm an avid collector of auto racing books. Over the last decade, I have amassed a collection of two shelves full of Autocourse annuals, Indianapolis 500 yearbooks, and many other books on Formula 1, Indy cars, and sports cars. Most of my books came from used and specialty booksellers all' [...]

  Posted: November 13, 2009, 11:00pm 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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• 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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• BMW: 10 years in Formula 1

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  I'm curious to hear what you think of this video. I'll save my comments for the... comments section.More BMW on Axis [...]

  Posted: October 30, 2009, 6:02pm EDT
  

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• Kyle Busch and F1? Dang! If so, there goes some villainous fun!

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  Reports are circulating that the driver of the No. 18 Toyota, Kyle Busch, is being wooed by a Formula 1 team. (If you have not heard that, just enter that basic premise in your search bar, and you will see what I mean.) This would be to drive for a [...]

  Posted: October 22, 2009, 2:46pm EDT
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• Button: 10th Champion at the 10th Attempt

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  About the first piece I ever wrote on the subject of motorsport, for the now long-defunct Parc Ferme Magazine, was an article asking whether the young Jenson Button had been catapulted into Formula 1 before he was really ready, and if in the long term, his early stardom might do [...]

  Posted: October 21, 2009, 3:28am EDT
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• Interlagos

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  Weather uncertain, Button's clinch uncertain... Formula 1 script writers heading for another successful season finale!end of post [...]

  Posted: October 16, 2009, 7:49am EDT
  

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• Waving the Saltire

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  Trivia Question: Name the small Northern European country whose drivers have racked up five Formula 1 World Titles over the years. If you think the answer is Finland, then you're wrong. Between them, Keke Rosberg, Hakkinen and Raikkonen have racked up four titles, though there remains the possibility that Raikkonen' [...]

  Posted: October 13, 2009, 4:30pm EDT
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• Where there's a will...

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  The principals at USF1 say the reason they cannot run, as promised, American drivers in their Formula 1 debut is because delays in the Concord Agreement left them with no time and that in any case, there are no American drivers who would qualify for a F1 Super license. Remembering [...]

  Posted: October 08, 2009, 11:46am EDT
  

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• Night Riders

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  A couple of years back when it was first announced, I was rather contemptuous of the whole idea of a night race around the streets of Singapore. What exactly was the point of racing under floodlights in the dark? And why on earth was Formula 1 going to Singapore, of [...]

  Posted: September 28, 2009, 3:16pm EDT
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• Yet once more...

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  On my coffee table there is a recent issue of Motor Sport magazine which features a cover picture of a smiling, optimistic Flavio Briatore. It is very sad to think that, just four months after this magazine was published, Briatore would be pushed out of Formula 1 in disgrace.
  
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  Posted: September 16, 2009, 9:30pm EDT
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