F1
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Webber rejects idea of Red Bull rampage
Mark Webber has dismissed suggestions Red Bull will romp to victory come the opening race of the season in Australia in just over a fortnight’s time. For the first time this week, in pre-season testing, a Red Bull car topped the timesheet as the...
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McLaren play down Lowe exit
McLaren have dismissed suggestions they could have done more to prevent the departure of technical director Paddy Lowe. For the second time in five months McLaren have fallen prey to the might of Mercedes’ ambition with Lowe set to follow Lewis...
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Lotus assure Grosjean he has a long-term future
Lotus are expecting a new-look Romain Grosjean this season after assuring the crash-prone French Formula One driver that he has a long-term future with them. Grosjean earned a one-race ban last season after a Belgian Grand Prix collision that put...
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Ferrari doubt fast start
Ferrari are unlikely to have the fastest car when the Formula One season starts in Australia next month but they hope to be close enough for Spaniard Fernando Alonso to make the difference, according to team principal Stefano Domenicali. “The...
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Lauda says Brawn is staying at Mercedes
Ross Brawn’s position as Mercedes team principal is not in discussion despite Paddy Lowe’s departure from McLaren at the end of the year, Mercedes GP non-executive chairman Niki Lauda said last night. McLaren announced earlier that Tim Goss had...
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Hamilton plays down team’s F1 title chances
Lewis Hamilton has played down his Mercedes team’s chances of challenging for the Formula One title after rivals Sebastian Vettel and Fernando Alonso talked them up. Speaking to reporters after a wet and cold final day of the second pre-season test...
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Alonso expects strong start to new F1 season
Fernando Alonso is convinced he will be able to fight for this year’s F1 world title from day one. After opting to skip the first test in Jerez a fortnight ago to focus on his fitness, Alonso returned to the cockpit of his Ferrari for the first time...
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UK top of the charts for F1 TV coverage
The United Kingdom can proudly boast it is now the most prolific territory when it comes to television coverage of Formula One. Figures released in F1’s annual broadcast report for 2012 show a total of 2,500 hours were aired accumulatively via...
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Williams drives straight into dispute
Williams rolled their new F1 car out of the garage and straight into a dispute over the design of its exhausts yesterday. The last of the 11 teams to show off their 2013 car, the former champions had barely started testing the FW35 before it emerged...
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Alonso returns as F1 testing moves up a gear
Fernando Alonso will test his new Ferrari for the first time in Spain today while former champions Williams bring Formula One’s ‘launch season’ to a close as the last team to unveil their 2013 car. There will not be much fanfare, if any, at either...
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Force India on stable footing says team chief
Force India deputy team principal Bob Fernley has reiterated the Silverstone-based marque is ring-fenced from co-owner Vijay Mallya’s personal financial problems. Mallya’s Kingfisher Airlines is understood to be close to collapse, with reports in...
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Pirelli unveils tyre choices for 2013
Pirelli has opted for bold tyre choices for the opening four grands prix of the new Formula One season. Last month Pirelli unveiled its range of revolutionary rubber for the coming campaign, designed to produce at least two pit stops per race. As...
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Hakkinen writes off Hamilton chances
Two-time Formula One world champion Mika Hakkinen does not believe Briton Lewis Hamilton will be in the hunt for this year’s title. Hakkinen was left less than impressed by the speed of the Mercedes following last week’s first pre-season test in...
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Byrne lending a hand with Ferrari’s 2014 car
Ferrari are tapping the talents of Rory Byrne, the South African designer whose cars took Michael Schumacher to seven Formula One drivers’ titles with Benetton and Ferrari, to help with development of their 2014 car. Byrne was spotted at the launch...
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Vettel expecting open title race this season
Sebastian Vettel believes Lewis Hamilton can still be a contender for this year’s Formula One world title. After a troubled opening two days of testing for Hamilton’s Mercedes team, there were smiles all round in the next test as Nico Rosberg ran...
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Hamilton crashes in his first test with Mercedes
Lewis Hamilton’s first day of Formula One testing with Mercedes ended after 15 laps yesterday when his car suffered brake problems and ploughed into a tyre wall. The 2008 world champion was unhurt in the crash, at the Jerez circuit’s Dry Sack corner...
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Mercedes test halted by electrical problem
Mercedes called a halt to their first day of Formula One testing yesterday after Nico Rosberg stopped on track with flames flaring briefly around the back of his car. The team blamed an electrical fault. “After identifying the cause of the problem,...
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Toro Rosso seeking switch to Renault engines
Toro Rosso are seeking to switch from Ferrari to Renault engines in 2014 to benefit from world champion sister team Red Bull’s close links with the French manufacturer. “We are in negotiations with Renault... but no contract signed so far,” team...
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Teams ready for the test
Ferrari president Luca Di Montezemolo will have more than a moment’s hesitation in answering his mobile if Felipe Massa rings today. The memory of last year, when the Brazilian Formula One driver called him from the Jerez test track to give his...
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Champ Vettel wary of world domination with new RB9
Sebastian Vettel distanced himself from a suggestion that he was planning world domination as Formula One champions Red Bull unveiled the car that could carry him to a fourth successive title this season. “World domination? I’m German, but I didn’t...
