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New Ferrari and McLaren break cover

In order to keep this little article halfway sensible in length and appearance, you’re about to be linked to within an inch of your lives. Be ready. The links are for comparative purposes, so if all you’re interested in is pictures of new cars, you’re quite safe to ignore them all. Speaking of pictures, a [...]

Beware the unexpected Spaniard

If it seems like only yesterday that Giancarlo Fisichella was being reported as favourite for the vacant Sauber drive, that’s because it really, genuinely was.

Sometimes these things make too much sense. Fisi spent much of 2009 showing well for Force India, before forging late-season links with Ferrari that saw him given a testing and development [...]

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It’s the done thing at this time of year, isn’t it?

The teams we all expected to challenge were nowhere. The teams we’d written off in pre-season were somewhere, and a team that barely made it to the first race won the whole show. The world champion divided opinion, with his supporters matched in size and volume [...]

Kobayashi secures 2010 drive

In what might be the most pleasing bit of news of the off-season so far, Japanese rookie Kamui Kobayashi has agreed a deal to race for the Sauber-Ferrari outfit in 2010.

Peter Sauber, who recently agreed a deal to buy his old team back from BMW only 4 years after selling it to them, has something of a [...]

Schumacher rumours gather pace

Heavens above, it’s actually going to happen, isn’t it?

The German tabloid Bild reported this weekend that Mercedes had agreed a one year contract with Michael Schumacher. The German tabloids, in common with the majority of tabloids, are not always renowned for printing stories that have any basis in fact. This particular paper, however, has been [...]

Kimi Raikkonen communicates

Some of the folk who visit this tiny little corner of the Internet work, or have worked, in PR roles within motorsport. They understand this whole business far better than anyone with 18 years viewing experience and a sweet Damon Hill cap could ever hope to. Perhaps they’ll gently shake their head when they learn [...]

Alonso to Ferrari, floodgates to open

Formula One’s worst-kept secret is out, Ferrari confirming Fernando Alonso on a three year deal starting in 2010.

It has since emerged that a deal starting in 2011 was concluded in the summer but has since been brought forward, the recent race fixing scandal and Kimi Raikkonen’s acceptance that he is no longer wanted at Maranello [...]

Weighing up, briefly: Monza qualifying

This week, “Brevity will get you everywhere.”

After the Chinese meal, the drinks that followed, the tour of Hartlepool’s clubs and the eventual horrible singing, it was the second chorus of Delilah that decisively saw off my already-fragile voice. I should really go and rest that, so we’ll not be long this week.

You know how these things [...]

Replacing Massa’s replacement’s replacement

Third time lucky?

First there was Michael Schumacher, whose fractured neck put paid to his comeback before it ever really started. Then there was People’s Champion Luca Badoer, whose comedy stylings reminded fans worldwide that they were only a couple of lucky breaks away from driving the second Ferrari themselves. Now?

As the only one [...]

Happening before your very eyes: Belgian GP

Formula One is so terribly predictable these days, isn’t it? In such a technologically advanced sport, one where what you’re driving matters as much as how you drive it, a quick car is a quick car. There’s no mystery any more. Unless it’s one of those races where the weather can’t make its mind up, [...]

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