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New boss says F1 must consider future after Ecclestone
Food giant Nestle's boss has confirmed he is set to enter the world of formula one. Austrian businessman Peter Brabeck-Letmathe confirmed to Kleine Zeitung newspaper that he has...

07 May 2012 13:06
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Spain 2012 preview quotes: Red Bull Racing
Sebastian Vettel: "Of all the current GP tracks, Barcelona is the one that we know the most because we have done so much testing there in recent years. That said, the knowledge ...

07 May 2012 11:24
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Barrichello still clinging on to F1 dream
Rubens Barrichello is still refusing to give up on his formula one career. After a record-setting 19 consecutive seasons on the grid, the 39-year-old Brazilian lost his Williams...

07 May 2012 10:48
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Mercedes conducts F1 quit study
Mercedes is "on the verge" of quitting formula one. That is the alarming claim of the London newspaper The Times, in an article written by its authoritative F1 correspondent Kev...

07 May 2012 09:51
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Spain 2012 preview quotes: Caterham F1 Team
Alexander Rossi (replacing Heikki Kovalainen in FP1): "I am looking forward to getting back into the F1 car in Spain and I want to thank the team for the chance to run in FP1 in...

07 May 2012 09:08
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Sainz jr on track for Toro Rosso future
Carlos Sainz jr is on course for a future in formula one. The 17-year-old Spaniard is the son of Carlos Sainz, the former two-time world rally champion. Sainz jr, however, has p...

07 May 2012 08:37
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Spain 2012 preview quotes: Sauber
The Sauber F1 Team is looking forward to the first European round of the 2012 FIA Formula One World Championship, which will be the Santander Spanish Grand Prix on the Circuit d...

04 May 2012 16:29
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Spain 2012 preview quotes: HRT F1 Team
With the first stage of the season completed in distant lands, its time for Formula 1 to head much closer to home with the first European event of the Championship taking plac...

04 May 2012 14:55
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Father Alguersuari: "Axe by Toro Rosso unfair and incomprehensible"
Jaime Alguersuari's father has slammed Red Bull's decision to axe his son. Jaime Alguersuari snr said the decision by Dr Helmut Marko to oust the young Spaniard after a strong s...

04 May 2012 13:52
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Ferrari getting ready to equip F2012 with F-duct
Ferrari might be gearing up to incorporate a 'double-DRS' setup aboard its improving F2012 car. If true, the famous Italian team would be the first team to successfully emulate ...

04 May 2012 12:13
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Caterham boss Fernandes rues lack of Malaysian support
Tony Fernandes has admitted he would have liked corporate Malaysia to have backed his formula one team. The Malaysian entrepreneur founded a UK based start-up team in 2010, call...

04 May 2012 11:45
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Michael Schumacher visited Pirelli at Mugello
Michael Schumacher paid a visit to the Pirelli motorhome at Mugello. The seven time world champion was heavily critical of the Italian supplier's 2012 tyres recently in Bahrain,...

04 May 2012 10:28
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Sergio Perez treated after 'acrid' smoke incident
Sergio Perez had to be treated at Mugello on Thursday following a smoky incident. Blick newspaper reports that, early on the final day of the rare in-season test, "acrid black s...

04 May 2012 09:50
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Vitaly Petrov critical of safety at Mugello track
Vitaly Petrov on Thursday dealt a blow to Mugello's ambitions to join the F1 calendar. The Russian, who drives for Caterham, said the Ferrari owned circuit in beautiful Tuscany ...

04 May 2012 08:38
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Mark Webber full of praise for Lotus F1 Team
F1 is slowly adjusting to the sport's new reality. Although still with a winning car, Red Bull's utter dominance is undoubtedly over. Not just that, the Pirelli tyre situation, ...

03 May 2012 14:32
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Barcelona determined to host Spanish GP in 2013
Barcelona has opened the door to alternating its grand prix with F1's other Spanish host Valencia. But the Circuit de Catalunya organisers, set to run the Spanish grand prix nex...

03 May 2012 12:15
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Vergne: "Experienced teammate would have made it easier"
Jean-Eric Vergne has admitted his F1 debut would be easier if he was sharing the Toro Rosso garage with an experienced driver. Instead, the French rookie made his grand prix deb...

03 May 2012 11:48
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Mercedes wants to continue with Rosberg and Schumacher
Mercedes appears in no mind to change its driver lineup any time soon. Breakthrough China GP winner Nico Rosberg admitted this week that he could imagine staying with the German...

03 May 2012 10:43
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Mugello eyes spot on F1 race calendar
Mugello, the Ferrari owned circuit near Florence, has set its sights on hosting a grand prix. As the high speed circuit hosts this week's rare in-season formula one test, circui...

03 May 2012 10:00
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Billionaires line up to push Sauber on
Sauber has the swagger of a team of the future. The Hinwil based team struggled for survival in the wake of owner BMW's shock withdrawal in late 2009. "We've been through a quit...

03 May 2012 09:37
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Pirelli: "We built the tyres the way we were asked to"
An obvious tension was evident at Mugello when Pirelli's Paul Hembery was asked about Michael Schumacher. The seven time world champion had slammed F1's official supplier after ...

02 May 2012 16:52
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Nico Rosberg could commit F1 career to Mercedes
F1's newest winner has admitted he has no plans to leave his team. After more than a century of grands prix, Nico Rosberg finally broke through with his first race win recently ...

02 May 2012 16:16
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Sauber wins update race at Mugello test opener
Sauber was the team with the biggest update package as F1's ultra-rare in-season test began on Tuesday. Kamui Kobayashi was in charge of the revised C31, which including a new e...

02 May 2012 11:46
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Webber denies signing 2013 Ferrari deal
Mark Webber has denied signing with the Ferrari team for 2013. Spanish media reports, indicating that a letter of intent may already have been written, said Fernando Alonso favo...

02 May 2012 10:04
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Mugello test 2012 day 1 quotes: Toro Rosso
Eleven of the twelve Formula 1 teams are taking part in this three day test session at Mugello, Italy, the first time in four years that there has been a test other than the You...

01 May 2012 18:20
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Mugello test 2012 day 1 quotes: Caterham
Rodolfo Gonzalez: "Despite the weather, which was obviously frustrating this afternoon, I've had a good day with the team here at the Mugello test. I love this track - I've won ...

01 May 2012 18:13
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Mugello day 1: Alonso fastest on rain-hit first day in Italy
Ferrari driver Fernando Alonso posted the best time between the many rain showers on the first day of testing in Mugello. A 1:22.444 was enought for a top spot for the two times...

01 May 2012 18:13
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Sponsorship only problem for Lucas di Grassi
Lucas di Grassi has admitted that even his continuing role at Pirelli is not a ticket back onto the F1 grid. "I'm in the best possible position technically, as the driver with k...

01 May 2012 15:28
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France in rush to complete GP deal before the weekend
The French government is dashing to seal the lid on the country's return to F1. Bernie Ecclestone has said a deal has been reached to annually alternate a race between Paul Rica...

01 May 2012 14:47
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'Ferrari looks to Webber to replace Massa in 2013'
More reports are suggesting Mark Webber could be Ferrari-bound. One of Spain's leading F1 correspondents, Raymond Blancafort, wrote in El Mundo Deportivo that "there may be a pr...

01 May 2012 12:14
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Schumacher: "F1 in 2012 is a 1000 piece puzzle"
F1's new face of 2012 is polarising the sport. It seems teams, drivers and spectators alike either love or hate the new great influence brought largely by Pirelli's new generati...

01 May 2012 11:52
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D'Ambrosio could get some Friday action at GP's in 2012
Jerome d'Ambrosio has revealed he could drive one of the Lotus cars during Friday morning practice sessions at some point in 2012. The former Virgin driver, who is managed by Lo...

01 May 2012 11:29
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Singapore eyes new race deal and F1 floatation
The fact F1 has chosen the Singapore exchange for the sport's high profile floatation does not mean the city-state's popular floodlit street race is guaranteed. The night event'...

01 May 2012 10:54
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Kimi Raikkonen: "F1 is my job, not my life"
Kimi Raikkonen insists he is "not interested" in formula one -- except the cars, and winning. Asked by the reporter for Bild am Sonntag newspaper if the famous Finnish character...

01 May 2012 09:36
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Sauber confirms Chelsea FC as new sponsor
Rumours that a top English premier league football club is entering formula one as a sponsor have proved correct. Ever since Sauber has been running teaser 'Out of the blue' and...

01 May 2012 08:18
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First exclusive pictures from preparations for Mugello test
The first and only mid-season test will kick off tomorrow. Not at a Spanish test circuit but at the Italian Mugello circuit eleven Formula 1 teams will test new parts on their c...

30 Apr 2012 23:37
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Bernie Ecclestone engaged to Fabiana Flosi
Bernie Ecclestone is getting married again. It will be the F1 supremo's third marriage. His first wife was Ivy, and they had a daughter, Deborah. 81-year-old Ecclestone's best k...

27 Apr 2012 14:08
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Williams and McLaren use loophole to change gearbox
Two teams deployed a quiet 'trick' in Bahrain in order to exploit a loophole in the long-life gearbox rules, a specialist publication claims. Williams' Pastor Maldonado had to m...

27 Apr 2012 12:16
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Pirelli getting credit and blame for unbalance of power
Pirelli is getting the credit - or the blame - for F1's unstable pecking order so far in 2012. For the first time in almost three decades, four different cars - McLaren, Ferrari...

27 Apr 2012 11:51
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McLaren won't bring any massive updates to Mugello
Jenson Button has admitted he sees no point to changing McLaren's Mugello test programme next week. After the British team struggled for pace on Pirelli's complex tyres last wee...

27 Apr 2012 10:02
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Alguersuari could have been racing for Lotus this year
Jaime Alguersuari reportedly ended talks with the Lotus (nee Renault) team late last year because he believed his job at Toro Rosso was safe. That is the claim of the Spanish pu...

27 Apr 2012 08:53
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FIA tests forward roll-hoop for F1 cars
F1's governing body is looking into mandating 'forward roll-hoops' to boost driver safety. The innovation would be to prevent the kind of incidents that, in 2009, seriously inju...

26 Apr 2012 15:47
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Lotus F1 Team owner Genii considers buying Group Lotus
Rumours that F1 team owner Genii is contemplating buying the Group Lotus sports car company are continuing to gain steam. That is despite Genii's Gerard Lopez confirming recentl...

26 Apr 2012 14:16
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F1 racing ahead with $3bn floatation plans
F1's plans to float on the Singapore stock exchange are continuing to harden. The sport's majority owner CVC has reportedly lined up several banks - including UBS, RBS, Morgan S...

26 Apr 2012 12:48
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Ecclestone risks losing Mercedes due to dispute with Brawn
A spat between two Britons could drive the German giant Mercedes out of formula one, according to a new media report. F1 chief executive Bernie Ecclestone recently confirmed he ...

26 Apr 2012 10:41
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Red Bull Racing playes down dominance in Bahrain
Red Bull has poured cold water on expectations the reigning back to back world champions could be set to resume their reign over formula one. After a victory drought spanning th...

26 Apr 2012 09:56
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'Force India skipped practice in Bahrain to save money'
Another theory about Force India's absence from a practice session in Bahrain last weekend has emerged. Word has it the Silverstone based team sat out the second session on Frid...

26 Apr 2012 09:12
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Ferrari denies interest in engineer James Key
James Key could be the next formula one engineer to join F1's struggling giant Ferrari. Multiple media sources, including the authoritative Italian specialist newspaper La Gazze...

26 Apr 2012 08:39
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Reports question Bahrain spectator figures
A respected specialist publication has questioned the official spectator figures published by the organisers of Sunday's highly controversial Bahrain grand prix. The Sakhir c...

25 Apr 2012 16:35
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Singapore relives eighties with new names for music line-up
Music fans attending September's 2012 Formula 1 Singtel Singapore Grand Prix will be able to relive some of the greatest hits of the 1980s at a series of free concerts featuring...

25 Apr 2012 15:06
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HRT to miss test in Mugello next week
After some careful assessment, HRT Formula 1 Team has decided not to take part in the upcoming Formula 1 tests celebrated in Mugello, Italy, next week (1st-3rd May). With the fi...

25 Apr 2012 14:27
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Ecclestone told Bahrain to take down slogan 'UniF1ed'
Bernie Ecclestone has revealed he was not happy Bahrain organisers used the acronym 'F1' in its political slogan for last weekend's race. The F1 chief executive was highly suppo...

25 Apr 2012 12:13
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Webber helps Australian fans with live coverage of F1
Australian F1 fans are this week rejoicing in local hero Mark Webber even more than usual. Pressure applied by the Red Bull driver was reportedly instrumental in returning the s...

25 Apr 2012 11:26
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Salo and Surer impressed by Lotus and Raikkonen
Kimi Raikkonen can add a second title to his tally in 2012. That is the claim of the 2007 world champion's countryman Mika Salo, who now commentates on Finnish television MTV3. ...

25 Apr 2012 10:48
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Haug disagrees with Schumacher's criticism about tyres
He does not agree with the seven time world champion, but Norbert Haug insists he can understand Michael Schumacher's criticism of the current generation of Pirelli tyre. Mer...

25 Apr 2012 09:38
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Adrian Sutil waits for new chance in F1
Becoming Pirelli's test driver was "not an option" for Adrian Sutil, the out-of-work F1 driver has admitted. "Right now I'm waiting," the former Force India driver told Eurospor...

25 Apr 2012 08:58
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Rodolfo Gonzalez gets to test for Caterham in Mugello
Caterham F1 Team has confirmed that Rodolfo Gonzalez will be joining race drivers Vitaly Petrov and Heikki Kovalainen at the fourth official test of the 2012 F1 season, taking p...

25 Apr 2012 08:26
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Williams looks forward to important Mugello test
After consecutive points-scoring finishes in Malaysia and China, Williams F1 endured a frustrating Bahrain Grand Prix. Both of its FW34s retired from the 57-lap race, leaving th...

24 Apr 2012 17:17
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Pirelli making F1 a show or a lottery?
Tyres. The political dramas aside, that word utterly dominated the Bahrain grand prix weekend. Afterwards, Michael Schumacher admitted he was "unhappy" with the situation. "Some...

24 Apr 2012 15:58
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Only certainty is uncertainty in F1 2012
All this year's title contenders know after four 'flyaway' races in 2012 is that they do not know what will happen in Spain next month. "The only certainty is uncertainty," read...

24 Apr 2012 14:50
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F1 assesses fallout after damaging Bahrain saga
With the F1 world now returned from Bahrain, the sport is assessing the fallout of one of the most controversial grands prix in history. The drivers were conspicuously quiet ove...

24 Apr 2012 14:11
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Boullier happy with prove of competitive Lotus package
Three races into the season, Eric Boullier cut a figure of frustration in the Formula 1 paddock. With round four finally providing the reward the team deserved for their efforts...

24 Apr 2012 13:03
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Alonso: "Massa doesn't have to prove himself"
Fernando Alonso has backed his beleaguered teammate Felipe Massa. Massa is fighting to save his Ferrari seat, but his team boss Stefano Domenicali insists the Brazilian also "ne...

24 Apr 2012 12:07
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McLaren invited onto F1 board by Ecclestone
McLaren will join top-team rivals Ferrari and Red Bull on F1's board. It had emerged last month that only Ferrari and Red Bull had been offered the special deals for the new Con...

24 Apr 2012 11:19
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Jean Alesi urges Grosjean hype to stop
Jean Alesi would like to see the pressure eased on the shoulders of France's new F1 hope. Until Sunday, Alesi was the last French driver to have stood on a formula one podium, a...

24 Apr 2012 10:36
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Ecclestone intends to keep Bahrain on the schedule 'forever'
The calamitous Bahrain grand prix saga has not jeopardised the island Kingdom's future on the F1 calendar. That is the strident claim of Bernie Ecclestone, after the F1 chief ex...

24 Apr 2012 09:22
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Hamilton wants to test in Mugello after bad result in Bahrain
Lewis Hamilton is rethinking McLaren's scheduled approach to the rare and crucial in-season test at Mugello next week. The British team announced last week that both Hamilton an...

24 Apr 2012 08:49
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Barcelona and Valencia to alternate Spanish GP from 2013
Bernie Ecclestone has confirmed that Barcelona and Valencia will, from next year, alternate a single annual Spanish grand prix race date. Currently, the two venues have their ow...

23 Apr 2012 16:38
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Now Red Bull Racing emerges as new favorite
With Red Bull the latest to hold a trophy aloft this year, yet another potential 2012 champion has emerged. In theory, back to back world champion Sebastian Vettel, the Bahrain ...

23 Apr 2012 14:18
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Alonso surprised by succes of damage control for Ferrari

Amid Ferrari's performance crisis with the struggling F2012 car, the Italian team has emerged from the opening 'flyaway' races with a solid head of steam. He might be just fifth...

23 Apr 2012 12:15
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