Michael Schumacher is raring to go racing again, and the rest of Formula One is just as keen to have him back. One of four world champions on what promises to be the most competitive starting grid in years when the action starts in Bahrain on Sunday, the 41-year-old German has come [...]
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Lotus Racing Set For Bahrain And The Start Of The 2O1O Formula One™ Season
By 3am on Saturday morning Lotus Racing had finally finished packing up the six airfreight boxes needed for the journey to Bahrain and the beginning of the 2010 Formula One™ season. Two cars and a 60-strong team have now made their way to the Kingdom of Bahrain and the Bahrain International Circuit for the first [...]
USF1 Tells Employees To “Go Home”
The USF1 saga may have finally reached a conclusion – for the 2010 season, anyway. With an unfinished car and just over a week until the season-opening race, the team has reportedly decided to sit the current year out.
USF1 management told employees yesterday to “go home,” effectively placing them on furlough. Seeing as the F1 [...]
CNN Makes Its Formula One™ Debut With Lotus Racing
Lotus Racing and CNN International have today announced a partnership deal that sees the newest Formula One™ team entering into a long-term agreement with the world’s leading news network. CNN’s world famous logos will feature on the T127 race cars, the drivers’ overalls and on all team clothing. The deal [...]
Kovalainen crashes the Lotus T127 in Jerez
Williams driver Rubens Barrichello was fastest in official Formula One testing yesterday while Heikki Kovalainen crashed the new Lotus on its second day back on the track.Heikki Kovalainen’s crash on his debut test for Lotus, which forced the team to stop running. Kovalainen lost control and went head-on into the tyre barrier, knocking the front [...]
USF1’s Season Over Before It Starts?
Although team founders of the first American-based Formula 1 team since the 1970s, Peter Windsor and Ken Anderson publicly insist their new USF1 team will appear on the starting grid at Bahrain, recent reports seem to suggest otherwise.
Argentinean media sources report that USF1 may have already shut its doors after sponsorship money fell through. Reports [...]
Lotus F1 Officially Reveals Car
Lotus unveiled its 2010 car at a launch ceremony in London’s Royal Horticultural Hall on Friday, in an event which played homage to the past but looked firmly towards the team’s future.
The new T127 has a distinctive green and yellow livery, harking back to livery of the 1960’s
Team principal Tony Fernandes was [...]
Renault’s New Beginning
Renault F1 has confirmed Russian driver Vitaly Petrov will partner Robert Kubica for thr 2010 season. The news came as the team revealed their 2010 car at Spain’s Valencia circuit, where pre-season testing begins on Monday. Petrov,will become the first Russian to compete in Formula One racing when he takes to the grid in Bahrain [...]
Mercedes GP Petronas Shows off New Livery
The new Mercedes GP Petronas team has revealed the modernized Silver Arrows racecar livery with its drivers Nico Rosberg and seven-time Formula 1 champ Michael Schumacher alongside.
Don’t get too excited just yet, though. The iridescent silver with green and exposed black carbon fiber is only a mockup of last year’s championship Brawn GP car. The [...]
Schumi’s Back!
Mercedes GP Petronas has officially signed up 7-times World Champion Michael Schumacher as its driver for the 2010 season. Schumacher will join Nico Rosberg behind the wheel of the Silver Arrows racer in a deal said to be about three years long and believed to be worth close to €7 million. The [...]