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Renault F1 with MOV’IT

Mar 11

Posted by Insider in F1, Renault

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Only a couple of days before the start of the new season, Renault F1 Team received another boost (financially speaking) by signing a new partner. We’re talking about German company MOV’IT, a worldwide player in high-performance brake systems for sports, racing and security vehicles.

We weren’t given the full details of the new agreement, but we believe it will extend for the duration of the upcoming season only, with the company’s logo due to be painted on the nose of the Renault R30 starting the very Bahrain Grand Prix this weekend.

“One of the primary motivations for our investment in Renault F1 Team was to use the sport as a powerful business-to-business platform and create synergies between different companies within our partner network,” said the Enstone based team owner Gerard Lopez.

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No Sponsor For Sauber F1 in Bahrain

Mar 10

Posted by Insider in F1

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Although hoping to secure a major sponsor for the 2010 Formula One championship - that gets off from as early as this weekend - Peter Sauber will bring his team to Bahrain without an official backer. While some teams have recently announced new title sponsors for the 2010 season, Sauber F1 Team is yet to find a company willing to pour some money into their account for at least one year.

Consequently, the well-designed Sauber C29 cars - as showed in one of our recent reports - will show up on the Bahrain grid in a mostly-blank bodywork. Hopefully, some good results in the first few races will cause some sponsors to look the Sauber way in the near future.

“After the withdrawal of BMW and the takeover of the team, the time was simply too short for us to find a partner or principal sponsor. We only had confirmation of the 13th team entry in December so concrete negotiations (with backers) could only start very late,” said Sauber, according to Switzerland’s 20 Minuten.

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F1 Entry List for 2010

Mar 4

Posted by Insider in F1

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With the news that US F1 will not be joining the 2010 Formula One Championship due to internal issues, the International Automobile Federation (FIA) released what we believe will be the final entry list for the upcoming campaign.

As most of you might suspect, the big hit of the list is actually a missing piece that we had all believed will make the grid of the Bahrain Grand Prix two weekends from now. We’re obviously talking about Stefan Grand Prix, a team willing to take the place of US F1 on the 2010 entry list after some intense preparations in recent months.

Nevertheless, the FIA argued that replacing an F1 entry with another one in such a short period of time would be inappropriate, and made public a 12-team entry list for the season to come. Basically, we’re going to have 24 cars on the grid this year, 10 of which will score points at the end of each Grand Prix.

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Hispania Racing F1 Team From Campos GP

Mar 2

Posted by Insider in F1, News

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With Campos Grand Prix having suffered an ownership & management change a couple of weekends ago, it seems the very name of the team will be different. According to Spanish newspaper Diario AS, it seems the Spanish outfit will be renamed into Hispania Racing F1 Team before the start of the new season.

Jose Ramon Carabente, until a few weeks ago shareholder within Adrian Campos’ controlled team, decided to buy the majority stake in the organization and proceeded to a management change, appointing Colin Kolles as new team principal of the team.

Another important decision now seems to be the rebranding of the team into Hispania Racing, the name being linked with Carabante’s company Grupo Hispania. Although only a rumor for the time being, the new name of the team will be disclosed on Thursday, together with the all-new 2010 Dallara-built challenger and the team’s lineup for the upcoming season.

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CNN as long-time sponsors of the Malaysian

Mar 2

Posted by Insider in F1, Lotus

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They may not have bagged countrymen Petronas oil company as major sponsor of their Formula One operations, but Lotus F1 Team sure managed to hit the jackpot earlier this week, as they have confirmed world’s leading news network CNN as long-time sponsors of the Malaysian backed outfit.

Although not title sponsors, CNN agreed to a long-time partnership with Lotus, with its logos due to appear heavily on the surface of the T127, as well as the drivers’ overalls and all team clothing.

“We are very proud to welcome CNN into the Lotus Racing family. It is a sign of the positive impact we have already made in the global business market that such a prestigious brand, familiar to millions around the world as the definitive source of news and current affairs, has made the decision to partner with us,” said the team’s CEO Tony Fernandes.

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Lotus F1 Car is Worse than Minardi’s

Mar 1

Posted by Insider in F1, Lotus

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The last day of testing on the Barcelona track on Sunday marked the official finale of the off-season test in Formula One. Less than two weeks from now, the cars will rejoin an official race track to battle for the first points of the new season, meaning that most of the work should have already been finalized in the garage by now.

If the test on the Spanish track has been quite successful for teams such as McLaren, Ferrari or Red Bull, the newly entrants have suffered for most of the time during the month of February. Struggling with lack of spare parts and an aerodynamic package in an incipient stage, both Virgin Racing and Lotus F1 Team ended the testing in Jerez and Barcelona more than 4 or 5 seconds off the leading pace.

Talking to Finland’s Turun Sanomat, Lotus’ Heikki Kovalainen made a comparison between his new T127 model and the Minardi car he used to take to the testing track some 6 years ago. And the results are quite worrying for the Malaysian officials at Lotus.

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Official F1 Safety Car For 2010

Feb 28

Posted by Insider in F1, Mercedes-Benz

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As we enter another year of F1 we can say hello to a brand new official safety car in the form of the 2010 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG, which replaces last year’s SL 63 AMG and is destined to be one of the most memorable safety cars we’ve seen in a while.

The SLS AMG safety car will make its debut at Bahrain’s season opener on March 12 and will appear during all 19 scheduled races. It will be piloted by 38-year-old German Bernd Mayländer and will be on standby in the pit lane throughout the entire race. Mayländer, himself, is a former DTM race car driver so he should know a thing or two about keeping pace with the F1 cars out on the track. Read the rest of this entry »

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Alonso always Improving

Feb 25

Posted by Insider in F1, Ferrari

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Fernando Alonso insisted that he is now a better driver as compared to his first stint at Renault. Back during the 2005 and 2006 seasons, he won consecutive titles in the series, after which he moved to McLaren Mercedes. Although he hasn’t managed to add a 3rd world title in his CV, he reckoned that the one year he spent at Woking, as well as the struggling years he experienced at Renault have made him a more complete racer.

As we have already covered the McLaren story, we’ll focus on Alonso’s comments over his second stint at Renault, when he struggled in the mid-to-rear pack through the 2008 and 2009 seasons.

“I knew I was only fighting for seventh or eighth but it was important to learn from that. I have no doubt I am a better driver now,” said Alonso in his interview with The Guardian, hinting that he preferred to leave a team in which he could have battled for the world title (at least theoretically) rather than play second fiddle to newcomer Lewis Hamilton.

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Mosley Think Is Amusing

Feb 25

Posted by Insider in F1, Rumors

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One already knew that the “love story” between former FIA president Max Mosley and Formula One team Ferrari was terminated during the course of last season, “thanks” to the former’s cost-cutting and new-entries policy regarding the future of the sport. However, following the latest attack on Mosley made by Ferrari, the story seems to make the headlines once again.

With Ferrari blaming Mosley for the current situation in Formula One - with two teams in danger of not making it to the 2010 Bahrain GP due to lack of finance - the former FIA president could not have sit and listen to those accusations without a proper respond. And, according to James Allen on F1, the 69-year old Brit actually found the attacks “quite amusing.”

“(He) hinted that the team had opened a can of worms here and that he had not planned to say anything rude about them before now, but that they have fired the first shot with this attack. He described Ferrari as a middle-aged woman who is jealous of the attention new beautiful women around her are getting!” said James Allen on F1.

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Team Building from Trulli

Feb 25

Posted by Insider in F1, Lotus

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Although Lotus F1 Team confirmed they are aiming to become the best newly-entered team of Formula One during the 2010 season, their experienced driver Jarno Trulli insisted that the upcoming campaign will be one of constructing a string outfit for the future.

The Malaysian-backed team signed two race-winning drivers for their returning F1 campaign in 2010, this being proof enough of the team’s plans for the future.

“We have to be realistic. It’s going to be a tough season, and to begin with what we need to do is be reasonably competitive. Eventually, the target will probably be to show some good performances by the end of the year. As I say, it’s a long-term project, and the first season is all about building up the team,” said Trulli.

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