The McLaren team have annouced that they are planning to just sit down for a bit and think about what they're doing in an attempt to drag some sort of performance out of their ailing MP4-24, rather than just randomly upgrading.
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Rumours on the F1 grapevine claim that Richard Branson's Virgin company will move from Brawn GP to awful backmarking newcomers Manor F1 for 2010, with a leaked e-mail confirming that the businessman has bought into the team.
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In the first of a new, rarely-written series on Patty's pages, in which we will take a look back at drivers, teams, tracks and anything else that slipped off the F1 radar without a proper send-off, The Head recalls the maligned Austrian track.
For the 473rd time this year, BMW Sauber are planning to chuck a raft of updates at their F1.09 car for next weekend's German Grand Prix, in the forlorn hope of extracting some sort of reasonable performance out of it.
Nelson Piquet Jr has controversially claimed that the Renault team are likely to remain at their current awful level for some time, with the chances of a 2008-esque late surge (from one half of the garage anyway), somewhat slim.
Red Bull Racing boss Christian Horner has insisted that they are still some way off thinking about imposing team orders, despite the potential for them to take points off each other as the team fights to close the gap to Jenson Button.
The McLaren team have annouced that they are planning to just sit down for a bit and think about what they're doing in an attempt to drag some sort of performance out of their ailing MP4-24, rather than just randomly upgrading.
Ding dong, the witch is dead. The FOTA-led coup, dressed up as an attempt to divide the sport, has been successful. Mosley is gone and FOTA are back in the fold. But is all this quite as good a thing as the F1 fraternity say it is?
The two GP2 races at Silverstone produced a pair of slightly surprising winners, but it was Barwa Addax driver Romain Grosjean who re-established his place at the top of the championship with a pair of solid points finishes.
Sebastian Vettel took a leaf out of home boy Jenson Button's book at Silverstone, as he completely dominated the race to lead home the second Red Bull 1-2 of the season, and offer some hope for a title battle at the same time.
In the first of a new, rarely-written series on Patty's pages, in which we will take a look back at drivers, teams, tracks and anything else that slipped off the F1 radar without a proper send-off, The Head recalls the maligned Austrian track.
It has been a year of performances of some description. Some good, some indifferent, and some downright awful. And that was just the title contenders. Lets give a run down of the drivers, and assign ratings to them for no reason other than to inspire debate.