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Williams thanks rivals and FIA after garage fire
Williams has issued a statement about today’s garage fire in Spain, confirming that four team members were hurt. The team also thanked other paddock personnel for their help in fighting the fire, which started when a fuel rig appeared to … Continue reading
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Lewis Hamilton: “I’ll give it everything I’ve got…”
Lewis Hamilton says he won’t give up despite being forced to start the Spanish GP from the back of the grid. Hamilton was quoted in a team statement issued late this evening. “This is such a disappointment,” said Hamilton. “Today’s … Continue reading
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Mark Webber: “Everyone went too quick…”
Mark Webber was caught out in qualifying in Spain when his Red Bull team decided that his first lap in Q2 was going to be good enough to keep him in the top 10. However when others did second runs … Continue reading
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Hamilton put to back of grid in Spain
Lewis Hamilton has been excluded from qualifying in Spain and put to the back of the grid. Pastor Maldonado and Fernando Alonso thus start on the front row. Drivers are obliged to get back to the pits after the end … Continue reading
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Hamilton’s pole under threat from FIA
Lewis Hamilton’s Barcelona pole is under threat after he stopped on his slowing down lap at the end of Q3. Hamilton did the same after getting pole in Montreal in 2010 because the team was concerned that would not have … Continue reading
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Sebastian Vettel: “I´m quiet confident for the race…”
Sebastian Vettel will have a choice of starting from eighth place in Barcelona on either hard or soft tyres after failing to record a flying lap time in Q3. The German soon realised that he didn’t have the pace to … Continue reading
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Jenson Button: “I’m still trying to understand the tyres…”
Jenson Button may have been fastest on the soft tyre in Barcelona on Friday but the McLaren driver was more concerned about his struggles to get the hard tyre to work. He couldn’t get temperature into the fronts when running … Continue reading
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Teams still split on venue for rookie test
The F1 teams remain split on whether the annual Young Driver test should take place at the end of the season in Abu Dhabi or at Silverstone in the summer, with the field likely to be split between the two … Continue reading
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Fernando Alonso: “The first numbers are positive”
Fernando Alonso believes that Ferrari has made progress with the revisions to its F2012, although he says it will impossible to judge where the car stands relative to the opposition until qualifying. Alonso was fastest in FP1 but didn’t get … Continue reading
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Pole important in Barcelona, says Webber
Mark Webber says he’s happy with the latest updates at Red Bull after the first day of running in Barcelona. Webber was only seventh in FP2, some 0.666s off pacesetter Jenson Button, but he said the overall times meant little. … Continue reading
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