The most competitive, exciting and, quite possibly, spectacular Formula One season for two decades will begin in Bahrain on Sunday.
Malaysian Grand Prix organisers hope to attract more than 100 000 spectators to next month’s F1 race thanks to the return of Michael Schumacher.
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/ 4 February 2010
Nick Heidfeld joined the Mercedes Formula One team as test and reserve driver on Thursday, completing a trio of Germans in the new team’s line-up.
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/ 2 February 2010
Brazilian Felipe Massa showed on Monday he felt no fear as he returned to the track on Monday, setting the fastest time in pre-season testing.
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/ 27 January 2010
Seven-time champion Michael Schumacher may extend his Formula One comeback beyond the current three-year contract he has signed with Mercedes.
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/ 26 January 2010
Mercedes GP launched their new car on Monday, but the real fire-power in the team is set to be the duo of Michael Schumacher and Ross Brawn.
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/ 25 January 2010
Michael Schumacher sauntered back into the Formula One limelight in Mercedes overalls on Monday to kick off his bid for a record eighth title.
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/ 18 January 2010
Nico Rosberg, and not Michael Schumacher, will have the honour of driving the first laps with the new Mercedes GP Formula One car next month.
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/ 14 January 2010
Michael Schumacher said on Thursday he doesn’t expect to win the drivers championships in his first season back, but wants to win an eighth title.
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/ 14 January 2010
Michael Schumacher could rue his departure from Ferrari because Fernando Alonso is perfectly placed to beat the German to the world title again.
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/ 11 January 2010
Michael Schumacher will absolve his first test runs for Mercedes Grand Prix this week ahead of his comeback to Formula One for the 2010 season.
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/ 23 December 2009
Michael Schumacher has agreed a one-year deal to come out of retirement and drive for Mercedes in 2010.
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/ 21 December 2009
Jenson Button, who began 2009 in danger of becoming a dole-queue millionaire, ended it as world champion.
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/ 17 December 2009
Nico Rosberg believes seven-times world champion Michael Schumacher will find it difficult to return to the fast lane after an absence of four years.
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/ 15 December 2009
Michael Schumacher’s possible return to Formula One gathered pace on Monday when Ferrari announced they would not stand in the former champion’s way.
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/ 14 December 2009
Michael Schumacher will meet Ferrari boss Luca di Montezemolo this week to discuss a possible move to the new Mercedes team, said reports.
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/ 11 December 2009
New Formula One team Mercedes Grand Prix are set to offer a driver’s contract to retired former world champion Michael Schumacher.
Ferrari on Monday finally ended all talk of a Michael Schumacher comeback in the wake of Luca Badoer’s miserable weekend at the European Grand Prix.
Former world champion Michael Schumacher has called off plans to return to Formula One due to a neck injury.
Not even low-res images of Max Moseley’s little S&M spank-a-thon raised as many eyebrows as did the news of Michael Schumacher’s return.
Injured Formula One driver Felipe Massa left a Hungarian hospital on Monday to return home to Brazil, a photographer witnessed.
Seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher is making a sensational return to Formula One, Ferrari announced on Wednesday.
After years of keeping his identity secret, Michael Schumacher has revealed he is ”The Stig”, the anonymous test driver from Top Gear.
Michael Schumacher was ”astonished” by Formula One’s decision to alter the way the world championship is decided on the eve of the new season.
The United Nations is to hold its first debate on road safety amid warnings that the problem is a ”public health crisis” on the scale of Aids, malaria and tuberculosis. Next week’s meeting will follow research by the World Health Organisation forecasting that between 2000 and 2015, road accidents will cause 20-million deaths.
Ferrari are back on top, Lewis Hamilton is a title contender and two-time Formula One champion Fernando Alonso is back with Renault. Add night racing to all that and one of F1’s most exciting seasons in 2007 is set for a worthy follow-up in 2008.
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/ 29 January 2008
Honda believes its revamped car will make the Formula One team more competitive this season after a disappointing 2007. Team principal Ross Brawn said Honda’s entire car design was re-evaluated after the team finished eighth in last year’s constructors’ championship with six points — 198 behind winners Ferrari.
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/ 18 December 2007
The 2007 Formula One season went down as one of the most thrilling to date, with a three-way race for the title that ended with Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen edging McLaren teammates Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton in the tightest race for the drivers’ championship in 21 years.
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/ 23 October 2007
It was a fitting climax to a dramatic season. The Brazilian Grand Prix followed form with an upset finish — Kimi Raikkonen of Ferrari taking the final race of the season to vault past McLaren teammates Lewis Hamilton and two-time world champion Fernando Alonso for the title.
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/ 21 October 2007
Kimi Raikkonen seized his first Formula One title by a single point after a stirring victory in Brazil that shattered Lewis Hamilton’s dreams. The Finn’s unexpected title triumph, leading Brazilian teammate Felipe Massa in a one-two finish, ended Briton Hamilton’s bid to become the youngest champion in his debut season.
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/ 14 October 2007
Although Lewis Hamilton couldn’t wrap up the Formula One title in the Chinese Grand Prix, he is still in a position to make history as the circuit’s youngest champion. Since the Englishman was nine years old he has nurtured a dream of following in the steps of former champions Ayrton Senna, Michael Schumacher and Alain Prost.
Has there ever been a face quite as misleading as Lewis Hamilton’s? With the sweetest of smiles, pencil-thin sideburns and an almost hairless face, he looks like a cherub in leathers. But don’t be fooled. Hamilton is one of the toughest men in sport.