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Further Liberty proposals: Less races in Europe – 25 by 2020

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Yet more bombshells rain down on F1 from the new American owners Liberty Media. Yesterday, TJ13 broke the story on Liberty Media proposing substantial changes to the F1 weekend: New F1 owners no Friday practice & two races per weekend And yet there is more, this time leaking from the Austrian RedBull centric publication Speedweek … Read more

The leaked F1 calendar

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Following the announcement yesterday from the promoters of the Australian GP that their 2016 race would be held three weeks later than usual,  TJ13 revealed an agenda in play for the future of the F1 calendar in “An F1 season with just 8 non-race weekends.” published ???? with some interesting information from our sources. FOM then … Read more

The reason for the ‘fake’ Korean GP

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Nico Hulkneberg is set to achieve a lifelong ambition this year – to take part in the Le Mans 24 hour race. When the deal was announced last November, the German remarked, “I am very pleased the 2015 Formula 1 calendar allows for it and I’m grateful to my Force India team’s generosity to let … Read more

Daily #F1 News and Comment: Wednesday 20th November 2013

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Daily #F1 News and Comment: Saturday 7th September

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This page will be updated throughout the day. Please if you are on Twitter press the press the tweet button below. If you re-write and tweet individual story headlines (tweeted) with links, please make sure you use #F1. Pirelli bolstering chances for 2014 (09:03) 2014 Calendar (09:03) Vettel missing the party (09:15) Kimi, Ferrari and … Read more

Daily #F1 News and Comment: Wednesday 31st July 2013

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This page will be updated throughout the day Editor’s note from AHJ: Please if you use twitter, retweet our tweets particularly those which have the hashtag #F1. That particular discussion stream is global and often gets 20 comments a minute. We have collected now regular readers who found us this way on twitter from all … Read more

Daily #F1 News and Comment: Monday 29th July 2013

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This page will be updated throughout the day. Please press the twitter button at the bottom of the post if you are on twitter. Pirelli and the future (11:12) updated (17:10) The F1 2014 calendar (11:51) McLaren take the rest of the season off (12:45) Questions over Force India finances again (13:28) Heartache the key for Lewis (14:51) … Read more

Daily #F1 News and Comment: Saturday 9th March 2013

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A busy time in Paris

not only did we get the official calendar for 2013 from  the FIA Council yesterday, but they offered up a draft calendar for the new 2014 FIA Formula E Championship – to be run in city centres across the world.

10 races are targeted with 10 teams and 2 drivers with 2 cars each. There will be 2 compulsory pit stops per driver, with him jumping out of one car and into the next. One of the cars must be charged during the 45 minute race.

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Perez taunts Di Resta on twitter, F1 Calendar 2013 to be finalised after the 1st race, De La Rosa back to McLren or Ferrari or Mercedes or Williams…, Gorgio Ascanelli returning to F1?

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Di Resta vs Perez: I posted a video a couple of days ago that showed Paul talking about various things F1 at the Autosport show (LINK). A number of other sites and print media wrote up his comments yesterday, but I was busy with my ‘Da Vinci Code’ story, buried in pages of Italian newsprint and blogs.

Anyway, here’s a few of the highlights. Di Resta revealed he held talks with McLaren over replacing Lewis. “I’m not going to give away too much, but yes, there were discussions,” Di Resta said. “Unfortunately in this sport now there’s a little bit more to it. There’s a commercial side and money’s tight. Perez has some good backing.”

Martin Whitmarsh has maintained all along that cash from Telmex owned by one of the world’s richest men – Carlos Slim – was absolutely nothing to do with the team’s decision when recruiting the young Mexican to replace Hamilton.

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