Tag Archives: 2009

Jan201027

Rob

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Renault – the sale

After the fiasco last year Renault seem to have retreated to lick their wounds, the team has been sold – or a large stake of it at least to the investment firm Genii Capital and with a new owner will come new management. They haven’t exactly set the track on fire for the last couple of years even though they’ve had one of the best drivers in the field with Fernando Alonso so what they can achieve this year seems limited.
With Alonso moving on and Piquet blowing his whistle 2010 was always going to be difficult, Renault seeming to want to pull out of F1 must also have an unsettling effect on the team. 2009 was a hard year with not much earned after the heyday of 2005/6 and with Alonso leaving again Renualt seemed a spent force but now they have been basically sold it seems that they [...]

Jan201013

Rob

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Round up of 2009

So last year was eventful in F1, from scandal off track to fairytale on track. Brawn GP went from nearly closing to winning the World Championship in their first year, with some amazing victories along the way to prove that anything is indeed possible in F1.
What happened
Jenson Button took the world title, Brawn clinched the constructors title (I wonder if Honda still think they made the best call…), Ferrari lost all their form and we found out that they’re really hard to drive, McLaren made some big mistakes and Lewis Hamilton learnt some humility, we found out that Michael Schumacher might not be gone for good, that Japanese drivers do make for exciting racing and that Fernando Alonso can climb above any scandal.
Jenson Button started the season with a clean sweep which ultimately was the reason that he clinched the title, Rubens Barrichello followed Jenson home to start the season [...]

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