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Feb201010

Rob

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Red Bull launch their 2010 crusader

Red Bull launch their 2010 crusader

Last years Red Bull very nearly won the world championship, if they had started the year with a double diffuser and Sebastien Vettel hadn’t been quite so hot headed then they would have won the championship, it’s that simple.
Therefore this years can is going to have to go one better to satisfy everyone and that can only be at the expense of teams such as Ferrari and McLaren which doesn’t happen that often, I think last year may have been their best hope.
That said they have Adrian Newey who has designed some amazing cars and this looks like one of them. The Red Bull livery makes it hard to discern the detail but there’s no reason to believe that they won’t have built a fast car – unless they spent all their efforts on last years car and this one has been built in the last four months. It’s possible [...]

Feb201005

Rob

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Nick Heidfeld moves to Mercedes reserve role

So without a home for 2010 Nick Heidfeld has given up hope of a race drive for 2010 and taken up the reserve driver role at Mercedes. I guess it is his best hope for a few races with a decent team.
With nowhere to go after Sauber signed Pedro de la Rosa he has settled for the reserve driver role, it’ll mean that he’s testing a good car and that he’s still in the F1 paddock at least but I’m not so sure he wouldn’t have been better off joining one of the new teams to keep himself on the track. I’m sure Campos would have jumped at the chance of having someone of his calibre driving for them. Having said that, they probably wouldn’t have paid him and it’s not like he’d have been competitive. At least he’d be there though.
With rumours circulating that Michael Schumacher doctors were about [...]