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May201005

Rob

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What’s up with Michael Schumacher, where is the driver we all like to love and hate?

This season Michael Schumacher the most successful driver to ever grace F1 returned to the sport after three years out. And he returns not to his seemingly lifelong home at Ferrari but to Mercedes who supported him in his early career. With the Mercedes team effectively being reigning world champions he must have hoped for more than has been achieved so far. The young Nico Rosberg also has the measure of Michael at Mercedes at the moment and it seems that he, Michael is the bearer of the back luck for the team something that was always reserved for a Schumacher teammate.
So why this shift in fortunes, there were not many people predicting that Schumacher would be beaten so solidly by the younger German? For the first few races we could blame rust but I think that time has come and gone, if that is still the reason then he shouldn’t [...]

Mar201006

Rob

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Can Sebastien Vettel go one step further this season?

Sebastien Vettel stormed his way to second place in the World Championship in 2009 and he’ll want to go one step futher in 2010. The competition this season will be stronger for sure, McLaren and Ferrari won’t be off the pace and Mercedes will be in close company too so he’ll have to perform better than last year.
Red Bull seem quietly confident about their car, it has done well in winter testing but rarely did it grab the headline times – it did run faster more consistently than some though. It seems that they won’t miss out on any technical oversights like last year with the double diffuser – they would probably be world champions if they had used one from the first race in 2009.
To beat Jenson Button, Lewis Hamilton, Fernando Alonso and Michael Schumacher to the title Vettel needs to start the season with the same raw [...]

Mar201005

Rob

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Will Michael Schumacher return to take the title?

Michael Schumacher returns to F1 this season and he wouldn’t do so unless he believed that he had a shot at the title. Mercedes seem to have a car that has shown some good pace in testing if not outstanding though Jenson Button thinks that they may be sandbagging somewhat ahead of the first GP.
So what are his chances this year? Well firstly he’s got to beat Nico Rosberg, on paper it shouldn’t be that hard but Rosberg has shown that he can be quick at Williams so expect him to push Schumacher. I suspect that he’ll be a bit hit and miss through the season which is something Rosberg needs to work on and he’s got the best mentor in the business right next to him.
Outside of his own team the main contenders seem to be Fernando Alonso, Sebastien Vettel, Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button. Now that’s a lot [...]

Mar201004

Rob

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Can Alonso make his 2010 dream a reality?

Fernando Alonso has managed to keep a reputation for being one of if not the best all round driver on the F1 grid over that last few years even though he hasn’t managed to bring home much recently. His year at McLaren has all but been forgotten and he is seen as the person who’s been making Renault look ok for the last couple of years – he is now at Ferrari and he expects that to change.
With the return of Michael Schumacher and both Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button at McLaren he still remains the favourite to take the title this season and I think there is good reason for this. As much as I like Massa I can’t see him beating Alonso this year, and at Ferrari that means Alonso is going to be number one.  He’s also going to have a good car, the 2009 Ferrari wasn’t [...]

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