Senna: HRT can be the best of F1 2010 newcomers

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6 March 2010

Bruno Senna has predicted that the Hispania Racing F1 Team will be around a second faster than fellow newcomers Lotus and Virgin.

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Ferrari adds more drivers to academy

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Ferrari has added Mirko Bortolotti, Daniel Zampieri and Raffaele Marciello to its driver academy. They join GP2 driver Jules Bianchi, who was signed up to the project last year after driving for Ferrari alongside Zampieri at the young drivers' test in December. Zampieri is the reigning Italian Formula 3 champion and is set to move to the Formula Renault 3.5 series this season. Read more... »

Ferrari: We can’t leave any stone unturned

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6 March 2010
Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo has called on everyone at the Scuderia to give their absolute all this season to help ensure the Prancing Horse returns to winning ways.

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Q&A with Felipe Massa

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06 March 2010

Felipe Massa will be joined by Fernando Alonso at Ferrari this season. The Brazilian vice champion of 2008 is ready for a fresh start following his heavy crash in Hungary last year. He is now the father of a healthy son and is hoping to gift his son with many victories.

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Massa slams new teams’ lack of pace

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Ferrari's Felipe Massa is concerned that slow cars fielded by the new teams could make racing dangerous and believes their presence will not be good for the sport. Read more... »

Button: Many cars can be quick, far fewer consistently

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6 March 2010
As he approaches the beginning of the defence of his hard-fought drivers' world championship crown in Bahrain in a week's time, Jenson Button has reflected that there are several cars potentially capable of pulling a super-quick lap out of the bag come qualifying in F1 2010 – but argues that only a handful will be able to repeat that feat on race day and maintain the flat-out development pace all the way throughout the campaign.

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Baguette: F1 racing still possible in 2010

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6 March 2010
Bertrand Baguette has said that he is 'convinced' he will be able to make his F1 debut this season - and ideally he wants to do so at Spa, venue for his home race, the Belgian Grand Prix on August 29.

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Alonso: I won’t be disappointed if I’m not F1 2010 champion

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6 March 2010
Fernando Alonso has insisted that he won't be upset this year if he fails to win the F1 drivers' title for a third time.

Alonso will make his debut for Ferrari at the Bahrain Grand Prix next weekend and while the Scuderia have been on the pace in pre-season testing – and are considered by some to be one of the favourites, the Spaniard has tried to quell expectations ahead of the season opener.

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Button gets comfy at McLaren

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Formula One world champion Jenson Button has revealed he already feels "at home" with McLaren ahead of the impending 2010 season.

Button has been at the outfit for just two months but insists he feels settled, despite the pressure he was expected to face from new team-mate and McLaren golden boy Lewis Hamilton.

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Ecclestone welcomes Chandhok to F1 – and predicts great things

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6 March 2010
Hispania Racing (HRT) recruit Karun Chandhok has been welcomed into F1 by the sport's most powerful figure, a certain Bernie Ecclestone, with the influential Formula One Management (FOM) chief executive predicting that only the second Indian in the history of the top flight can go on to achieve great things.

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