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This Saturday Red Bull Racing is organising a Formula One demo in the streets of Belfast. David Coulthard, the team's demonstration driver and BBC F1 commentator, will be the man at the wheel in the Northern Irish capital city.

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17 March 2010
F1 commercial rights-holder Bernie Ecclestone has dashed hopes that a swift rule change might help to re-inject an element of excitement and exhilaration into the racing in the top flight after the curtain-raising 2010 Bahrain Grand Prix at Sakhir was panned as 'boring' and an anti-climax to a winter of fevered anticipation – by revealing that the unpopular regulations being blamed for the monotony are set in stone.

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17 March 2010

Cosworth was content with its performance in Bahrain after providing four of the twelve Formula 1 teams for a race weekend for the first time this year. The Northampton-based company returns to the fray in 2010 after last supplying Williams and Toro Rosso in 2006.

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Michael Schumacher has yet to rejoin the Grand Prix Drivers' Association (GPDA) on his return to Formula One.The GPDA is the equivalent to a drivers' union and has worked to improve safety in the sport in the past. Schumacher is one of the only drivers not to join the organisation this year but his manager said he backed its work."Michael still supports the work of the GPDA," said Schumacher's spokeswoman and manager Sabine Kehm, "but he is not sure if he will join again. After all, he took the lead in this area for years.Now he really wants the others, who have taken over in the meantime, to continue."Some reports speculated that he does not get along with the current GPDA chairman Pedro de la Rosa, who upon returning to the F1 grid this year is considering whether to continue in the role. De la Rosa quit the GPDA in protest after Schumacher's Monaco qualifying incident in 2006. The GPDA met in Bahrain to discuss the issue of de la Rosa's ongoing chairmanship, but the meeting had to end early and was instead deferred until Melbourne next week.Schumacher was central to the revival of the GPDA in the wake of Ayrton Senna's death in 1994.

Jose Maria Lopez has launched a stinging attack on US F1, claiming the stillborn Formula One team "hid things" from him.

The Argentine was signed by US F1 in January but his dream lay in tatters at the start of this month when, having spent months denying speculation questioning their ability to make the start of the new season, the North Carolina-based team finally withdrew their 2010 entry.

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17 March 2010
Mercedes-Benz refused to supply Red Bull Racing in F1 2010 because 'they knew that if we had that engine, they wouldn't see us' – that is the assertion of the energy drinks manufacturer's famously outspoken motorsport advisor Dr. Helmut Marko.

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17 March 2010

The return to Formula 1 of German superstar Michael Schumacher has unsurprisingly been a cause for much talk in his homeland, with television viewers figures released by broadcaster RTL confirming as much.

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17 March 2010
One might have been right up at the sharp end of proceedings and the other mired down at the bottom of the order in the F1 2010 curtain-raising Bahrain Grand Prix at Sakhir, but still Virgin founder Sir Richard Branson contends that his eponymously-named outfit can 'one day' go on to 'overtake' Red Bull Racing in performance terms in the top flight.

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17 March 2010

Bruno Senna made history in Bahrain by reintroducing his famous family name to Formula 1. Having been the only driver for the debutant Hispania Racing Team throughout practice, the Brazilian sat down for GPUpdate.net to recall the selection of new challenges and emotions prior to the opening race of the 2010 season.           

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Mercedes CEO Nick Fry has no concerns about the performance of Michael Schumacher at the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix.Schumacher qualified seventh and finished sixth but was consistently outpaced by his team mate Nico Rosberg. It was his first race in F1 since the 2006 Brazilian Grand Prix and expectations had been high leading into the weekend. Fry denied that Schumacher was struggling to get to grips with anything in particular and was confident the team would improve this season."Listening to the discussions that are going on within the team, I don't actually detect any great difference in feedback between him and Nico," Fry is reported as saying by Autosport. "I think they both know what they want to do to improve the car, and I think they are consistent in their views. There is nothing I have heard that is particular to Michael. But the encouraging thing is that they have got a to do list." I think it is a good team, the drivers seem to work together well and I think we are going away from [Bahrain] knowing we have work to do but far from downhearted. We have plenty of upside potential and that is what counts. It is going to be a long old year, and I absolutely believe that we have the people, and the equipment under Ross [Brawn's] guidance to come out of this very well at the end of the year."Schumacher made no serious complaints after the race and said that the reduced grip under the current regulations made the cars easier to drive than the ones from the mid-2000s."In the last laps the sun was quite low and my helmet was a bit out of place, so I had to keep correcting it so I could see properly," he told the Guardian. "But I had no physical problems. I've been training and preparing a lot. The race wasn't very hard for me. If you look at the lap times, you can see that we are a lot slower than when I was driving before. That's because of the tyres we have now. It's not possible to push as hard as before, so therefore it's easier for the driver."