Mercedes to announce Rosberg this morning?

Mercedes are on the conference call trail again this morning. This time it is to announce what Mercedes describes as the “first new driver” for its team, which is expected to be Nico Rosberg, as he has been signed to the team for some time.
Rosberg will be in the conference call as will Norbert Haug, [...]

Readers’ Top 5 driver vote – update

The JA on F1 reader competition to name your top five drivers of the season has been a big success so far and we have had 870 entries in the last few days.
The competition runs until next week and the winners will be announced on Tuesday 24th. For those who missed it first [...]

Schumacher and Mercedes: is it serious?

Today has seen a groundswell of stories about Michael Schumacher talking to Mercedes about making a return to F1 next season. I’ve had dozens of readers asking whether this is the case or not, meanwhile Eddie Jordan has stuck his neck out and said on the BBC website that the deal is on and [...]

Button and Brawn: Now it’s getting bitter

It’s amazing how little time there ever is in F1 to enjoy the moment, to celebrate something special, before something comes along and makes it all turn nasty.
The bitterness is starting to come out now in the aftermath of Jenson Button’s shock move to McLaren on a three year contract.

According to Ross Brawn, who has [...]

Monaco F1 forum shaping up

In a couple of weeks from now I will be in Monaco, for the annual Motor Sports Business Forum. Last year I was a speaker, this year I’m going one better and I’m chairing the conference.

It’s a busy week for international motorsport and there are many events going on; the World Motor Sport Council meets [...]

What next for Kimi Raikkonen?

Kimi Raikkonen has a blank space in his diary – it’s called 2010.
He has not totally ruled out F1, as his manager Steve Robertson left the door open this morning in an interview with Autosport’s Jon Noble over in Macau, that he could re-examine the possibility of racing with the new Mercedes team, if they [...]

Button pulls the trigger on Brawn, now he has to beat Hamilton

Jenson Button has done what he threatened to do; quit the team he won the championship with and launched a new adventure with McLaren.
Button has a three year contract to race alongside Lewis Hamilton in an all British “World Champions” superteam.
Everyone at the Brawn team in Brackley will be disappointed by this and there will [...]

Raikkonen drops out of F1: A fan’s view

Kimi Raikkonen will not be racing in F1 next season, his manager Steve Robertson has confirmed. He is calling it a year off and time will tell if he ever races an F1 car again.
“The options in F1 were with McLaren next season or not at all,” Robertson said, “Kimi and McLaren were unable to [...]

Vote for your top 5 drivers of the season

With all the talk of how well Jenson Button might match up to Lewis Hamilton in equal cars and whether Kimi Raikkonen is too talented to drop out of F1, I thought this would be a good moment to invite you to vote for your top five drivers of 2009.
Choose the five drivers who you [...]

Glock confirms Manor move

Manor GP has pulled off a great coup by signing up Timo Glock, as we foreshadowed here last week. He becomes the second driver to be named by one of the four new teams. Lotus has signed a driver but has yet to announce his identity or whether he is a race or reserve driver.
Glock [...]

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1	F Alonso	1h28:38.866
2	F Massa	+ 4.196
3	S Vettel	+ 5.121
4	L Hamilton	+ 26.896
5	J Button	+ 29.482
6	M Webber	+ 43.606
7	R Kubica	1 lap
8	N Rosberg	1 lap
9	M Schumacher	1 lap
10	V Petrov	1 lap

1	L Hamilton	157
2	J Button	143
3	M Webber	136
4	S Vettel	136
5	F Alonso	123
6	N Rosberg	94
7	R Kubica	89
8	F Massa	85
9	M Schumacher	38
10	A Sutil	35

1	McLaren-Mercedes	300
2	Red Bull Renault	272
3	Ferrari	208
4	Mercedes GP	132
5	Renault	96
6	Force India Mercedes	47
7	Williams Cosworth	31
8	BMW Sauber	15
9	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	10
10=	Lotus F1	0
10=	Hispania Racing F1	0
10=	Virgin Racing	0