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Interview - Championship leader Mark Webber on the F1 state of play
As the championship battle heats up with the last four races of the season, we talk with Mark Webber.Full Story
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Mind Games - Don't think before you peak
After Fernando Alonso's Singapore triumph reshuffled the five cards on top of the F1 deck yet again, Ferrari boss Stefano Domenicali stated that the championship is now a mental battle. He's right - but success in this unprecedented five-way contest will hinge not on doing the most thinking but the least...Full Story
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Mind Games - The true team order that could change title race
As a classic title finale nears, the simmering furore over team orders will surely boil over again as McLaren and Red Bull opt if and when to follow Ferrari's lead. But the Monza duel between Fernando Alonso and Jenson Button showed one honourable aspect of F1 teamwork could yet prove more important than ever: the pit stop.Full Story
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Interview - Jarno Trulli: We've done better than expected!
Jarno Trulli won his only Grand Prix at Monaco six years ago. Although an F1 veteran of 14 seasons, he took the Lotus Racing drive with a view to the long term. At Monza, his home race, he gave his views on the season and his hopes for the team. Full Story
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Interview - Cosworth Group chief executive Tim Routsis
Monza imposes great demands on engines, and Cosworth had a highly encouraging showing with Nico Hulkenberg finishing seventh after spending his day racing with the championship-contending Red Bulls. Group chief executive Tim Routsis was on hand in Monza to give his thoughts on the company's return to F1 and on discussions about greener 2013 F1 engines.Full Story
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Interview - Christian Horner looks back on Monza
Red Bull Racing team principal Christian Horner admitted before the weekend that the team viewed Monza as its weakest remaining circuit on the 2010 F1 calendar. And so, with Sebastian Vettel fourth in the Italian GP and Mark Webber sixth, he was able to look back on a final race of the European season in which Red Bull unexpectedly outscored major championship rivals McLaren. Full Story
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Mind Games - Head starts for Hamilton and Webber
If there remains any doubt that grand prix motor racing is primarily a mental contest, the Belgian Grand Prix provided the perfect illustration. In the most trying of circumstances - a mixture of wet and drying conditions round Spa's legendary mix of corners - not one of the protagonists made it through the race without some kind of hiccup.Full Story
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Interview - Mark Webber: Hard work ahead
Mark Webber is 34 years old tomorrow. Red Bull Racing team mate Sebastian Vettel has not brought him a present. "Who knows, maybe I can get him some of those free soaps and shampoos you get in the hotel..." he joked. With F1 back on parade at Spa after the summer break, Webber took time to offer his thoughts on Sunday's race and the state of the championship Full Story
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Mind Games - Fight or flight for Schumacher at Spa?
True colours seem increasingly hard to camouflage in Formula 1 this year. One week after F1's most successful team reminded us how they tarnished their mystique, F1's most successful driver reminds us why he so lacked such mystique in the first place.Full Story
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The New Kids on the Block - Hungarian GP: Six out of six, with Lotus in front
There were no surprises in the New Kids on the Block group with Lotus ending up with the two best placed cars at the end of the race - Heikki Kovalainen holding off Jarno Trulli - and all six newcomers making the finish as well.Full Story
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Interview - Big changes for Heikki Kovalainen
Heikki Kovalainen went from the architectural splendour of the Sir Norman Foster-designed McLaren Technology Centre to Lotus's empty shell factory containing Mike Gascoyne and a telephone. He talks about his first six months with Lotus Racing.Full Story
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The New Kids on the Block - German GP: Glock the survivor
Timo Glock emerged as the best placed of the New Kids on the Block at the end of the German Grand Prix, a race that marked a complete contrast to the previous Grand Prix. Whereas in Silverstone Glock had battled it out with both Lotus drivers all the way to the last lap, in Hockenheim the German saw all his rivals fall by the wayside to inherit the lead of the group with just ten laps to go.Full Story
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Mind Games - Any sport in a storm for Alonso?
"I am a sportsman. I love sport. I love the fans. But I don't consider Formula 1 any more a sport." These were Fernando Alonso's words on the morning of the 2006 Italian Grand Prix. Hours earlier he'd been given a five-place grid penalty for 'blocking' Ferrari's Felipe Massa in qualifying - though Massa was 100 metres away.Full Story
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The New Kids on the Block - British GP: A tight three-way battle
The three new teams that have joined the F1 fraternity this year were faced with the daunting task of putting together a package capable of making them race at a respectable level in a very short period of time. They've been taking some stick from people like Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo, who'd rather field a third car for Valentino Rossi than to have six cars racing together in the back of the field...Full Story
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Interview - Peter Sauber: Forty years on, mission accomplished?
Sauber Motorsport celebrates 40 years of racing at Hockenheim next week. Peter Sauber took time out to reflect. Full Story
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Mind Games - Time for Vettel to refuse all favours
Sebastian Vettel spent his early F1 career fending off comparisons with his illustrious compatriot Michael Schumacher. The standard retort for any rising star is always 'No, I'm not the second X, I'm the first Y.' But Red Bull's Silverstone antics have brought the associations flooding back - sadly not with bright young Schu but with Schu the pantomime villain.Full Story
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Interview - Frank Williams: Adam's the man!
The British GP marked the 31st anniversary of Williams Grand Prix Engineering's first F1 win. There was no repeat on Sunday but fifth place from Rubens Barrichello has signalled an upturn in form. Sir Frank chose the weekend to hand over the chairmanship to Adam Parr, but insists that thoughts of retirement are not in his mind...Full Story
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Interview - Niki Lauda: I expected more from Schumacher!
While Michael Schumacher has been struggling in his comeback to F1, many pundits have given their views on his return after more than three years away. Only two men stopped racing and returned to win another title: Alain Prost and Niki Lauda.Full Story
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Interview - Geoff Willis
The Hispania Racing Team made a last minute arrival to the F1 paddock in Bahrain. Technical chief Geoff Willis talks about life for one of Grand Prix racing's new teams.Full Story
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Interview - Sam Michael
Williams came away empty-handed for the third successive race in Canada after Rubens Barrichello and Nico Hulkenberg made seven pit stops between them. Technical director Sam Michael talks about the state of play.Full Story
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