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2011 Grand Prix Review - AT&T Williams
For a team that has nine constructors' championships to its credit, ninth place and just three point-scoring finishes in 2011 - in Monte Carlo, Montreal and Spa - was not what the doctor ordered at Williams.Full Story
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2011 Grand Prix Review - Team Lotus
The 2011 season was not Team Lotus's first season, but in many ways it might have been. The team had a new, young design team and it had a change of engine/gearbox.Full Story
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2011 Grand Prix Review - Hispania Racing Team
After its hand-to-mouth opening season, HRT continued in similar vein although there was the luxury of a gearbox/hydraulics deal with Williams that addressed a number of reliability issues that had plagued 2010. Full Story
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2011 Grand Prix Review - Marussia Virgin Racing
Statistically, Marussia Virgin Racing finished below HRT in the final championship classification, but in reality, although hamstrung by a disappointing lack of performance from the MVR02 on track, the team made strides operationally.Full Story
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Interview - Fernando Alonso
Fernando Alonso had a much stronger race than qualifying session in Malaysia but a DRS wing failure and a coming-together with Lewis Hamilton meant four stops and just sixth place. Nevertheless, he left Sepang happier.Full Story
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Interview - Stefano Domenicali
Ferrari had a difficult qualifying session in Malaysia but a stronger race that was ultimately handicapped by a left-front wheel problem at Felipe Massa's first stop and a failure of Fernando Alonso's DRS rear wing.Full Story
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Interview - Martin Whitmarsh
McLaren pushed Red Bull hard for pole position in Malaysia and then Jenson Button kept Sebastian Vettel honest in the race. Team principal Martin Whitmarsh is not daunted by five Red Bull wins in the last six races and hopes to carry the fight to Christian Horner's squad in China.Full Story
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Interview - Christian Horner
Red Bull team principal Christian Horner gave his thoughts on his team's victory in the Malaysian Grand Prix and a race which saw the RB7s use KERS selectively on race winner Vettel's car, and not at all on Mark Webber's.Full Story
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Interview - Sauber technical director James Key
Sauber rookie Sergio Perez, who finished seventh on his GP debut and did an amazing one-stop race, was unfortunate to have his result annulled as a result of Sauber's rear wing infringement. Tony Dodgins spoke to Technical director James Key about Melbourne in the immediate aftermath of the race. Full Story
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Interview - Kamui Kobayashi
Kamui Kobayashi was responsible for some of 2010's more memorable moments in his first full year with Sauber. Now he heads into the new season as the man Sauber will be looking to for direction given that new Mexican team mate Sergio Perez is in his rookie yearFull Story
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2010 Grand Prix Review - Red Bull: Now they must do it again
In 2010, Red Bull Racing overcame Establishment goliaths Ferrari and McLaren. Jaguar Racing had a vision and got nowhere near it. Red Bull pulled it off spectacularly. The great irony is that Jaguar stood more chance of poaching Adrian Newey than Dietrich Mateschitz.Full Story
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2010 Grand Prix Review - McLaren: Original thinking
McLaren's MP4-25 will best remembered for its pioneering F-duct but it was an interesting car all around.Full Story
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2010 Grand Prix Review - Ferrari: so near and yet so far
Ferrari started well in 2010, lost its way a little and then finished strongly. Post British GP, nearly 50 points adrift, many thought it was merely bravado when Fernando Alonso said he was still aiming to win the championship. In the end he only missed out as a result of the strategic error in Abu Dhabi.Full Story
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2010 Grand Prix Review - Mercedes: Not quite so plain sailing
You could see the attraction of Brawn to Mercedes. Despite being a large stakeholder in McLaren they didn't control the team and never would, whereas here was a chance to do just that, and with a championship winning car and team with Ross Brawn at the helm. Full Story
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2010 Grand Prix Review - Renault: Fighting back
Renault's performance was one of the unexpected highs of 2010. Yes, they finished fifth, and yes the core of the team had taken Michael Schumacher and Fernando Alonso to world titles, but at the end of '09 the whole team was shrouded in uncertainty.Full Story
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2010 Grand Prix Review - Williams: Back into the top 50%
The 2010 season saw Williams back into the constructors championship top half for the first time in three years - eighth in 2008, seventh in 2009 and sixth this time was indicative of forward progress even if the team is not the force it was in its halcyon days of the '80s and '90s.Full Story
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2010 Grand Prix Review - Force India: best season yet
Force India was happy with its 09-10 winter and progressed during a season that saw several innovations, but technical chief Dominic Harlow admits that resource was needed to optimise all of those.Full Story
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2010 Grand Prix Review - Sauber: Key developments at Hinwil
Going into 2010 Sauber's position looked precarious. There was the BMW withdrawal, the buy-back by Peter Sauber, the 11th hour entry debacle and promising testing times that looked increasingly like sponsorship runs when the C29's performance was revealed in the first few races. Full Story
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2010 Grand Prix Review - Toro Rosso: striking out on their own
For the first time Toro Rosso had to build its own chassis. Giorgio Ascanelli explains that when you haven't got huge resources you have to lay down the chassis patterns relatively early, and at the time the team did that in 2009 the wind tunnel wasn't working and they didn't know how to use CFD properly.Full Story
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2010 Grand Prix Review - Lotus: new team winners irrespective of the name
Lotus Racing's first season, and its 'best of the new teams' achievement has probably got lost in the row over the rights to the name. Although, like HRT and Virgin, they failed to score a point, it was a more than decent effort from a standing start. Full Story
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