May 13th, 2010 
Stephen Rhodes 
Posted in One of McLaren’s two chief engineers has left the Woking based team. Pat Fry, who joined the team from Benetton in 1993, alternated the role with Tim Goss. Last year, 46-year-old Briton Fry developed the MP4-24, and in 2010 he was in charge of the 2011 car. It emerged during Thursday’s press conference at Monaco [...]
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Some news tidbits from the world of Formula 1: McLaren Drivers Can Battle: Unlike Red Bull and perhaps also Ferrari, McLaren’s two drivers are free to race when running first and second. Red Bull’s Christian Horner admitted in Shanghai that when his drivers are dominating, the actual wheel-to-wheel racing ends at the first corner. And [...]
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Some news tidbits from the world of Formula 1: ‘Outboard’ Mirrors To Be Banned: This weekend’s Grand Prix will be the last for the sort of ‘outboard’ rear view mirrors that are becoming commonplace in F1. In Australia last week, veterans Rubens Barrichello and Pedro de la Rosa led the calls for better driver visibility, [...]
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Some news tidbits from the world of Formula 1: Todt Not Stepping Into To Solve McLaren Wing Saga: Jean Todt on Friday ruled out stepping in to end F1′s new ‘knee-gate’ controversy. The FIA’s Charlie Whiting this week declared legal an innovation on the 2010 McLaren that gives Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button a straight-line [...]
Chaos Dissipating At Formula 1?
As the 2010 pre-season winds down Sunday, F1′s pecking order for the upcoming world championship, which begins in exactly 14 days, continued to develop. On the final overcast morning of the Barcelona test, many runners took fuel out of their cars and fitted new tires to gauge raw qualifying pace. McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton went into [...]
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Some news tidbits from the world of Formula 1: McLaren Launch To Be Held At Title Sponsor HQ: McLaren’s 2010 car will be launched at title sponsor Vodafone’s UK headquarters next Friday. The British team announced last week that the MP4-25, to be raced this year by Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button, would be unveiled [...]
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Some news tidbits from the world of Formula 1: Pit Stops To Take Sub-3 Seconds In 2010: F1 looks set to stage lightning-fast pit stops in 2010. Williams’s spokeswoman Claire Williams revealed that the Grove based team was Thursday practicing pit stops for the upcoming season. Refueling has been banned for 2010, meaning that [...]
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News bits from the world of Formula 1: Mercedes GP To Show 2010 Livery On January 25: The 2010 Mercedes GP car will not be revealed when the Brackley based team stages its launch event in Stuttgart on January 25. Some reports Friday said the car will be displayed at the carmaker’s Unterturkheim museum later [...]
