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Richard Branson’s Virgin Group have emerged as the mystery ‘global brand’ bidder for the Honda Racing Formula One team, the Japanese car maker has confirmed today. The F1 news from Honda says that they “are negotiating with several buyers and one of these parties is the Virgin Group.”
Honda announced that it would pull out of [...]

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The Scuderia Toro Rosso team confirmed on Friday that Sebastien Bourdais will again be driving for them for the 2009 season.
The 29-year-old Frenchman will compete in his second year with the team alongside the rookie driver Sebasien Buemi.
Bourdais said,
“It has been a very long and difficult winter, but now the waiting is finally over and [...]

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The recent deal announced earlier this week between F1 race teams Force India and McLaren Mercedes could result in a change of drivers for the Force India team, boss Vijay Mallya has revealed.
Mallya has suggested that any recommendations made by McLaren will be taken seriously, saying  he would be hard pressed to ignore their advice. [...]

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Timo Glock in the Toyota was the fastest man on track in the second free practice session in Fuji Speedway in Japan.
Fernando Alonso, winner of the last race at Singapore for Renault, came in second, only 0.043 seconds off of the ultimate pace.
Lewis Hamilton in the McLaren came in third followed by the two Ferrari [...]

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The Toro Rosso team are to test two new drivers after the Italian Grand Prix, Sebastien Buemi and Takuma Sato.  They will have a day’s testing at the Jerez circuit in the STR3 to see if they are up to the job of replacing Sebastian Vettel.
Sebastian Vettel will be racing for the Red Bull team [...]

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