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Fernando Alonso drove a superbly judged race to emulate Nigel Mansell and Kimi Raikkonen, as he sped to victory on his debut for Ferrari in Sunday’s Bahrain Grand Prix. Alonso chased Sebastian Vettel’s fleet Red Bull fruitlessly in the early stages, when both were running the super-soft Bridgestone tyres, but had an advantage after they had respectively switched to the harder compound on Laps 17 and 16.
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[SinglePic not found]Felipe Massa returned to Formula One qualifying as if the life-threatening head injuries he suffered last time he fought for pole position had never happened.

The Brazilian, absent from the starting grid since he was hit on the helmet by a heavy spring in Hungary last July, showed he had lost none of his speed by putting his Ferrari on the front row for the first time since November 2008. Read the rest of this entry »

Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel will line up on pole position for the first race of the season after he pipped the two Ferraris of Felipe Massa in second and Fernando Alonso in third.
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Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel will line up on pole position for the first race of the season after he pipped the two Ferraris of Felipe Massa in second and Fernando Alonso in third.

All three front runners attempted a time on soft tyres which they will have to use at the start of the race on Sunday. Read the rest of this entry »

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Drivers: Fernando Alonso (Ferrari), Jenson Button (McLaren), Lewis Hamilton (McLaren), Felipe Massa (Ferrari) and Michael Schumacher (Mercedes GP).

Q: A question to all of you. What are you most looking forward to during this season? Who is going to start? The World Champion. Read the rest of this entry »

[SinglePic not found]Michael Schumacher was mobbed by the media and welcomed back by fellow champions on his return to the Formula One paddock on Thursday in search of an unprecedented eighth title.

“If you see the world championships that Michael has, it’s something I think is maybe impossible to repeat and is part of the history of our sport,” said double world champion Fernando Alonso ahead of Sunday’s Bahrain Grand Prix season-opener. Read the rest of this entry »

Red Bull’s Mark Webber is not happy with Bahrain’s revised layout which has seen the addition of a new 900m section of track. Read the rest of this entry »

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Ferrari are in a confident mood for the season ahead after the F10 passed its final winter test with flying colours. Drivers Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa both enjoyed top-three placings during last week’s four-day session at Barcelona’s Circuit de Catalunya and reliably completed over 400 laps of the Spanish track.
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Jenson Button believes Michael Schumacher would never have won seven world titles without a top-flight car.

The former Brawn driver became Britain’s tenth world champion in a fairytale season last year, but he insists his victory was a team effort and even the best drivers cannot win a title singlehandedly.
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Despite McLaren topping the times at Jerez, Fernando Alonso has warned that the Ferrari is yet to show its full potential.

His best time at the test in Spain was 1.5 seconds slower than the McLaren, but he told AS newspaper “there is no reason to be pessimistic” with another test to run in Barcelona next week. He also said that he believes than the Ferrari F10 is the best car he has ever had.
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