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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]Ferrari has made a precautionary engine change on Felipe Massa’s car ahead of the Bahrain Grand Prix.

Under the regulations he will not face a penalty for the change and will still start from second place on the grid. He will, however, be on the second engine of his eight engine allocation for the entire season. If he exceeds the quota over the course of the season he will be sanctioned with a 10 place grid penalty every time an additional engine is used. Read the rest of this entry »

[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 »

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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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Although the regulation changes for this season are a lot less extensive than they were for 2009, Ferrari’s technical team have had their work cut out over the winter months. Charged with not only fine-tuning their engine and chassis to fit the new rules, they have also strived to overcome the performance shortfall that saw the Italian team clinch just one race win last year.
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For designer Nikolas Tombazis, the F10 project has been a long slog, but one that he hopes will eventually prove fruitful.

“For the F10 we had to review the whole project from the nose to the rear wing because of the new rules and also because we had to recover the obvious performance deficit we had last year,” he told Ferrari’s official website, as he explained the car’s main changes. Read the rest of this entry »

Felipe Massa enjoyed a trouble-free test on Friday at the wheel of a 2008 Ferrari in Barcelona.

He took to the Circuit de Catalunya as part of his ongoing rehabilitation, after he crashed at the Hungaroring last year and fractured his skull. MotoGP champion Valentino Rossi had been testing at the circuit earlier this week and Massa said he was keen to make the most of his team’s presence at the home of the Spanish Grand Prix. Read the rest of this entry »