Fernando Alonso, twice world champion for Renault in 2005 and 2006, has offered a ringing endorsement of the speed displayed this week by Jenson Button in the new Brawn-Mercedes during testing at Barcelona, claiming that the rebranded Honda team will be a competitive force in this year’s world championship.
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Rubens Barrichello is back in Formula 1. A few days ago the Brazilian driver could not have hoped to be driving an F1 in the 2009 season. Ross Brawn announced the repurchase of the Honda team and confirmed Barrichello and Jenson Button as drivers. Holding the record for most races (271 GPs) he is ready for his 17th season. In an interview published today by French daily “L’Equipe”, Michael Schumacher’s former team mate in Ferrari admits that he never was really worried about his future, saying …Â Details
Toyota have hinted that on the basis of pre-season Formula 1 testing, they have produced the ‘fastest’ package on the 2009 grid in the shape of the TF109 – with nobody really knowing just how the running order will shake out when all 20 cars take to the track in anger for the first time in the curtain-raising Australian Grand Prix at the end of the month.
Though the big-budget Japanese manufacturer’s new challenger has rarely topped the timesheets, it has remained a consistently strong presence …Â Details