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
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Norwegian electric car manufacturer Think announced yesterday in Ann Arbor, Michigan, that it is planning to open a factory in the United States to supply North America with up to 60,000 small city cars per year. The automaker says it is talking to eight states about the assembly plant, which would initially employ about 300 workers with a starting capacity of 16,000 TH!NK City vehicles.
“The U.S. is quickly overtaking Europe as an attractive market for EVs and is an ideal location… .
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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
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Fast cars, girls, yachts and a champagne lifestyle: but there’s more to Formula 1 than you may at first realise.
A new exhibition at London’s Science Museum demonstrates how engineering and innovation from Formula 1 spins-off into the broader world.
‘Fast Forward: 20 ways F1 is changing our world’, is a new free exhibition at the museum, which is located in South Kensington.
20 innovative by-products of the sport are on display in an elegantly designed gallery overlooked by the chassis of the McLaren MP4-21 suspended from the ceiling….. Details