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The introduction of Kinetic Energy Recovery Systems (KERS) in Formula One remains one of the hottest topics of debate in the build-up to the new season.

Arguments have raged for months about the development costs of the devices, whether they will be safe and what difference they will make to the racing.

So having heard from the teams, autosport.com wanted to gauge what FIA president Max Mosley thought of KERS when he met a few journalists for a pre-season chat. Here are his thoughts….  More info

One of the figures behind the prospective American Formula One team has stated that plans for USF1 are well and truly under way, with a formal announcement expected later this month.

Ken Anderson, one of the two principals of USF1, has told The Charlotte Observer that the team will be based in the American city, adding that “95% of what you might have seen” about the plans is true.

“We are looking at a couple of buildings in Charlotte, including one in the University area,” he said…  More info


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Red Bull’s old and new Formula 1 cars outpaced the three other teams in action on the opening day of what proved to be yet another rain-hit pre-season European test at Jerez.

While Toro Rosso’s Sebastien Buemi again blurred the picture at the top of the timesheet by outpacing the field by over two seconds in the team’s 2008 car – a modified version of the Red Bull Racing RB4 – Sebastian Vettel gave …  More info


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On Logano’s 18th birthday last May, Joe Gibbs and J.D. Gibbs wheeled in a cake shaped like a stock car dressed with black and red frosting to look like the Nationwide car Logano had just turned old enough to drive.

They were opening a news conference, but before that they wanted everyone in the room to sing “Happy birthday” in celebration of the day Logano was finally old enough to race in NASCAR’s national series.

Logano’s 18th birthday was one of the most anticipated in racing. Three years earlier Mark Martin had hailed Logano as the next big thing…  More info