An actual game of musical chairs could be used to decide the occupants of the remaining F1 seats for 2010, Bernie Ecclestone says.
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Ecclestone suggests musical chairs
Renault to sell team on eBay
Enstone, Friday: After senior members of Renault management met yesterday to discuss the future of the Formula One team, it has been revealed that the French corporation intends to sell its F1 team through online auction site eBay.
Rival bids, from Luxembourg’s Gravity consortium and British team Prodrive, have been considered by the team, with...
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Renault CFD simulator “too accurate”
Enstone, Friday: Renault has suffered a significant hindrance in the development of its 2010 F1 car after an upgraded CFD simulation of how the car would perform proved to be “too accurate.”
Computational fluid dynamics, or CFD, has proven increasingly useful in racing car development, with many Formula One teams now using the system in...
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Renault to sue for “book-related injuries”
Enstone, Monday: A representative from Renault’s Formula One team has revealed that he is to take legal action against the FIA after he suffered “bruising and lingering pain” after F1 race stewards threw the book at the team yesterday.
Steve Nielsen, team manager for the French outfit, was summoned to see the stewards after the...
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Piquet in expenses row
Enstone, Sunday: Embattled Renault F1 driver Nelson Piquet is in hot water today after his employers accused him of “abusing” his expenses claims, apparently having far overstepped the mark in claiming on his “motorhome allowance.”
In addition to his salary Piquet, like other F1 drivers, is allowed to claim expenses for things like travelling to...
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On Twitter
- *Gasp* 1,000 Tweets? That's 140,000 characters of potential motorsports-related hilarity I'll never get back.
- Jacques Villeneuve on @5livef1? What's all that "aboat"? I was expecting a phone call.... #f1
- Good on E.Salazar for his auction for the people of Chile. He could raise even more in a charity boxing match with Nelson Piquet Sr.... #f1
- A1GP liquidators are putting the series' cars up for sale. In unrelated news, it's my birthday soon....
- Christian Horner says this year's title fight will be "Titanic." Does he mean unnecessarily expensive and disappointingly crap? #f1
