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Tom Wheatcroft, the owner of Donington Park, passed away on Saturday morning after suffering a long illness. The man after whom the current start/finish straight is named after purchased the venue in the 1970s and was 87 years old at the time of his death.

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Damon Hill, 1996 World Champion and Chairman of the British Racing Drivers’ Club (BRDC), is confident that Silverstone is closer to securing a deal for the future of the British Grand Prix. The event’s fate is currently in limbo after Donington Park failured to meet its final deadline earlier this week.

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Introduced in 2002, the fourth-generation BMW 7 Series was a technological marvel with wonderful performance.

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Yes, tomorrow will be the last race for the reputed BMW engines and their now famous “BMW Power”. Here we pay a tribute…

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Lewis Hamilton will be carrying more fuel into the start of Sunday’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix than the Red Bull pairing of Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber behind him. Seventh-placed Robert Kubica is the lightest car on the grid - and will therefore pit first - as Renault, following their poor qualifying session, fuels Alonso […]

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Kimi Räikkönen was not shocked to see neither Ferrari qualify in the top ten in Abu Dhabi. With Giancarlo Fisichella starting at the back of the Yas Marina grid, the 2007 Champion - on his last weekend with the team with which he clinched his title - will be the first car to refuel after […]

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Champion Jenson Button was frustrated to have been victim of understeer at Yas Marina on Saturday. With his car’s rear end having had more grip at its disposal than the front and therefore running deep into corners, the Englishman was unable to make the most of qualifying and starts the season finale fifth after being […]

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The Force India team joined Renault in seeing both of its cars eliminated from the first phase of qualifying at Yas Marina on Saturday. With Adrian Sutil having suffered from problems with his brakes in practice on Friday, grid posititons of seventeenth and eighteenth for him and team-mate Vitantonio Liuzzi make for uncomfortable reading.

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Heikki Kovalainen will drop back five places on the grid after changing a gearbox following qualifying in Abu Dhabi. The punishment makes for difficult reading for the Finn, especially as team-mate Lewis Hamilton was able to grab pole position at Yas Marina.

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