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Bridgestone, Formula 1’s sole tyre manufacturer, insists that there is still much data to be collected in Bahrain following a month of various tests in Spain. With dry weather in Valencia followed by a literal washout in Jerez and mostly dry conditions in Barcelona, the softest compound is yet to be tested thoroughly.

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The struggling US F1 team is offering Formula 1 governing body the FIA a 7-digit compensation figure in return for missing the entire season this year, American broadcaster SpeedTV reports.

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The Red Bull Racing team looks to have pulled the wool over the eyes of its rivals during winter testing as it was revealed in Barcelona that stickers have been applied to the top of the rear bodywork in order to show fake exhaust outlets.

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Following a Saturday which saw Sebastian Vettel lose significant amounts of running time due to a fuel pump change, Red Bull Racing was in no mood to relax in Barcelona on Sunday; running both drivers, following the earlier problems, the German and team-mate Mark Webber racked up a total of 135 laps between them.

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The Sauber team was disappointed after failing to complete its programme on the last day of pre-season running on Sunday. Regarded by many as the underdogs of 2010 on the run-up to the opening Grand Prix in Bahrain, the Hinwil outfit finished Barcelona testing eighth on the timesheets with Kamui Kobayashi.

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With Heikki Kovalainen having explained to GPUpdate.net that hydraulics is currently the ‘weak link’ of the Lotus car, fellow debutants Virgin Racing have been hampered to a greater extent in the same department but are now confident that problems will be under control by the time the first race takes place.

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Dietrich Mateschitz, co-founder of Red Bull, stresses that Kimi Räikkönen’s connection with his company through the World Rally Championship (WRC) will not necessarily mean that the Finn will rejoin Formula 1 with the Milton Keynes-based team next year.

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In this Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010 file photo, the Toyota logo is shown at a dealership in North Palm Beach, Fla., The first reports of sticky accelerators on Toyota cars weren’t made in the United States, where authorities have pressed Toyota into massive recalls that have gone global.

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Heikki Kovalainen admits that the new Lotus team is exceeding all expectations following its first winter testing. Now the only Finn in the field, the 28-year-old hopes to iron out niggling hydraulics-related issues before the start of the season in two weeks’ time, as he explained to GPUpdate.net’s Gregory Haines in Spain on Sunday.

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German luxury car maker BMW today launched two new variants under the 3 series Sedan category– BMW 330i and BMW320d.

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