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Brad's Formula 1 Blog July 2008 Archive

By Brad Spurgeon, About.com Guide to Formula 1

Teams Band Together For Rights

Tuesday July 29, 2008
A meeting in Maranello today had the 10 Formula 1 teams agree to band together into an association called the Formula 1 Teams Association in order to fight for their ... Read More

Press Freedom In Mosley Case

Sunday July 27, 2008
Autosport does an interesting analysis of how the Max Mosley victory over invasion of his personal privacy in a court case in England actually helped press freedom, rather than the ... Read More

Mosley Wins Case

Thursday July 24, 2008
Max Mosley won his invasion of privacy case, as this story on the Mosley affair in The New York Times outlines. This is the end of a scandal that ... Read More

Glock Back In Car Thursday

Tuesday July 22, 2008
Timo Glock, the German driver for the Toyota team who had the horrific accident at the German Grand Prix on Sunday, is in perfect health and will return to driving ... Read More

McLaren Mercedes Takes Hockenheim For First In A Decade

Sunday July 20, 2008
After winning the home race for McLaren in England two weeks ago, it was time for Lewis Hamilton to take the home victory for Mercedes at the German Grand Prix ... Read More

A Redrawing Of The F1 Title Race?

Saturday July 19, 2008
The two McLaren Mercedes drivers are clearly getting closer in their racing and qualifying these days, as Heikki Kovalainen regains his confidence and gets used to the new team. ... Read More

Schumi Popular As Ever

Friday July 18, 2008
The Germans still have not recovered from Michael Schumacher's retirement from Formula One a year and a half ago. Organizers say that tickets have sold out for this weekend's ... Read More

Singapore's Pit Building

Monday July 14, 2008
Certainly the most exciting new race this season is the Singapore Grand Prix, which takes place at the end of September in the streets of the city of Singapore. ... Read More

Spy Scandal Entirely Closed

Friday July 11, 2008
McLaren Mercedes today announced that it had come to an agreement with Ferrari to formally close the spy scandal that so soured the sport last year. I wonder why ... Read More

Bernard Cahier Dies

Thursday July 10, 2008
Bernard Cahier, one of the finest Formula 1 photographers, has died at the age of 81. Cahier began his career in the sport in 1952 and continued into the ... Read More

Hamilton Overcomes All Obstacles To Win At Silverstone

Sunday July 6, 2008
The thing that was really interesting in Lewis Hamilton's victory in Silverstone today was not just the obstacles of a wet and windy race and cars spinning out all over ... Read More

Renault Using Wind Tunnel in United States?

Friday July 4, 2008
Someone I know in Concorde, North Carolina just informed me that they had seen last week a whole lot of people wearing Renault F1 uniforms staying at a local hotel ... Read More

British Grand Prix Moves To Donington

Friday July 4, 2008
Just as the first practice session of the day came to an end at Silverstone a few minutes ago, the International Automobile Federation sent out and email and the local ... Read More

Coulthard To Retire; Webber To Re-Tire

Thursday July 3, 2008
Here at Silverstone, where the British Grand Prix takes place on Sunday, David Coulthard today announced his retirement from Formula One racing. The oldest driver on the grid - ... Read More

Batman Comes to F1

Tuesday July 1, 2008
How well timed can this be? Just after Toyota finished its two best races of the season, finishing fourth and sixth in Canada and third - with Jarno Trulli ... Read More

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