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Brad's Formula 1 Blog July 2009 Archive

By Brad Spurgeon, About.com Guide to Formula 1

Bernie Ecclestone Interview

Thursday July 30, 2009
Check out my interview with Bernie Ecclestone. At the end of it, he said some interesting stuff about the people he admired.

A Legend Returns (Schumacher Part II)

Wednesday July 29, 2009
Wow, I never thought I'd have to retire Michael Schumacher from the "legendary drivers" area of this web site. But Ferrari has announced that Schumacher will come out of ... Read More

Good News Continues in Hungary

Sunday July 26, 2009
First, the news from Ferrari is that Felipe Massa underwent a "positive" brain scan and is now resting in the hospital in Budapest. So the Brazilian is hopefully doing ... Read More

Massa Injured

Saturday July 25, 2009
Ferrari has just released a statement saying that Felipe Massa "suffered a cut on his forehead, a bone damage of his skull and a brain concussion." He will undergo ... Read More

Massa Escapes Serious Injury in Budapest

Saturday July 25, 2009
Formula 1 and its fans breathed a huge sigh of relief to find that Felipe Massa had not been seriously injured after a strange and violent accident during qualifying in ... Read More

A New Concorde Agreement?

Friday July 24, 2009
Are Formula 1's latest battles about the future of the sport about to come to an end? The FIA has just made a statement to the effect that a ... Read More

Alguersuari Joins Toro Rosso

Monday July 20, 2009
Jaime Alguersuari will replace Sebastien Bourdais at the Toro Rosso team starting with the Hungarian Grand Prix this weekend. Although this had been expected, the team made the official ... Read More

Henry Surtees Dies

Sunday July 19, 2009
Henry Surtees, the 18-year-old son of the former F1 world champion John Surtees, died in a freak accident in the new F2 series in England today at a race at ... Read More

Bourdais Out - And Not Happy About It

Thursday July 16, 2009
Toro Rosso today announced that it was dropping Sébastien Bourdais for the rest of the season. The Frenchman is not happy about this, as you can see by the ... Read More

Mark Webber's Records

Sunday July 12, 2009
Mark Webber's victory in the German Grand Prix today was not only a wonderful story about a man who had a severely broken leg over the winter coming through to ... Read More

Webber's Happy Happy, Joy Joy

Saturday July 11, 2009
I don't think I have ever seen Mark Webber with such a big smile on his face as just now at the Nurburgring after he scored the first pole position ... Read More

Cold Nurburgring

Friday July 10, 2009
What do people have against the new races in places like Istanbul, Bahrain, Malaysia, Abu Dhabi, etc.? I mean, I prefer the sun in those places to this cold, ... Read More

Virgin: Brawn Out, Manor In

Saturday July 4, 2009
The Guardian newspaper is reporting that Brawn GP will lose its Virgin sponsor - and I mean that in a couple of senses - to the virgin Manor team next ... Read More

A Bulgarian Grand Prix?

Thursday July 2, 2009
While the Turkish Grand Prix has been having problems with low spectator counts and may not live beyond 2011, a report has appeared that Bernie Ecclestone will meet with Bulgarian ... Read More

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