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When Felipe Massa was struck on his helmet by a suspension spring during qualifying for the 2009 Hugarian Grand Prix there would have been one person who was more worried than most: Anna Rafaela Bassi. Thankfully Felipe has made a full recovery and has returned to Formula One, but his wife Rafaela would have been very anxious following the incident. While Massa’s injury might have brought them closer together …

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Lotus were left feeling disappointed after the Belgian Grand prix at Spa, with heavy rain causing havoc for the drivers. The weekend started promisingly for the team with Kovalainen equalling his season’s best qualifying performance with a 13th place start to Sundays race. Team-mate Jarno Trulli also started to show some promise in …

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Guns n’ Roses once sang that ‘nothing lasts forever, in the cold November rain.’ But for Ferrari, it only took a bit of August drizzle to call time on their title hopes.

The Belgian grand prix had promised much, with Fernando Alonso in charge of the first two practice sessions and looking good for a push for Ferrari’s first pole position …

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Lewis Hamilton has admitted the lack of a Grand Prix victory at Monza leaves a hole on his impressive Formula One CV.

The McLaren driver became the youngest ever Formula One World Champion when he followed up his debut 2007 season with title success in 2008.

He has since won 14 races during a glittering career but has never taken the chequered flag at the venue for this weekend's Italian Grand Prix.

Hamilton won the Belgian Grand …

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Lewis Hamilton survived a late scare to win the Belgian Grand Prix ahead of Red Bull’s Mark Webber. Hamilton towards the end of the race went onto the gravel and was millimetres away from touching the wall whilst the rain was teeming down.

Webber made a poor start on race day but recovered well to finish second. It was yet another case of a Red Bull being on pole and not …

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Former McLaren supremo Ron Dennis has criticised Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel for his on-track behaviour.

The German, who remains in contention to land the Formula One World Drivers' Championship this season, forced Jenson Button out of the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa on Sunday when his overtaking manoeuvre went wrong and Dennis believes he needs to take stock of his own mishaps and improve in the …

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Virgin get both of their boys to the chequered flag in a rain effected race in Belgium where Timo Glock managed to reach Q2 for the second time before a penalty dropped him down to 20th on the grid.

The team has now demonstrated to the rest of the field that they do have the pace to battle with the big boys, …

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All things considered it was a pretty good weekend for the Mercedes GP team. Both cars finished in the points, a risky tyre-strategy paid off, Nico Rosberg showed his dominance over his team-mate with a late opportunistic overtake and Michael Schumacher is not the most hated German in the paddock anymore.

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Fernando Alonso has brushed off suggestions that he is now out of the running for the Formula One world championship.

Alonso saw the momentum gained from winning in Germany and finishing runner-up in Hungary come to a halt after a disappointing 10th-placed finish in Belgium last weekend.

The Ferrari driver is now 41 points adrift of current championship leader Lewis Hamilton, which has led to suggestions that …

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Surely Red Bull must now be thinking of putting all their faith and efforts into Mark Webber for the duration of the Championship?

At this weekend’s Belgian Grand Prix, Webber consolidated his title charge at the expense of Sebastian Vettel who once again proved that he needs to improve his temprement before he can think of a serious title challenge.

However, things did not go all Webber’s way as he fluffed …

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