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Coulthard - I quit F1 one season too soon

Jun.29 (GMM) David Coulthard believes he might have quit formula one at least a season too soon. The Scot, 38, contested nearly 250 races over 17 seasons, before retiring at the end of 2008.
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Turkish GP Review: Red Bull

Mark Webber drove to a brilliant second place in Istanbul, having started fourth, with Sebastian Vettel finishing right behind him in third for the team to come away with 14 points in total.
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F1 Complete German GP Preview: Red Bull

Q A with Sebastian Vettel before his home race, and track guide with David Coulthard.
07/07/09
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F1-Live.com Brawn light, Red Bull strong in Germany

German GP - Qualifying weights Red Bull Renault look set to continue where they left off last time out at the British Grand Prix after Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel qualified...
07/11/09
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F1-Live.com Lauda expecting a tight clean Red...

Button pins hopes on Hungarian upgrades Niki Lauda does not believe the championship is set to turn into a hostile inter-team-mate scrap between Sebastian Vettel and Mark...
07/14/09
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F1-Live.com Red Bull to stick with double diffuser

BMW talk of a multi-level diffuser Red Bull is planning to stick with its new 'double diffuser' for the Turkish Grand Prix and beyond...  
05/26/09
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F1-Live.com German states ban cocaine-laced Red Bull

Energy drink maker insists product is harmless The leading energy drink Red Bull's new cola variety has been ordered off the shelves in six German states...  
05/26/09
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F1 Complete German states ban cocaine-laced Red Bull

May 26 (GMM) The leading energy drink Red Bull's new cola variety has been ordered off the shelves in six German states.
05/26/09
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Coulthard defends 'honest' Hamilton

Jun.7 (GMM) David Coulthard has defended Lewis Hamilton, after the reigning world champion qualified 16th in Turkey and then wrote off his 2009 campaign and car.
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Red Bull still wants new engine manufacturer

Jul.7 (GMM) Even at the apparent conclusion of the FIA-FOTA war, it seems Red Bull is still on the market for a new formula one engine supplier for 2010.
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F1 Complete Red Bull to stick with double diffuser

May 26 (GMM) Red Bull is planning to stick with its new 'double diffuser' for the Turkish grand prix and beyond.
05/26/09
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F1 Complete Monaco GP Debrief: Red Bull Racing

Mark Webber was in the points again in Monaco coming in fifth having started eighth, while Sebastian
05/25/09
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F1 Complete Hungarian GP Preview: Red Bull

Red Bull Racing has reached the mid-point of the season in fine form, with consecutive one-two finishes in the British and German Grands Prix. Christian Horner here gives us his...
07/18/09
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F1 Complete Qualifying Review: Red Bull

Sebastian Vettel will line up in fourth place on the Monaco grid tomorrow with Mark in eighth.
05/23/09
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F1 Complete Q&A with Adrian Newey

With the team currently lying second in both the Constructors’ and Drivers’ Championships Adrian Newey gives his views on the first half of the 2010 Red Bull Racing...
07/20/09
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F1 Complete Red Bull may shift focus to Vettel's...

May 20 (GMM) Should Sebastian Vettel continue to pull clear of his teammate and nip at the heels of the 2009 championship leader, Red Bull will put its full weight behind the...
05/20/09
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German GP Friday Review: Red Bull

Morning session: Mark Webber (1st) 1:33.082 19 laps; Sebastian Vettel (8th) 1:33.909 13 laps. Afternoon session: Sebastian Vettel (2nd) 1:32.331 31 laps; Mark Webber (4th) 1:32.480 28 laps.
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Joy for Mark Webber in qualifying

• Webber scores first pole of career• Resurgent Hamilton will start fifthThe old 14-mile long Nürburgring Nordschleife long ago entered the motor racing history books as the stuff of legends, so when, in 1984, the sanitised new, current circuit was opened many hard-liners were left simply aghast that the old track's memory was being sullied by its replacement with such a sterile facility.Yet somehow this weekend, the ascetic new Nürburgring seemed strangely in tune with the tortured times of the sport. In contemporary Formula One, money talks even more than driving genius or engineering excellence, but the 2009 German Grand Prix might yet be remembered as the day the sport's commercial madness was laid to rest and the foundations were put down for a sane new future.A glance down the timing sheets offered little insight into the real story. At the end of a qualifying session rendered tantalisingly unpredictable by a succession of intermittent rain showers, Mark Webber stormed his Red Bull-Renault to the first pole position of his 128-race career, edging out the Brawn-Mercedes duo, Rubens Barrichello and Jenson Button, while local star Sebastian Vettel could manage only fourth ahead of the resurgent McLaren-Mercedes pair, Lewis Hamilton and Heikki Kovalainen.Webber, a huge paddock favourite, could hardly contain his delight. "This is a very special day for me," said the 32-year-old. "I've been close to getting pole a few times in the past. It was very, very chaotic and to deliver the lap time when it absolutely counted was very important to me."We have been quick all weekend and I hope that it can be my first win tomorrow. Obviously these guys [Barrichello and Button] have had a very strong season and will push us, but I'm looking forward to a fight. I'm certainly up for trying to take the first win of my career."As for Button, third place was perhaps a little less than the world championship leader had been hoping for, but in terms of the strategic imperative to keep the upper hand over championship rival Vettel, he was certainly satisfied."Just getting into the final qualifying session was an achievement today," he said. "It was a pretty eventful hour and the second stint in particular was madness, but it was good fun. I thought it was too wet for slicks, but Rubens made it work and we were able to switch tyres with just enough time to make my own timed lap count."McLaren came into the weekend feeling that at last there was light at the end of the tunnel as far as the development of their troublesome MP4-24 was concerned. Hamilton's car was fitted with a new front wing and revised upper bodywork for Friday free practice, and a second new front wing was fitted to Kovalainen's car on Friday evening. In the end, the reigning world champion counted himself satisfied to have made it into the top 10."If it stays dry tomorrow, then we will definitely be in a good position," said Hamilton, "and we can shoot for the podium. We could even fight the Red Bulls. I think it will probably be wet, though. For Heikki and I to be in the top 10, that's all down to the work done back at the factory. It has made a huge difference."Yet that most pressing of agendas was being hammered out behind the smoked-glass windows of the lavish team motorhomes that lined the paddock. At the end of a week that had seen a rash of provocative exchanges between Max Mosley, the FIA president, and the eight-strong membership of the Formula One Teams' Association, over the future of the F1 world championship, it emerged that there had been a seismic shift in the balance of power within the motor racing community.Having started the weekend as the masters of their high-octane universe, Bernie Ecclestone and Mosley were reduced to the role of bit-part players as the realisation dawned that the sport's most pressing priority was servicing the $2.8bn bond that had been launched in 2007 by investors CVC Capital Partners to buy a stake in Ecclestone's F1 business.The only source of income available to service this debt is the future race and TV fees generated by the competing teams – and those teams had made it clear they had no intention of sticking around to be dictated to by an FIA under Mosley's stewardship. By this morning it was clear that time had run out for Mosley when Ari Vatanen, the 1981 world rally champion and a former member of the European parliament, arrived in the paddock to be greeted by a staged photocall shaking hands with Ecclestone.Of course, it is still possible that Mosley, or his approved nominee, the former Ferrari team principal Jean Todt, will offer themselves as candidates for the FIA presidential election in October. But Ecclestone's tacit endorsement of Vatanen – who proclaimed himself intent on restoring the governing body's somewhat tarnished reputation – renders this an unlikely dawn.Formula 1 has for too long been a cash cow milked dry by vested interests. If it is to survive and prosper, it needs a little breathing space in which to catch its breath.Formula OneRed BullLewis HamiltonJenson ButtonBrawnMcLarenMotor sportguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2009 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
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F1 Complete Coulthard's Guide to Monaco

You’d expect Mr Coulthard to know what he’s talking about when it comes to Monte Carlo. It’s been his home now for a number of years, he’s won here twice...
05/19/09
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F1 Complete Mateschitz: "Coulthard didn't push...

Jul.23 (GMM) Mark Webber's now retired teammate did not push the Australian hard enough, according to Red Bull team boss Dietrich Mateschitz.
07/23/09
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The Independent New Red Bull deal for Webber

Mark Webber has signed a new deal with Red Bull Racing, committing himself to the team for the 2010 season.
07/23/09
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F1-Live.com Webber confirmed at Red Bull for 2010

Red Bull Racing has confirmed Mark Webber for another year: the Australian driver will therefore line up again with Sebastien Vettel to defend the team's colours during the...
07/23/09
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F1-Live.com Coulthard didn't push Webber enough -...

Mark Webber's now retired teammate did not push the Australian hard enough, according to Red Bull team boss Dietrich Mateschitz...  
07/23/09
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F1-Live.com Coulthard back in Red Bull reserve role

David Coulthard has stepped back into the role as the reserve driver for Red Bull's two Formula One teams...  
07/24/09
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F1 Complete Coulthard back in driving role for...

Jul.24 (GMM) David Coulthard has stepped back into the role as the reserve driver for Red Bull's two formula one teams.
07/24/09
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F1 Complete Hungary Friday Review: Red Bull

Session one: Mark Webber 1:22.615 21 laps. Sebastian Vettel 1:23.283 25 laps; Session two: Webber 1:22.369 29 laps; Vettel 1:22.550 30 laps.
07/24/09
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