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New York (F1/Newsfeed) — McLaren’s commitment to carbon reduction and environmental efficiency has received further recognition with a silver medal at the 2012 Edison Awards, held at a glittering ceremony in New York last week. McLaren, who have already earned official carbon-neutral status after achieving annual savings of over 1,500 tonnes of CO2 emissions, were nominated in the prestigious Green Implementation category. “I’m delighted that our on-going efforts to manage and improve our carbon efficiency have been recognised by the Edison Awards judging panel,” commented team principal Martin Whitmarsh. “This is a fantastic achievement for the whole team.” Celebrating innovation [...]

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Budapest (F1/Newsfeed) – McLaren’s Jenson Button will drive through the heart of Budapest on Tuesday. Button will be in action on a specially-constructed 1.6-kilometre street course in the Hungarian capital as part of the ‘Raise Your Game Weekend’ event, which has been arranged by McLaren’s title sponsors Vodafone. A children’s folk dancing group from Debrecen will perform for Button before he takes to the track, which will see him pass near several iconic locations including the Chain Bridge and the Parliament. He’ll then field questions from the crowd before meeting the Hungarian Olympic water polo team. “I’m very excited to [...]

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Mercedes’ Nico Rosberg and Michael Schumacher will join their DTM counterparts at the German touring car series’ season opener this weekend. Rosberg will demonstrate a 1955 Mercedes-Benz W196 on Saturday at Hockenheim, whilst Schumacher will drive the team’s 2011 car on Sunday. The choice of car for Rosberg is particularly poignant as he recently claimed the marque’s first win as a works team since Juan Manuel Fangio’s success in the 1955 Italian Grand Prix at the wheel of a W196. Rosberg’s victory in China came precisely 20,671 days after Fangio’s Monza win. “I am absolutely delighted to be returning to [...]

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Williams’ reserve driver Valtteri Bottas will test for the British team on the opening day of next week’s Mugello session. Bottas will take to the Italian track on Tuesday, whilst Bruno Senna and Pastor Maldonado will be in action on Wednesday and Thursday respectively. Since commencing his current Williams role late last year, the Finn has enjoyed plenty of time behind the wheel of the FW34. As well as a pre-season test outing, the 2011 GP3 champion participated in Friday practice sessions at the Malaysian, Chinese and Bahrain Grands Prix. Bottas joins a growing number of third drivers in action [...]

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Autosport is reporting that strategy is going to be much more important this year for teams to win races thanks to the wearing out of the tires. Teams have noted also that drivers’ observations are going to be much more important in terms of tire wear. Indeed, with a victory of Fernando Alonso in the Ferrari in the Malaysian Grand Prix, it is clear that not always the fastest car will win, but the driver and his mental approach will no doubt become more important. MySportNews іѕ a sports news digest publication that compiles real time, on demand sports news, articles, аnd resources. This article was distributed by Syndicated Sports news wire and aggregation service, For more [...]

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F1 in Schools, the Formula One technology challenge, has enlisted Sauber CEO Monisha Kaltenborn as the global educational initiative’s latest, high profile patron. Kaltenborn joins an impressive roll call of F1 names which includes McLaren team principal Martin Whitmarsh, Red Bull’s chief technical officer Adrian Newey, Caterham’s technical head Mike Gascoyne, and Mercedes team principal Ross Brawn. “F1 in Schools is an excellent educational programme which is introducing students to the many disciplines needed for careers within motorsport, offering an exciting and practical competitive environment to learn key skills used in racing, particularly within the engineering sector,” commented Kaltenborn. The [...]

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Red Bull may have bounced back to their winning ways in Bahrain but there was another success story from Sakhir, courtesy of Force India’s Paul di Resta. Despite high tyre wear at the circuit, Di Resta excelled after brilliantly exploiting his brave two-stop strategy to record the team’s highest finish so far this year with sixth place. The young Scot was the only driver to resist the call of a third pit stop and, although he started to struggle on his final set of rubber with over 10 laps to go before the chequered flag, helped by some shrewd KERS [...]

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After some careful assessment, HRT have announced they will not be attending next week’s Formula One test in Mugello, Italy. With planned upgrades to the Spanish team’s car not due for completion until after the session, they will instead concentrate on moving to their new headquarters. “The start to the season was a little bit rushed for us and, since the cars were set up for the first time, we have been working on them at the Grands Prix,” explained team principal Luis Perez-Sala. “The team and the material have just got back from Bahrain after leaving for Australia in [...]

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