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FREDERIC LE FLOCH / DPPI Dakar rally, San Juan Despres, already a winner in San Juan on the Dakar’s last visit in 2010, won again today, taking advantage of a major navigational error by Coma to take the lead in the general standings. Nani Roma won his 15th stage on the Dakar and his 3rd […]

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Pic of the Day Photo. BBC Charles Pic. F1 Driver in 2012 The 2011 Formula 1 season saw no French Grand Prix and no Gallic drivers on the grid. Fast forward to 2012. The season opener in Albert Park will see no less than three drivers representing the land of birth of Grand Prix racing. […]

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Off season is a good time to go thru this edition again. Here are some interesting moments that I would like to share with the F1 Weekly familia. The Fifties: The Autopsort magazine is started by Gregor Grand in 1950, and I have been loving and reading this magazine, and the British racing green Motorsport […]

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Folks, cage rattling is nothing new in Formula 1. Just like Peggy Lee’s Fever cage rattling started long ago. And some drivers did sizzle out. We start with the 1963 season when Monte Carlo was the season opener. Jim Clark won the first of his two championships, winning seven of the ten races, and scoring […]

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Photo: renaultsport Renault Sport Technologies, a breeding ground for F1 drivers Scuderia Toro Rosso have named Daniel Ricciardo and Jean-Eric Vergne as their drivers for the 2012 season, the first time two Formula Renault 3.5 Series rivals will be driving side by side for the same Formula One team. In taking the step up from […]