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Schumacher: Back for (no) good

Later this morning Mercedes GP will announce that Michael Schumacher will drive for the team in 2010. There is a certain delicious irony here; since Mercedes already has Nico Rosberg under contract, many outlets carrying today’s news are describing Schumacher as the team’s ‘second driver’. It will not be so. Michael Schumacher is the most rapacious [ READ MORE ]

F1’s single launch is dead

During a convivial lunch yesterday, conversation turned to the matter of January’s single launch for all the F1 teams. It was going to save the teams a packet because the local government was going to underwrite the whole shindig, reckoning on a big payday for the local facilities. But there were several problems, not least of [ READ MORE ]

A great time to buy in to F1

Earlier this year I went over to the World Touring Car Championship race at Porto. I caught up with a driver who I haven’t seen in years, and amongst other things he told me that in recent months he’d been snapping up repossessed houses for around 50 per cent of the market rate. “The banks are [ READ MORE ]

Motor Sport Business Forum preview: the future of F1 media, part three – better coverage in the internet age

This is my final post looking at some of the issues that’ll be covered by the media panel at this week’s Motor Sport Business Forum in Monaco, featuring James Allen, Jonathan Noble, Joe Saward and Ian Burrows. Advocates of free market economics and devotees of Adam Smith (there’s a big overlap; maybe I should draw a [ READ MORE ]

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