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British GP saga close to conclusion 11:35pm on 03 Dec 2009 I've had an interesting thought - what if Prodrive buyout Renault, swap Kubica for Mercedes engines and run Anthony Davdison and Paul Di Resta?

As Andrew mentions, David Richards and Prodrive are already linked with a Renault buyout and Kubica might be the "surprise" that Norbert was talking about for Mercedes.
Prodrive intended to run Mercedes power for this season (and in their 2008 entry), Anthony Davidson has links with Richards from the BAR days and his drives for Prodrive at Le Mans. Di Resta is supported by Mercedes and has been impressive in young driver testing and is highly rated.

A British B-team to the McLaren/Button/Hamilton combo?
Pick your classic Brazilian Grand Prix 5:55pm on 07 Oct 2009 My vote goes to 1982.
Your classic grand prix 2:09pm on 23 Sep 2009 I vote for 1994 please
Pick your classic grand prix 12:53pm on 17 Sep 2009 Oh wait, that was Detroit 1984.
In that case, I vote for 1990 Mexico.
Pick your classic grand prix 12:51pm on 17 Sep 2009 I vote for Dallas 1984 - had a great drive from Martin Brundle, almost his first and only win!
Valencia left deflated by Schumi absence 9:19pm on 20 Aug 2009 I was actually more excited to hear Badoer back than I was Schumacher. Badoer beat many later F1 drivers in F3000 and Italian F3. He also beat his teammates in F1 and was always overlooked in almost every team - at Minardi they chose Alboreto over him for a race seat despite Badoer soundly beating him at Scuderia Italia in 1993.
He never had a car that was good enough to score points but it seems he was always considered a good development driver, so he ended up staying in F1 a lot longer than many other backmaker drivers and thus he ended up with his record of most starts without points.

After winning F3000 and beating the likes of Rubens Barrichello and David Coulthard in 1992, he ended up with an F1 drive. At the time you probably would have said Scuderia Italia looked the safer bet compared to where Barrichello went in Jordan. Alas, after switching from Dallara to Lola chassis for 1993, the car was no where near as good as the last year's. I think this sums up Badoer's career - very unlucky and very overlooked.

I hope Luca has a good weekend and silences some critics. Even better if he scores points and finally rids himself of that record.
Pick your classic Belgian Grand Prix 8:22pm on 20 Aug 2009 I vote for 1995, I miss the old Hill/Schumacher battles.
Your classic European Grand Prix 1:19pm on 18 Aug 2009 Its slightly disappointing how Luca Badoer isn't getting much mention at all on the BBC F1 website....surely he's at least worth an article seeing as he's having a comeback of Jan Lammers proportions and could quite possibly get out of that record of his (most races without points).

We have an article on Grosjean and Alguesuari - why not Badoer?

Anyway, pleased to see 1999 again, even though it does miss out the famous Badoer crying at the side of the track clip.
Ted Kravitz - the Hungarian GP from the pit lane 2:24pm on 29 Jul 2009 I think Sebastien Bourdais is also a likely candidate for a temporary Ferrari seat as he has very very recent experience of the current F1 cars and also of the Ferrari engine. And he's not tied to any contracts like all the other options are.
And if Ferrari could pick the likes of Mika Salo last time, why not Bourdais?
Pick your classic Hungarian Grand Prix 9:33pm on 17 Jul 2009 1997 gets my vote, Damon's finest hour right there and always the race I point to for his critics.

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