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Listed below are comments made by Andrew Benson between Wednesday, 14th October 2009 and Friday, 4th December 2009.

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British GP saga close to conclusion 10:23am on 04 Dec 2009 Interesting comments and some very valid points on the Kubica-Heidfeld debate.

I will leave you with this thought: you are the boss of Mercedes Grand Prix. You are facing a season running a team for the first time, and that team are the reigning world champions.

Your rivals are Hamilton-Button at McLaren, Alonso-Massa at Ferrari, Vettel-Webber at Red Bull.

Are you really confident that a driver line-up of Nico Rosberg and Nick Heidfeld is going to stand a cat in hell's chance against that lot?
British GP saga close to conclusion 5:15pm on 03 Dec 2009 I'm not saying Heidfeld is not a decent driver, just that he's never going to set the world alight. He's solid, Mr Consistency, as Martin Brundle described him in his 2009 review: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/drivers_and_teams/7878980.stm.

It's wrong to say he outperformed Webber and Kubica. Scored more points than them, maybe, but that is not the same as being faster. And who scores the most points when you're in a team that's struggling is not always the best way to judge a driver's quality - it can, if not always be down to one freak result.

Heidfeld would do a good job for Mercedes, and be a safe pair of hands. But if you want someone who could potentially inspire you, or pull a freakishly good result out of the bag, or occasionally completely transcend the car, you'd go for Kubica every time.
My Abu Dhabi Grand Prix preview 11:42am on 01 Nov 2009 Hi all,

We will be filming Murray's latest videos on Monday, so please post any questions you have about the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, the Formula 1 season or any other things to do with F1, then please post them here.

Thanks
My Abu Dhabi Grand Prix predictions 11:20am on 31 Oct 2009 Ref post #3 - thanks for pointing out that slip on Rosberg. It wasn't down to Jonathan, it slipped through in the editing process and has now been changed.

The word is Rosberg will be at Brawn next year, by the way, not McLaren!
Anxious F1 waits for president Todt to show colours 4:56pm on 23 Oct 2009 To Miloudi, post 34:
The San Marino GP was held at the Imola circuit.
Ted Kravitz - the Brazilian GP from the pit lane 5:11pm on 22 Oct 2009 Ref post 4:

I edit this blog and I'm afraid those slipped through the net. Our apologies for that. They have now been corrected. Thanks for pointing it out.
Pick your classic F1 season finale 11:02am on 22 Oct 2009 Just a quick point of order to Silverstone79, you are mixing up two different races at Watkins Glen. Villeneuve's amazing performance in wet practice was in 1979, not 1980. If you look back at the session stats, he was fastest by 8.5 seconds - and at one point was 11 seconds quicker than any other car on the circuit at the same time, including team-mate Jody Scheckter. Quite incredible.

I did consider including that race in this selection because it was a good battle between Villeneuve and Jones for a while, but decided against it in the end because 1980 is a better fit with this year.

It's a definitely contender for a showing next year, though.
My Brazilian Grand Prix preview 11:00pm on 18 Oct 2009 Hi all,

We are filming Murray's next video blogs on Monday, so if you have any questions to ask him about the Brazilian Grand Prix, Jenson Button's world title win, or anything else to do with Formula 1, then please post them here.

Thanks
BBC Sport's fuel-adjusted Brazilian GP grid 12:40pm on 18 Oct 2009 Re post 5. Not quite sure what you're getting at - the relative gaps are on this page and the real ones are both hyperlinked out of this blog, and here on our results pages: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/results/7921120.stm
Your classic Brazilian Grand Prix 10:45am on 14 Oct 2009 Hi all,

on counting the 'votes', there are two things to say:

1) It depends on how you count them. I only count it when someone gives a clear first preference. Two races given equal billing means no vote. By my reckoning, 1982 received comfortably more preferences from respondents than anything else.

2) Far more importantly, I have made it clear - and do so in this blog again - that this is not a vote. We ask you for your views, and we certainly take them into account, but the final decision as to which race to highlight is ours.

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