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A tense and close Monaco Qualifying session sees Mark Webber get his second pole position in a row.

The Renault of Robert Kubica was the sensation of the day though, as it set great times in all of the sessions and looked at one point to have had the pole position tied up, but then Webber pulled an extremely quick lap out of the bag in the dying minutes.

Vettel also tried for the top spot, but just couldn’t manage to equal Kubica’s pace, let alone his team mates.  Read more... (554 words, estimated 2:13 mins reading time)

Jenson Button drove a great race to take the win in Australia. Robert Kubica put’s the Renault on the podium as well, with a great race to take second with Felipe Massa holding off Alonso to take third.

However the story of the race was McLaren pitting Lewis (while running third) for tyres late in the race. The teams did not have to change dry tyres, as the race was started under wet conditions with all the cars on the Inter tyres.

A full rundown shortly. But congratulations to Jenson on a well deserved win.

A bit of an odd qualifying in ways. The Red Bull and Ferrari’s were fast as expected, but after showing decent pace in free practice sessions Lewis Hamilton went out in Q2, but his team mate Jenson had no problems getting through.

Webber looked to be the pick for the top spot right up until the final moments of the Q3 session, when his talented team mate Sebastian Vettel pipped him to the post to take pole on Marks home GP.  Read more... (341 words, estimated 1:22 mins reading time)

Alonso wins the first race of the 2010 season, but Vettel should have been the winner if it was not for a broken exhaust.

A very subdued race at Bahrain, I’ll do a full rundown of the GP shortly, but suffice to say that even with the rule changes, overtaking was not particularly evident. Perhaps it will get more exciting when the teams get used to the new format (or Bridgestone make the tyres less impressive).  Read more... (309 words, estimated 1:14 mins reading time)

Sebastien Vettel has taken a surprise pole position in the first GP of the season.

The Red Bull cars have not looked the fastest all weekend, right up until it counted. Vettel put a sterling lap in to take the top spot ahead of the two Ferrari’s. But even there it was not the expected result with Felipe Massa getting one over on his highly rated team mate Alonso.  Read more... (471 words, 1 image, estimated 1:53 mins reading time)

The 2010 season is upon us, with the Bahrain GP this weekend, so lets take a few moments to have a look at the state of the teams, drivers and rules, and what we think might happen.

The Rule Changes

Many of the rules stay the same this year, however there are a few big changes that we need to be aware of.  Read more... (2601 words, 12 images, estimated 10:24 mins reading time)

London, 11th February 2010, Mario Andretti, Tony Brooks, Ron Dennis and Jacky Ickx were last night inducted into the very first Motor Sport Hall of Fame.
Drivers past and present – Sir Stirling Moss and Sir Jackie Stewart among them – plus celebrity guests including James Martin, Jodie Kidd, Britt Ekland, commentators and opinion formers all gathered at Camden’s iconic Roundhouse to witness the induction of four of the greatest names in the sport.  Read more... (552 words, estimated 2:12 mins reading time)

New pictures coming thick and fast from the test at the moment, thanks to ScarbsF1 on twitter for most of them. I’ll update this post with interesting stuff coming through.

 McLaren – Here you can see the cooling slots on the McLaren car, just above the sidepods. These are probably for airflow/electronics cooling.

They turned up this morning just on the left hand side of the car, and moments ago this pic was snapped with both sidepods having the cooling slots installed.  Read more... (191 words, 6 images, estimated 46 secs reading time)