Red Bull Racing has released the first official photos with new RB6 F1 car which, they hope, to help them fight for world title in 2010.
Red Bull Racing has become Wednesday morning the last of the current Formula 1 teams to present the new single car for this year’s Formula 1 season.
After missing the first session of testing at Valencia in order to give their engineers more time to develop the car, the Austrian team presented the first official photos of the new F1 car with only a few minutes before it could make his debut at the Jerez circuit.
As we all anticipated, the new RB6 has a very high nose and represents an even more radical version of the concept introduced in 2009 and copied this year by most of the teams in competition. The long engine casing is not missing an it is extended to near the rear
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Just like we told you on November 28th, Kimi Raikkonen was close to a deal with Citroen WRC. Now, it’s official: Kimi Raikkonen will drive the Citroen WRC in 2010, starting in 12 rounds of the World Rally Championship.
We were saying that Kimi and Sebastian Loeb will team up, but it seems that things are not like this. Raikkonen signed with Citroen’s second squad, the Junior World Rally Team, where he will meet his co-driver Kaj Lindstrom – who co-drove Tommi Makinen. Anyway this would not be the first time the two meet, as the two Finns raced last year in WRC Neste Oil Rally of Finland in a Abarth Grande Punto S200.
Even though Junior World Rally Team sound a bit… errr “junior” thing are a not so easily taken, as the new formed team will only miss the New Zealand Rally.
“I always wanted to compete in rally, especially in the World Rally Championship,” said
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We all heard the rumors that Kimi Raikkonen will not hold the steering wheel in his hands in 2010
and almost all of us had the same opinion: “what a waste of talent!” But it seems we were all wrong. It seems that after all Raikkonen will race next year, but it will not be a Formula 1 monopost. He will drive a Citroen in the World Rally Championship.
They say that Ferrari and Kimi had a deal, the Fin was getting $25 million just to sit out in the upcoming Formula 1 season, with a clause saying that Raikkonen will only get $18 million from Ferrrai if it is to sign for another team.
Anyway someone close to the former Formula One driver told wrc.com that Kimi Raikkonen is close to a deal with the Citroen Total World Rally Team, who’s main sponsor is Red Bull, and also the personal sponsor of the Fin, so it seems
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Eddie Jordan, a BBC Sport pundit reported that Michael Schumacher will return to Formula 1 with the Mercedes team.
Mercedes wants the seven-time champion to be their lead driver, according to Jordan.
Currently, nothing is sure, but nobody contested the rumor yet. Sabine Kehm, Michael Schumacher’s spokeswoman said his return in Formula 1 to Mercedes is “highly unlikely – but never say never”. According to Jordan, Mercedes only wants Schumacher until Sebastian Vettel joins their team. Vettel is currently driving for Red Bull.
Mercedes already took one member of the Ferrari team, Ross Brawn, who was the mastermind behind all Schumacher’s titles at Ferrari.
“The possibility is being actively pursued and I believe it is going to happen,”
said Jordan.
Schumacher is 41 years old and he already quit Formula 1 once, but he had to return to Ferrari last year to replace Felipe Massa. Schumacher also has a neck injury, but medics say
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