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Motorcycle Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
OnPole.com During the 2002 F1 season Juan Pablo Montoya, in his BMW Williams, was widely seen as the main challenger to the dominant Ferrari F1 team of Michael Schumacher & Rubens Barrichello. His qualifying performances were amazing with 5 consecutive pole positions and the fastest ever grand prix lap in history. His spectacular & aggressive on-track [...]
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Autoblog (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Filed under: Motorsports , Hirings/Firings/Layoffs , Mercedes-Benz The new Mercedes GP car rendered - Click above to view in high-resolution With two manufacturers leaving the series , four new teams joining the grid and a giant game of musical chairs amongst the drivers ensuing, the off-season between the 2009 and 2010 Formula One World Championships is packing in as much action as the racing itself....
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Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Making the dissolution of Brawn GP complete, Formula One world champion Jenson Button has stepped into the fun of being Lewis Hamilton ’s teammate at McLaren for 2010. It’s probably been Formula One’s worst kept secret these past few weeks, but it’s official now: after Rubens Barrichello ’s leave for Williams and Brawn GP’s sale to Mercedes-Benz , Jenson Button...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
The British drivers' forthcoming tussle promises the fireworks and recriminations of their McLaren heroes before them For anyone who doubted Jenson Button's willingness to take a risk, now is the time to keep silent. The decision of the new world champion to join a team dominated for the past three years by Lewis Hamilton represents a terrific gamble for Button, and the prospect of the two Englishmen...
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Too Much Racing (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Yet more big changes among the F1 teams for 2010! Not only do we get get a raft of new teams, the departure of BMW (who may yet come back in a new form) and Toyota, now we also have Mercedes completely restructuring their involvement after a long unbroken run with McLaren. McLaren Mercedes presently own 40% of the McLaren F1 team (not the group as a whole though). The problem Mercedes faced is that...
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Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Mercedes-Benz has announced it has purchased this year’s world champion Brawn GP team and will run it next year as Mercedes Grand Prix . This marks the first time that Mercedes-Benz will compete under its own name in Formula One since 1955, when they retired at the end of the season following the disaster at Le Mans. They have already signed Nico Rosberg as one of their drivers, while world...
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pluGGd.in (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Brazilian court has fined Orkut $500,000 for allowing fake profile on the site. Civil court case, filed by race car driver Rubens Barrichello in 2006 has his fake profile depicted him as a toy turtle. In another India incident, Detection of Crime Branch (DCB) arrested a man for allegedly posting obscene (morphed) photographs of a former [...] » Join our Google group | » Do check out Indian...
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Crash.Net (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Williams F1 new boy Rubens Barrichello out to extend his record at Granja Viana 500.
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F1 Fanatic (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
F1 Racing Driver Barrichello Wins $500,000 Libel Suit Against Google (TechCrunch) "Google has been ordered by a Brazilian court to pay Formula One racing driver Rubens Barrichello $500,000 in damages for the presence of fake online profiles of the driver on its social network Orkut, which is hugely popular in the man’s home country." Ross Brawn suggests [...]
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The Technology Blog (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
"Internet giant Google has been ordered to pay 500,000 dollars in damages to Formula 1 racer Rubens Barrichello for hosting fake online profiles of him on its social network Orkut." Source: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/091109/technology/auto_prix_bra_internet_justice
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Click World News (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
These two submissions came in one after the other, both having to do with Brazil, so I decided to just mix them together into a single post. Of course, it's a bit of a good news/bad news sorta thing. Let's start with the "bad news." Reader Stuart Waterman alerts us to the news that Google, owner of Orkut (the social network that is amazingly popular in Brazil for reasons still unclear) has...
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Crash.Net (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
US-owned internet giant Google has been ordered to pay out in excess of $500,000 in damages to F1 star Rubens Barrichello for hosting fake online profiles of the Brazilian on one of its social networking sites.
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TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Google has been ordered by a Brazilian court to pay Formula One racing driver Rubens Barrichello $500,000 in damages for the presence of fake online profiles of the driver on its social network Orkut , which is hugely popular in the man's home country. The civil case, which was filed in July 2006, related to hundreds of fake profiles for Barrichello that were created on Orkut, some of which depicted...
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Beyond Search (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
YAGG is goose talk for yet another Google goof. The search giant has been “ordered to pay 500 000 in damages to Formula 1 racer Rubens Barrichello for hosting fake online profiles of him on its social network Orkut.” You can read “Google to Pay F1 Racer” and decide whether the Brazilian court was on [...]
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IOL (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Internet giant Google has been ordered to pay damages to Formula 1 racer Rubens Barrichello for hosting fake online profiles of him on its social network Orkut.
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traimi | 16/09/2009
The Italian Grand Prix was dominated by the Brawn duo Rubens Barrichello and Jenson Button. Barrichello made the most of a one-stop fuel strategy to edge out Button. Hot on their trail were Lewis Hamilton (McLaren), Kimi Raikkonen (Ferrari) and Adrian Sutil (Force India).