Esteban Gutierrez will be seen in Sauber team gear in formula one paddocks this year. The 18-year-old Mexican, who tested with the Swiss team last December, will "attend a number of grands prix in 2010", it was announced in a media statement.
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Michael Schumacher on Saturday steered away from claims his 2010 car might not be a winning one. "This was an initial feeling and it looks like that maybe we were running more fuel than others on Friday and that is why track times didn't look so good," said the German, who is 41.
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As the 2010 pre-season winds down on Sunday, F1's pecking order for the forthcoming world championship continued to develop. On the final overcast morning of the Barcelona test, many runners took fuel out of their cars and fitted new tyres to gauge raw qualifying pace.
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Charles Pic took victory in Race 2 in Bahrein, ahead of Giaccomo Ricci and Javier Villa.
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Kevin Harvick turned what could have been a series of pit road disasters into a victory coming back to win the rain-delayed Nationwide Race at Las Vegas beating Denny Hamlin."We had our worst day ever on pit road," said his crew chief Ernie Cope.
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Lewis Hamilton of the McLaren-Mercedes Sunday set the fastest time of the fourth and final day of Barcelona winter test session.
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Pininfarina will unveil at the Geneva auto show a modern interpretation of the most famous car it produced for Alfa Romeo: the 1966 Duetto spider.
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After dominating the airwaves as the primary automotive advertiser on the Super Bowl, Hyundai now heads to the Academy Awards as the event's exclusive automotive sponsor for the second straight year.
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U.S. regulators have purchased and will test the Lexus ES 350 once owned by a Tennessee woman whose testimony in Congress personalized allegations of unintended acceleration in Toyota Motor Corp.
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Toyota outlined a range of services now being offered nationwide to customers who have been affected by the automaker's recalls.
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Lexus has released details its new CT 200h car, the first full hybrid vehicle to be launched in the premium compact segment. The CT 200h was designed and developed with the European market in mind but will be sold worldwide, Lexus said.
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Toyota showed an impressive reduction in its fleet's average carbon dioxide emissions in 2009 and now trails No. 1 Fiat by a small margin in the race to be Europe's greenest brand. Toyota slashed its average CO2 emissions to 130.
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Toyota Motor Corp.'s U.S. sales for February likely took a hit from massive recalls, but the big question remains how deep the damaging crisis will cut into its results in coming months.
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A decision on the restructuring plan for Opel unit will take some time, CEO Nick Reilly said, according to a German newspaper.
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South Korean carmaker Kia Motors Corp. will boost car production in Slovakia by 40 percent this year, driven mainly by rising demand in the SUV market, the company's Slovak unit said on Wednesday.
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The British government will give up to 5,000 pounds ($7,668) to anyone who buys an "ultra-low carbon" car starting next year, the Department of Transport said on Thursday.
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Economics and finance expert Laurence Dors starts at Renault on Monday, March 1. She will join the French automaker's top-level executive committee as an executive vice president July 1.
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China's BYD aims to boost its car exports this year to feed improving demand in a recovering global economy. BYD aims to sell its clean-technology cars in Western Europe next year, following plans to export electric cars to the U.S. later this year.
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