If that headline can’t have 3 exclamation marks then nothing can. They are back in business the ultimate F1 duo of all time. After a couple of months of hard speculation BBC hints that the German has signed a deal with the newly formed Mercedes GP under Ross Brawn who seems to turn anything into gold with his touch. The deal is worth 7 million for the 2010 season and will be extended if the going gets good. This deal effectively hammers Michael’s current role with Ferrari as its brand ambassador.

Though this might be the delight of the century for motorsport fans, back in Maranello the Ferrari tifosi is heartbroken especially Ferrari boss Montezemolo who quotes “the real Michael is the one who raced for Ferrari” and “this is the new Michael”.

Somewhere down the line when Schumi was sitting out on the Ferrari paddock, he must have realized that he doesn’t belongs on the paddock but further north and that spurred up with Montezemolo’s idea of Schumi standing in for injured Massa added up and here we have the big headline “Schumacher is back”. This is the most bonkers news in motorsport history;the only thing that could top this would be if the late Ayrton Senna comes back to life!

Force India is having quite a handful to deal with these days. Force India has alleged that Lotus has stolen the Aerodynamic design of its 2010 F1 car. According to Force India, Aerolab which is Force India’s former wind tunnel operator has sold vital Aerodynamic data of the Team 2010 F1 car to lotus. Force India claims that Lotus’s front wing assembly of its wind tunnel model is similar to Force India’s on top of that Lotus’s wind tunnel car’s tire has handwriting of Force India’s staff.

These allegations come in the midst of Aerolab’s legal battle against Force India for breaching contract obligations. Mean while Force India won a legal battle against Etihad Airways and Aldar Properties which paid of Force India $ 4.7 million.

As Mallaya’s saying goes “you win or lose, you have to booze”!

5 would be incredibly low for the number of MotoGP championships he has won, what I am referring to is the number of BMWs he has taken home so far after winning this year’s BMW Best Qualifier Award!

The Doctor was presented with a brand new BMW M3 during yesterday’s award ceremony. Before getting the keys to his new Bimmer, Rossi was given the keys to the new M house’s power horse The BMW M3 GTS for a lap around the track.

GTS has a 4.4litre V10 which churns out 450bhp is grounded through a 7-speed double clutch gearbox. All this is a bit too good for a car which tips the scale at 1490kgs, it was so good that Rossi couldn’t stop at the end of his lap; he took it for another.

When Rossi spoke about the GTS “it was amazing in the GTS, Just amazing, it was great, especially under braking with the light weight that it has”. He was so amazed that he wanted one for himself and was found making enquiries.

To add to Rossi’s excitement of winning a brand new M3, Mr. Thomas Schemera, the Director of Sales and Marketing for BMW M Power told “I think he (Rossi) is very convinced about the features and the abilities of the car and we would be very happy to let him have one of the hand built cars that echoes the iconic 3.0 CSL racer from the mid 70s.”!

Kudos DOC!

Image Gallery: GTS unveiling & Rossi’s M3

Have you ever wondered who would win or at least how it would be if you pit the best racing drivers from every turf of racing one against the other? Well there certainly is such an event which happens every year, this year with the venue was set in Beijing and the champions clashed it out with their hearts and souls to clinch the ultimate glory.

The event saw the likes of 7-time F1 Champion Michael Schumacher, current F1 champion Jenson button, 8-time le Mans winner Tom Kirstensen, 5-time Moto GP champion Michael Doohan, triple World Touring Car champion Andy Priaulx and double World Rally Champion Marcus Gronholm.

But none of them were the best of the best; the winner was Double DTM titleholder Mattias Ekstrom who won his third Race of Champions crown yesterday, beating out seven-time F1 champion Michael Schumacher in the final. After winning his way through his group, he beat Tom Kirstensen in the quarter final and Jenson in the semi to face-off Michael in the final.

Michael has never been able to win one loosing it multiple times on the finals. The only F1 driver to have won the ROC is Heikki Kovalainen. But all wasn’t lost for Michael as he helped Germany win the Nation’s Cup for the third time with the help of team-mate Vettel.The cars the lot was racing with were Ford Focus WRC, Volkswagen Scirocco, KTM X-Bow, Solution F Prototype Opel touring car and three different specially-equipped sprint cars.

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A1 GP is like a world cup of Motor racing, pitting nations against one another, with a same spec car designed by Ferrari. It is the brainchild of Sheikh Maktoum Hasher Maktoum Al Maktoum of Dubai. This is the Event in which Indian’s F1 fame Narain Karthikeyan is currently racing for the Indian team.

A1 GP had a rough start with the initial season in 2005 seeing a loss of US$ 250million. It had never been able to rack in big sponsors and its share values dropped as low as 48% in one year of its creation. On top of that the logistics company which is responsible for transporting cars from race to race around the world is holding the cars ransom for payment, if that doesn’t do it Fiat which owns Ferrari has threatened to sue A1 GP and impound the cars for which A1 GP owes Ferrari US$ 2 million.

If you thought the problem ends there, you would be wrong. FIA the regulating body of all motor races has deemed the A1 GP cars unfit for racing and has asked to improve its designs, making it handful. Amidst all these problems, this 2009-2010 seasons opener at Australia’s Gold Coast which was scheduled for the 25th of this month is cancelled.

The Brazilian GP has always been a hum dinger, this year was no exception. Though it doesn’t mark the grand finale this year, it concluded the championships with Button clinching the Driver’s and maiden team Brawn GP the Constructor’s championship.

Before the race started the gap in championship points between Button and Barrichello was 14 and all Barrichello has to do is finish the race in position above 5 as long as Button doesn’t score a point. This did look conceivable as Barrichello started the race in pole and Button way back from 14th on the grid.

As the race progressed so did Button, but the Brazilian on the other hand let it slip after each pit stop, the final blow came when Hamilton over took him, Hamilton got in contact with Barrichello and punctured the Brawn’s rear tire while doing so. Barrichello after the incident had to visit the pits and finished the race at 8th position. Button finished on 5th with 4 extra points adding up to a tally of 89.

Vittal who was in 3 in the overall driver’s championship, bumps ahead of Barrichello with a 4th place finish in Brazil and tally of 74 points leaving Barrichello high and dry with 72 points. With one race to go this season at Abu Dhabi Rubino can mend some of the damage by getting back his 2nd place back.

Force India’s 3rd place qualification for Sutil ended up on the first lap with a spectacular crash taking out himself, Trulli and Alonso. The battle even continued outside the track with a verbal conflict between Sutil and Trulli who was seen very unhappy with the former.

P.S: Webber won the Race.

Click here for the 2009 Brazilian GP result.
Click here for the Driver’s championship standing
Click here for the Constructor’s championship standing

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