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Followup: Sam Michael cleared to start at McLaren

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Filed under: Motorsports , Hirings/Firings/Layoffs Staff changes take place all the time in Formula 1 . And since every team is working pretty much from the same talent pool, staff members are bound to rotate between teams. Typically the top talents are share between the top teams: a list that in recent years has comprised of outfits like Ferrari , McLaren , Red Bull and Mercedes GP . But while they haven’t been there in a while, Williams was once classified among the elite front-runners, and with some personnel and technical changes, hopes to again soon

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Followup: Sam Michael cleared to start at McLaren

Report: Coughlan promoted to technical chief as Raikkonen rumors circle at Williams

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Filed under: Motorsports , Hirings/Firings/Layoffs As fast as tarmac and competing drivers can vanish behind you in Formula One racing, so can the unfortunate events of the past. In some cases, anyway. Flavio Briatore may still be banned from the sport due to his involvement in the Crashgate debacle, but Mike Coughlan is making short business of putting his scandal behind him, and returning to F1 racing in a big way. As you may recall, Coughlan was a central figure in the Spygate scandal between McLaren and Ferrari .

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Report: Coughlan promoted to technical chief as Raikkonen rumors circle at Williams

Report: Coughlan of F1 Spygate fame apologizes, gets back to work at Williams

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Filed under: Motorsports Mike Coughlan hit a pretty nasty bump in his Formula One career. Coughlan was the chief designer for the McLaren F1 team from 2002 through 2007, but it was that last year with McLaren for which Coughlan is remembered, when he was caught possessing technical documents from rival Ferrari . The F1 affair became known as Spygate , and Mike Coughlan was suspended from the sport for two years. McLaren took a major hit as well , when it was stripped of all that season’s constructors points and fined $100,000,000

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Report: Lewis Hamilton apologizes for joking insinuation of racism after Monaco GP penalty

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Filed under: Motorsports , Celebrities Lewis Hamilton may be best known for his racing, but in the wake of a controversial performance at the Monaco Grand Prix this weekend, it was another race card he played altogether. The young Brit was called in to speak with the race stewards regarding an incident with Williams rookie Pastor Maldonado. Towards the end of the grand prix, Hamilton collided with Maldonado and the latter was taken out of the race.

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Chrysler announces plan to repay government loans

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Filed under: Government/Legal , Chrysler , Earnings/Financials Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne and President Barack Obama meet at Chrysler’s Indiana Transmission Plant II Remember a few months back when Chrysler / Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne complained about the terms of the loans received from the government? “Shyster loans” is what he deemed them, a term for which he later had to apologize. But the answer was clear: if Marchionne and his compatriots don’t like the terms of the loans offered from the public coffers, they were free to pay them back and refinance.

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