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F1 Teams

A new site with something to suit all tastes, how about a piece of F1 memorobilia, a poster, a diecast model or maybe a Lewis Hamilton hat for junior? There is loads to choose from and with the new F1 season now well underway, now is a great time to kit yourself, kids, missus or mister out ready for the races in your favourite Ferrari, now over 1800 Ferrari products, or McClaren kit, get that model F1 car you always pined for or how about a pair of cool sunglasses from Oakley - they make you look a million bucks!

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2009 Formula One Season

Hooray - just a few short weeks until the new F1 season kicks off in Melbourne Australia. Heres hoping this is the best season ever! There are a good number of changes/ possible changes to teams, the F1 race calendar and the rules and regs.

Calendar Changes

Abu Dhabi: it was recently announced that there will a brand new F1 race at the Yas Island Circuit, although it was supposed to take place in October 2009, there has been no confirmation.
The Suzuka race track is back for 2009, the Japanese grand prix will now alternate between the Fuji raceway and Suzuka.
New races from 2010 in Delhi, India and at the Korean International Circuit in South Korea.
Canadian Grand Prix dropped for 2009, due to financial problems, also no US Grand Prix.
French Grand Prix dropped for 2009, again financial problems. The first time there has been no grand prix in France since 1955!
Chinese Grand Prix moved forward to April and some general reshuffling of the others...

Formula One Schedule 2009

Australian GP	Melbourne GP Circuit	29th March 2009
Malaysian GP	Sepand Intl. Circuit	5th April 2009
Chinese GP	Shanghai Intl. Circuit	19th April 2009
Bahrain GP	Bahrian Intl. Circuit	26th April 2009
Spanish GP	Circuit de Catalunya	10th May 2009
Monaco GP	Circuit de Monaco	24th May 2009
Turkish GP	Istanbul Park	7th June 2009
British GP	Siverstone Circuit	21st June 2009
German GP	Nurburgring	12th July 2009
Hungarian GP	Hungaroring	26th July 2009
European GP	Valencia street Circuit	23rd August 2009
Belgian GP	Spa	30th August 2009
Italian GP	Monza	13th September 2009
Singapore GP	Marina Bay Street Circuit	27th September 2009
Japanese GP	Suzuka	4th October 2009
Brazilian GP	Autodromo Jose Carlos Pace	18th October 2009
Abu Dhabi GP	Yas Marina Circuit	1st November 2009

Rule Changes

"KERS" or Kinetic Energy Recovery System introduced. This translates as a braking device that stores dissapated energy from braking and stores this energy in a battery which, within certain limits, can be used as additional acceleration at the driver/teams discretion.
Slick Tyres are back - first time they have been allowed since 1998. Bridgestone will manufacture.
Driver adjustable bodywork, this means certain elements of bodywork, in front of the front wheels, can have their angle adjusted directly by the driver, up to 6 degrees of angle and a maximum of twice per lap.
Team budgets introduced from 2009.

F1 Team Changes

Sebastian Vettel moves from Toro Rosso to Red Bull.
Sebastien Buemi moves from Formual 2 into the Toro Rosso team.
David Coulthard has retired and has become the Red Bull test driver as well as doing some commentary work.
Jensen Button continues to await resolution of the Honda team sale.