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World champion Jenson Button says his confidence remains intact despite being outpaced by McLaren team-mate Lewis Hamilton at the season-opening race in Bahrain.

Full story: autosport.com

A spokesman for the Indianapolis Motor Speedway admits it is possible Formula 1 could return to the famous American venue, after Bernie Ecclestone said 'the wrong people' had formerly been in charge of the event.

Full story: SpeedTV.com

Team owner Richard Branson wants Virgin Racing to be competing for the championship within three years. The publicity-shy entrepreneur reckons once every team is working to a £40m budget, the F1 rookies will quickly become competitive.

Full story: www.planetf1.com

The spectacle of 20 of F1's surviving world champions reunited with their cars in front of the empty grandstands in Bahrain should be reprised at Silverstone, where there will be thousands of motorsport enthusiasts to see it.

Full story: www.guardian.co.uk

Former President Max Mosley and the FIA must take their share of the blame for the processional Bahrain Grand Prix, according to former driver turned BBC TV pundit David Coulthard.

Full story: telegraph.co.uk

The first Grand Prix of the season proved there is no quick fix for overtaking in F1, and worryingly, there is the potential for things to get worse. The sport needs a tyre war.

Full story: espnf1.com

This season's F1 cars are howlingly ugly. A length of air-conditioning duct appears to have been taped to the jet engines of a drug-running Colombian light aircraft and then backed at speed into a mobile advertising hoarding.

Full story: timesonline.co.uk

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