Giancarlo Fisichella is an enigma. Coming into the sport with Minardi in 1996, when the team were still able to provide a real springboard up the grid, he proved his merit sufficiently to earn a drive with Jordan for the following year. The team was on the up after a spectacular debut, the inevitable sophomore slump and a steady improvement, and there was a real feeling of ability surrounding the team for the 1997 season where, paired with the debuting Ralf Schumacher, Jordan were able to claim podiums and challenge, albeit unsuccessfully, for wins. 

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Speculation is a side effect of the tremendous interest Formula One draws from its fans, and never more so than when it comes to the silly season of driver movements. Jarno Trulli is out of contract at the end of the year - with both his team Renault as well as his management, Flavio Briatore's company FB Management - which means that people were always going to speculate on his future. "We are really confident of where he is going to be next year – there are no problems there," Trulli's personal manager Lucio Cavuto says, ignoring the growing speculations that the Italian is going to be replaced in the team that has been his home for the past three years. 

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Last Friday, just seven days before making his racing debut in Formula One as the new team boss of Red Bull Racing, the first thing Christian Horner said, as he welcomed me into his modest office - just up the stairs from the entrance of the factory in a non-descript industrial area near Milton Keynes, is;"Sorry about the green carpet on the floor." It's a strange opening gambit, but it's clearly been weighing on his mind - the carpet is an unintended reminder of Them, the ones that were there before him, the ones who used to own the team but fell by the wayside.

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When Timo Glock boarded the plane for Montreal last Wednesday, ahead of the Canadian Grand Prix, he was the official third driver for Jordan Grand Prix – a better position than most racers his age could hope for, but about as far away from the main event as you can be and still be in the same paddock – and he was thinking about how to improve his already impressive form in his tyre testing duties. When he boarded the plane for Indianapolis a few days later, he was a points-scoring Formula One driver who had been mentioned in newspapers, magazines and television news reports around the world.

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What is Formula One? Sometimes it's hard to know. Is it Monaco, where the champagne starts on Wednesday and flows through to Sunday night, where they occasionally run the race cars through the ants' colony of a city in between the locals parading the streets in cars that were never meant for them? Where a Ferrari goes unnoted unless it's an Enzo? Where the boats get progressively larger the closer they get to the breakwater? Where the more you are charged for a beer the better it must be?

Or is it the Nurburgring, where they cut a swath through the forest next to an old track in the middle of nowhere and tried to claim its fame? Where the two circuits combined are larger than the city they raced in mere days before? Where the price of admission rises year on year because the audience is dwindling but the overheads aren't? Where the height of luxury is schnitzel and local red wine before retiring to a hotel that looks like a German retirement home?   Continue

Anthony Davidson must be the smallest man in the paddock. Affectionately named 'The Ant', BAR's third driver has been a permanent fixture at the team's motorhome for the past couple of years, but this year he seems to stand out far more than ever before. That's what topping the times on a Grand Prix practice session - or coming second only to Michael Schumacher - can do to your stature. Since Formula One changed the rules at the end of last year to allow any team finishing outside of the top four in the Constructors' Championship to run a third driver in the practice sessions on Friday of a Grand Prix weekend, Formula One fans have been able to appraise a new generation of drivers, and none have shone brighter in that time than Davidson

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