Lewis Hamilton expects the gap between his McLaren team and Brawn GP to grow in the next Formula 1 race in Malaysia. The world champion secured a surprise third behind Brawn GP pair Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello in the season-opening Australian Grand Prix. "I think Malaysia is going to be even harder because the car is incredibly tough...
Kallio expects to maintain form in race
By Matt BeerPramac Ducati team boss Paolo Campinoti reckons Mika Kallio's strong run in the Jerez qualifying simulation proves his squad can join the front-runners this year. The Finnish 250cc graduate was as high as fourth early in today's televised session, and ended up an impressive sixth. The team was heavily reorganised in the middle of last year,...
Brawn GP to shed around 270 jobs
By Pablo ElizaldeAustralian Grand Prix winner Brawn GP will make around 270 members of its staff redundant this year. The team, saved by an 11th-hour buyout led by Ross Brawn, will be reducing its staff by a third in order to return to 2004 levels, when the squad was known as BAR, before Honda bought it. Brawn led a successful management buyout less...
Ferrari boss expects Malaysia fightback
By Michele Lostia and Pablo ElizaldeFerrari president Luca di Montezemolo is adamant the Italian squad will react at this weekend's Malaysian Grand Prix following a dismal start to the season in Australia. Ferrari endured its worst start to a season since 1992, with Felipe Massa and Kimi Raikkonen both retiring with mechanical problems. The team's...
Brawn GP take dramatic one-two victory in Melbourne
Not since the French Grand Prix in 1954 has a team new to Formula One racing finished one-two on their debut. That day it was Juan Manuel Fangio and Karl Kling for Mercedes-Benz. This afternoon it was Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello for Brawn-Mercedes after an extraordinary ‘race of two halves’ in Australia.Button led from pole as Barrichello...
FOA issues media statement
Formula One Administration Limited (‘FOA’), the commercial rights holder of Formula One, wishes to clarify and correct inaccurate and misleading statements made to the media yesterday by “FOTA”:In particular FOTA claimed that monies are owed by CVC (FOA’s controlling shareholder) to the teams for the 2006, 2007 and 2008 Championship seasons. Neither...
Trulli loses podium for safety car infringement
Toyota’s Jarno Trulli has lost his third place in Sunday’s Australian Grand Prix after stewards penalized him for passing under the safety car in the closing laps.Trulli ran off road near the end of the race, thus losing a place to McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton, but then repassed the world champion once he had rejoined the circuit.The Italian was given...
Bayern, Wolfsburg pressure Hertha
Bayern Munich beat Karlsruhe 1-0 to close the gap behind league leaders Hertha Berlin, who were humbled in Stuttgart, although they were without injured strikers Luca Toni and Miroslav Klose. Bayern welcomed back Franck Ribery, who had been suffering with a shin injury, and the French midfield maestro made his mark in the 34th minute when he split...
Klinsmann satisfied as Bayern close gap
Bayern Munich coach Jurgen Klinsmann was pleased the defending champions ground out a 1-0 win over Karlsruhe to narrow the gap on leaders Hertha Berlin to just a point. "The three points were what mattered," said Klinsmann, in spite of his side's average performance, as a single first-half strike from Argentina striker Jose Sosa gave Bayern the three...
Schalke sack Rutten
German side Schalke 04 said that thay had parted company with their Dutch coach Fred Rutten. Mike Buskens, Youri Mulder and Oliver Reck, all members of the club's backroom staff, will take charge of training. Earlier Thursday, the 46-year-old Rutten said he had expected to leave the struggling Bundesliga side at the end of the season. Rutten had...
Ancelotti: Milan need two signings
AC Milan only need two good close-season signings to be back at their best, coach Carlo Ancelotti said on Friday. Ancelotti is under pressure with his side trailing Serie A leaders Inter Milan by 14 points in third place and effectively out of the title race. Last season Milan finished fifth and failed to qualify for the UEFA Champions League....
Unhappy Allianz in Munich
Bayern Munich chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge has slammed city rivals 1860 Munich for considering moving their home games away from the Allianz Arena. The second division side this week set up a task force to examine the possibility of moving out of the 69,000-capacity arena and into a smaller home in the city. However, Rummenigge claims that by doing...
Enke Out to Prove He's No 1
Robert Enke will start Saturday's World Cup qualifier against Liechtenstein in Leipzig determined to prove he deserves to be Germany's number one. The Hannover stopper's bid to be Jens Lehmann's permanent successor has been hampered by a broken hand, which has allowed the likes of Bayer Leverkusen's Rene Adler and Tim Wiese from Werder Bremen to stake...
Kahn: Schalke Came Too Eearly
Oliver Kahn has turned down the chance to become general manager at Schalke. The former Bayern Munich and Germany goalkeeper had been tipped to become the successor to Andreas Muller, who left the club earlier this month. He had held talks with Schalke chairman Clemens Tonnies, but has now revealed it was not the right time to take up the position....
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Project Management Consultant - Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Supporting coordination and performance of all activities related to implementation of processes, policies and systems to support a large project management office.To provide consulting services which include:o Creating strategies and action planso Facilitating and supporting work groupso Identifying strategies for automating and implementing efficient...
Wilson reflects on ‘brilliant’ Cyprus Rally
Briton Matthew Wilson secured fifth place on the Cyprus Rally, matching his best result of the 2008 season and rounding off the weekend with his first ever main stage victory. The 22-year-old Stobart VK M-Sport team driver is enjoying his best start yet to a WRC season and following the seventh places he scored in Ireland and Norway, now lies sixth...
Marcus Gronholm makes WRC comeback
Double World Rally Champion Marcus Gronholm has decided to come out of retirement to contest April’s Rally Portugal in a Subaru Impreza WRC. The Finn, 41, will drive a latest specification Impreza run by Prodrive, with backing from Rally Portugal and its sponsor Vodafone. He will be co-driven by his navigator since 1995, Timo Rautiainen. The appearance...
Gronholm’s Impreza breaks cover
Prodrive has unveiled the Subaru Impreza WRC2008 Marcus Gronholm will drive on the Rally of Portugal The two-time World Rally Champion will have three days to familiarise himself with the new car before starting his first World Rally Championship event in nearly 16 months. Gronholm drove a Subaru test car in Wales last week and will carry out a further...
Suzuki and Rizla continue MotoGP partnership
Suzuki Motor Corporation and Imperial Tobacco Group are pleased to announce that they have agreed terms for Rizla - the world's leading rolling papers - to continue to be the title sponsor of the Japanese company's MotoGP team for 2009.Rizla has been the title sponsor of the Suzuki Grand Prix motorcycle race team for the past three seasons and a further...
Rizla Suzuki ready for final MotoGP test
Rizla Suzuki MotoGP is on its way to Jerez in Spain for the final test in preparation for the 2009 MotoGP season.Following two successful tests at Sepang in Malaysia and Losail in Qatar, Chris Vermeulen and Loris Capirossi will be planning to continue with the encouraging start to the year that has seen both riders near the top of the timesheets at...
Madrid hosts the presentation of the Repsol Honda Team
The Palacio de Deportes de la Comunidad de Madrid was converted into an authentic spectacle of light and music so that Repsol Honda Team`s latest addition, Andrea Dovizioso, could be presented to Spanish fans. Dani Pedrosa, still recovering from the injuries he picked up in the latest practice sessions in Qatar, did not want to miss out on the presentation...
The Hungarian GP falls from the calendar
The World MotoGP Championship was going to inaugurate a new circuit later on this year: the Balatonring, and to be exact on 20th September 2009. However, the Hungarian GP has been suspended after work at the circuit fell a long way behind schedule. The organisers of the World MotoGP Championship have taken this decision after a request was made by...
Things get complicated for Gibernau in latest MotoGP test
Working on the sophisticated electronic package used by the Ducati Desmosedici GP9 Sat machine, Sete Gibernau’s three days of testing in Sepang last week left the Spaniard and his team with more questions than answers. The former MotoGP World Championship runner-up was characteristically honest about the situation upon the conclusion of the test, using...
Gibernau returning to action after Qatar absence
Veteran rider Sete Gibernau will resume his preseason preparations in Jerez this weekend having missed the night test in Qatar earlier this month due to a shoulder injury.When Sete Gibernau suffered a small setback to his recovery from a winter shoulder operation during a training session in February it significantly affected his 2009 MotoGP comeback...
Yamano explains decision to draft in Akiyoshi for test
Repsol Honda Team Manager Kazuhiko Yamano has explained the thingking behind putting Kosuke Akiyoshi on the factory RC212V at this weekend's Official MotoGP Test.With the injured Dani Pedrosa out of action for the time being Andrea Dovizioso and the Repsol Honda team need all the help they can get as they make their final preparations for the 2009...
Job Vacancy at PT. Mobile-8 Telecom Tbk
PT. Mobile-8 Telecom Tbk is the fourth largest and the only CDMA-based nationwide cellular operator in Indonesia with full mobility services. Mobile-8 offers CDMA2000 1x and CDMA2000 1x EV-DO Rev-A technologies through its own nationwide 800MHz CDMA network that enables us to continuously commit to provide better and innovative products and services...
Job Vacancy - PT. Lion Superindo
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General Ledger & Tax Staff
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Finance Accounting Junior Staff
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Cellular Optimization Engineer
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Job Vacancy 2009: Native-English Teachers
SENTRA EDUGLOBAL, PTA UK franchise English Language Training Centre that offers Premium English Courses and the KAPLAN Test Preparations for iBT TOEFL, IELTS, SAT, GMAT & GRE in Indonesia is seeking for excellent people to fill the vacancies for:NATIVE-ENGLISH TEACHERSThe candidates must :* have a bachelor’s degree in education majoring in English*...
District Managers - Lidl Ltd
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Finance Graduate Opportunities 2009
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Job Vacancy - Hirose Electric Europe BV
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Job Vacancy - Crestec Europe B.V.
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CDI JAPAN situated in Amsterdam
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WSBK : Disappointing races for Ten Kate Honda
The second round of the SBK world championship at Losail in Qatar was a disappointing one for the Hannspree Ten Kate Honda team, whose results failed to live up to expectations. Not one of the three riders managed to step onto the podium and this was telling evidence of the current form of the Dutch team. The best results came from Ryuichi Kiyonari,...