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  <title><![CDATA[Schumacher will face severe test: Hill]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[Michael Schumacher could find it hard going when he makes a Formula One comeback with Mercedes next year at the age of 41, former rival Damon Hill warned on Thursday. ]]></description> 
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  <title><![CDATA[Schumacher becomes a contender again]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[Formula One has moved on since Michael Schumacher retired in 2006, even if the German will be eager to roll back the years when he makes his comeback with Mercedes next season. Despite turning 41 next month, the seven times world champion can be expected to show the same passion for racing, the same hunger for winning and the same ruthless determination.]]></description> 
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  <title><![CDATA[F1 teams abandon joint launch plan]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[Formula One teams have jettisoned a cost-cutting plan to launch their 2010 cars publicly at the same time in Spain next month. The 13 teams had planned to present their new cars in Valencia at the end of January instead of the individual launches they have staged in the past.]]></description> 
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  <title><![CDATA[Schumi to make F1 comeback with Mercedes]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[Seven-times World champion Michael Schumacher will come out of retirement to make a Formula One comeback with Mercedes next year at the age of 41, the team said on Wednesday. Mercedes Motorsports vice-president Norbert Haug told reporters in a telephone news conference that a contract was signed on Tuesday.]]></description> 
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  <title><![CDATA[Schumacher agrees to F1 return]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[Seven-times Formula One champion Michael Schumacher has agreed a one-year deal to come out of retirement and drive for Mercedes in 2010, Bild newspaper reported on Tuesday. The newspaper said the 40-year-old German, who won his titles with Benetton and Ferrari and retired at the end of 2006, signed the deal at the team's offices in Brackley, England, after a month of talks.]]></description> 
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  <title><![CDATA['Schumacher can still be winner at 41']]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[Michael Schumacher can still be a winner in Formula One even at the age of 41 if he makes a comeback with Mercedes next year, according to former champion Nigel Mansell. Schumacher, a seven-times champion and Formula One's most successful driver, retired in 2006 but has told his former Ferrari team that there is a "very, very, very strong possibility" of his racing for Mercedes in 2010.]]></description> 
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  <description><![CDATA[Michael Schumacher is very likely to make a Formula One comeback with Mercedes next year, according to Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo.]]></description> 
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  <title><![CDATA[Kobayashi to drive for Sauber F1 team]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[Kamui Kobayashi will race for Sauber next season, ensuring Japan still has at least one driver on the starting grid now that Toyota have followed Honda out of Formula One. The 23-year-old impressed after competing as a stand-in for injured German Timo Glock at Toyota in the last two races of this year.]]></description> 
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  <title><![CDATA[Branson's challenge for Lotus F1 boss]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[Lotus F1 principal Tony Fernandes has risen to Richard Branson's challenge for the loser of the two Formula One team owners next season to serve as a stewardess on the winner's airline. Fernandes, the founder and CEO of AirAsia, said last week that his new Malaysian-backed team has to finish ahead of Branson's Virgin Racing "otherwise I will retire and kill myself".]]></description> 
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  <description><![CDATA[Robert Kubica is assessing his future at Renault after the manufacturer's decision to sell a significant stake in its Formula One team, the Polish driver's manager said on Wednesday. Daniele Morelli told the BBC it is "not automatic" Kubica would stay although he hinted he is likely to do so and sought more information about the team's plans.]]></description> 
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