Formula One Comes to the United States in 2012 In a recent announcement regarding the 2012 Formula One Championship Season, plans of a race track in Austin, Texas have been unveiled, bringing F1 to the United States after a five-year absence. Inspired by world-class circuits such as Silverstone, Hockenheim, and Istanbul Park, the track is a narrow stretch littered with various twists and turns juxtaposed with lightning stretches, and promises to be an exciting addition to the 2012 season.

The Technical Aspects

Shaped like a joystick, the 3.4 mile anticlockwise circuit has twenty turns (starting with the hairpin at Turn 1), many of them jagged and abrupt. Featuring the work of Full Throttle Productions LP under the helm of legendary track architect Hermann Tilke, the course already shows promise of becoming a distinctive icon of the F1 championship with its complex, yet sleek design.

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Australian Mark Webber won the Hungarian Grand Prix to reclaim the Formula One world championship lead from Britain’s Lewis Hamilton.

Webber’s Red Bull teammate Sebastian Vettel had been hot favourite to win in Budapest after qualifying in pole for the seventh time in 12 races.

But the German again failed to convert the advantage, falling foul of the safety car rules and finishing third behind Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso.

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Mark Webber might be the second driver on the Red Bull team, but he certainly did not offer up a second-rate performance at the Formula One British Grand Prix on Sunday.

“Very special victory for me,” Webber told  “I have won here in Formula Ford, Formula 3000, sports cars and now Formula One.

So it has been a very special track to me. To get the victory for me in Formula One in the company of these guys is something which will be a highlight.

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Mark Webber and Red Bull are at least singing from the same song sheet again after a controversial British Grand Prix, team principal Christian Horner said on Tuesday.

Horner told Reuters that he would sit down with the Australian driver later in the week to talk through some of the things Webber said at Silverstone before and after he won Sunday’s race.

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Mark Webber might be the second driver on the Red Bull team, but he certainly did not offer up a second-rate performance at the Formula One British Grand Prix on Sunday.

“Very special victory for me,” Webber told Formula1.com. “I have won here in Formula Ford, Formula 3000, sports cars and now Formula One, so it has been a very special track to me.

To get the victory for me in Formula One in the company of these guys is something which will be a highlight.

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Ahead of the British Grand Prix Formula One racing’s great and good traditionally come together for an annual party held in aid of Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity. This year’s event took place at London’s Natural History Museum on Monday night, and with such a breathtaking venue and priceless charity auction lots on offer, the guests were more than willing to put their hands in their pockets for a worthy cause.

Now in its sixth year, the official F1™ Party celebrates the official launch of this weekend’s Silverstone race, whilst simultaneously raising funds for the London hospital's new heart and lung centre. The event is hosted by Bernie Ecclestone, CEO of the Formula One Group, and supported by Santander, title sponsor of the 2010 FORMULA 1 SANTANDER BRITISH GRAND PRIX.

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Question: Apart from driving a Formula One car, what is your favourite buzz?

Mark Webber: Probably riding a motorbike.

Question: Who is your dream date?

Mark Webber: If it were a female date, I’d say Pink. If it was meeting someone I always wanted to know, it would be Muhammad Ali. For sure I would learn a lot that evening. What would I ask him? The secret to survival!

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Lewis Hamilton has admitted there are still problems to overcome in his relationship with his father, Anthony, four months after the two men became professionally estranged. It was in March, two weeks before the start of the Formula One season in Bahrain, that Lewis announced he was no longer managed by his father and the pair did not speak for several weeks.

Hamilton has invited Anthony to the British grand prix at Silverstone next Sunday, but said: "Everything was not 100% in the past. But we're definitely continuing to build on the relationship and things are moving slowly. We're letting things take their time and move progressively and move naturally, rather than forcing things. It's generally positive. He's always sending me positive messages before the race and we spoke before the race in Montreal and pretty much every week. Since quite a long time ago now we've had a message every week."

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The UK’s Goodwood Festival of Speed always attracts a plethora of Formula One drivers and machinery, and with an impressive 2010 line-up, this year will be no different. The annual event, which this year celebrates the 60th anniversary of the FIA Formula One World Championship, takes place in the grounds of Sussex’s Goodwood House.

McLaren team mates - and 2008 and 2009 world champions respectively - Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button are among those at the top of the bill. Button is looking forward to driving one of Alain Prost’s classic McLarens, the MP4-2C, as well the more recent MP4-23 on Saturday, while Hamilton will also take charge of an MP4-23 - the car with which he won his title - on Sunday.

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Martin Whitmarsh has had a spring in his step of late, and not just because his McLaren team are leading both Formula One championships into next week's British Grand Prix. After a tough 2009, the battle-hardened Formula One Teams' Association (FOTA) chairman is enjoying a season where the main focus is the contest on the track rather than the fighting in the grand prix paddock.

A year ago, the teams were split and the threat of a breakaway series hung over the sport but that seems like ancient history now, even if some participants are still wary of tempting fate. The departure of Max Mosley as International Automobile Federation (FIA) president, replaced by former Ferrari boss Jean Todt last October, has changed the landscape as has a new commercial deal with F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone.

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