PMM talks to Shell Motorsport's Innovation Manager, Guy Lovett, and four-time F1 World Champion, Sebastian Vettel.

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Spark plug manufacturer NGK is partnering legendary Italian race team Scuderia Ferrari for the 2016 season, continuing a 21-year relationship. The ignition and sensor specialist has sparked more than 300 victories and – taking the drivers’ and constructors’ championships together – has contributed to 32 titles in Formula One. Many of these successes have been ...

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Jolyon Palmer, Comma’s sponsored driver since the beginning of his single-seater racing career in 2007, has achieved his life’s ambition to follow in his father’s tyre tracks and become a Formula 1 driver.
24-year-old Palmer’s reward for a record-breaking 2014 season – when he won the GP2 championship with the DAMS team – was to understudy Romain Grosjean this year as reserve driver in the Lotus F1 team.

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Jolyon Palmer will continue to be standard bearer for the Comma brand in the international GP2 motor racing championship in 2014. Spokesperson for Comma, Mike Bewsey said “GP2 is the recognised final ‘feeder’ series to the Formula 1 World Championship, and in a stand-out campaign on his way to finishing seventh in the championship last year, Jolyon convincingly won GP2 Feature races for Comma in Hungary and Singapore. This year, he is aiming to lift the championship title driving for the French Le Mans-based DAMS team.

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NGK Spark Plugs (UK) Ltd is once again supplying its racing spark plugs for a number of teams in the 2014 FIA Formula 1 World Championship, which started in Melbourne Australia on Sunday. 
NGK has been involved in F1 since 1964 and its racing spark plugs are used by teams that include McLaren, Ferrari and Mercedes. 

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