It is perhaps the most feted podium on the F1 calendar, but Briton Jenson Button doesn't enjoy standing on it. In McLaren's official pre-race preview of the Italian grand prix, ...
One pundit has changed his mind about Kimi Raikkonen's return to F1. "Before it happened, I was actually very sceptical when he decided to return to formula one," said former gr...
Felipe Massa must continue his race-by-race quest for a new Ferrari contract, boss Stefano Domenicali has suggested. After F1's five-week summer break, he went into the Belgian ...
Rumours about Lewis Hamilton's future have exploded. F1 team owner turned television pundit Eddie Jordan told the BBC he understands the 2008 world champion is on the verge of q...
Toro Rosso has finally confirmed reports Giorgio Ascanelli has permanently left his post as technical director. We reported last weekend that his likely successor, former Sauber...
Fernando Alonso has admitted he could stay at Ferrari beyond his 36th birthday. The former double world champion, in his third year with the Italian marque and leading the world...
Mark Webber insists he is not too worried despite falling from second to third in the drivers' world championship at Spa last weekend. The Australian was Fernando Alonso's close...
Fernando Alonso has rejected claims F1 should consider abandoning its standing-starts in the wake of last Sunday's Belgian grand prix. The Spaniard was lucky to escape serious i...
F1's governing body wants to increase dramatically the entry fees of the sport's top teams. Germany's motorsport-magazin.com reports that the new regime could come into force ne...
McLaren has denied rumours the British team and Lewis Hamilton are falling out of love. Amid reportedly intense negotiations over the 2008 world champion's new contract, the par...
Romain Grosjean has said sorry to Fernando Alonso. "He apologised in an SMS," the Ferrari driver, whose hands and head were narrowly missed by Frenchman Grosjean's flying Lotus ...
A pair of Germans are in the running to replace Felipe Massa at Ferrari in 2013, the major Bild-Zeitung daily reports. The newspaper said the Maranello based team has now almos...
Marussia teammates Timo Glock and Charles Pic are still far from the best of friends. We reported in July that the pair are not getting along, after the experienced German Glock...
Magny Cours has lodged an application to be considered for F1's 2013 calendar. French language sources RMC, L'Equipe and AFP said the application was given to the country's sanc...
Belgian Jerome d'Ambrosio will contest this weekend's Italian grand prix in the place of Romain Grosjean. There was speculation Lotus might overlook its official reserve driver ...
Sunday's terrifying first-corner crash at Spa Francorchamps has reopened the debate about whether the sport's days of open cockpits are numbered. Paddy Lowe, McLaren's technical...
Fernando Alonso has singled out Lewis Hamilton as a greater threat to his title chances than Sebastian Vettel. Being smashed out of Sunday's Belgian grand prix by Romain Grosjea...
Jenson Button has revealed he is "disappointed" Lewis Hamilton gave away McLaren secrets last weekend at Spa. In trying to show his million Twitter followers why he was so much ...
At least four drivers could be in the running to race the banned Romain Grosjean's black and gold Lotus at Monza this weekend. F1 veteran turned Indycar driver Rubens Barrichell...
Lotus' double DRS-inspired "device" will remain on the back-burner for yet another grand prix. The Enstone based team wanted to qualify and race the device at Spa last weekend, ...
Valtteri Bottas has admitted that a flood of sponsorship would boost his chances of debuting for Williams in 2013. Earlier reports from Finland said the British team's 22-year-o...
The likelihood Heikki Kovalainen will stay at Caterham in 2013 was dealt a blow at Spa, when the Finn admitted to being disappointed about the team's progress this year. As is u...
Michael Schumacher on Sunday played down Bernie Ecclestone's suggestion the Mercedes driver is set to return to retirement. "I'm sorry that he's leaving us not being a winner (w...
Jerome d'Ambrosio is on pole position to replace the banned Romain Grosjean at Monza. The FIA has banned Frenchman Grosjean for one race after causing the crash that ended champ...
Felipe Massa has begun a race-by-race quest for a new Ferrari contract. After F1's five-week summer break, he went into the Belgian grand prix acknowledging that the remaining r...
McLaren boss Martin Whitmarsh has hinted Lewis Hamilton is lucky to avoid an internal punishment as the result of the 'Twittergate' affair. The 2008 world champion is believed t...
Romain Grosjean will sit out this weekend's Italian grand prix at Monza, after Lotus decided not to appeal the Frenchman's one-race ban for causing the first corner crash at Spa...
An unnamed engineer has alleged that some teams broke the 'gentleman's agreement' governing the factory shutdowns during F1's recent August break. As per an unofficial cost-cutt...
Michael Schumacher may have dropped the biggest hint yet about his plans for the future. On the heels of the August break's rumours, the seven time world champion explained at S...
Ferrari has ruled out announcing its 2013 driver lineup at its home Italian grand prix next week. The fabled Maranello team traditionally announces its driver plans for the next...
Forget double-DRS, Mercedes has reportedly upped the ante and debuted a 'triple-DRS' concept at Spa. The German squad pioneered the straightline speed-boosting idea this year, a...
James Key will start work at Toro Rosso on Monday morning, Italy's well-connected Autosprint reports. With the Faenza based team's technical boss Giorgio Ascanelli going "on hol...
Andrea Stella, Fernando Alonso's race engineer at Ferrari, has singled out Kimi Raikkonen as a challenger for the 2012 championship. The buzz in the sodden Spa paddock is that f...
Jenson Button has admitted he could be the next F1 driver to notch up a landmark 300 grands prix. Michael Schumacher is celebrating his triple-century this weekend at Spa Franco...
Ferrari designer Nicholas Tombazis insists it is "right" that engines will have a higher importance in 2014. His Red Bull counterpart Adrian Newey said recently he was worried t...
Lewis Hamilton has revealed that his management team at Simon Fuller's XIX Entertainment are now negotiating the terms of his 2013 contract. With McLaren figures insisting a new...
Nico Rosberg has played down his chances of adding another pole or victory to his 2012 tally this weekend in Belgium. Since breaking through in China early this season, the Germ...
As F1 emerges from its August slumber at Spa-Francorchamps, the chances Sergio Perez will be staying at Sauber in 2013 seem to have increased dramatically. The cream of Ferrari'...
Lewis Hamilton insists he doesn't want help from his teammate Jenson Button to win the 2012 title. Button is 41 points behind the sister McLaren in the drivers' standings, promp...
Nicholas Tombazis has admitted he feared for his job after launching the 2012 Ferrari early this year. Through an impressive development programme, and the skilled racing of Fer...
Charles Pic's management will reportedly meet with representatives of the Force India and Sauber teams this weekend at Spa. According to RMC Sport, the 22-year-old French rookie...
The buzzword in the Spa paddock is 'Lotus'. Already a standout performer of the 2012 season, the black and gold E20 is long overdue for a victory. Belgium could be just the plac...
Christian Danner, a former grand prix driver and now German television pundit, is sure Michael Schumacher will still be on the grid in 2013. Seven time champion Schumacher, now ...
Stefano Domenicali has blamed the lack of private testing in formula one for the sport's failure to produce bright new star drivers in recent times. With the sport moving to red...
Red Bull's Dr Helmut Marko is sure reigning back to back world champion Sebastian Vettel is still in the hunt for the 2012 title. No longer with the season's dominant package, t...
Mark Gillan, Chief Operations Engineer: "It's great to be back racing again after the August break and the whole team has been preparing eagerly for the remaining nine races, ei...
Belgium will play host for the twelfth Grand Prix of this season. As preview for that race a video of a lap around the winding circuit of Spa Francorchamps with Fernando Alonso....
The official FIA preview of this weekend's Belgian grand prix overlooked arguably the most famous moment of Eliseo Salazar's career. Chilean Salazar, who will make his debut ...
Talk us through the highlights of the 2012 season so far from the Marussia F1 Team point of view. Symonds: "I think our season has been one of continual improvement. We can cer...
Marussia will use a KERS system supplied by rivals Williams in 2013. Technical consultant Pat Symonds also revealed on Wednesday that Marussia, the former Virgin team he joined ...
Jenson Button has admitted he thinks Lewis Hamilton will still be his teammate in 2013. McLaren chiefs including Martin Whitmarsh have insisted they are "close" to signing a new...
Alex Zanardi thinks it is now "inevitable" Ferrari will replace Felipe Massa at the end of the season. The Italian, whose return to F1 in 1999 ended after just one disappointing...
Vitaly Petrov's manager has warned she will find another pursuit for the Russian driver if they cannot make money in formula one. Since 2010, when the now 27-year-old made his d...
With the long August break now over, Niki Lauda thinks the 2012 championship is entering a decisive phase this weekend at fabled Spa Francorchamps. Asked if he is looking forwar...
Production Resource Group (PRG), the largest company in the audiovisual services industry worldwide, has reached an agreement with HRT Formula 1 Team by which it becomes its Off...
Giancarlo Fisichella has joined a growing list of F1 personalities, competitors and pundits declaring championship leader Fernando Alonso the class of the 2012 field. Once race ...
Heikki Kovalainen has revealed Caterham needs to improve "a lot" in the area of aerodynamics. Having expected a major step forward in performance terms for the 2010 startup this...
McLaren may also be preparing a 'double DRS'-like system for this weekend's Belgian grand prix. We reported early this month that the British team looked set to follow Mercedes ...
Force India's drivers may have gone without pay so far in 2012, according to rumours. Austria's Sportwoche reports speculation that Nico Hulkenberg and Paul di Resta are the lat...
Refreshed after the summer break, the Sauber F1 Team is getting ready for the Belgian Grand Prix. The race at the legendary circuit of Spa-Francorchamps will be the curtain rais...
Ferrari has confirmed reports it already has a V6 engine up and running. We reported a fortnight ago that F1's likely three engine manufacturers for 2014 - Ferrari, Renault and ...
Robert Kubica has tested a world rally car in France. Ford's technical director Christian Loriaux was quoted on Saturday by the French-language L'Avenir as saying works drivers ...
Ferrari, whose Fernando Alonso is leading the world championship, is also the team with the fastest pit crew so far in 2012. Germany's Auto Motor und Sport has found that the It...
Williams remains upbeat about its share market situation, despite the Telegraph newspaper saying the team is financially "underwater". That is a financial expression, prompted i...
Following the month-long summer break, Pirelli returns to action with the P Zero Silver hard tyre and P Zero White medium: a combination that has not been raced since the second...
Michael Schumacher has named Fernando Alonso the strongest active formula one driver. Schumacher, whose run of five consecutive titles was broken in 2005 by Spaniard Alonso's Re...
All eyes will be on Lotus' already-competitive black and gold E20 at high speed Spa and Monza. Technical boss James Allison confirmed recently the Enstone based team intended to...
Timo Glock: "After such a long summer break, everyone in the team seems revitalised and ready to embark on the next important phase of the season. I myself had a nice mix of rel...
The days after Monza's Italian grand prix could be crucial as Ferrari contemplates its driver lineup for 2013. Italy's Autosprint reports that the famous Maranello based squad i...
One of the most revered racetracks in the world, Spa-Francorchamps featured on the inaugural Formula 1 World Championship calendar in 1950 and has retained much of its original ...
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