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Maldonado 'refused' to take turn on Friday bench
Pastor Maldonado is refusing to budge as Lotus attempts to accommodate 'Friday' driver Jolyon Palmer. In China and Bahrain, Maldonado's race teammate Romain Grosjean sat out Fri...
24 Apr 2015 13:43 -
Sparks can be unpleasant for drivers - Sainz
Not everyone loves F1's new sparks. Last year, also to beef up the safety of the cars, F1 decided to return to its spark-laden past by adding titanium to the skid blocks in 2015...
24 Apr 2015 12:49 -
Hamilton guaranteed at Mercedes next year - Lauda
Niki Lauda has issued a "guarantee" that Lewis Hamilton is staying at Mercedes. The reigning world champion's talks over a contract beyond 2015 have been publicly long and repea...
24 Apr 2015 12:10 -
Manor could change livery to accomodate Van der Garde
Roberto Merhi will contest the forthcoming Spanish grand prix. That is the claim of the Spanish daily El Mundo Deportivo, reporting that Manor has now unofficially confirmed the...
24 Apr 2015 11:37 -
Verstappen feels 'more respect' of fellow F1 drivers
Max Verstappen says he is steadily earning the respect of his fellow F1 drivers. When the season began, the sport was collectively sceptical of the 17-year-old Dutchman as he sm...
24 Apr 2015 10:46 -
McLaren needs year and a half to catch up - Boullier
It will be 2017 before McLaren is ready to charge for the title. That is the admission of team boss Eric Boullier, who said that despite a difficult start for the new McLaren-Ho...
24 Apr 2015 10:06 -
ARC Resorts aiming to put Valencia back on F1 calendar
Valencia could be set to return to the F1 calendar. The streets of the Spanish port city hosted five grands prix until 2012, but those race organisers subsequently faced accusat...
24 Apr 2015 09:57 -
CVC must decide if it wants to sell F1 or not - Montezemolo
Former Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo thinks formula one needs to urgently reform. And he said the onus is on the sport's "owners" - headed by major shareholder CVC - to ...
24 Apr 2015 08:20 -
Sauber heads into fourth season with partner Inter
The Sauber F1 Team is pleased to announce the extention of the partnership with Inter, the market leader in insurance brokerage in Latin America. The collaboration goes into its...
23 Apr 2015 16:57 -
Renault is Red Bull's 'best chance' and vice versa
Christian Horner on Thursday pinned Red Bull's hopes on the fate of its current engine supplier. For much of the season so far, the energy drink owned team's chiefs have been sc...
23 Apr 2015 16:24 -
McLaren denies Button lost his temper in Bahrain
McLaren has denied reports Jenson Button lost his temper with the team's situation after the Bahrain grand prix. The 2009 world champion had a horror weekend of unreliability in...
23 Apr 2015 13:11 -
Lauda says Hamilton deal will be fixed by Spanish GP
Yet another deadline is now looming over the finalisation of Lewis Hamilton's 2016 contract -- Barcelona. "Everything will be fixed by the Spanish grand prix on May 10," Mercede...
23 Apr 2015 12:46 -
Vettel watches out for Schumacher son as F4 'patron'
Sebastian Vettel has become a patron of this year's Formula 4 series, the German newspaper Bild reports. The German junior single-seater category kicks off at Oschersleben this ...
23 Apr 2015 12:01 -
Motor sport without an engine is difficult - Marko
Dr Helmut Marko has admitted the Red Bull-funded Austrian grand prix trophy will probably be passed into Mercedes' hands. The June race at the former A1-Ring, now known as the R...
23 Apr 2015 11:16 -
Wurz agrees with Sauber over engine cost limits
GPDA chief Alex Wurz has backed Sauber over the future direction of F1's engine rules. Former Williams driver Wurz, now chairman of the F1 drivers' union, linked on Twitter to a...
23 Apr 2015 10:25 -
Merhi looks set to hang onto Manor seat for now
Roberto Merhi looks set to hang onto his Manor seat at least for another race. While his F1 rivals take the weekend off, 24-year-old Merhi is currently in his native Spain, prep...
23 Apr 2015 09:44 -
Mercedes may have helped Ferrari to catch up
Mercedes will not react to title rival Ferrari's engine allocation strategy. In Bahrain, the resurgent Ferrari team fitted the second of four allocated 'power units' for the sea...
23 Apr 2015 08:27 -
Raikkonen 'seriously considered' retiring after 2014
Kimi Raikkonen considered returning to F1 retirement after his disastrous 2014 season, according to a Spanish sports daily. In Bahrain, the Finn bounced back from a slump by run...
22 Apr 2015 16:04 -
Toro Rosso helping Red Bull on AVL test bench
Red Bull is looking to speed ahead -- with the help of its sister team, Renault and an Austrian partner called AVL. Right now, according to Italy's Omnicorse, a Toro Rosso car i...
22 Apr 2015 14:56 -
Pirelli announces tyre selection for next four races
Pirelli has nominated the tyres that will be used in the grands prix of Spain, Monaco, Canada and Austria. The nominations are the same as 2014, but with the cars going faster t...
22 Apr 2015 13:42 -
Rosberg admits he cannot hide his disappointment
He is not giving up yet, but Nico Rosberg admits he could not hide his bad mood in Bahrain. A bad qualifying session left him six tenths behind teammate Lewis Hamilton, but Germ...
22 Apr 2015 12:47 -
Sauber denies testing special engine for Ferrari
Sauber has denied it ran Ferrari's next-specification engine during the 2015 winter test season. Following reports Ferrari is planning to introduce a new specification of its 20...
22 Apr 2015 12:09 -
Manager working hard to guard Schumacher's privacy
Michael Schumacher's manager is reportedly working hard to keep news about the health of her famous client quiet. Ever since the F1 legend and seven time world champion was inju...
22 Apr 2015 11:17 -
Stevens deletes criticised tweet about Merhi
Will Stevens has deleted a tweet described as "ugly" by one well-known Spanish sports daily. After Bahrain, Briton Stevens highlighted the significant gap between his race finis...
22 Apr 2015 10:37 -
Hulkenberg still trying to bring his career forwards
Nico Hulkenberg is settling in at his new "second home". The German headed straight from Bahrain, where he raced with the struggling Force India team, to a test this week at the...
22 Apr 2015 09:53 -
Any step would be good for McLaren - Boullier
Fernando Alonso left Bahrain expecting McLaren-Honda to make a "big step" for the start of the forthcoming European season. Having switched from the now-resurgent Ferrari, the S...
22 Apr 2015 09:05 -
Williams: "Third isn't anything to be ashamed of"
Williams has admitted it will struggle to quickly recover its position as the first force behind title favourite Mercedes. The Grove team finished last season as clearly the fas...
21 Apr 2015 16:43 -
Ferrari set for new engine specification in Barcelona
Ferrari is preparing to unleash more horse power in Spain. Reports are doing the rounds that the Maranello team will debut an upgrade for its turbo V6 'power unit' in June for t...
21 Apr 2015 14:46 -
Merhi: "I've been consistent, but consistently slow"
While the other F1 drivers take a weekend off, there will be no rest for Roberto Merhi. As he has not been signed up for the full F1 season by Manor, the Spaniard will kick off ...
21 Apr 2015 13:28 -
Leberer plays down Raikkonen's 'dangerous driving'
Josef Leberer has played down suggestions he was almost struck by Kimi Raikkonen's Ferrari in Bahrain. Finn Raikkonen was given an official reprimand for "dangerous" driving aft...
21 Apr 2015 12:45 -
Ecclestone puts plans for race in Qatar on back burner
Bernie Ecclestone has put plans for a grand prix in Qatar on the back burner. In February, the Arab country's highest ranking motor racing official said: "We are about to sign c...
21 Apr 2015 12:13 -
Arrivabene defends Vettel after error-strewn race
The case of Sebastian Vettel shows how quickly things can turn around in formula one. Before Bahrain, the German was the new darling of Ferrari, dubbed 'Per-vettal' by the Itali...
21 Apr 2015 12:01 -
Maldonado fends off reputation as crash-prone driver
Pastor Maldonado has fended off his growing reputation as a crash-prone F1 driver. The Telegraph newspaper said a nickname doing the rounds for the Venezuelan is 'Crashtor', whi...
21 Apr 2015 11:02 -
Kvyat struggling with pressure at Red Bull - Villeneuve
Daniil Kvyat is struggling to deal with the pressure of driving for Red Bull. That is the claim of the outspoken 1997 world champion Jacques Villeneuve. "Last year he did ok at ...
21 Apr 2015 10:15 -
McLaren on the verge of scoring points - Alonso
Fernando Alonso says the new McLaren-Honda project is now on the verge of being able to score points. "We did not have a good start to the season," Yasuhisa Arai, the F1 boss of...
21 Apr 2015 09:48 -
Renault situation 'a bit ridiculous' - Max Verstappen
Having kept its composure until now, Toro Rosso's patience in 2015 may finally be up. While big-brother team Red Bull has been highly critical of Renault this season, the junior...
21 Apr 2015 08:39 -
Vettel says Ferrari could be last team before retirement
Sebastian Vettel thinks Ferrari could be his last stop in formula one. The 27-year-old switched to the fabled Maranello marque for 2015, and is believed to have signed at least ...
20 Apr 2015 13:50 -
Allison 'signature' helping Raikkonen at Ferrari - manager
Designer James Allison was a key to Kimi Raikkonen's 2014 resurgence, the Finnish driver's manager admits. Raikkonen struggled notably to match former teammate Fernando Alonso l...
20 Apr 2015 10:46 -
Renault ready to spend to change the situation - Horner
Christian Horner has acknowledged Renault is now getting serious about fixing its obvious problems in formula one. Earlier, the Briton and other Red Bull officials were scathing...
20 Apr 2015 09:57 -
Ferrari: "Kimi is at his best when he is a bit worried"
At least for now, Ferrari is leaving the door slightly ajar for Lewis Hamilton. After declaring that Hamilton would make a great teammate for Sebastian Vettel next year, Bernie ...
20 Apr 2015 08:42 -
Hamilton wins Bahrain Grand Prix
Lewis Hamilton has won the Bahrain Grand Prix. The Brit triumphed ahead of Ferrari driver Kimi Raikkonen and Mercedes teammate Nico Rosberg. Sebastian Vettel ended fifth after a...
19 Apr 2015 19:23 -
Jos Verstappen: "Renault needs to solve problems quickly"
Max Verstappen didn't manage to finish the Grand Prix of Bahrain. It was his third retirement of the year out of four races. His father and former Formula 1 driver Jos Verstappe...
19 Apr 2015 19:22 -
Baku good 'replacement' for Monza - Ecclestone
Bernie Ecclestone on Sunday confirmed F1's newest host nation is Azerbaijan. It was already known that the sport's chief executive had inked a deal for a street race in Baku,...
19 Apr 2015 15:34 -
All eyes on unconfirmed Ferrari, Mercedes seats
Maurizio Arrivabene says Kimi Raikkonen approached him to enquire about staying with Ferrari in 2016. In the Bahrain paddock, rumours are swirling about the possibility of a ...
19 Apr 2015 12:48 -
'No more pain' as Bottas bounces back
Valtteri Bottas has finally put his back problems in the past. The Finn even had to sit out the Melbourne season opener with a torn disc, but he returned in Malaysia and Chin...
19 Apr 2015 12:00 -
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19 Apr 2015 11:44 -
Button' teammate Alonso is aiming for Q3 in Barcelona
Teammate to Jenson Button, Fernando Alonso, the next target is Q3. The Spaniard's new project with McLaren-Honda started literally at rock bottom, but in the space of a month...
19 Apr 2015 10:52 -
Rosberg 'must turn around slump' - Lauda
Nico Rosberg's downwards spiral has only worsened in Bahrain. With teammate Lewis Hamilton riding a wave of form and confidence, German Rosberg headed to the desert Kingdom d...
19 Apr 2015 10:39 -
F1 racing ahead for 2017 rule changes
Technical change is coming to formula one. Days ago, Bernie Ecclestone told La Gazzetta dello Sport his ideal scenario would be to scrap the quiet, expensive and complex turb...
19 Apr 2015 10:26 -
Hamilton clinches pole position for Bahrain Grand Prix
Lewis Hamilton will start the Bahrain Grand Prix from pole position. The Brit shares the first row on the grid with Sebastian Vettel. Nico Rosberg and Kimi Raikkonen ended thirt...
18 Apr 2015 18:44 -
FP3: Hamilton fastest in final practice Bahrain
Lewis Hamilton has set the fastest time in the final free practice ahead of the Bahrain Grand Prix. The Brit beat Sebastian Vettel and teammate Nico Rosberg. Vettel's teammate K...
18 Apr 2015 16:23 -
Red Bull 'unfair' to former drivers - Alguersuari
Jaime Alguersuari has accused Red Bull of being "unfair" to some of its former F1 drivers. The Spaniard made his debut amid some fanfare in 2009, as at the time he was the young...
18 Apr 2015 11:01 -
Senna-Berger is like Hamilton-Rosberg - Berger
Gerhard Berger sees a similarity between his own F1 career and the crossroad now reached by Nico Rosberg. The F1 legend has compared Rosberg's new struggle to keep up with Merce...
18 Apr 2015 10:59 -
Alonso happy with 'challenge of my life'
Fernando Alonso insists the McLaren-Honda project remains "exciting" rather than depressing. At the sharp end of the grid, rumours are linking Lewis Hamilton with a move from F1...
18 Apr 2015 10:56 -
Hamilton-to-Ferrari rumours fire in Bahrain
As the long wait for his new Mercedes contract rolls on, rumours are filling the Bahrain paddock about Lewis Hamilton's red-coloured future. It is suggested the reigning world c...
18 Apr 2015 10:54 -
Chairman Ghosn approves F1 revival for Renault
Carlos Ghosn, the chairman and CEO of Renault, has reportedly green-lighted a major push for the French carmaker to bounce back in formula one. Mere weeks ago, the marque's F1 b...
18 Apr 2015 10:51 -
Verstappen 'best I've ever seen' - Pujolar
Experienced engineer Xevi Pujolar says 17-year-old sensation Max Verstappen is the best driver he has seen enter formula one. Although the young Dutchman's 2015 debut initially ...
18 Apr 2015 10:41 -
Mercedes bracing for Ferrari battle in Bahrain
Mercedes is bracing for another Malaysia-style battle with Ferrari this weekend in Bahrain. After losing to Sebastian Vettel in the Sepang sun, Mercedes hit back in cooler China...
18 Apr 2015 10:26 -
FP2: Mercedes sets the pace under floodlight in Bahrain
Mercedes has reclaimed the lead in the second free practice for the Bahrain Grand Prix. Nico Rosberg was one tenth fasther than Lewis Hamilton. Jenson Button encountered some mo...
17 Apr 2015 18:36 -
Rosberg vows to do his talking on the track from now on
Nico Rosberg has acknowledged he may have kicked an own goal by hitting out at his teammate Lewis Hamilton after the Chinese grand prix. The accusations about Hamilton's tactica...
17 Apr 2015 17:58 -
Lotus supports karting with message in Bahrain
The 'GO KARTING' signage and the CIK-FIA logo are visible this weekend on the sides between the sidepods and the front suspension of both Romain Grosjean's and Pastor Maldonado'...
17 Apr 2015 17:08 -
I want to beat my teammate on equal terms - Hamilton
Lewis Hamilton has denied "ever" asking for number 1 status at a formula one team. With the world champion's new Mercedes contract now repeatedly delayed, boss Toto Wolff on Thu...
17 Apr 2015 16:27 -
Merhi struggled with sore back due to poorly-fitted seat
Will Stevens is looking forward to getting at the wheel of an all-new Manor, so that he can race against more than one rival. Currently, the former Marussia team is struggling a...
17 Apr 2015 15:33 -
FP1: Raikkonen keeps his head cool in Bahrain heat
Ferrari driver Kimi Raikkonen has set the best time in the first free practice for the Bahrain Grand Prix. The Finn was the only one to go under 1:38 with a 1:37.827. Teammate S...
17 Apr 2015 15:05 -
Atmosphere this year the best I ever had - Raikkonen
Kimi Raikkonen says it is up to Ferrari whether he stays at the Italian team beyond 2015. Reports in recent days have suggested that after his 2014 slump, Raikkonen's return to ...
17 Apr 2015 14:18 -
Ericsson happy to demonstrate potential for Sauber
More than a year into his F1 career, Marcus Ericsson is happy to finally have an outlet to show his potential. Last year, the Swede made his debut for the now-defunct backmarker...
17 Apr 2015 13:40 -
Vettel doesn't expect repeat of Malaysia in Bahrain
It may be a glistening, floodlit spectacle, but Sebastian Vettel would prefer if the sun did not set on this weekend's Bahrain action. The island Kingdom is suitably hot for the...
17 Apr 2015 12:24 -
Fernando Alonso moves on from Twitter insult saga
Fernando Alonso has played down the controversy about an insulting 'tweet'. After a presenter for the Italian broadcaster attacked the Spaniard with a derogatory comment on Twit...
17 Apr 2015 11:53 -
Monza has to pay the same as other venues - Ecclestone
Bernie Ecclestone has repeated his warning that Monza risks falling off the F1 calendar. "It's very simple," he told Italy's La Gazzetta dello Sport. "There is a contract for th...
17 Apr 2015 10:59 -
Massa rediscovered the kind of form he had in 2008
For Felipe Massa, 2015 so far is like a glass half-full. The empty half is that Williams - last year a main rival to title-winner Mercedes - has fallen behind the resurgent Ferr...
17 Apr 2015 10:36
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