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Malaysia 2015 preview quotes: Sauber
After a successful season opener in Melbourne, the Sauber F1 Team and its drivers Marcus Ericsson and Felipe Nasr are looking forward to the Malaysian Grand Prix. The second rou...
25 Mar 2015 13:43 -
Red Bull also has issues with the chassis - Renault
Renault has continued to hit back amid suggestions its turbo V6 'power unit' is the only reason for Red Bull's 2015 struggle. The French marque's F1 chief Cyril Abiteboul on Tue...
25 Mar 2015 12:03 -
Lotus taking criticism for development driver lineup
Lotus is once again taking criticism after naming another 'development driver'. A month ago, the Enstone team signed up Carmen Jorda, a 26-year-old female driver, to attend race...
25 Mar 2015 11:18 -
Barrichello couldn't stay awake during 2015 opener
A trio of former F1 drivers are hoping the 2015 season opener was just a blip. In Australia, Sauber battled for survival in court with Giedo van der Garde while Manor never left...
25 Mar 2015 10:27 -
China National Chemical secures control of Pirelli
China has bought F1's official tyre supplier Pirelli. State-owned China National Chemical, or Chem China, has secured control of the Milan-based company valued at over EUR 7 bil...
25 Mar 2015 09:41 -
Alonso looking forward to first race weekend in MP4-30
Fernando Alonso has admitted he is expecting a "tough weekend" in Malaysia. The Spaniard is undoubtedly right. As he watched the season opener on TV from his home in Dubai almos...
25 Mar 2015 08:56 -
Hamilton and Mercedes almost ready to sign new deal
The end of Lewis Hamilton's protracted negotiations with Mercedes over a new deal beyond 2015 may finally be close. The reigning world champion has conducted his own talks with ...
25 Mar 2015 08:14 -
Renault on Red Bull: "Hard to have a partner who lies"
Renault's relationship with works team Red Bull continues to crumble. Cyril Abiteboul, chief of the French carmaker's F1 engine programme, on Tuesday accused Red Bull technical ...
24 Mar 2015 17:07 -
Malaysia 2015 preview quotes: Mercedes
Lewis Hamilton: "Australia was a great way to start. To pick up where we left off last year was awesome. But if 2014 showed anything, it's that putting together a whole season i...
24 Mar 2015 16:45 -
Hakkinen 'definitely expected more' from Raikkonen
Mika Hakkinen says he was disappointed with the performance of his countryman Kimi Raikkonen in Australia. When he retired at the end of 2001, Hakkinen recommended McLaren sign ...
24 Mar 2015 16:14 -
McLaren MP4-30 ranked fourth in cornering ratings
A silver lining for struggling McLaren-Honda could be the cornering ability of the new MP4-30 car. After Jenson Button and Kevin Magnussen qualified dead last in Melbourne, some...
24 Mar 2015 15:22 -
Valtteri Bottas is 'in very good shape' - manager
Valtteri Bottas' manager on Tuesday said he expects the Finn to return to action this weekend in Malaysia. After sitting out Melbourne with his injured lower back and recovering...
24 Mar 2015 14:40 -
Verstappen skipped GP2 out of fear to 'stall' career
Max Verstappen says he jumped at the chance to become F1's youngest-ever race driver for fear his career would otherwise stall. The 17-year-old, whose meteoric rise from karts t...
24 Mar 2015 13:25 -
Manor enlists Merhi alongside Stevens for Malaysia
Hoping to race this weekend is Valtteri Bottas, who sat out Melbourne with a torn disc in his lower back. "After such a frustrating Sunday in Australia," the Finn said in a stat...
24 Mar 2015 12:45 -
Marko says F1 needs leadership like under Max Mosley
As F1 speeds towards its next battleground, the debate about the very future of the sport will also resume in Malaysia. After the Melbourne opener, Red Bull furiously slammed th...
24 Mar 2015 12:10 -
Sepang wants a 'win-win situation' with new F1 deal
As the F1 circus touches down in Malaysia, it is possible this week's race will be the seventeenth and last at Sepang. Early this year, Malaysian race officials travelled to Lon...
24 Mar 2015 11:02 -
Adderly Fong joins Lotus as development driver
Lotus F1 Team is pleased to announce Adderly Fong as a Development Driver for 2015. Fong will undergo a driver development programme as well as contributing to the team's simula...
24 Mar 2015 10:15 -
Forecast for Sepang indicates high probability of rain
F1 looks to be heading into its first wet race of the season. The current weekend forecast for Sepang indicates a high probability of rain and afternoon storms, even though the ...
24 Mar 2015 09:43 -
'Alonso had a steering problem before his crash'
The cause of Fernando Alonso's mysterious Barcelona testing crash may now be clearer. Until now, McLaren-Honda has insisted the incident that sidelined its star driver for more ...
24 Mar 2015 08:31 -
Malaysia 2015 preview quotes: Williams
Kuala Lumpur's Sepang International Circuit was first in the spate of modern tracks in emerging markets for Formula One. The likes of Bahrain, China, Singapore, South Korea and ...
23 Mar 2015 16:35 -
McLaren confirms Alonso scheduled to return at Sepang
A McLaren statement: "McLaren-Honda is pleased to announce that, subject to a successful final FIA medical assessment this Thursday 26th March at the Sepang International Circui...
23 Mar 2015 15:13 -
'GP axe slap in the face of German motorsport fans'
Niki Lauda has described the official demise of Mercedes' home race this year as "sad". The F1 legend and Mercedes team chairman confirmed reports that the German carmaker made ...
23 Mar 2015 14:28 -
Kaltenborn admits 'mistakes' in Van der Garde affair
Monisha Kaltenborn has broken her silence on the Giedo van der Garde affair, admitting she made "mistakes". The storm surrounding Sauber's Indian-born Austrian boss and co-owner...
23 Mar 2015 13:45 -
Alonso crash costs insurers EUR 1.8 million so far
Fernando Alonso's Barcelona testing crash has cost insurers EUR 1.8 million so far. That is the claim of Italy's specialist La Gazzetta dello Sport newspaper, who said the Spani...
23 Mar 2015 12:51 -
New controversy surrounding fuel-flow rules brewing
A new controversy surrounding F1's fuel-flow rules could be brewing. A year has now passed since Daniel Ricciardo was disqualified from the 2014 season opener when his Red Bull-...
23 Mar 2015 12:02 -
Young people entering sports is 'global trend' - Verstappen
F1 is simply adjusting to the new "global trend" of younger athletes. That is the claim of Max Verstappen, who in Melbourne shattered the old record to become the youngest race ...
23 Mar 2015 11:20 -
Bottas 'impatient' to go to Malaysia - manager
Valtteri Bottas is "impatient" to return to the cockpit of his Williams this weekend in Malaysia. That is the news of the Finn's manager Didier Coton, after his 25-year-old char...
23 Mar 2015 10:27 -
Mercedes offered 'significant contribution' to save German GP
Mercedes offered to help keep the German grand prix alive in 2015. On Friday, the FIA revealed that it has removed the scheduled July 19 date from this year's calendar because B...
23 Mar 2015 09:54 -
Fernando Alonso cleared to travel to Malaysia
Fernando Alonso on Sunday was cleared by FIA-appointed doctors to travel to the scene of this weekend's Malaysian grand prix. The Spaniard's visit to Cambridge University to sit...
23 Mar 2015 08:43 -
Ferrari busy to house entire F1 team under one roof
Ferrari is moving house. Germany's Bild am Sonntag newspaper reports that, in the week after cementing its new form in Australia as the second force behind Mercedes, the fabled ...
23 Mar 2015 08:21 -
No chance if you don't have Mercedes engine - Marko
Mercedes' engine advantage is locked in for the long haul, Red Bull official Dr Helmut Marko insists. Renault-powered Red Bull is arguing stridently for a change of regulations ...
20 Mar 2015 13:41 -
MotoGP champion backs Honda to succeed in F1
Reigning MotoGP champion Marc Marquez has backed Honda to succeed in formula one. Riding for the Japanese marque's official factory team Repsol-Honda, the 22-year-old Spaniard h...
20 Mar 2015 12:12 -
F1 in image struggle after 2015 season opener
Formula one did not present the best image of itself as the 2015 season opened in Australia. That is the view of several experts and insiders, following Sauber's courtroom battl...
20 Mar 2015 12:08 -
Bottas 'very optimistic' about driving in Malaysia
Valtteri Bottas' manager has admitted he is not sure the Williams driver will return to action next weekend in Malaysia. "I am well informed about it," said former double world ...
20 Mar 2015 11:09 -
Of Schumacher's titles, one should be mine - Barrichello
Rubens Barrichello claims his former Ferrari teammate Michael Schumacher should actually be just a six-time world champion. The pair were teammates at Ferrari between 2000 and 2...
20 Mar 2015 10:38 -
Red Bull open to Renault's ideas for Toro Rosso
Toro Rosso's cars could turn yellow, Red Bull official Dr Helmut Marko has admitted. As he criticises engine partner Renault for its retrograde step in 2015, Marko has also conf...
20 Mar 2015 09:30 -
German GP 'dead' as Nürburgring pulls out as well
Germany's other F1 circuit has joined Hockenheim in pulling out of the running to host the scheduled July 19 race. Earlier this week, Hockenheim chief Georg Seiler told Bild new...
20 Mar 2015 08:40 -
Renault took unusually-aggressive approach to season opener
Renault has revealed it took an unusually-aggressive approach to the 2015 season opener, at works partner Red Bull's behest. Amid Red Bull's disastrous start to the new world ch...
19 Mar 2015 13:33 -
Alonso to undergo FIA medical checks on Sunday
Fernando Alonso will undergo medical tests conducted by the FIA on Sunday. The broadcaster Sky Italia said the Spaniard needs the governing body's green-light in order to return...
19 Mar 2015 12:46 -
Manager 'not working on F1 comeback' for Kobayashi
Kamui Kobayashi's manager has played down reports the Japanese driver is on the verge of a return to F1. Chikara Funada, who handles the former Toyota, Sauber and Caterham drive...
19 Mar 2015 12:03 -
Without Bianchi points, we would not be here - Booth
Manor boss John Booth says the team would not have been resurrected without Jules Bianchi. Frenchman Bianchi, critically injured in an horror crash whilst driving for Manor's fo...
19 Mar 2015 11:24 -
Mercedes has no problem with Hamilton buying a Ferrari
Lewis Hamilton has had contact with Ferrari, Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff has admitted. Paddock rumours in Australia suggested that, as he conducts his own negotiations for a n...
19 Mar 2015 10:55 -
Bottas likely to need surgery to competely heal back injury
Valtteri Bottas is recovering from his back injury in Indonesia, the Williams team has confirmed. The Finn had to sit out the Melbourne season opener last Sunday after suffering...
19 Mar 2015 09:54 -
Engine rule changes made for 'right reasons' - Williams
Williams has become the next team to back F1's current regulations. After Mercedes' dominance of the Melbourne opener, Red Bull was so critical of the new-in-2014 turbo V6 formu...
19 Mar 2015 09:17 -
Race pace difference to Mercedes not huge - Raikkonen
Mercedes could have a race on its hands in 2015. After Melbourne, Christian Horner claimed the advantage now wielded by the silver team is bigger than at any time during Red Bul...
19 Mar 2015 08:30 -
Sauber responds to Van der Garde's statement
A Sauber statement: "Many of you read today's statement on Giedo van der Garde's Facebook page. So have we and we were, indeed, rather surprised. We don't know about Giedo's int...
18 Mar 2015 16:01 -
GP3: Mardenborough to race for Carlin in 2015
Jann Mardenborough is confirmed as the third and final driver in Carlin’s 2015 GP3 line-up. The Nissan driver who is already a race winner in the series, joins the reigning c...
18 Mar 2015 15:57 -
Too ambitious to try to be ready so quickly - Boullier
Eric Boullier thinks it is "possible" McLaren-Honda might be in a position to win grands prix later in 2015. His comments follow reports elsewhere the team boss warned it might ...
18 Mar 2015 14:27 -
Sauber announces Singapore Airlines as new partner
The Sauber F1 Team is pleased to announce Singapore Airlines as Official Airline Partner. Singapore Airlines is the most awarded airline worldwide, and was the first carrier wor...
18 Mar 2015 13:43 -
Driver coaching stays prohibited for this season
F1's radio clampdown will not be ramped up in 2015. Last year, the FIA introduced a ban on so-called 'driver coaching' instructions, but intended to ramp it up even further for ...
18 Mar 2015 12:49 -
Matter of time before Ferrari reaches us - Mercedes
Mercedes has tipped Ferrari to challenge in 2015. Having struggled in 2014, the fabled Italian team proved in Melbourne that it has leapfrogged Red Bull and Williams to be 'best...
18 Mar 2015 12:02 -
Kamui Kobayashi in talks for seat at Manor
Just one race into 2015, the first driver moves are already shaping up. Spotted in the Melbourne paddock last weekend was Chikara Funada, who is the popular driver Kamui Kobayas...
18 Mar 2015 11:19 -
Van der Garde directs words to F1 after settlement
Giedo van der Garde has issued out this statement: "We have reached a settlement with Sauber and my driver contract with the team has been ended by mutual consent. As a passiona...
18 Mar 2015 10:30 -
Fernando Alonso jumps in McLaren simulator today
Fernando Alonso has stepped up his preparations to return to action in Malaysia next weekend. McLaren-Honda confirmed reports the Spaniard is at Woking, and on Wednesday he will...
18 Mar 2015 09:58 -
Furious Red Bull finding little support for rule changes
So far, Red Bull is finding little support in its quest for immediate changes to the rules. Ferrari has already made clear it is content for now, particularly as it has leapfrog...
18 Mar 2015 09:07 -
Van der Garde camp set to outline compensation details
The Giedo van der Garde camp is set to issue details of the compensation package agreed with Sauber. The battle between the Dutch driver and his backers and the struggling Swiss...
18 Mar 2015 08:30 -
Hockenheim says 'no' to 2015 German grand prix
The last slim hope for this year's German grand prix now appears over. With the embattled Nurburgring unable to fulfil its agreement to host the race in July, Bernie Ecclestone ...
17 Mar 2015 16:43 -
Hamilton advises Red Bull to 'hire better people'
Lewis Hamilton has stepped up his rhetoric against rival Red Bull's complaints. After the British driver won dominantly in Australia, Red Bull declared the gap to Mercedes was t...
17 Mar 2015 16:28 -
Manor will be ready to run in Malaysia - Booth
Manor insists it is travelling to Malaysia next weekend to race. The FIA investigated the former Marussia team in Australia, amid suspicions the cars, drivers and mechanics only...
17 Mar 2015 16:17 -
Rosberg invites Vettel to engineer meeting
Nico Rosberg says his offer to Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel still stands. After dominant Mercedes finished first and second in Melbourne, 34 seconds clear of Vettel in third place...
17 Mar 2015 14:47 -
Van der Garde drops case after 15 million compensation
Dutch media reports on Tuesday said Bernie Ecclestone was involved in negotiations that have ended the Giedo van der Garde saga. The morning newspaper De Volkskrant refers to co...
17 Mar 2015 13:46 -
Renault and Red Bull Racing speed towards divorce
The divorce between Red Bull and Renault seems ever closer. Spain's El Mundo Deportivo claims that amid reports the French engine supplier is looking to buy Toro Rosso, Renault ...
17 Mar 2015 13:30 -
Ecclestone a witness in Valencia corruption trial
Bernie Ecclestone has been named as a witness in the corruption trial regarding the former grand prix on the streets of Valencia. Officials of the Spanish port city, having host...
17 Mar 2015 12:45 -
Mercedes is just doing a much better job - Button
World champion Lewis Hamilton has joined his Mercedes bosses in hitting back at Red Bull's 'wailing'. Struggling Red Bull has called on F1 authorities to take action against Mer...
17 Mar 2015 12:14 -
Girlfriend says Alonso is fit for Malaysia return
Fernando Alonso's girlfriend says the Spaniard should be fit to return in Malaysia next weekend. After sitting out Melbourne as a result of his testing crash more than three wee...
17 Mar 2015 11:21 -
Ecclestone claims Mercedes had V6 head-start
Bernie Ecclestone claims Mercedes had a head-start over its engine rivals at the start of F1's controversial turbo V6 era. After the 2015 season opener, the F1 supremo on Monday...
17 Mar 2015 10:46 -
Max Verstappen's father 'really angry' at Renault
Former F1 driver Jos Verstappen has admitted he was "really upset" after the Australian grand prix. The Dutchman, whose 17-year-old son Max has just made his high-profile debut ...
17 Mar 2015 09:54 -
Mercedes supplying same engine to its customers
Mercedes has hit back at claims it is not supplying the same specification of engine to its F1 customers. In Australia, Williams' Felipe Massa was the fastest non-works Mercedes...
17 Mar 2015 09:07 -
We need to level things up a little bit - Ecclestone
Red Bull is right to argue for rule changes after Mercedes utterly dominated the 2015 season opener, Bernie Ecclestone said on Monday. A report by the Reuters news agency said t...
17 Mar 2015 08:36 -
Ecclestone to bill Manor for F1 equipment transport
Manor survived an FIA investigation in Australia, but now faces the wrath of F1's commercial chief Bernie Ecclestone. As the former Marussia team was summoned to the stewards in...
16 Mar 2015 17:01
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