ART Grand Prix is delighted to announce that 22 yr old Belgian racer Stoffel Vandoorne will remain with the French based squad for his second consecutive season in the GP2 Champ...
It remains possible the FIA will do a u-turn after excluding Honda from the new engine development 'unfreeze'. McLaren and its new 2015 works partner Honda were undoubtedly unim...
Porsche chief Matthias Muller has rubbished speculation parent group Volkswagen could soon be on the F1 grid. Last week, Muller said the Porsche brand, despite now thriving at L...
Mercedes is paying the highest ever fee to enter the 2015 world championship. The German team may have triumphantly dominated last year's titles, but one unpleasant consequence ...
Jean-Eric Vergne has now started work at Ferrari. The 24 year old Frenchman spent the day at the Maranello facility, meeting engineers and management, as well as getting to grip...
Valtteri Bottas thinks the odd look of formula one cars is about to end. Last year, unseemly 'anteater', 'vacuum cleaner', 'walrus-tusked' and other descriptively-derided soluti...
Sergio Marchionne has warned Ferrari fans yet again that 2015 will be a difficult season for the fabled Scuderia. Speaking at the Detroit auto show on Tuesday, he refused to wad...
The McLaren Group has changed its name to the McLaren Technology Group. The change represents an ongoing shift at McLaren, as the firm increasingly develops into a diversified h...
GP3 champion Alex Lynn will step up to the GP2 Series in 2015 with significant support from Pirelli, official tyre supplier to the two Formula One feeder categories. Lynn, a ...
Bahrain is blocking Qatar's plans to join the F1 calendar. F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone said last month that despite negotiating with a keen Qatari group, a race in the oil-rich...
F1 legend Mario Andretti has called on Franck Montagny to be banned for life for doping. Former Super Aguri racer Montagny, a 37-year-old Frenchman, was suspended from the FIA-s...
Pat Symonds has admitted Williams' next step will be more difficult than the giant leap of 2014. After a career slump that hit bottom in 2013 with ninth in the constructors' sta...
Former McLaren tester Gary Paffett is unsure of the British team's potential as its new works Honda era begins. After years of serving as tester, McLaren's change of power means...
Valtteri Bottas has played down reports linking his future outside of Williams. The Finn's career to date has been powered and championed by the Grove team, and he was the star ...
Will Stevens has turned his eye to Le Mans in the event his F1 career stumbles at the first hurdle. Funding brought by the 23-year-old's backers as he made his grand prix debut ...
Ferrari is spending a whopping EUR 40 million as it steps up its off-track technology at Maranello. Having struggled in 2014 and subsequently undergone a revolutionary shakeup, ...
Renault has reportedly hit back at the FIA's controversial new system for issuing F1 super licences. In light of 17-year-old Max Verstappen's controversial debut this year, the ...
Mercedes is positioning to keep world champion Lewis Hamilton well beyond the 2015 season. Talks over the Briton's expiring contract were scheduled towards the end and then just...
McLaren has denied reports it will run its Honda-powered 2015 car a few days before its launch and official test debut. Spain's El Mundo Deportivo claimed that, following news t...
Race organisers are reluctant to shift the start time for the 2015 Australian grand prix. In response to Jules Bianchi's horror crash at Suzuka, the governing FIA vowed to look ...
Max Verstappen has cleared the first hurdle as he seeks a normal road car driving licence. The controversy sparked by the young and inexperienced driver's impending grand prix d...
Indian authorities have moved to restrict international travel for embattled Force India supremo Vijay Mallya. Amid ongoing action relating to his ailing airline Kingfisher, a M...
Daniel Ricciardo has expressed confidence Red Bull can close the gap on dominant 2014 title winners Mercedes this year. Given Mercedes' level of dominance last season and the re...
Jean-Eric Vergne has admitted he has set his sights on Kimi Raikkonen's 2016 race seat at Ferrari. The Frenchman, developed and groomed by Red Bull, was dropped by the energy dr...
Ferrari will launch its Formula 1 car on the Scuderia's website and on its digital and social platforms on Friday 30 January. In the lead up to that day, various updates will...
Fernando Alonso's former teammate doubts the Spaniard's high-profile switch from Ferrari to McLaren will result in instant success. But Jarno Trulli, who was Alonso's teammate a...
Paul Hembery, official tyre supplier Pirelli's F1 chief, is expecting the field to speed up significantly in 2015. Last year, the Italian marque took a deliberately conservative...
Former Mercedes tester Sam Bird says F1 teams no longer scour the world's top racing categories in search of the best possible drivers. 28 today, the Briton was until recently a...
McLaren has confirmed reports it will launch the Honda-powered 2015 car on 29 January. We reported earlier that the Woking based team would stage an event for the unveiling of t...
Porsche chief executive Matthias Muller has now added his confirmation to reports the German marque is not interested in entering formula one. Already this week, the fabled Volk...
McLaren looks set to launch its Honda-powered 2015 car with an event at the British team's Woking headquarters on January 29. International media reports are suggesting the McLa...
Niki Lauda has played down the chance Fernando Alonso will join Mercedes next year. Last week, team boss Toto Wolff caused a stir when he said Spaniard Alonso, who has just join...
The FIA's new super licence points system would even have locked Michael Schumacher out of F1. Apparently reacting to the controversial debut this year of 17-year-old Max Versta...
Lotus was late to pay the FIA entry fee for the 2015 world championship, according to reports in Spain and Italy. The Enstone team's place on the 2015 entry list recently was ma...
Toto Wolff thinks his relationship with wife Susie has actually harmed rather than helped the Williams test driver's career. Formerly Susie Stoddart, the Scot and former F3 and ...
The feud between Mercedes teammates Nico Rosberg and new world champion Lewis Hamilton appears to have cooled. In 2014, the duo's tussle for the title boiled over to the extent ...
Team boss Eric Boullier says McLaren can survive without a title sponsor. The Woking team lost its title backer Vodafone at the end of 2013, and raced throughout last season wit...
Porsche has ruled out entering formula one. 2016 F1 entrant Gene Haas this week indicated he hopes rumours the German giant Volkswagen - Porsche's parent - is contemplating ente...
The FIA could be set to rethink its decision to leave Honda outside of the new engine development 'unfreeze'. A loophole in the existing rules will allow 2014 suppliers Ferrari,...
The future of the historic Belgian grand prix at popular Spa-Francorchamps appears safe. La Libre, a French-language Belgian newspaper, said the economics minister of the local ...
The European Commission looks set to dismiss claims formula one authorities are acting anti-competitively. Recently, it appeared likely the European Union's executive body would...
The collapse of Marussia and Caterham may be the definite end of an era in formula one, according to the sport's newest team entrant. American Gene Haas, basing his 2016 outfit ...
Fernando Alonso is more adaptable than Kimi Raikkonen and better able to cope with a difficult car. That is the claim of Ferrari's recently-ousted technical chief Pat Fry, musin...
Kevin Magnussen will not be making any Friday practice appearances in 2015. As McLaren boss Ron Dennis explained last month, the 22-year-old Danish rookie's F1 race career has b...
Williams, the leading Formula One team and advanced engineering company, today announces a new technical IT partnership with Dtex Systems, the global security software provider,...
Honda is "annoyed" it has been left out of the relaxation of the F1 engine freeze for 2015. After Ferrari and Renault championed a loophole in the regulations, the governing FIA...
Caterham and Marussia are nearing the end of the line as other teams move preparations for the 2015 season into high gear. With just 26 days until the winter test season begins ...
The FIA has devised a points system as part of its clampdown on the ease of achieving an F1 super licence. With Max Verstappen set to debut this year at the controversially youn...
Ferrari is sticking with its unique 'pullrod' front suspension layout for a fourth consecutive season, according to Italy's Autosprint. The Maranello team has persevered with th...
As ever in formula one, the future is always just around the next bend. On Tuesday, at Bernie Ecclestone's behest, representatives of the four engine manufacturers - Mercedes, R...
Williams is pleased to announce an updated Race Operations structure to further bolster the engineering department ahead of the 2015 FIA Formula One World Championship season. ...
Less than a month before official winter testing begins, the future of the ailing backmarkers Marussia and Caterham remains unclear. Marussia's administrators have auctioned tea...
Delaying a start-of-season engine 'freeze' may be nowhere near enough for Mercedes' rivals to catch up in 2015. Although the rule 'loophole' championed by Ferrari and Renault wi...
Carlos Sainz insists his famous name alone did not power his 20-year-old son all the way to formula one. Carlos Sainz jr, the new reigning Formula Renault 3.5 champion, will mak...
At least two top teams will enter the 2015 season with fundamentally different colour schemes, it has emerged. Spain's El Mundo Deportivo reports that new reigning champions Mer...
Max Verstappen has moved to play down expectations ahead of his record-making formula one debut in 2015. With the FIA set to clamp down on very young drivers from 2016, the Dutc...
Force India has set a firm date for the launch of its 2015 car, the Mercedes-powered VJM08. After finishing the 2014 season a career-high sixth in the constructors' championship...
The Fantasy Dakar 2015 starts on Sunday 4 January 2015 at 11:00 hours CET. The Dakar Rally takes place in South America (Argentina, Bolivia and Chili) and exists out of 13 stag...
The Sauber F1 Team is pleased to announce Raffaele Marciello as its test and reserve driver for 2015. The 20-year-old Italian started his racing career in karting in 2005. After...
The parents of Jules Bianchi, Philippe and Christine, would like to provide the following update regarding Jules’ medical situation: "As we reach the conclusion of a diffic...
Michael Schumacher faces a 'long fight' his manager, Sabine Kehm, has revealed a year following his tragic skiing accident in the French Alps of Méribel. The 44-year-old Ger...
Haas, the new American F1 team for 2016, has reportedly acquired Marussia's factory in Banbury, UK. Although the cars will be designed and manufactured at a bespoke facility alo...
Ferrari will launch its 2015 car on the internet in late January. The fabled Italian team's new boss Maurizio Arrivabene confirmed to reporters earlier this week that the new pr...
The future of the historic grand prix at fabled Monza has taken a blow this week, according to reports in the Italian press. F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone warned earlier this yea...
Kimi Raikkonen will need to prove in 2015 that he deserves another year at Ferrari. That is the warning of new Ferrari team boss Maurizio Arrivabene, following recent reports th...
Jacques Villeneuve says the forthcoming debut of F1's youngest ever race driver Max Verstappen is "an insult". Just a year out of karts, 17-year-old Verstappen has been signed t...
Audi appears to be taking more steps towards a potential F1 foray in the near future. Rumours of a project were fuelled recently when ousted Ferrari boss Stefano Domenicali resu...
Sebastien Buemi is staying put as Red Bull's reserve driver. The 26-year-old has been the team's main test and simulation driver since he was dropped from the junior squad Toro ...
Fernando Alonso effectively decided to leave Ferrari more than a year ago. That is the claim of Flavio Briatore, who has played a leading role in the Spanish driver's management...
Ferrari announces that, as from next season, Jean-Eric Vergne will join the Scuderia in the role of test driver to work on car development in the simulator. The rest of the driv...
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