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'Ferrari has eliminated certain fundamental errors'
One of F1's most respected technical journalists agrees that Ferrari is back on track after its disappointing 2014. Giorgio Piola, a veteran of hundreds of grands prix as a tech...
25 Feb 2015 10:57 -
Red Bull lacking a bit of continuity now - Webber
Sebastian Vettel's team switch for 2015 could hurt Red Bull and help Ferrari. That is the claim of the former F1 star Mark Webber, even though they were the best of enemies as t...
25 Feb 2015 10:54 -
Monza has 'no room for mistakes' to keep Italian GP
A cloud continues to hang over the future of the iconic Italian grand prix. Last year, Bernie Ecclestone warned that because the current contractual terms are "a disaster", once...
25 Feb 2015 10:49 -
Palmer chose Lotus role over Manor for 2015
Jolyon Palmer opted for the reserve seat at Lotus rather than hoping talks with the former Marussia team bore fruit for 2015. 24-year-old Briton Palmer, whose father Jonathan wa...
25 Feb 2015 10:45 -
Ferrari denies signing Gutierrez for his sponsor budget
Ferrari has denied that even the great Italian team is now heading down the 'pay driver' road. Outspoken former F1 driver Mark Webber insisted this week that the fact drivers ha...
25 Feb 2015 10:43 -
Mercedes talks to FIA about Wehrlein super licence
Rising star Pascal Wehrlein is hoping talks with the FIA clear the path for his potential formula one debut in 2016. The 20-year-old German is now one of the hottest new names i...
25 Feb 2015 10:38 -
'Normal' Alonso crash surrounded by question marks
McLaren's media statement has not stopped rampant speculation about the crash that left Fernando Alonso in hospital for four days and counting. Many insiders are blaming the Wok...
25 Feb 2015 10:36 -
Mercedes proposes 'halo' for cockpit safety
Reigning champions Mercedes have proposed a new solution to the ever-present problem of cockpit safety in formula one. Canopies and roll-cages have been discussed at length behi...
24 Feb 2015 21:07 -
Alonso-Vettel switch was appropriate - Briatore
Fernando Alonso's departure from Ferrari, replaced by fellow former champion Sebastian Vettel, was one of the highest-profile driver changes in the history of formula one. But a...
24 Feb 2015 10:42 -
Renault working on solution for driveability issues
Renault has made progress but not enough yet to topple dominant Mercedes. That is the admission of Red Bull chiefs Christian Horner and Dr Helmut Marko, although they are confid...
24 Feb 2015 10:38 -
'Mercedes engine much more powerful than the rest'
The nature of the 'new' F1 means Mercedes will again be hard to beat in 2015. That is the claim of former F1 team boss Flavio Briatore, who is no fan of the regulation changes t...
24 Feb 2015 10:36 -
Alonso doesn't remember the incident - Briatore
Flavio Briatore says Fernando Alonso does not remember the crash that has left him in a Barcelona hospital. McLaren has denied wild conspiracy theories about the cause of the ac...
24 Feb 2015 10:31 -
Questions raised about Williams' 2015 prospects
A low-profile winter for the Grove team is beginning to raise questions about Williams' 2015 prospects. Last year, the newly Mercedes-powered team emerged from a deep slump to f...
24 Feb 2015 10:29 -
Alonso could sit out final week of winter testing
Fernando Alonso may sit out the final test of the 2015 pre-season in the wake of his Barcelona crash. The Spaniard has already spent two nights in hospital recovering from concu...
24 Feb 2015 10:25 -
Honda: "Testing has been like a pop-up game"
Honda does not have any potential customers for its new F1 engine, boss Yasuhisa Arai has admitted. After a six-year absence, the Japanese carmaker's plan had always been to ret...
24 Feb 2015 10:23 -
Gust of wind caused Alonso's crash - McLaren
McLaren has hit back at the conspiracy theories about Fernando Alonso's testing crash on Sunday. With the Spaniard still in intensive care, the conspicuous delay in McLaren's ex...
24 Feb 2015 10:20 -
Mercedes, Ferrari have to modify camera mountings
Top teams and likely title challengers Mercedes and Ferrari will have to modify their cars ahead of the season opener in Melbourne. That was the claim on Monday of Germany's Aut...
23 Feb 2015 21:45 -
Architect of Honda's return to F1 to step down
Six years after pulling out of the sport, Honda is once again making headlines in formula one for all the wrong reasons. In the midst of an horror run of technical trouble as Mc...
23 Feb 2015 21:42 -
Ferrari now has clear objectives - Marchionne
So far, Sergio Marchionne's revolution is going exactly to plan. Last year, as Ferrari badly faltered at the start of the new turbo V6 era, the Fiat Chrysler chief was the big m...
23 Feb 2015 12:19 -
Changing helmets for drivers a way to 'express themselves'
F1 is robbing drivers of one of the last ways they can truly express themselves. That is the claim of Jens Munser, a helmet livery painter made famous in recent years by the eve...
23 Feb 2015 12:16 -
Niki Lauda no fan of Mercedes sandbagging
After seven days of apparent sandbagging, did Mercedes finally let the cat out of the bag on Sunday? Until now, it has been Ferrari's test pace at Jerez and now Barcelona that h...
23 Feb 2015 12:13 -
Midfield teams propose to pool their resources
Three midfield teams have reportedly proposed that F1's rules be tweaked so that 'semi-constructors' are legal. It recently emerged that the FIA had commissioned KcKinsey, a mul...
23 Feb 2015 12:11 -
De la Rosa set for Mercedes reserve role
Pedro de la Rosa could be set to return to formula one with Mercedes. In recent years, the Spanish veteran worked closely with his countryman Fernando Alonso at Ferrari as offic...
23 Feb 2015 12:07 -
Byrne returns to Ferrari to mentor designer Resta
Legendary Ferrari designer Rory Byrne has returned to Maranello to be Simone Resta's mentor. South African Byrne, 71, was a key member of the Ferrari 'dream team' of last decade...
23 Feb 2015 11:59 -
Marchionne backs delay for revolution until 2017
Sergio Marchionne has backed the move to delay a technical revolution in formula one until 2017. It had appeared that Ferrari was leading the charge for rapid change, when on th...
23 Feb 2015 11:56 -
2015 engine is 'two thirds' new - Renault
Renault has been able to make a substantially new 'power unit' for 2015 after its disappointing start to the turbo V6 era. That is the claim of the French marque's F1 operations...
23 Feb 2015 11:54 -
Playing negotiating games a recipe for disaster - Wolff
Lewis Hamilton's lack of a manager is making contract negotiations with the reigning world champion more difficult. That is the admission of Toto Wolff, who after the split betw...
23 Feb 2015 11:51 -
Alonso might spend second night in hospital
Fernando Alonso could spend a second night in hospital, his manager Luis Garcia Abad has admitted. The Spaniard is currently in a Barcelona hospital after a mysterious crash dur...
23 Feb 2015 11:48 -
Delays with new car will leave their marks - Hulkenberg
Nico Hulkenberg has admitted Force India's preparation for 2015 is "not ideal". Although the strongest rumours of unpaid suppliers and financial strife have been played down, th...
22 Feb 2015 16:50 -
Good and bad news for Honda engine programme
The news on Sunday was both good and bad for Honda. The good is that McLaren's struggling new works partner has found two more days in its delayed programme before the 2015-spec...
22 Feb 2015 15:38 -
Gutierrez could drive FP1 for Ferrari in Mexico
Esteban Gutierrez is set to make his debut at the wheel of a Ferrari. After two years with Sauber, the 23-year-old has taken his Mexican sponsors to Maranello, where he is now t...
22 Feb 2015 15:31 -
Alonso checked at hospital after crash during testing
Fernando Alonso was "conscious" as he was airlifted to hospital on Sunday after a crash on the final day of the Barcelona test. The Spaniard was initially taken to the circuit m...
22 Feb 2015 15:12 -
Our situation looks worse than it is - Button
For now, McLaren's problems will not go away. At the start of the Barcelona test, a faulty seal on the Honda's MGU-K unit forced Japanese engineers to return the drawing board. ...
22 Feb 2015 11:05 -
Vettel wouldn't mind paying a fine for helmet change
Sebastian Vettel has admitted he might ignore F1's new ban on helmet livery changes. Reports have indicated the German has made about 60 livery changes since debuting in formula...
22 Feb 2015 11:03 -
Follow LIVE the fourth day of test 1 in Barcelona
The preparations for the new season will kick in a higher gear this week. The Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya will play host for the second test of 2015. On the fourth and la...
22 Feb 2015 08:49 -
Horner: "Would be good for F1 to have grid with 20 cars"
Christian Horner on Saturday insisted he would welcome the former Marussia team back to F1. Earlier, despite vocally championing the rights of struggling teams, Force India in f...
21 Feb 2015 19:46 -
Renault looking to buy into existing F1 team
Renault is reportedly considering buying a team and going it alone as a full constructor once again. Bruised by the 'crash-gate' affair, the French carmaker sold its works Ensto...
21 Feb 2015 15:50 -
We can certainly hope to be on the podium - Vettel
Sebastian Vettel says he has arrived at Ferrari with the passion the most fabled name in formula one deserves. "Many things have changed" at the Maranello team, the former Red B...
21 Feb 2015 11:46 -
McLaren admits it's 50 per cent behind schedule
For F1's top teams, 2015 is a case of putting the troublesome first year of the new turbo V6 era in the past and setting sights on closing the big gap to Mercedes. It is bad new...
21 Feb 2015 10:01 -
Multiple threats have Mercedes' eyes 'wide open'
A fascinating picture is beginning to emerge from winter testing, as multiple teams threaten to step up and challenge Mercedes. Until now, Ferrari has appeared surprisingly as t...
21 Feb 2015 09:10 -
Ferrari is a team again, without politics - boss
Ferrari's new boss is not changing his targets for the 2015 season, despite a strong showing in winter testing for the fabled team. Before the SF15-T emerged with consistently c...
21 Feb 2015 09:00 -
Follow LIVE the third day of test 1 in Barcelona
The preparations for the new season will kick in a higher gear this week. The Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya will play host for the second test of 2015. Kimi Raikkonen hands...
21 Feb 2015 08:47 -
Ferrari agrees to supply Manor with 2014 engines
Ferrari looks to have beaten McLaren-Honda to the reborn Manor team's door. Earlier, we reported that with the former Marussia team now exiting administration, McLaren could pla...
20 Feb 2015 18:29 -
Mercedes racers back in full swing in Barcelona
Mercedes' race lineup is back on song in Barcelona. As the second test of the winter began on Thursday, Lewis Hamilton did ten laps before retiring unwell with a high temperatur...
20 Feb 2015 15:46 -
Helmet livery change ban a compromise measure
The new ban on helmet livery changes was actually a compromise measure, it emerged on Friday. So far, news that drivers will be limited to just a single helmet livery per season...
20 Feb 2015 13:50 -
Leaving US for F1 'out of the question' for Patrick
Danica Patrick has played down suggestions she might be in pole position to enter formula one next year. She already drives in Nascar for Stewart-Haas, the team co-owned by F1's...
20 Feb 2015 13:24 -
Lotus' Gastaldi says F1 is 'world of huge egos'
"Huge egos" have ensured the status quo in formula one when it comes to cost-cutting and income distribution. That is the claim of Federico Gastaldi, the deputy chief at Lotus. ...
20 Feb 2015 13:19 -
We are not where we would like to be - Ricciardo
Daniel Ricciardo has admitted Red Bull has some catching up to do in the few short weeks before Melbourne. "We are not where we would like to be," the team's new number 1 driver...
20 Feb 2015 13:13 -
Extra power in new Mercedes V6 'noticeable' - Wehrlein
How much progress has dominant 2014 title winner Mercedes made over the winter? The perfect man to ask on Thursday was Pascal Wehrlein. A DTM driver, the 20-year-old German bega...
20 Feb 2015 12:38 -
Lotus sees potential to target top places this year
After a miserable 2014 season, Lotus appears back on track this year. Pastor Maldonado's chart-topping time in the new Mercedes-powered E23 on Thursday would have been good enou...
20 Feb 2015 11:45 -
Rosberg and his wive will have a baby in 2015
Nico Rosberg is the next F1 driver on pole position to become a father. Other new dads in the paddock are Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen, while the Lotus duo of R...
20 Feb 2015 10:42 -
Mateschitz denies selling Red Bull Racing to Audi
Dietrich Mateschitz has denied reports he might be looking to sell his F1 team Red Bull to Audi. On Thursday, stories emerged in the German press suggesting that the Red Bull mo...
20 Feb 2015 10:20 -
Vettel: "I'm Sebastian, not Michael Schumacher"
Sebastian Vettel has denied he is a "carbon-copy" of fellow German and F1 legend Michael Schumacher. Earlier this week, new Ferrari boss Maurizio Arrivabene hailed the arrival a...
20 Feb 2015 10:10 -
Wolff and Nasr crash while Ferrari shows pace
Nearly three months after the chequered flag waved in Abu Dhabi, it was a pair of rookies who had pulses racing on Thursday. The press room at Barcelona's Circuit de Catalunya b...
20 Feb 2015 09:50 -
Follow LIVE the second test day of test 1 in Barcelona
The preparations for the new season will kick in a higher gear this week. The Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya will play host for the second test of 2015. On the second day so...
20 Feb 2015 08:53 -
Manor arranges crash test date for early March
While Barcelona echoed to the sound of turbo V6 engines on Thursday, behind-the-scenes developments were also making noise. Force India finally began its winter programme at the...
19 Feb 2015 15:39 -
Faulty MGU-K seal ends McLaren's day prematurely
McLaren-Honda's troubled pre-season continued on Thursday as the second winter test at Barcelona began. At lunch on day one at the Circuit de Catalunya, Jenson Button's work at ...
19 Feb 2015 15:26 -
Rosberg suffering from inflamed nerve in his neck
Both of Mercedes' race drivers are out of action at present. World champion Lewis Hamilton kicked off the team's four-day test at Barcelona early on Thursday, but had to retire ...
19 Feb 2015 15:17 -
Audi rejects F1 project despite positive study
Rumours are once again doing the rounds that the Volkswagen Group is eyeing a place on the F1 grid. But according to Germany's respected Auto Motor und Sport, this time the spec...
19 Feb 2015 15:13 -
No quick solutions to McLaren-Honda problems - Ramirez
A crucial month lies ahead for the new McLaren-Honda collaboration. That is the obvious view from the outside, after the innovative MP4-30 struggled for pace and laps not only a...
19 Feb 2015 14:57 -
Bahrain confirms Qatar race is indeed possible
Bahrain has admitted it is in "talks" amid reports neighbouring Qatar is about to join the F1 calendar. Earlier, F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone said that despite the oil-rich Arab...
19 Feb 2015 14:50 -
Age controversy will not last long - Verstappen
Max Verstappen thinks all the stories about his age will soon be old. The Dutchman's impending debut at the tender age of 17 has been so controversial that the FIA has even chan...
19 Feb 2015 13:41 -
Sirotkin in negotiations for Force India test seat
Sergey Sirotkin has admitted he is in talks with Force India. When the Silverstone based team sat out the recent Jerez test, we reported that it was because money promised by th...
19 Feb 2015 13:29 -
Vettel must be faster than Raikkonen in 2015 - Coulthard
Sebastian Vettel must beat friend and new Ferrari teammate Kimi Raikkonen in 2015. That is the claim of former F1 driver David Coulthard, who fears the quadruple world champion ...
19 Feb 2015 13:25 -
Bottas would rather have gone testing in Bahrain
Valtteri Bottas has lamented the end of winter testing in the island Kingdom of Bahrain. Previously, F1 teams made the pre-season trip to the Middle East to avoid Europe's cold ...
19 Feb 2015 12:05 -
Gribkowsky hands over 'bribe' to his former employer
Gerhard Gribkowsky has handed over more than a quarter of the $44 million alleged 'bribe' he was paid by F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone. Last year, Ecclestone ended his criminal c...
19 Feb 2015 11:37 -
Dennis defends opposition to centralised cost-cutting
Ron Dennis has defended his opposition to centralised cost-cutting in formula one. After Tuesday's meeting of the F1 Commission in Geneva, the German magazine Auto Motor und Spo...
19 Feb 2015 10:44 -
Lotus paints picture of more robust financial health
Lotus is hitting back in the wake of reports it might be counted among F1's most struggling teams. Owner Gerard Lopez led the charge vocally late last year when fellow midfielde...
19 Feb 2015 10:16 -
Manor on track to confirm end of administration
Manor's administrators are expected to issue a statement on Thursday confirming that the former Marussia team is back on the road to the 2015 grid. It was announced recently tha...
19 Feb 2015 10:01 -
F3: Motopark signs Pommer and Raghunathan
FIA Formula 3 European Championship newcomers Team Motopark have announced the signing of another two drivers: Markus Pommer and Mahaveer Raghunathan. The 24-year old German won...
19 Feb 2015 08:39
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