Jean Alesi would like to see the pressure eased on the shoulders of France's new F1 hope. Until Sunday, Alesi was the last French driver to have stood on a formula one podium, a...
The calamitous Bahrain grand prix saga has not jeopardised the island Kingdom's future on the F1 calendar. That is the strident claim of Bernie Ecclestone, after the F1 chief ex...
Lewis Hamilton is rethinking McLaren's scheduled approach to the rare and crucial in-season test at Mugello next week. The British team announced last week that both Hamilton an...
Bernie Ecclestone has confirmed that Barcelona and Valencia will, from next year, alternate a single annual Spanish grand prix race date. Currently, the two venues have their ow...
With Red Bull the latest to hold a trophy aloft this year, yet another potential 2012 champion has emerged. In theory, back to back world champion Sebastian Vettel, the Bahrain ...
Amid Ferrari's performance crisis with the struggling F2012 car, the Italian team has emerged from the opening 'flyaway' races with a solid head of steam. He might be just fifth...
Max Snegirev has confirmed he will contest the remainder of the 2012 FIA Formula Two Championship, beginning with rounds three and four in Portugal next weekend. The 24-year-...
Felipe Massa's future in formula one is at stake in 2012, Ferrari team boss Stefano Domenicali has admitted. He said the struggling Brazilian driver, already fighting to keep hi...
Lotus did not consider employing team orders in order to boost Kimi Raikkonen's chances of winning the Bahrain grand prix. The 2007 world champion ultimately finished second and...
Bernie Ecclestone on Sunday confirmed reports France is definitely heading back to the F1 calendar. Reports earlier this weekend said authorities had "finally agreed" a figure f...
Pirelli went on the defensive on Sunday, following criticism in the wake of the Bahrain grand prix. British commentator Martin Brundle said the Italian marque's heavily-degradin...
Red Bulls Sebastian Vettel leapt back into the limelight - and the lead of the world championship - with victory in Sunday's 2012 Formula 1 Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix. The wo...
Nico Rosberg escaped unscathed but the bird was not so lucky, after a 200kph collision in Bahrain during Friday practice. Bild newspaper reports that the Shanghai winner, and...
Internet hackers have threatened to wreak havoc as they sided against formula one over the sport's decision to push ahead with the highly controversial Bahrain Grand Prix. Th...
Bahrain's Crown Prince on Friday ruled out cancelling the troubled island kingdom's Grand Prix. "I think cancelling just empowers extremists," he told reporters, whilst standing...
Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg carried on where he had left off, following his pole position and debut victory in China last week, by setting the fastest time of the day during fr...
Kimi Raikkonen: "The soft tyres felt better today but we have to work out which tyre will work best over a stint duration. It's too early to draw any conclusion and we have to l...
Daniel Ricciardo: "Importantly, we made progress through the day, after the first session did not go too well. We couldn't get the tyres to work properly, wheel spinning on the ...
Davide Valsecchi was once again untouchable during today's qualifying session at the Bahrain International Circuit: he put his DAMS car at the top of the timesheets early on and...
Heikki Kovalainen: "A good day for us in terms of the mileage we've covered and the amount of data we've collated. This morning the track wasn't as dusty as we'd feared, so the ...
The Bahrain International Circuit (5.412 km) hosted the first day of practice sessions today at the fourth event of the season and HRT Formula 1 Team proved its progression once...
Nico Rosberg: "That was a good start to the weekend, and whilst it's nice to be quickest today, we know that doesn't count. The most important thing still is to improve our race...
Sahara Force India completed a busy morning practice session in Bahrain with Paul Di Resta and Nico Hulkenberg each completing 26 laps respectively. Both drivers used the soft a...
Nico Rosberg has set the best time on the first day of the Bahrain Grand Prix. The Mercedes driver, who one his first Grand Prix in China, was the only one in the 1:32's. Red Bu...
Rubens Barrichello has revealed he feels partly responsible for Williams' surge in form so far in 2012. For the veteran Brazilian's final season in F1 last year, the famous Brit...
Davide Valsecchi showed he will be the man to beat for pole position today. The Italian set the best laptime in this mornings thirty minutes free practice session in Bahrain, ...
Force India might skip Friday's second practice session in Bahrain. Two of the Silverstone based team's staff members returned to the UK earlier this week after a Molotov cockta...
Fernando Alonso has admitted Ferrari currently has the "sixth or seventh" best formula one car. The Spaniard took issue with a pre-season analysis in the specialist press that p...
Lewis Hamilton has set the best time in the first free practice for the Bahrain Grand Prix. The McLaren driver realised a 1:33.572 and was three tenths faster than Sebastian Vet...
Monaco has made changes to its famous street circuit in the wake of Sergio Perez's high-speed crash last year. Ahead of his debut Monaco race, Mexican Perez lost control of h...
Force India deputy boss Bob Fernley has dismissed reports the Silverstone based team could pull out of the controversial Bahrain grand prix. Two members of the team were allowed...
Caterham F1 Team, are the latest team from the FIA Formula One World Championship to be confirmed for Bavaria City Racing Dublin which takes place in the heart of the capital on...
Mercedes GP could be set to lose a major shareholder. Citing informed sources, the German 'Manager Magazin' reports that the Abu Dhabi investment vehicle Aabar is in talks to en...
Ferrari has bolstered its aerodynamic team by hiring a former Red Bull team member. Italy's Omnicorse, and Marca in Spain, are reporting that Briton Ben Agathangelou has been si...
Bernie Ecclestone has revealed he does not support moves to install a budget cap in F1. "It wouldn't work," the sport's chief executive Bernie Ecclestone told Germany's Auto Mot...
A member of the Force India team is returning to Europe following a firebomb attack in Bahrain. The BBC reports that an incident occurred near a Force India hire car as members ...
Team principal Vijay Mallya: "The Chinese Grand Prix was certainly an entertaining race and it showed once again that we have one of the most competitive grids in the history of...
A support-race team and a respected journalist have become the next to pull out of this weekend's highly controversial Bahrain grand prix. The Porsche Supercup team MRS said its...
Organisers of the New York street race have hit back at Bernie Ecclestone's claim the inaugural 2013 date might be delayed a year. The F1 chief executive had announced a race on...
Bernie Ecclestone has confirmed he is still at loggerheads with Mercedes over the new Concorde Agreement. The German carmaker's team is the big missing name, after F1 chief exec...
Sauber's 'teaser' has done the trick, triggering paddock speculation about its forthcoming major backer. Last weekend in China, off the back of Sergio Perez's recent push for vi...
Bernie Ecclestone's latest proposal is that F1's most important races become a tennis-like 'Grand Slam'. Insisting that the calendar will probably not expand much beyond 20 race...
After a frustrating outing in Shanghai, Scuderia Toro Rosso's Daniel Ricciardo looks for a silver lining to take away from China. Ricciardo: "Well, we're in Bahrain. We left ...
Apparent troubles for New York's inaugural grand prix could be good news for Texas, according to reports in the United States. Bernie Ecclestone said on Tuesday that the race sc...
Michael Schumacher: "Having experienced a race such as China gives everybody in the team a big push, and we certainly will give our optimum to repeat our performance in the next...
Mark Gillan, Chief Operations Engineer: "Having held the race on the longer endurance course layout in 2010, the 2012 race has now reverted back to the 5.412km long, 57 lap Gran...
Mark Webber: "We haven't been to the circuit for two years and the last time we raced on the current track layout was in 2009. We also havent been there with Pirelli tyres or ...
Mercedes will decide later this season if Michael Schumacher's contract will be extended beyond 2012. The current three year deal, which began when the seven time world champion...
This weekend's Bahrain Grand Prix, coming just a week after the last race in China, marks the end of the first phase of long haul races of the 2012 season. Here in Sakhir, with ...
Dr Helmut Marko has aimed fire at F1's new rules for 2012, claiming they were devised "deliberately" to end the era of Red Bull dominance. "We no longer have the superiority ...
Ferrari does not have a leading car so far in 2012, but when it comes to pitstops, the famous Italian team is setting the pace. That is the finding of the Spanish sports daily M...
Two F1 journalists tried their hands at war reporting after touching down in Bahrain ahead of this weekend's controversial grand prix. "I had a duty as an experienced journalist...
Mercedes' rivals must now count the German team as a serious contender, Nico Rosberg has said after winning his first grand prix in China last weekend. Shanghai was also the sce...
If tradition was worth a few tenths in performance terms, then the Bahrain Grand Prix could be the scene for a step up in the quality of what the F2012 can deliver. There have b...
Statistically, the Chinese grand prix raced straight into the history books as one of the most exciting formula one events of all time. "For me, we are having some of the best r...
Bahrain will be one of just three circuits that Pirelli is yet to visit in competition this year, but unlike Hockenheim in Germany and the United States Grand Prix, the Italian ...
Romain Grosjean insists he is not feeling "relieved" after the Chinese grand prix. The Frenchman, who returned to F1 this year after an abortive start to his career in 2009, sho...
Ferrari is looking ahead to Barcelona next month, as the famous Italian team plans to begin putting a difficult start to the 2012 season behind it. Test driver Marc Gene, who is...
After a weekend which came agonisingly close to producing a real result for Kimi in China, the Finn puts the past behind him and looks ahead to his next opportunity for glory at...
Lewis Hamilton has hinted again that he sees his future with McLaren. Just prior to the new season, the 2008 world champion indicated he would like to renew his deal with the Wo...
Rising British female racer Alice Powell has signed to join Status Grand Prix for her graduation to the GP3 Series in 2012. The 19-year-old is moving up to the Formula One suppo...
Toto Wolff is not Williams' new team boss. With co-founder Patrick Head and chairman Adam Parr both now gone and Sir Frank Williams stepping down from his own board, it is notab...
Jean Todt has broken his long and conspicuous silence over the Bahrain controversy. Until now, the ultra-low-profile FIA president had been reluctant to speak on the issue, desp...
Despite winning in Malaysia last month, Fernando Alonso is expecting a miserable weekend in Bahrain. On the back of his surprise Sepang victory, the Spaniard qualified and finis...
Heikki Kovalainen: "Bahrain is another one of the typical modern circuits. It doesn't have any really challenging corners and you can push hard for most of the lap, particularly...
Norbert Haug said he is proud Mercedes has reached the top of formula one in a short space of time and with a small budget. The German carmaker's works team is often lumped toge...
Its back-to-back races for the second consecutive time this season with the Championship stopping off in Bahrain. This will be the last event held far away from home before th...
Jaime Alguersuari has admitted he is not sure if he will be able to return to formula one in 2013. After his ousting at Toro Rosso, the young Spaniard is keeping up appearances ...
An Italian journalist has admitted he is more than unimpressed with Felipe Massa's apparent progress in China. Already before the Chinese grand prix, La Stampa correspondent Ste...
After the FIA confirmed that the Formula One Grand Prix of Bahrain will take place as planned next weekend, 20th to 22nd April, the Sauber F1 Team is busy getting its freight pa...
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