Rob founded GPToday together with Danny. He started as an intern at the end of 2004, after which he became the first journalist to be hired and wrote articles and various interesting columns for many years. He was regularly the daily hub of the news, but also provided live coverage of the test sessions.
Red Bull has "control" of Carlos Sainz's F1 future, according to rival Mercedes' chief Toto Wolff. When Mercedes was on the market to replace Nico Rosberg, rum...
Sporting boss Otmar Szafnauer has defended Force India, after the team was pulled up for not complying with new rules in Barcelona. To help the fans in the grandstands and the T...
Red Bull is planning to make the next big step with its chassis at its own Austrian grand prix in July. The former champions closed the gap to Mercedes and Ferrari with a signif...
Kimi Raikkonen has become a father for the second time -- and Nico Rosberg appears to be hot on his heels. MTV, the Finnish broadcaster, said Ferrari driver Raikkonen's part...
Lewis Hamilton says Fernando Alonso's forthcoming deliberations and negotiations about 2018 will be like "a game of chess". The Spanish grand prix winner was asked...
Lewis Hamilton says he trains "just as much" as his F1 rivals. The triple world champion's comments come after Barcelona, where although Hamilton won he was also h...
Tyre supplier Pirelli has announced the choices made by the teams and drivers for the sets of tires for the Monaco Grand Prix. The Italian tyre manufacturer makes three compoun...
Daimler chairman Dieter Zetsche says Mercedes' close title fight with Ferrari this year is good for formula one. With a quarter of the 2017 season now in the past, Lewis Ham...
Valtteri Bottas' hopes of hanging onto his plum seat at Mercedes appear to have taken a step forward. The Finn, who was given only a one-year deal for 2017 after replacing t...
Toto Wolff is not ruling out making a bid to sign Fernando Alonso for 2018. The Spaniard is on the market, potentially out of patience with McLaren-Honda and keen to finally pus...
Team owner Dietrich Mateschitz says Red Bull is having to be "patient" as it tries to catch up with F1's top two teams. The former champions made a step with its B...
Felipe Massa his warned teammate Lance Stroll that the rookie's toughest F1 challenge is now looming. 18-year-old Stroll has struggled in the sister Williams so far this yea...
Fernando Alonso saw the chequered flag and almost immediately jumped on a private jet after his home Spanish grand prix late on Sunday. F1 fans will not see the Spaniard at Mona...
Former F1 driver Jos Verstappen could be set to take on a role with Red Bull. The Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf reports that Red Bull star Max Verstappen's 45-year-old father...
Sauber has left crisis-ridden McLaren-Honda as the only F1 team yet to score a single point so far in 2017. Recently injured and also the subject of criticism, Pascal Wehrlein d...
Mercedes has dominated the second free practice for the Spanish Grand Prix as well. Lewis Hamilton is back to great form, as he claimed top spot with a 1:20.802. Team mate Valtt...
Mercedes has revealed the most striking car upgrade among its top team rivals in Barcelona. Before the Spanish grand prix weekend, all the talk was of Red Bull and its plans for...
A former Ferrari spokesman has confirmed his return to formula one. Earlier, we reported that Luca Colajanni, a prominent member of the famous Italian team in the Todt-Schumache...
Valtteri Bottas insists he is not letting his mind jump ahead amid his aim of winning the 2017 world championship. After three races in 2017, some were saying the Finn was teamm...
Monisha Kaltenborn says she is confident Sauber will be more competitive next year with Honda power. Currently, the Swiss team is struggling with year-old Ferrari power units, b...
A former Ferrari spokesman is returning to formula one. In the Italian team's famous Todt-Schumacher era, Italian Luca Colajanni was the communications chief. Ferrari insi...
Toto Wolff says there could be a place in formula one for F1 legend Gerhard Berger's nephew. Days ago, as Lucas Auer got off to a good start in the German touring car series...
Fernando Alonso is not ruling out staying at McLaren beyond the end of his 2017 contract. Many people see the works Honda-powered team's ongoing crisis, and Alonso's dec...
Nico Rosberg says he is open to becoming friends once again with Lewis Hamilton. The pair have admitted they were once childhood "best friends", but when paired at Mer...
McLaren Commercial is delighted to announce that Hilton has extended its Corporate Partnership with the McLaren-Honda team until the end of 2021. The news follows the recent ex...
The Circuit de Barcelona Catalunya hosts the Grand Prix of Spain this weekend. As a preview a video of a lap onboard with Fernando Alonso around that track. ...
Haas F1 Team has signed Indian racer Arjun Maini as a development driver alongside 18-year-old American Santino Ferrucci. The 19-year-old Maini is competing in the GP3 Series f...
Lance Stroll says he is still getting up to speed in formula one. The 18-year-old rookie, derided by some as a 'pay driver', has not only made mistakes but been off the ...
Toto Wolff says Mercedes is reluctant to issue any "brutal" team orders this year. Before he won in Russia, closing the points gap to his teammate Lewis Hamilton to ju...
Red Bull insists there is no risk it could lose Max Verstappen to a rival team like Ferrari before his contract runs out. Former F1 driver Martin Brundle this week said he can s...
Timo Glock has admitted that hinting he is set to return to formula one was a "joke". The German contested almost 100 grands prix for Jordan, Toyota and Marussia, but ...
Gerhard Berger says he believes his F1 contemporary Michael Schumacher will one day recover from his brain injuries. Little is known about the seven time world champion's cu...
Nico Hulkenberg has hailed the fight at the top of formula one this year. The German is impressing after switching to the renewed and improving French works team Renault for 201...
McLaren's performance crisis is risking the entire future of the great British marque. That is the concern of former F1 driver Mark Webber, who thinks the only figure who ca...
Hockenheim boss Georg Seiler admits the future of the German grand prix is not secure beyond next year. Amid the Nurburgring's troubles, the country is not on the calendar t...
Liberty Media decided to buy F1 because it saw potential amid the sport's "crisis". That is the claim of Chase Carey, who has replaced long-time F1 supremo Bernie ...
Team boss Christian Horner says Red Bull still has a chance of catching title contenders Ferrari and Mercedes in 2017. Although the energy drink owned team will introduce a '...
Niki Lauda says Mercedes has work to do to catch up with Ferrari. Although Valtteri Bottas won in Russia, Lewis Hamilton struggled and the Brackley based team thinks it is becau...
"Things are different" now that Bernie Ecclestone is no longer in charge of formula one. That is the claim of Vicenc Aguilera, the president of the long-time Spanish g...
Jenson Button may not be taking his one-off return to F1 this month "seriously enough". That is the view of the Briton's contemporary Mark Webber, referring to the...
Fernando Alonso has defended his kart circuit in his native Asturias, following the death of an 11-year-old boy. Youngster Gonzalo Basurto was killed recently in a rollover cras...
Sebastian Vettel may already have a "pre-agreement" to switch to Mercedes for 2018. That is the claim of well-known F1 media insider Leo Turrini, who is notoriously cl...
American Santino Ferrucci will continue as a Haas F1 Team development driver in 2017 while simultaneously competing in his second fulltime season in the GP3 Series for DAMS. Fe...
Carlos Sainz insists he is "happy" at Toro Rosso. Actually, the Spaniard has been linked with moves to bigger teams like Renault, but is bound to his Red Bull contract...
Giancarlo Minardi has hit back at claims the new F1 regulations have made the races boring. Last time out in Russia, there was only a single overtaking move all race, with the f...
F1 legend Gerhard Berger thinks his nephew could be the next Austrian on the formula one grid. Berger, the former BMW and Toro Rosso chief and a 10-time race winner, has just st...
Sebastian Vettel's brother is taking his first steps in the world of professional motor racing. The 2017 championship leader's 18-year-old brother Fabian has made his de...
Bernie Ecclestone could be involved with a reported move to buy Force India. That is the claim of one of the most experienced veteran journalists in the F1 paddock, Roger Benoit...
Mick Schumacher insists he is in no rush to become the next teenager in F1. As teens, Max Verstappen and Lance Stroll both powered straight out of European F3 onto the formula o...
Former F1 driver Martin Brundle has urged Max Verstappen to keep his "disappointment" in check this year. Brundle, a former McLaren driver who is now a veteran comment...
Sergio Marchionne says he is happy Ferrari is now "feared" once again by its top F1 competitor. After a decade-long title drought, Sebastian Vettel is leading the worl...
Bob Fernley says team boss Vijay Mallya's legal troubles will not affect Force India. As deputy boss, Fernley has been left in charge of the race team while former Indian bi...
Indycar boss Mark Miles thinks Fernando Alonso's Indy 500 foray is good not only for the American series, but also formula one. This week, F1 chief Chase Carey said of the M...
Jacques Villeneuve says he is surprised by Ferrari's form so far this year. After three years of utter Mercedes dominance, Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel is leading the worl...
Mercedes chiefs are sure Valtteri Bottas' breakthrough win will not upset the balance in its driver lineup. Until now, the team has been revelling in peace-time, after Nico ...
Carlos Sainz has lamented the fact that F1's top teams are "light years" ahead of the opposition. From a personal point of view, the young Spaniard said he is happ...
Bernie Ecclestone has hit back at the claim that he presided over an era of saying "no". After decades in charge of formula one, the 86-year-old was ousted by Liberty ...
Former Ferrari boss Cesare Fiorio is reportedly in a "critical" condition after a cycling crash. Italian sources including La Gazzetta dello Sport and Autosprint say t...
Romain Grosjean has become a boss of the Grand Prix Drivers' Association. The Swiss-born Frenchman, who drives for Haas, replaces the retired former GPDA director Jenson But...
Chase Carey has admitted he would prefer if Fernando Alonso was preparing for next month's Monaco grand prix. Actually, the Spaniard is sitting out F1's 'jewel in th...
F1 supremo Chase Carey says he is undecided about expanding the calendar to as many as 25 races. Currently, the annual schedule is at 20 grands prix, and set to expand to a burs...
Plans are afoot for a demonstration of F1 cars in London ahead of this year's British grand prix. It is over a decade since the last such event took place in the capital, bu...
Mercedes needs to make "two steps forward" to catch up with Ferrari next time out in Barcelona. That is the claim of F1 legend Niki Lauda, who doubles as Mercedes'...
Monaco has denied it pays no fee to host the fabled street race in the Principality. The race is commonly called F1's 'jewel in the crown', amid rumours its history ...
The return door to India seems to have closed for formula one. Three Indian grands prix were held near Delhi until 2013, when bureaucratic hurdles ended the deal. And now, thos...
Championship leader Sebastian Vettel has tipped his old team Red Bull to return to the top in formula one. Currently, the 2017 title looks to be a fight between Ferrari - for wh...
F1's new owners are considering switching coverage of the sport within Germany to a pay-only platform. The free-to-air deal enjoyed by the broadcaster RTL runs out this year...
Renault intends to "surprise" the F1 hierarchy in 2018. That is the claim of team boss Cyril Abiteboul, as the French works team already pushes to establish itself at ...
Pascal Wehrlein has revealed that he was sad to learn of the collapse of his former team Manor Racing just before the 2017 season began, having completed an impressive...
Toro Rosso and its Team Principal Franz Tost are preparing for a tough and fiercely competitive duel among the midfield teams in 2017, even though the Italian squad had ini...
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