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.
Bernie Ecclestone thinks Lewis Hamilton is still the clear favourite to win the 2017 world championship. That is despite the fact that his friend and regular former backgammon p...
Pirelli is not keen on a proposal to fully liberalise the way teams use tyres in formula one. Currently, there are tight restrictions on how teams can select and race the compou...
Robert Kubica is no longer ruling out that he could return to formula one some day. The Pole's promising F1 career ended suddenly in early 2011, when he partially severed hi...
F1 could be set to scrap a scheduled tweak to the engine regulations for 2018. Currently, while drivers are limited to four engines for the entire season in 2017, that 'long...
F1 legend Gerhard Berger hopes Fernando Alonso's decision to do the Indy 500 next month is the start of a new trend. "It's like the old days," said the former ...
Honda could finally be set to add a customer team to its beleaguered F1 engine supply programme. Since the struggling Japanese carmaker re-entered the sport in 2015, there have ...
The German grand prix could move away from its traditional venues at Hockenheim and the Nurburgring in the future. That is the claim of new F1 supremo Chase Carey, who told the ...
Valtteri Bottas needs to win races to secure his place at Mercedes. That is the view of former driver and now regular F1 steward Mika Salo, who spoke to Russia's Sport FM ab...
Former F1 driver JJ Lehto has tipped his Finnish countryman Kimi Raikkonen to bounce back in 2017. With Ferrari's title hopes high this year, team chiefs issued a warning ab...
Sebastian Vettel thinks Ferrari will continue to impress next weekend in Russia. One analysis early in 2017 might be that while the German is now leading the world championship,...
Jacques Villeneuve has hit out at drivers critical of Fernando Alonso's decision to tackle the Indy 500 next month. Some of Alonso's rivals - notably Romain Grosjean and...
Ferrari has set off "alarm bells" at triple back-to-back world champions Mercedes. That is the admission of Niki Lauda, the F1 legend and Mercedes team chairman and co...
Eric Boullier insists F1 rookie Stoffel Vandoorne is "not under pressure" amid McLaren-Honda's current performance crisis. One analysis of the situation might be t...
Mercedes' two drivers have admitted the team is struggling with tyre problems in 2017. After three races, Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel is leading the world championship, l...
Mercedes driver Valtteri Bottas has set the fastest time during the in-season test at Bahrain International Circuit. The Fin posted a 1:31.280 and was faster than team mate Lewi...
Christian Horner says Red Bull does not intend to release Carlos Sainz from his contract. Last year, the impressive Toro Rosso driver was linked with a move to Renault, but Red ...
Former Renault boss Frederic Vasseur says the French works team is performing well in 2017. On paper, the black and yellow-coloured team appears to be struggling in its second y...
The secret ingredient at Ferrari this year is "hunger". That is the claim of Jean Alesi, a popular former Ferrari driver of the 90s. After three years of utter Mercede...
Lance Stroll says he is not getting down about the difficult start to his F1 career. The Canadian teen, already under pressure after a mistake-strewn winter and claims he is a &...
Fernando Alonso's career has taken a "strange" turn because of "mistakes" in his decision-making processes. That is the summary of Christian Horner, boss...
Felipe Massa has called a close to the latest controversy surrounding Max Verstappen. In Bahrain, the Dutch teenager hit out at Brazil as a nation following a qualifying run-in ...
Ferrari and Sebastian Vettel have had a slow morning on the second day of testing this week in Bahrein. The winners of the Bahrain Grand Prix last Sunday have completed just nin...
Force India boss Vijay Mallya was arrested in London on Tuesday. The news follows the Indian government's attempts to have the former billionaire extradited on corruption an...
Ferrari's hopes of keeping Sebastian Vettel on board beyond 2017 have taken a giant leap forward. That is the view of F1 legend Gerhard Berger, who before the start of the s...
Felipe Massa says he cannot understand why Jenson Button is not testing for McLaren before contesting next month's Monaco grand prix. Some have argued that a driver of the B...
Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton has set the fastest time on the opening day of the in-season test at Bahrain International Circuit this week. He posted a 1:31.358, which opened u...
Mercedes reluctantly used team orders in Bahrain because "the situation is different now". That is the explanation of team boss Toto Wolff, speaking after Valtteri Bot...
Ferrari has denied claims its 2017 car is more suited to the driving style of Sebastian Vettel. With his contract expiring, Finnish veteran Kimi Raikkonen has struggled at the w...
Renault is a standout midfield performer so far in 2017. That is the view of Bob Fernley, the deputy boss at Force India. Last year, Force India was the fourth force in F1, and ...
Chase Carey has hit back at his predecessor Bernie Ecclestone following comments made in Bahrain last weekend. While attending his first race since being ousted as F1 supremo, E...
Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton has set the best time on the morning of the first day of the in-season test in Bahrain this week. He also caused a red flag by stopping at Turn 10...
Mansour Ojjeh says McLaren and Honda are working feverishly to get out of a "crisis", because either side "cannot continue like this". Ojjeh is a major, long...
Bahrain International Circuit hosts the Grand Prix of Bahrain this weekend. As a preview a video of a lap onboard with Lewis Hamilton around that track. ...
Allowing 'active suspension' could be a neat way to spice up the overtaking spectacle in F1. That is the view of Ross Brawn, who is F1's new sporting boss in the new...
F1's sporting director Ross Brawn wants to make team's data no longer such a secret in a bid to spice up the show for the fans. Brawn, who took up his role at the s...
Honda is working hard to have a new specification of its struggling 2017 engine ready to test after Bahrain. After the China-Bahrain double header, teams will remain on the isla...
With Liberty Media now in charge of F1, organisers of the Chinese grand prix say hopes are high the Shanghai race will stay on the calendar. Actually, China's latest multipl...
Ferrari has openly criticised Kimi Raikkonen after Sunday's Chinese grand prix. The Italian marque was not alone. The influential sports daily La Gazzetta dello Sport said a...
Sergio Perez said he feels for fellow F1 driver Pascal Wehrlein. German Wehrlein, who switched from Manor to Sauber for 2017, suffered a back injury in the winter and had to sit...
Daniel Ricciardo thinks Mercedes continues to have the quickest car in F1. That is despite the fact that Sebastian Vettel carried Ferrari's winter promise into the 2017 seas...
Ousted F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone says he rejected plans to add a Vietnamese grand prix to the race calendar. The 86-year-old, recently stepped down as the sport's chief e...
Toto Wolff has calmed fears that Mercedes has finally been overtaken as F1's top team. In Australia, Mercedes was beaten by Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel, who carried over ...
F1 legend Alain Prost says more tyre freedom will spice up the sport's battles. With the new regulations making the cars faster and harder to drive in 2017, some still worry...
Sergio Perez has admitted Force India's 2017 car is currently among the very slowest on the grid. With its small budget, the lean and mean Silverstone based team finished an...
Shanghai International Circuit hosts the Grand Prix of China this weekend. As a preview a video of a lap onboard with reigning world champion Nico Rosberg around that track. ...
Valtteri Bottas says that while he would obey team orders, he does not see himself as the 'number 2' driver at Mercedes. The Finn had a solid start to his new role as Le...
Two Ferrari-linked figures are concerned the Italian team could face a tougher test for victory this weekend in China. After a year without victory, Sebastian Vettel put Ferrari...
Toto Wolff has admitted he could miss the birth of his child in the coming days. Back at their home in Switzerland, Wolff's wife and former Williams test driver Susie Wolff ...
The signs are growing by the day that Fernando Alonso intends to stay in F1 beyond 2017. Earlier, before the much faster regulations for this year made their debut, the Spaniard...
Gerhard Berger says it is too soon to declare Ferrari the favourite for the 2017 world championship. The Austrian legend spent two stints during his career driving for the great...
Audi has ruled out racing in formula one, at least in the short term. Rumours Audi might be contemplating a foray were re-fired last week, when the Volkswagen brand was represen...
Kimi Raikkonen has indicated he wants to stay in formula one beyond 2017. The 2007 world champion, now 37, has been a solid if not standout performer during his second stint at ...
The next details about F1's potential new engine formula for 2021 are now emerging. Following a meeting with current and potential engine suppliers, FIA president Jean Todt ...
Williams Grand Prix Holdings PLC (WGPH, Ticker: WGF1) today announced the Group’s financial results for the year ended 31 December 2016. WGPH is the holding company of the...
Owner Gene Haas says he is happy the American team is in among the action in a closely-fought midfield in 2017. Winter rumours suggested Haas could actually be fighting backmark...
Robert Kubica says a return to F1 is now "more likely" than at any time since his serious rally crash in early 2011. The Pole, now 32, was in the midst of a promising ...
Pascal Wehrlein could miss the entire China-Bahrain double header in the next two weeks, as a bizarre story about his physical fitness continues to unfold. The Mercedes-backed G...
Hopes are high that Shanghai will host a more spectacular grand prix this weekend. F1's new era - characterised by faster cars and better tyres - kicked off in Australia las...
McLaren believes that the upcoming Chinese Grand Prix will show the weaknesses of its MCL32 much more effectively than the opening race of the year in Australia. Having endured...
Valtteri Bottas has explained why he was dissatisfied with his Mercedes debut in Australia, saying that it was because he always expects to achieve the high targets that he sets...
Red Bull's Dr Helmut Marko has said that he hopes the team's RB13 car will be a winner by the time of its home Grand Prix in Austria in early July. Its rivals Mercedes ...
Stoffel Vandoorne insists he is staying upbeat, even though he is making his full-time F1 debut in arguably the slowest car overall in 2017. "We are last, that is the reali...
Pascal Wehrlein will return to the cockpit of his Sauber this Friday in Shanghai. That is the claim of the Italian media, after the German apparently voluntarily withdrew from t...
Spectator interest in F1 is picking up as the sport begins its new era. That is the view of Dr Helmut Marko, a top motor racing official for Red Bull, the owner of two F1 teams ...
Rubens Barrichello's son is now beginning his own single seater adventure. Already, the son of Barrichello's former Ferrari teammate Michael Schumacher - 18-year-old Mic...
Max Verstappen has backed F1's move to simpler engine technology for 2021 and beyond. Last Friday, the manufacturers already on the grid met with the FIA in Paris to discuss...
James Allison has hailed Ferrari's return to winning form but vowed to hit back at his former employer. The highly respected engineer ended his stint as Ferrari's techni...
Felipe Massa has tipped his rookie teammate Lance Stroll to bounce back after a tough start to the teenager's F1 career. Having secured his Williams debut amid suggestions o...
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