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.
ART Grand Prix has announced the re-signing of Nirei Fukuzumi for its 2017 GP3 campaign. The Japanese driver returns for his second season in the series, and will look to build ...
F1 car designer Gian Paolo Dallara has hit at out the sport's 2017 rules revolution. The 80-year-old, whose company is involved in collaboration with the Ferrari-linked Amer...
Valtteri Bottas is targeting the world championship for 2017. With Finn Bottas switching from Williams, Lewis Hamilton's father warned just days ago that the triple world ch...
ART Grand Prix has announced their pleasure in re-signing Nobuharu Matsushita for their 2017 campaign. The Japanese driver returns for his third season in GP2, all of which have...
Force India chief Vijay Mallya has a new battle on his hands ahead of the 2017 season. Reportedly now a former billionaire, the Indian businessman was unable to attend grands pr...
Toto Wolff says he is confident Lewis Hamilton will get along with his new Mercedes teammate in 2017. This week, triple world champion Hamilton's father Anthony said his son...
Michael Schumacher's former manager is not so sure the takeover by Liberty Media will really be good for F1. So far, since the US media group took over from controversial fo...
Fernando Alonso is back in the kind of physical shape that won him back-to-back world championships more than a decade ago. That is the claim of the Spanish sports daily AS, quo...
An argument over clever and controversial suspension systems looks set to keep raging early in 2017. Earlier, Ferrari called into question the legality of setups being run by Me...
Flavio Briatore says he is not about to rejoin his old F1 colleague Ross Brawn by returning to the sport. Briatore, a famous former team boss, worked with new F1 managing direct...
Promoter Arif Rahimov is sure Azerbaijan's second F1 race this year will be more exciting than its 2016 calendar debut. The streets of Baku had been billed as one of the spo...
F1 could be heading into a new 'Senna versus Prost' era. That is the view of a well known F1 pundit, as two youngsters from the Benelux region prepare to go head-to-head...
Sauber boss Monisha Kaltenborn has denied claims the Swiss team has signed up a "junior" for 2017. In the media, Pascal Wehrlein is often referred to as a junior due t...
France's return to the F1 calendar is definitely on for 2018. In December, it emerged that after a decade's absence, France will be back on the 2018 schedule with a race...
World champion Nico Rosberg has welcomed news Robert Kubica could be looking to get back into F1. The Pole had to leave the category after almost severing his wrist in a 2011 ra...
Max Mosley thinks F1's new owners have made a mistake by dumping Bernie Ecclestone. Although given the honorary title 'chairman emeritus', 86-year-old Briton Ecclest...
McLaren has now confirmed the departure of Jost Capito. Just four months after he started work, it emerged before Christmas that the 58-year-old German - who had left VW to be M...
Nyck de Vries remains with the McLaren team, a spokesman for the British outfit told us on Tuesday. Earlier, the Dutch broadcaster RTL GP cited 'sources' as it reported ...
Scuderia Toro Rosso is the latest F1 that has revealed its launch plans. The Italian outfit will launch its new STR12 on February 26. That's one day before winter testing wi...
Sahara Force India is pleased to welcome eyewear specialists, Foresight & Vision, as a partner for the 2017 season. The partnership will introduce eyewear brands, Eye Respec...
Volkswagen is no longer ruling out a future F1 foray. Earlier, it was suggested that amid the diesel emissions scandal, and VW's rumoured disdain for Bernie Ecclestone's...
Only his lack of experience meant Pascal Wehrlein was overlooked for the top Mercedes cockpit in 2017. That is the claim of team chairman Niki Lauda, amid criticism that the fac...
Finland might soon be in a position to host a round of the F1 world championship. The small northern European country has had plenty of drivers in F1, but never a round of the m...
F1 must liberate the drivers if it wants to improve the on-track spectacle. That is the view of former driver Alex Zanardi, who said restrictive rules and over-zealous stewards ...
Bernie Ecclestone may be gone as chief executive, but he may not be gone for good according to Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff. Long-time 'F1 supremo' Ecclestone, 86, rece...
Sebastian Vettel's 2015 switch from Red Bull to Ferrari was a mistake. That is the view of F1 legend Gerhard Berger, referring to the fact that the quadruple world champion&...
F1 does not look set to switch to a two-day race weekend format any time soon. The news comes after Renault boss Cyril Abiteboul said that as Liberty Media takes over the sport,...
Sergey Sirotkin will stay with the Renault team in 2017 despite the change in upper management. That is the news from the mouth of Boris Rothenberg, a leading Russian banker who...
Jean Todt has denied that formula one needs to make radical changes in the new Liberty Media era. The headline news of Liberty having completed its takeover of the sport is that...
Luca di Montezemolo says it is no surprise that Mercedes is utterly dominating F1's current 'power unit' era. The former Ferrari president said that while the 1.6 li...
Carlos Sainz has played down hopes he might record his first F1 podium this year. The young Spaniard was so impressive in 2016 - his second season with Toro Rosso - that he was ...
F1's small American team Haas appears to be enjoying a smooth winter period. Although the second season for new F1 teams is notoriously difficult, Renault refugee Kevin Magn...
F1 should shake up its weekend format by eliminating the Friday practice sessions. That is the view of Renault team boss Cyril Abiteboul, when asked by the French magazine Auto ...
World champion Nico Rosberg has denied he could keep his adrenaline flowing by moving into the all-electric series Formula E next year. Mercedes, with whom the 31-year-old Germa...
Embattled F1 backmarker Manor's hopes may still be faintly alive. Actually, it appears that only 10 teams will line up on the 2017 grid, after Manor's administrator FRP ...
AVF by Adrián Vallés will complete its driver line-up in the World Series Formula V8 3.5 with the young Russian driver backed by SMP Racing, Egor Orudzhev. T...
Silverstone is sounding more hopeful about a future on the F1 calendar, in the days after Bernie Ecclestone lost his job as the sport's chief executive. Ecclestone was notor...
Valtteri Bottas' personal sponsor is happy to pay a little more in 2017, as the Finn prepares to charge for wins and the title at Mercedes. Until now, Finnish conglomerate W...
Single-seater racer Aurélien Panis will transfer his pace and potential to the FIA World Touring Car Championship in 2017 when he lines up for Zengő Motorsport. Panis, t...
Force India is arguing against Paddy Lowe being allowed to start work at Williams early in 2017. That is the claim of Germany's Auto Motor und Sport, amid widespread claims ...
FIA president Jean Todt has urged the collective motor racing world to ease the pressure on the shoulders of Mick Schumacher. Todt, the former Ferrari boss, is arguably the clos...
Williams deputy Claire Williams has admitted the British team's options were narrow as it looked to replace the Mercedes-bound Valtteri Bottas for 2017. A few days after win...
Monisha Kaltenborn says the departure of F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone could be remembered as a positive "turning point" for the sport. Kaltenborn runs the small and st...
Mexican driver Diego Menchaca will join national team mate Alfonso Celis Jr. in British racing squad Fortec Motorsports to compete in the World Series Formula V8 3.5 in 20...
The Haas F1 Team took to social media today to give fans their first glimpse of new addition Kevin Magnussen in his new race overalls for the first time. They began by teasing ...
Alain Prost says cheaper tickets should be new F1 owner Liberty Media's first priority. Asked what he would do if he had just taken over, the F1 legend told the Italian new...
The Federation Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) has announced that McLaren Applied Technologies has been chosen to be the trusted sole provider of engine pressure and te...
Carlos Sainz says F1 commentators should wait for the season to begin before declaring that overtaking is more difficult in 2017. Because cornering speeds will be higher, top sp...
Toto Wolff has indicated he is definitely heading towards a new contract with Mercedes. The Austrian heads Mercedes' entire motor sport programme, and is the team boss at th...
F1 must be prepared to call Ferrari's bluff in pursuit of a fairer income distribution system for the teams. That is the claim of former F1 driver Christian Danner, referrin...
Sebastian Vettel has welcomed news that less driver penalties will be handed out in 2017. A rule tweak means that stewards no longer have to investigate incidents identified by...
Chase Carey says the FIA is "fair" and "even-handed", amid a bubbling controversy that could spell trouble for Liberty Media's F1 buyout. Because the gov...
Toto Wolff says F1 should not give up on its 'hybrid' engine era. Mercedes has utterly dominated in the quieter, controversial 'power unit' era since 2014, with ...
A deal has been struck whereby Force India will get an advance on its official F1 prize money early in 2017. That is the news from Auto Motor und Sport, having earlier reported...
The F1 world is poised to discover 'deposed' supremo Bernie Ecclestone's next move. The sport's long-time but now former chief executive has denied reports he is...
Alain Prost has urged Ferrari to be calmer as it heads into the 2017 season. Early last year, the great Maranello team made bold predictions of race wins and the title, only to ...
On Thursday the McLaren Honda Formula One team provided fans with a hint of what the latest challenger's colours will be. The team have sported many iconic liveries over th...
Toto Wolff has admitted that Valtteri Bottas needs to prove he should keep his new seat at Mercedes beyond 2017. Unusually for a top team, Mercedes has signed only a one-year de...
BP and Renault Sport Racing have today announced a new partnership which will see the global oil company join the recently reformed Renault Sport Formula One Team in support of ...
Niki Lauda says Mercedes will not miss reigning world champion Nico Rosberg in 2017. "Not at all," said the team's famous chairman and F1 legend, when asked by Spo...
Ross Brawn has admitted that Bernie Ecclestone's departure as F1 chief might lead to promoters asking for lower annual race fees. The former F1 supremo was a notoriously har...
The Mercedes-AMG DTM driver line-up for the 2017 DTM has now been confirmed. It includes one new arrival, four familiar faces and one returnee. The newcomer to the Mercedes-AMG ...
Valtteri Bottas says he knows how to deal with the pressure of his new assignment in the cockpit of now-retired reigning world champion Nico Rosberg. The Finn said it was not to...
Stefano Domenicali is leaving a door open for a return to formula one. The Italian left the sport after being ousted as Ferrari's boss some years ago, and he is now the chie...
One of Valtteri Bottas' former rivals thinks the Finn is actually more talented than the reigning world champion he is replacing at Mercedes. In 2008, a then teenage Bottas ...
F1 teams turned down Liberty Media's offer to become co-owners of the sport. That is the news from Toto Wolff, boss of the championship winning Mercedes team. As the America...
The future of the British grand prix seemed more secure as new F1 chiefs swept into office this week. In the Bernie Ecclestone era, the future of the popular race at Silverstone...
F1's new Liberty Media era is good news for "traditional" race hosts like Germany, new sport managing director Ross Brawn says. Germany will not host a race in 201...
F1 will relocate from Bernie Ecclestone's current offices in London, new CEO Chase Carey has announced. Speaking to the media as he swept into power, replacing long-time F1 ...
Antonio Giovinazzi has vowed to be ready in the event he might make his F1 race debut in 2017. The 2016 GP2 runner-up and Italian, 23, has been appointed as Ferrari's offici...
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