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.
Jenson Button insists he is not heading into the British grand prix thinking it could be his last home race. But the F1 veteran, who is F1's longest-serving active driver, a...
Vijay Mallya says he is determined to soak up the British grand prix this weekend, having been unable to attend a single race in 2016. The former billionaire had his passport re...
Silverstone hosts the Grand Prix of Great Britain this weekend. As a preview a video of a lap onboard with Lewis Hamilton around that track. ...
Niki Lauda has hit reverse on his comments about world champion Lewis Hamilton. On Tuesday, footage of the Mercedes team chairman speaking on Austrian broadcaster Servus TV emer...
Niki Lauda thinks F1 needs to learn lessons from its recent past, balancing safety against safeguarding "the DNA" of the sport. The F1 legend and Mercedes team chairma...
The first date for Pirelli's track testing for its bigger and wider 2017 tyres has reportedly been set. Speed Week reports that the first of 24 days in total with specially-...
Felipe Massa has warned it is possible Brazil will fall out of formula one altogether at the end of 2016. Bernie Ecclestone has warned that the Interlagos race is endangered, wh...
Toto Wolff will sit with Mercedes' two drivers to decide the next steps after their Austria run-in -- whether Lewis Hamilton wants to or not. That is the claim of team chair...
Nico Rosberg says the events in Austria on Sunday will not affect his decision about the future. Although Mercedes boss Toto Wolff called Rosberg's collision with teammate L...
Kimi Raikkonen looks set to keep his place at Ferrari in 2017, according to the latest specialist reports from Italy. Although other drivers have been linked with the Finn's...
World champion Lewis Hamilton destroyed a hotel room after crashing in Baku qualifying. F1 legend and Mercedes team chairman Niki Lauda made the revelation on Austrian televisio...
Dr Helmut Marko has played down rumours next year's Austrian grand prix could be held on a new layout at the Red Bull Ring. Heading into last weekend's race at the pictu...
It is Marcus Ericsson's main backer that is rescuing and buying the embattled Sauber team. That is the claim of the respected Brazilian journalist Livio Oricchio, amid repor...
Mercedes will decide in the next two days how to proceed in the wake of the latest collision between teammates Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg. Boss Toto Wolff left Austria decl...
Rumours are linking Pascal Wehrlein with a potential move to Force India for 2017. In Austria, after the rookie German qualified his Manor in 12th place and then secured an ultr...
Max Verstappen's father says there were no celebration parties after the 18-year-old finished second in Austria. That is despite the fact that the young Dutchman's mento...
Sahara Force India is pleased to announce that its development driver, Nikita Mazepin, will drive the VJM09 at the test session following the British Grand Prix in Silverstone. ...
Austria 2016 set the scene for both good and bad news regarding the future of the struggling Sauber team. The Swiss outfit went into the Red Bull Ring event sounding confident a...
Although furious after Sunday's Austrian grand prix, Toto Wolff said events at the Red Bull Ring will not affect the contract negotiations over a new deal for Nico Rosberg. ...
Even though team owner Red Bull has taken up its option on Toro Rosso driver Carlos Sainz, rumours continue to swirl around the impressive young Spaniard. Formerly comparable to...
Ferrari and Pirelli are investigating the race-ending tyre explosion that stopped Sebastian Vettel in his tracks on Sunday. The German driver was leading the Austrian grand prix...
F1 would be in better health if there were more races like Sunday's Austrian grand prix. That is the claim of Dietrich Mateschitz, the owner not only of F1's two Red Bul...
Jenson Button has clarified his comments about young drivers in formula one. Heading into the Austrian grand prix weekend, a Brazilian outlet quoted the F1 veteran as saying you...
Ferrari will try again to debut the updated 'Halo 2' cockpit protection this weekend ahead of the British grand prix. The Maranello team intended to run the revised, tit...
The formula 1 field settles in Austria this weekend for the 9th Grand Prix of 2016. In Baku we saw Nico Rosberg beating Sebastian Vettel and the weekend surprise “Sergio P...
A short but heavy thunderstorm in Spielberg has halted the action in the second free practice for the Austrian Grand Prix at the Red Bull Ring fora bout 45 minutes. Mercedes dri...
Romain Grosjean has defended Haas' chassis-making partner Dallara, after a series of wing failures in 2016. "We have made serious efforts to stop this problem so hopefu...
Toto Wolff has flagged a new "multi-year" contract with Nico Rosberg. Mercedes team chairman Niki Lauda hinted at a new two-year contract for the championship leader l...
Mika Salo thinks his countryman Kimi Raikkonen remains the best choice for Ferrari beyond 2016. The fabled Maranello team is clearly shopping around for alternatives to the Finn...
Fernando Alonso says his young countryman Carlos Sainz should not be disappointed he is staying at Toro Rosso for a third year in 2017. Team owner Red Bull has taken up its opti...
As predicted by an F1 pundit, the FIA has quickly closed a loophole allowing teams to minimise tyre pressures. It emerged after Baku that Mercedes and Red Bull were leading the ...
Felipe Massa insists he is in control of his next move in F1, as his current Williams contract runs out. Rivals Jenson Button and Daniil Kvyat are among drivers linked with the ...
Sebastian Vettel's Austrian GP campaign has taken an early hit as he will drop five places down the grid due to a gearbox change. Reports indicate metal debris was detected ...
Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg has set a new unofficial lap record for the Red Bull Ring. In the first free practice for the Grand Prix of Austria he posted a 1:07.373. No one has...
Christian Horner says Red Bull will not accept a reduction in the income it gets from F1's Bernie Ecclestone-led organisation. F1 supremo Ecclestone has flagged changes to t...
Sauber is reportedly on the cusp of being sold. We reported earlier that amid a troubled campaign for the financially struggling Swiss team, the 300 staff at Hinwil have now bee...
Nico Hulkenberg on Thursday said rumours linking Sergio Perez to Ferrari are simply an "incentive" for his own side of the Force India garage. The Red Bull Ring paddoc...
Dr Helmut Marko says he is not currently interested in signing up Mick Schumacher to Red Bull's famous driver development programme. At the same age of 17, Red Bull fast-tra...
Nico Rosberg has singled out Williams as a potential threat as he chases a hat-trick of Austrian grand prix wins this weekend. And the championship leader is not the only one ex...
Ferrari is in a period of "change", according to John Elkann, chairman of parent carmaker Fiat Chrysler. Deep into the first half of the 2016 season, it is a tricky ti...
An F1 pundit has played down the impact of the 'Brexit' vote for formula one teams. Some alarming reports have suggested some of F1's many UK-based teams might now b...
Some better news is finally emerging from the Sauber camp, amid a troubled 2016 campaign for the struggling Swiss team. Sauber has been obviously counting its pennies so far thi...
F1 pundit Marc Surer thinks the sport's governing body will quickly close a loophole regarding tyre pressures. It has emerged that world champions Mercedes have developed eq...
Red Bull has put the lid on its F1 driver lineup for 2017, only leaving the future of Toro Rosso's Daniil Kvyat slightly ajar. It follows the latest rumours about Daniel Ric...
F1 legend Alain Prost says Renault needs more time for its works team to start shining. After the eleventh hour buyout of Lotus, the newly branded Renault works team has struggl...
The development of 'Halo' is entering its decisive phase, with an updated version to make its debut in practice this weekend in Austria. The running of the controversial...
The Red Bull Ring hosts the Grand Prix of Austria this weekend. As a preview a video of a lap onboard with Daniil Kvyat around that track. ...
Nico Rosberg has applied the brakes to teammate Lewis Hamilton's claim that the pair are once again friends. While their title-duelling relationship at Mercedes has been tro...
Hockenheim promoter Georg Seiler this week admitted Bernie Ecclestone is right that Germany might once again be absent from the F1 calendar in 2017. The good news for fans of th...
Nico Rosberg has played down reports this week that suggest he is on a fast-track to a new Mercedes contract. While promoting the forthcoming German grand prix at Hockenheim, th...
Rene Binder joins ART Grand Prix for round 4 of the GP2 season 2016 at the Red Bull Ring. The Austrian driver who already competed in GP2 between 2012 and 2015 will take over No...
Jenson Button, F1's most experienced active driver, has chastised the latest generation of new and "very erratic" grand prix stars. The 36-year-old, who by season&...
FIA president Jean Todt says he wants cockpit protection that is set to be introduced in formula one to also be applied to the junior categories. The Frenchman made a visit to ...
Red Bull is looking into expanding the current layout of the Austrian grand prix venue in Spielberg. The energy drink brand took the former A1-Ring and Osterreichring back to th...
Daniil Kvyat has finally broken his long Twitter silence, having not uttered a word on his social media account since his calamitous home race at Sochi and demotion from Red Bul...
Pat Symonds is proud of Williams, who have emerged this year as the team with clearly the fastest pitstops in formula one. With a car outpaced by Mercedes, Red Bull and Ferrari ...
An official is hoping Monza finally ends its protracted negotiations over Monza's F1 future by the Italian grand prix in September. "We are very close to closing the ag...
Valtteri Bottas says he has his F1 future in his own hands for the first time. With the 'silly season' about to shift into its high gear, the Williams driver told Finlan...
The FIA communicated to Pirelli each team's tyre choices for the forthcoming British Grand Prix. Driver Sets hard Sets medium Sets soft ...
A trick employed by Mercedes to counter Pirelli's high mandatory tyre pressures has emerged. Earlier, it was suspected that some top teams had found a clever way to reduce t...
Pirelli chairman Marco Tronchetti Provera said he is happy the Italian company is still involved in an ever more competitive formula one. The Milan-based multinational has final...
Honda's F1 boss Yusuke Hasegawa has warned that even podiums are for now a distant target for the McLaren-Honda project. McLaren supremo Ron Dennis had eyebrows raising in t...
Lewis Hamilton says the venom has gone out of his relationship with Mercedes teammate Nico Rosberg. The reigning world champion said that even though they are battling once agai...
Bernie Ecclestone on Monday said he is working on a plan to reform F1's controversial income distribution system. Force India and Sauber have complained to the European Comm...
Scuderia Toro Rosso is pleased to announce that Sérgio Sette Câmara will drive our current STR11 car at the forthcoming Formula 1 test at Silverstone Circuit, follo...
Former Red Bull driver Mark Webber is not expecting his old team to shine too brightly this weekend in Austria. Once called the A1-Ring, the 'Red Bull Ring' is now the e...
Nico Rosberg appears poised to ink a new contract and stay with Mercedes for the next two years. With his negotiations being headed by family friend Gerhard Berger, Rosberg was ...
Bernie Ecclestone says Britain exiting the European Union is the right thing, even for formula one. In an historic referendum held last Thursday, citizens of the United Kingdom ...
Jenson Button is not commenting on speculation he might return to Williams next year. Last week, the Grove team's deputy Claire Williams said the possibility that Button mig...
Daniel Ricciardo is not ruling out a move to Ferrari at some point in the near future. Rumours in 2015 and again this year have linked the Australian with Maranello, but Red Bul...
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