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.
The further clampdown on pit-to-driver radio communications in 2016 will spice up the action. That is the view of a couple of 2016 drivers, after Mercedes chief Toto Wolff this ...
Force India boss and co-owner Vijay Mallya may be unable to attend grands prix in 2016. Seventeen banks that are owed money by the Indian businessman relating to his collapsed a...
Jolyon Palmer has dismissed claims he might take too "cautious" an approach to his job of being a formula one driver. Last year, the British rookie was Lotus' rese...
One of the most famous names in motorsport will return to the Le Mans 24 Hours this season as Rebellion Racing is pleased to confirm today that Nelson Piquet Jr will join forces...
Bernie Ecclestone is taking flak amid F1's tumultuous beginning to another world championship season. World champion Sebastian Vettel, a traditional ally of the F1 supremo, ...
Carlos Sainz has questioned his boss's target of a podium finish on merit in 2016. The Red Bull junior team's chief Franz Tost declared recently: "Realistically, I ...
Sauber is entering yet another F1 season under a financial cloud. A year ago, it was the Giedo van der Garde saga that almost derailed the struggling Swiss team. Now, the Swiss ...
Fernando Alonso is still refusing to rule out a future move to Mercedes. Although fully committed to the remaining two seasons of his McLaren-Honda contract, the Spaniard began ...
Alain Prost has warned that the qualifying saga of recent days could drag on even longer. While the World Motor Sport Council rubber-stamped the controversial new 'musical c...
Felipe Massa has confirmed that Williams is hoping to get a new nose and front wing up and running as soon as possible. With the British camp's current short nose strongly r...
Sebastian Vettel says he is yet to give a personal name to his 2016 car, which will carry the hopes of the entire Ferrari team and much of the wider F1 world. "No, not yet,...
Ferrari will travel to Australia in good spirits for the first Grand Prix of 2016. Sebastian Vettel set the fastest time on the final day of testing, a 1:22.852 on the supersoft...
One big question heading into the new F1 season is whether Lewis Hamilton has his 'mojo' back. After dominating his teammate last year and wrapping up the title with thr...
The earlier-touted 'cheap engines' solution might soon be back on the table. That is the claim of Germany's Auto Motor und Sport, revealing that reforms agreed by th...
Manor Racing experienced a bad morning on the last day of testing before the season starts. Mechanical issues have been troubling the team and Rio Haryanto has only done one sin...
Williams looks set to unveil a new nose for its 2016 car within the first two or three races of 2016. The Grove team was a pioneer of the short-nose concept that is now widespre...
Fernando Alonso says he is not sure where he will line up on the Melbourne grid. McLaren insists it has improved since its diabolical 2015, while Jenson Button described the lat...
Two young drivers with famous fathers will charge towards a future career on the F1 grid with strong support in their wake. The most high-profile is Mick Schumacher, the 16-year...
World champion drivers on Thursday slammed the current direction of formula one. Ferrari surprised the F1 world at the Barcelona test when Kimi Raikkonen emerged from the pits w...
Jean Todt has urged Bernie Ecclestone to stop criticising formula one. F1 supremo Ecclestone has rung in another new season with a familiar round of criticism, after last year c...
Things are finally looking up at McLaren. While some analysts believe the Honda power unit is still easily the least powerful in the field, it seems the Japanese carmaker may fi...
On the day of the debut of the protective 'halo' it was Ferrari driver Kimi Raikkonen who set the fastest time in Barcelona. The 2007 world champion put in a 1:22.765 on...
Jean Todt says he is still friends with Michael Schumacher, even in the wake of the seven time world champion's serious head injuries. Little is known about the highly-confi...
Vijay Mallya on Thursday rejected calls for his arrest. Amid the ongoing fallout from the collapse of his airline Kingfisher, the State Bank of India on Wednesday had also asked...
The 'will it, won't it' saga of the ever-changing qualifying format for 2016 continued in Barcelona on Wednesday. The F1 Commission recently agreed a tweaked 'mu...
Red Bull will test its own proposed solution to the issue of cockpit protection later this month. On Thursday, Ferrari surprised the F1 world when Kimi Raikkonen emerged from th...
On the morning of the third and penultimate day of testing this winter Kimi Raikkonen has set a new record pace for this week. On ultrasofts he did a 1:22.765, the fastest time ...
The heat is back on Pirelli as a new F1 season looms. For the sake of the racing, the official supplier has added a new layer to its compounds for 2016 to limit the tyres' e...
Toto Wolff has played down reports Fernando Alonso almost replaced reigning champion Lewis Hamilton at Mercedes last year. Alonso had made the claims on Spanish radio, revealing...
Kevin Magnussen appears a happier man in 2016, in the wake of his ill-fated McLaren adventure. "I can feel that he fits in really well in this team," his mother Britt ...
Rumours are swirling in the Barcelona test paddock about problems with Ferrari's 2016 power unit. Within sight of the end of the pre-season period, cooling holes have appear...
By: Bas Naafs Friday March 4th marks the 80th birthday of James ‘Jim’ Clark. On this day in 1938 Clark was born in the Scottish village of Kilmany. The only thing t...
'Musical chairs'-style qualifying will take place ahead of the Melbourne season opener in just over two weeks. Earlier, Bernie Ecclestone had said that although the F1 C...
Baku City Circuit is today delighted to announce two-time Formula 1 World Champion and current McLaren-Honda driver, Fernando Alonso, as the official ambassador for the 2016 For...
Williams driver Valtteri Bottas has set the fastest time on day two of test two in Barcelona. The Finn used supersoft tyres for a 1:23.261. Lewis Hamilton needed more than three...
Bernie Ecclestone is putting pressure on Hockenheim to up its game in order to secure Germany's future on the F1 calendar. Hope that the Nurburgring might bounce back from i...
Valtteri Bottas has counted himself as not among those drivers who are dieting hard ahead of the 2016 season. Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo admits he was told to lose 5 kilogr...
Frederic Vasseur, the new team boss at Renault, has admitted neither team driver has a guaranteed future with the French marque beyond 2016. "Both drivers have a contract f...
Renault had promised to do some qualifying runs this morning and kept that promise, but Kevin Magnussen's 1:23.933 on supersofts was not enough for the first position. Lewis...
Felipe Nasr admits Sauber's newly-launched car may not be 100 per cent ready for the 2016 season opener in Australia in just over two weeks. While the rest of the teams were...
With every passing test day, the feeling in the Barcelona paddock is growing ever stronger that Mercedes will decimate all comers early in 2016. On Tuesday, as the last four day...
Fernando Alonso says his future rests on the reforms that are slated to revolutionise formula one next year. 2017 will be the third and last in the Spaniard's current McLare...
F1 officials have come under fire for what major newspapers including the Independent and Telegraph are calling the 2016 qualifying "farce". Mere weeks before the new ...
Red Bull Racing is pleased to announce the extension of their innovative partnership with leading engineering simulation software developer, ANSYS, for a further three years. AN...
The Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team today announced a multi-year partnership agreement with Pure Storage (NYSE:PSTG), a market-leading independent solid-state array vendo...
Rare sounds of praise for Renault are emerging from the Red Bull camp ahead of the 2016 season. Last year, the strained relationship between the two parties broke down completel...
Sergio Marchionne on Tuesday said the serene winter pre-season enjoyed so far by Mercedes makes him "worry". Earlier, the Ferrari president had targeted a winning star...
The first day of the second day of winter testing has given a Mercedes on top. Nico Rosberg did a 1:23.022. It looked like Valtteri Bottas was not much slower, but there was a b...
Sauber is targeting the midfield in 2016. Last year, the Swiss team finished a lowly eighth in the constructors' championship, and late on Monday it became the last team to ...
Ferrari's hopes for 2016 rest on the progress Mercedes has been able to make over the winter. That is the claim of Maurizio Arrivabene, the Ferrari team boss, amid media rep...
Not every driver is on board with F1's plans to cover the cockpits. After Grand Prix Drivers' Association chief Alex Wurz declared recently that "all the drivers ho...
Mercedes has kicked it up a notch on the morning of the first day at the second week of winter testing in Barcelona. Nico Rosberg did a 1:23.022 on the soft compound, by far the...
Manor Racing will retain Jordan King in the role of Development Driver for a second season. Jordan, 22, will continue to play a supporting role within the 2016 driver line-up, a...
Hopes are increasing that the embattled US grand prix will in fact take place in October. Currently, the popular Austin race is marked as "subject to confirmation" on ...
Fernando Alonso says he almost switched to Mercedes last year in a move that would have involved Lewis Hamilton replacing him at Ferrari. As it became clear during the 2014 seas...
Scuderia Toro Rosso has launched the colour scheme for their 2016 car in the pitlane at Circuit de Catalunya. The new STR11 made its track debut last week in a dark blue interim...
Vijay Mallya has hit back at speculation his involvement in the F1 team Force India is coming to an end. Last week, after a long battle with Diageo, the flamboyant Indian steppe...
This is the line-up for the second week of winter testing in 2016: Team Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Mercedes Rosberg/Hamilton Ha...
Daniel Ricciardo is still refusing to rule himself out of the running for a future switch to Ferrari. Earlier, the Australian predicted a frenzied 'silly season' this ye...
Sauber has launched their new car for the upcoming 2016 season. The Swiss outfit ran the old C34 during the first week of testing, the new C35 is ready for the second test sessi...
Ahead of the final week of pre-season testing, it seems Mercedes and Ferrari are still ahead of the pack in 2016. Finishing third for the past two years was Williams, but Felipe...
Williams Martini Racing is pleased to confirm that Alex Lynn will be continuing as the Williams Development Driver for the 2016 Formula One World Championship season, a position...
Renault is likely to start work almost immediately on its car for 2017. Last week, acknowledging that the 2016 machine is a hastily-compiled version of a car designed by Lotus f...
F1's new 'musical chairs' qualifying format may not happen at all in 2016. Earlier, the changes touted to mix up the grid were approved by the F1 Commission, but Ber...
F1's new 'musical chairs' qualifying format has hit a roadblock. Bernie Ecclestone told F1 business journalist Christian Sylt that Formula One Management's softw...
Rio Haryanto's manager has clarified reports the Indonesian rookie might not complete the entire 2016 season. We reported this week that, although backed by Indonesia via th...
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