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.
Haas, F1's new Ferrari-linked American team, is on track to make its testing debut in February. The team, based in North Carolina and also the old Marussia facility in Banbu...
Niki Lauda has returned to the world of aviation, according to reports in the Austrian press on Friday. Die Presse newspaper said it is the fourth airline foray for the F1 legen...
Ferrari is not confirming reports about its intended launch plans for the 2016-specification car. Citing Italian sources, the Finnish newspaper Ilta Sanomat said this week that ...
Valtteri Bottas insists he is not intoxicated with the thought of joining Ferrari. Last year, the Finn was reportedly close to being signed by the fabled Maranello marque to rep...
The Swiss F1 team Sauber is losing a long-time senior engineer, media reports reveal. Speed Week (Germany) and Omnicorse (Italy) claim Giampaolo Dall'Ara, who came into F1 w...
Ron Dennis (McLaren chairman and CEO) has paid tribute to Tyler Alexander, one of McLaren’s founding fathers, who sadly passed away on 7th January 2016, at the age of 75: ...
World champion Lewis Hamilton expressed interest in buying a wild custom car from Ken Block, the famous American rally and stunt driver. One of the most fascinating cars in 48-y...
Ferrari is planning an online launch for its 2016 car, it emerged on Thursday. Citing Italian sources, the Finnish newspaper Ilta Sanomat said the as-yet unnamed machine will be...
Nico Rosberg is still in the game when it comes to winning world championships. That is the view of former two-time title winner Mika Hakkinen, who insisted the German driver ca...
The Nurburgring is not ruling out returning to the F1 calendar in 2017. The circuit's financial and ownership troubles were the reason for the absence from the calendar of a...
F1 should have two priorities in order to improve the sport. That is the view of Mika Hakkinen, as the former double world champion was asked about moves to make changes and re-...
Mario Illien thinks Renault may begin to show clear progress with its F1 engine early in 2016. The Swiss, and his company Ilmor, have been drafted in after the French carmaker s...
Ferrari president Sergio Marchionne is expecting a close fight with Mercedes in 2016. Earlier this week, the Italian-Canadian boldly targeted nothing less than world championshi...
Mick Schumacher, the 16-year-old son of F1 legend Michael, looks set to sign a deal with a Ferrari-linked Italian junior team. Amid great fanfare, Mick made his single-seater de...
Sebastian Vettel has urged caution as Ferrari heads into the 2016 season as a potential title candidate. President Sergio Marchionne this week issued a bold target of nothing le...
Carlos Sainz has urged his bosses at Toro Rosso to let him and teammate Max Verstappen race more freely in 2016. Last year, as the young duo made their impressive F1 debuts, tea...
Adrian Newey has admitted he is worried planned rule changes in formula one are not going far enough. Reportedly frustrated at the restrictive chassis rules and the overly engin...
Niki Lauda is not as outspoken and brash behind the scenes, according to Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg. The Munich newspaper TZ asked German Rosberg if it bothers him that Lauda,...
Williams is pleased to announce that it has signed a renewed partnership agreement with Wihuri, one of Finland's most respected business enterprises, for the 2016 Formula On...
Maurizio Arrivabene says it his job to deliver on the ambitious goal set by Ferrari president Sergio Marchionne for 2016. Ferrari made its debut on the Milan stock exchange on M...
Signing Romain Grosjean is helping to attract staff to F1's new American outfit Haas, boss Gunther Steiner says. Founded by Nascar team co-owner and machine tool magnate and...
Red Bull looks to be moving on in formula one without a title sponsor. Last month, following the marketing split from Renault and the rebranding of Red Bull's engines for 20...
Maurizio Arrivabene has suggested Kimi Raikkonen needs to move closer to the pace of his Ferrari teammate in 2016. Ferrari toyed with the idea of replacing the 36-year-old Finn ...
Jos Verstappen has called time on his motor racing career in order to focus on his son Max. The former F1 driver, who was once teammate to the great Michael Schumacher in the 90...
Alfa Romeo would need to ally with a team in order to enter formula one, Ferrari and Fiat Chrysler president Sergio Marchionne said on Monday. Recently, Marchionne suggested tha...
By: Bas Naafs After the deception that was USF1, the Formula One circus can finally welcome an American team to the 2016 start grid. The first American team to hit the Formula ...
Kimi Raikkonen has criticised F1's ever-shortening winter break. With the 2015 championship concluding with a post-race test, a record 21 races on the 2016 schedule and Pire...
Bernie Ecclestone has hit back at reports suggesting formula one risked collapse due to some of the political events of 2015. "Formula one will never collapse. Even if we h...
Renault is not yet ready to announce all the details of its return to full works team status in formula one. But the deal has at least now been officially done, with the French ...
Former F1 team owner and boss Eddie Jordan has slammed the BBC for the manner of its departure from the sport. The British public broadcaster, for whom Jordan was a controversia...
Michael Schumacher's manager has rejected the latest media report about the rumoured health condition of the F1 legend. Bunte, a German gossip weekly, declared in its latest...
The fate of the German grand prix is also in doubt beyond 2018, Bernie Ecclestone has warned. After a controversial absence this year, the country is returning to the calendar f...
Sepang, the Malaysian grand prix circuit, will be closed for three months for repairs ahead of the 2016 race. Usually, Malaysia hosts an early round of the world championship, b...
Bernie Ecclestone has drawn his 2015 to a close with his traditional Christmas card to friends. This year's edition of the F1 supremo's always humorous summary of the se...
Jolyon Palmer is hoping for a "long term" future with Renault. The 2014 GP2 champion, who served as official reserve this year, was actually signed up for 2016 while t...
Before a single wheel turns in 2016, Adrian Newey says only Mercedes and Ferrari are in a position to win the world championship. Arguably the best and most famous F1 designer o...
F1 cars were about half a second per lap faster this year compared to the start of the controversial new 'power unit' era in 2014. That is the finding of Germany's A...
Renault now "have the keys" to the Enstone based team known in 2015 as Lotus. That is what a lawyer for the French carmaker on Monday told an insolvency judge in Londo...
Narain Karthikeyan, who was India's first F1 driver, does not think the sport will be returning to his native country. New Delhi hosted three grands prix between 2011 and 20...
A Williams spokesperson has played down reports its F1 team drivers could race in the electric single seater series Formula E next year. Reports, including by the Finnish broad...
Indonesian GP2 driver Rio Haryanto does not yet have his F1 race debut for 2016 in the bag. Earlier, it was reported that the Indonesian government would put up the EUR 15 milli...
Max Verstappen's success helped Carlos Sainz to also show his worth in 2015. That is the view of Sainz's friend, mentor and countryman Fernando Alonso, referring to the ...
World champion Lewis Hamilton has revealed he is dyslexic. The Mercedes driver made the revelation during an unique interview with children for the German newspaper Stuttgarter ...
Kevin Magnussen insists he is not giving up on a future in formula one. Dumped and criticised after two years at McLaren, the Dane recently tested front-running Le Mans and DTM ...
A skier has died after falling at the Meribel resort in France, where Michael Schumacher also famously crashed at the end of 2013. Britain's Telegraph newspaper said a 17-y...
The BBC's expected exit from F1 could also signal the looming end for free-to-air television coverage of sports in general. That is the view of Murray Walker, the legendary ...
At least one F1 driver will be at the Olympic Games next year. UOL, a Brazilian source, reports that Valtteri Bottas will travel to Rio de Janeiro during next year's F1 cale...
Another Russian could soon be represented at the pinnacle of motor racing. That is the claim of Oksana Kosachenko, the former manager of Russia's first-ever F1 racer Vitaly ...
Toto Wolff has rejected speculation he and Niki Lauda no longer get along. The rumours had spread around the paddock towards the end of Mercedes' dominant 2015 campaign, but...
Jerome Stoll, the Renault Sport chairman, has dismissed reports the French carmaker is ramping up its annual F1 budget. The reports had suggested that after only supplying Red B...
Bernie Ecclestone is refusing to confirm that F1's free-to-air British broadcaster is pulling out of the sport. British newspapers this week said the BBC has now decided to ...
Mario Andretti, a motor racing legend and former Ferrari driver, says he can imagine the Maranello marque taking on Mercedes for the title in 2016. "Yes, of course," h...
Carmen Jorda sounds confident she will remain with Enstone as the current Lotus team transitions to Renault ownership over the winter. Often controversially, the 27-year-old fem...
Mercedes is among those who are worried about F1's expected new rules for 2017. The sport basically agrees that the cars must be more spectacular and faster for the future, ...
Stoffel Vandoorne has acknowledged that his F1 race career will have to wait until 2017 at least. The McLaren-backed Belgian has been dominant en route to becoming the new GP2 c...
Toto Wolff insists he does not want to end the controversial rivalry between warring Mercedes drivers Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg. That is despite the fact that he was recen...
In 1999, as Mika Hakkinen won his second world championship, arch F1 rival Michael Schumacher welcomed a son - Mick - into the world. Similarly, it was in 2000 when Schumacher a...
In the days before Christmas, good news emerged this week from Italian parliamentary circles. La Repubblica reports that after a marathon 37 hour sitting, the budget committee g...
Jolyon Palmer has warned that Renault may not shine immediately as the carmaker returns to full works status in formula one next year. It was amid Lotus' financial troubles ...
Sergio Marchionne, the Ferrari and Fiat Chrysler chief, says he is still urging his Volkswagen counterpart to consider entering formula one. Currently, only four carmakers are o...
The BBC, F1's free-to-air British broadcaster, looks set to drop its coverage of the sport. The broadcaster has warned that it must cut costs, but F1 supremo Bernie Ecclesto...
Toto Wolff has denied that Mercedes spent much of the 2015 season 'sandbagging' to hide its true performance advantage. Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo said recently tha...
Two figures have defended Fernando Alonso following a verbal jibe by Ferrari's new president Sergio Marchionne. Just as Marchionne swept into Maranello last winter, Alonso w...
Renault is confident the involvement of Ilmor, led by the renowned F1 engine guru Mario Illien, will help the French manufacturer as it aims to make a big step forward in 2016. ...
Aston Martin looks set to shelve for now its plans to enter formula one with Force India. Team owner Vijay Mallya had admitted during October's Mexican GP weekend that rumou...
American racer Ryan Tveter will return to Carlin's FIA Formula Three European team for the 2016 season following his debut rookie season in the highly competitive championsh...
Fernando Alonso says whether he stays in F1 beyond his current contract depends on McLaren-Honda's form and the direction of the sport. The Spaniard, arguably the best and m...
By: Bas Naafs Ferrari's history is a mix of spectacular highs, dark lows and controversies that fit in between the two. Ferrari's controversies are everything but borin...
On Tuesday night, Carlos Sainz was presented with one of the prestigious "Caschi d'Oro" (Golden Helmet) awards. At a star studded evening, featuring top names from...
Ferrari team boss Maurizio Arrivabene has tipped McLaren-Honda to take a clear step forward for 2016. As the iconic partnership reunited this year, McLaren-Honda endured a night...
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