Rob Veenstra
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.
News
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Lotus talks to more candidates besides WhitmarshLotus team owner Gerard Lopez has played down reports McLaren refugee Martin Whitmarsh is definitely headed to Enstone. With Eric Boullier having moved to McLaren to be 'racing ...
05 Feb 2014 13:10 -
Haas pushing ahead to meet next deadline for 2015 entryDespite Bernie Ecclestone's recent warning, Gene Haas is pushing ahead with his plans to enter F1 in 2015. After Haas, a Nascar team co-owner, responded to the FIA's invitation ...
05 Feb 2014 12:11 -
German trial against Ecclestone will begin on 24 AprilGerman authorities are pushing ahead with preparations for Bernie Ecclestone's criminal trial. The Suddeutsche newspaper reports that the trial, following a long investigation i...
05 Feb 2014 11:41 -
Ericsson enters a diet programme to shed some weightMarcus Ericsson has kicked off his F1 career with a diet. The Swedish rookie, set to make his debut in 2014 for the backmarker Caterham, revealed that his engineers have tasked ...
05 Feb 2014 10:34 -
Lotus to perform shakedown double-nosed E22 on FridayLotus will not wait until the next official test in Bahrain to get its delayed 2014 car on track. Having not attended the first test at Jerez, the Enstone team will give its E22...
05 Feb 2014 10:00 -
McLaren financially secure because of Honda contributionHonda will fill any financial void at McLaren, after the great British team unveiled its new silver and black MP4-29 without replacing departed title sponsor Vodafone. We report...
05 Feb 2014 09:08 -
Red Bull Racing trying to convince Prodromou to stayPeter Prodromou may not move to McLaren after all. McLaren signed Red Bull's highly-rated aerodynamics chief late last year, but the reigning world champions insisted that Prodr...
05 Feb 2014 08:26 -
Grosjean not sure Alonso will have easy time alongside RaikkonenRomain Grosjean is not so sure Fernando Alonso will have an easy time alongside new Ferrari teammate Kimi Raikkonen in 2013. The Frenchman's comments follow those of Alonso's la...
04 Feb 2014 16:24 -
Caterham ran with ultra-conservative packaging in JerezAfter Red Bull's catastrophic opening test at Jerez last week, even F1 backmarkers Marussia and Caterham are currently ahead of the formerly-dominant world champions' game. Inde...
04 Feb 2014 13:10 -
Ecclestone devised 'double points' rule to aid FerrariLuca di Montezemolo agreed behind closed doors that the controversial 'double points' innovation is necessary for formula one. That is the claim of F1 chief executive Bernie Ecc...
04 Feb 2014 12:08 -
New Pirelli tyres 'a little bit better' - HamiltonPirelli says it is too early to assess the performance of its new-for-2014 tyres, despite four days of running at Jerez last week. The Italian marque endured a nightmarish 2013 ...
04 Feb 2014 10:47 -
US media companies move to buy major F1 stakeUS media companies Liberty and Discovery have moved to buy a major stake in formula one from CVC, according to reports. The New York Post said the bid is headed by John Malone, ...
04 Feb 2014 09:54 -
Ferrari back on full steam after ending its wind tunnel crisisFernando Alonso has confirmed reports Ferrari has now ended its wind tunnel crisis. For some time, including throughout last season, the famous Italian marque has been working a...
04 Feb 2014 09:18 -
'Too early' to declare Mercedes 2014 favourite - Wolff
Toto Wolff has played down reports Mercedes is the clear 2014 favourite after the first winter test at Jerez last week. "It is too early to know," the German marque's commercial...
04 Feb 2014 08:28 -
Massa tips 'clever' Alonso to be fast from the beginning
Felipe Massa has tipped his former Ferrari teammate to dominate Kimi Raikkonen at the great Italian team in 2014. Maranello marque Ferrari replaced the long-serving Brazilian wi...
03 Feb 2014 14:59 -
TV viewers drop triggered 'double points' move
The reason for F1's controversial move to a 'double points' finale has emerged, after the sport haemorrhaged 50 million television viewers late in 2013. That is the claim of F1 ...
03 Feb 2014 12:14 -
Red Bull Racing calls it a day after just 21 lapsThe grey drizzle matched the mood in the Red Bull garage on Friday morning, but Daniel Ricciardo was his ever upbeat self. Asked if the troubled RB10 will be running on the l...
31 Jan 2014 13:53 -
Wolff rates Petrov's chances for DTM seat at '60 per cent'Vitaly Petrov has a good chance of restarting his motor racing career in the German touring car series DTM. That is the claim of Mercedes' Toto Wolff, after former Renault and C...
31 Jan 2014 12:21 -
McLaren 'wing rear suspension' difficult to copyThe first technical rows of 2014 are well underway. It had already emerged that the FIA is unhappy with some of the radical nose solutions, with one camp of teams accusing the o...
31 Jan 2014 10:51 -
Ecclestone slams Jerez testing as 'a total farce'
F1 chief executive Bernie Ecclestone has slammed the sport's brave new era, saying the Jerez test this week proves the radical 2014 rules have produced "a total farce". "Look at...
31 Jan 2014 08:51 -
Follow LIVE the fourth test day of 2014 from JerezThe fourth day of testing for the 2014 season takes place today. Kamui Kobayashi starts his comeback in Formula 1 today at Caterham, Force India gives Daniel Juncadella a chance...
31 Jan 2014 08:42 -
Whole pitlane has 'some sympathy' for Lotus - SymondsPat Symonds, a former long-time personality at the Enstone team, says he has "sympathy" for struggling Lotus. The Briton, now in charge of technical matters at Williams after se...
30 Jan 2014 20:02 -
Doctors trying to wake Schumacher from his coma - manager
Michael Schumacher's manager has now confirmed reports doctors at the Grenoble hospital are trying to wake the great German from his month-long coma. Earlier, Sabine Kehm dismis...
30 Jan 2014 14:34 -
FIA's Whiting says 'different' Lotus nose is legitimateLotus' innovative double-pronged nose solution for 2014 has been declared legal by the FIA's Charlie Whiting. The solution is even clearly assymetrical, apparently only to slip ...
30 Jan 2014 14:06 -
Renault admits to problems with ERS in new engineRenault, engine supplier to reigning world champions Red Bull, has admitted it has kicked off F1's radical new V6 era with a significant problem. "Obviously we do (have a proble...
30 Jan 2014 13:03 -
McLaren rear suspension raises eyebrows at Jerez
Unseemly nose solutions are attracting all of the obvious attention early in 2014. But, behind the scenes, engineers are far more interested in what is lurking at the rear of Mc...
30 Jan 2014 10:11 -
Ecclestone asks teams for 'double points' in three racesBernie Ecclestone has written a letter to F1's eleven teams, arguing that the controversial new 'double points' rule should be extended to the final three races of the season. T...
30 Jan 2014 08:57 -
Follow LIVE the third test day of 2014 from JerezThe third day of testing for the 2014 season takes place today. Daniel Ricciardo takes over from Sebastian Vettel at Red Bull Racing, Fernando Alonso will sample the Ferrari F14...
30 Jan 2014 08:46 -
'Far too early' to talk about championship - Wolff
Anticipation is high as Mercedes, tipped as a 2014 championship favourite, prepares to reveal its new silver and black W05. The Brackley based team has been revealing teasers of...
29 Jan 2014 12:23 -
McLaren appoints Eric Boullier as racing directorMcLaren has confirmed that Eric Boullier wil join them. The former team principal of Lotus is appointed as racing director. He will start his work for McLaren on February 3rdWor...
29 Jan 2014 11:06 -
Haas Racing vows to fight for formula one entry
Gene Haas has vowed to fight on for formula one, despite Bernie Ecclestone saying a 2015 team entry for the American foray is "most unlikely". Even despite his fortune, his prov...
29 Jan 2014 10:09 -
Vettel destroyed me since we went to Pirellis - WebberMark Webber has predicted an early retirement for his former teammate Sebastian Vettel. Throughout German Vettel's four-year championship-winning reign, Australian Webber was hi...
29 Jan 2014 09:16 -
First pictures of the first test day in JerezTesting has begun this morning in Jerez, but not a lot of action so far. After more than two hours the teams have a total of fourteen laps, combined. The red flag has been out t...
28 Jan 2014 11:41 -
Todt returns to Schumacher's bedside
FIA president and former Ferrari boss Jean Todt has returned to the Grenoble hospital bedside of his friend Michael Schumacher. The seven time world champion has been in a coma ...
27 Jan 2014 12:21 -
Sauber in talks with potential new partnersBoss Monisha Kaltenborn dismissed two pressing questions about Sauber's health and future in the simplest possible way. When asked by veteran journalist Roger Benoit if she had ...
27 Jan 2014 10:25 -
Grosjean future at Lotus safe despite Boullier exitRomain Grosjean's Lotus future is safe, despite the departure from the team of boss Eric Boullier. That is the claim of team owner Genii's chief Gerard Lopez, responding to clai...
27 Jan 2014 10:07 -
Force India gave Juncadella 'best chance to get in the car'A role at Williams was also an option for Daniel Juncadella for 2014. Thanks to his backing by the Kazakh capital Astana, the 22-year-old Spaniard will be Force India's reserve ...
27 Jan 2014 09:33 -
UBS has decided to stop as F1 sponsor
2014 could be major F1 sponsor UBS' last season in the sport. We reported a year ago that the Swiss global financial services company, having entered F1 in 2010, is now consider...
27 Jan 2014 09:16 -
'Whitmarsh could switch to Lotus for 2014'Deposed McLaren boss Martin Whitmarsh could switch to Lotus for 2014, an insider has confirmed. Lotus' former chief, Eric Boullier, is the hot favourite to replace Whitmarsh at ...
27 Jan 2014 08:52 -
Ecclestone sceptical about F1 entry for Haas
Bernie Ecclestone does not think multimillionaire Nascar team owner Gene Haas can afford to enter formula one in 2015. Haas, with an estimated net worth of $740 million, announc...
24 Jan 2014 16:49 -
Perez had knee surgery during the winter periodSergio Perez underwent knee surgery during the winter period, he has revealed. The Mexican admitted that his switch from F1 grandee McLaren to the midfield team Force India was ...
24 Jan 2014 16:23 -
Renault says Jerez absence a disadvantage for LotusNot testing at Jerez next week is a setback for Lotus. That is the view of the team's engine supplier Renault, despite Lotus saying it will not be disadvantaged by the absence b...
24 Jan 2014 15:44 -
Mercedes happy with measures against EcclestoneMercedes has welcomed Bernie Ecclestone's departure from the F1 board. The embattled 83-year-old Briton remains chief executive, but his decision-making power has been diminishe...
24 Jan 2014 14:55 -
FIA tones down rhetoric on 'cost cap'
F1's governing body has toned down its rhetoric on cost-cutting, having said in December it wanted to install a highly-controversial "global cost cap". But on Thursday, after...
24 Jan 2014 12:09 -
Boullier leaves Lotus, Lopez steps up as team principal
In order to continue strengthening its management structure, to further increase Genii's role in the team and to close the gap between its strategic, commercial and sporting act...
24 Jan 2014 11:09 -
Force India welcomes Juncadella as new reserve driverSahara Force India is pleased to welcome a new face to the team with Spain's Daniel Juncadella joining as a reserve driver for the 2014 season. The 22-year-old will attend all r...
24 Jan 2014 10:18 -
Petrov tests Mercedes DTM car in Portimao
Former Renault and Caterham driver Vitaly Petrov looks to be following Force India refugee Paul di Resta into the German touring car series DTM. Mercedes announced on Thursday t...
23 Jan 2014 15:56 -
Caterham reserve Frijns tipped to rise to the topCaterham's team boss has tipped its new reserve driver Robin Frijns to rise to the very top of formula one. Dutchman Frijns' F1 career to date, however, has been a struggle, as ...
23 Jan 2014 14:54 -
Tougher Pirellis means raised minimum weight for 2014
The mandatory minimum weight of F1 cars will be raised by 1 kilogram for 2014, Italy's Omnicorse reports. That is because Pirelli, having controversially grappled with failures ...
23 Jan 2014 13:43 -
Sirotkin still part of Sauber as a test driverSergey Sirotkin still has a place at Sauber. Earlier this week, reports emerged that questioned the Russian teen's test seat with the Swiss team. That was because the well-backe...
23 Jan 2014 12:12 -
Ericsson and Brack bring EUR 11 million to CaterhamMarcus Ericsson is bringing more than EUR 11 million in Swedish sponsorship to Caterham this year, the Finnish newspaper Turun Sanomat claims. While the popular, experienced and...
23 Jan 2014 11:21 -
Williams shows first impression of new FW36Williams have released two images of the FW36, their 2014 challenger, via Twitter. The FW36 is painted in the heritage colour blue which Williams will run in pre-season testi...
23 Jan 2014 10:35 -
Vandoorne named as official reserve driver for McLaren
Stoffel Vandoorne has been officially confirmed as McLaren official reserve driver for 2014, and will be combining his duties as a Formula 1 tester with a full competitive seaso...
23 Jan 2014 10:10 -
Williams appoints Murdoch as race engineer for MassaFelipe Massa will not be reuniting with his usual race engineer in 2014. There has been speculation that, because both Brazilian Massa and his well-known, long-time race enginee...
23 Jan 2014 09:44 -
Button says goodbye to father John at funeralJenson Button has said goodbye to his father John at a funeral in Monaco. The McLaren driver was famously close to his dad, who died of a suspected heart attack at the age of 70...
23 Jan 2014 08:39 -
New York judge dismisses lawsuit against EcclestoneBernie Ecclestone's legal woes have eased slightly, as it emerges a $650 lawsuit against him has been dismissed. Late last year, a company called Bluewaters Communications claim...
22 Jan 2014 16:48 -
Lotus only team to sit out first test of 2014Lotus has been left standing as the only team that will sit out the first test of the crucial 2014 pre-season next week. That is because Marussia on Wednesday announced that it ...
22 Jan 2014 16:25 -
Hulkenberg hopes 2014 cars don't slow down too muchNico Hulkenberg hopes the cars of F1's all-new era are not too slow. At the end of the long V12 and V10-powered era of normally aspirated power, the sport is switching to 'green...
22 Jan 2014 15:53 -
Jan Magnussen keen for Kevin to avoid his mistakesFormer F1 driver Jan Magnussen has revealed he is considering ending his own career in order to support his son's move into motor sport's highest category. Although his own gran...
22 Jan 2014 14:53 -
Di Resta likely to be called up as reserve for MercedesPaul di Resta has admitted his aim is to combine his return to DTM this year with a role in formula one. Having lost his Force India seat, Scot di Resta, 27, is returning to the...
22 Jan 2014 14:07 -
Sirotkin's place as test driver at Sauber now in doubtSergey Sirotkin's place inside the Sauber team has been called into doubt. Just before Christmas, although initially in the Swiss team's racing plans for 2014, Sauber said Russi...
22 Jan 2014 12:48 -
'Role model' Zanardi returns to racing in Blancpain Series
Alex Zanardi will be back under engine power in 2014. In 2004, three years after losing his legs in a horror Champ Car crash, the former F1 driver defied the odds by racing full...
22 Jan 2014 12:12 -
McLaren 'in good shape' despite lack of title sponsor
McLaren has confirmed it will not announce a replacement for departed title sponsor Vodafone when the 2014 car is officially launched on Friday. But after the final season of Vo...
22 Jan 2014 11:37 -
Force India reveals first image of new VJM07Sahara Force India revealed its dynamic new look today, offering fans and media a first impression of how the VJM07 will look when it is officially presented at next week's Jere...
22 Jan 2014 10:16 -
Kobayashi appealed to Caterham by racing for free
In a last-ditch effort to move up the grid, Caterham overlooked some of the most lucrative 'pay drivers' for the 2014 season. Although his fans pledged their own money towards h...
22 Jan 2014 09:55 -
Van der Garde claims he turned down CaterhamGiedo van der Garde claims he turned down the chance to stay at Caterham this year in order to "move sideways" to Sauber. Just a year into his grand prix career, the Dutchman wi...
22 Jan 2014 09:07 -
McLaren passes all crash tests with new MP4-29McLaren's 2014 car is now clear to make its track debut at Jerez in one week. Earlier, reports suggested the new MP4-29 had failed one of the FIA's crash tests, which all must b...
21 Jan 2014 16:41 -
Ferrari had the fastest pitcrew last yearFerrari won the season-long race to become the fastest pitcrew in formula one. That is the finding of Germany's Auto Motor und Sport, revealing that although Red Bull and Merced...
21 Jan 2014 16:13 -
Family Schumacher deeply touched by support messages
Michael Schumacher's family has issued a statement but no new information about the health of the seven time world champion. Some days ago, his manager Sabine Kehm said the grea...
21 Jan 2014 14:11 -
Quantum chief insists Lotus buy-in deal not dead
Mansoor Ijaz, the man behind Lotus' delayed buy-in by the Quantum group, insists the deal is not dead. Lotus team owner Gerard Lopez said less than a week ago that, after repeat...
21 Jan 2014 12:51
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