F1's governing body will move to stop 'ugly' noses ahead of the 2015 season. Drivers, fans and even the designers have expressed dismay at the aesthetics of this year's new c...
Daniel Ricciardo says Red Bull is confident the world champion team will overcome its technical crisis. The new RB10 barely ran at the opening Jerez test recently amid packag...
Gerard Lopez, the Lotus team owner, has played down suggestions the Enstone squad is still grappling with financial problems. The team's problems of late last year, when Kimi Ra...
With one leaving and another joining, two well-known F1 names have given their view about the once-great British team Williams. Arriving at Grove is the long-time Ferrari driver...
Mark Webber expects his replacement at Red Bull, countryman Daniel Ricciardo, to put up a competitive defense alongside Sebastian Vettel this year. By the end of the tense Webbe...
F1 could have not one, but two new teams in 2015. Italy's Autosprint reports that, in Paris early this week, the FIA began the official evaluation process after inviting express...
Olivier Quesnel, the former Ctiroen and Peugeot rally boss, has admitted he has had contact with Lotus owner Gerard Lopez about becoming the Enstone team's new sporting boss. Th...
The Williams F1 Team have reportedly signed two sponsorship deals with two Brazilian firms; Petrobras and Banco do Brasil. According to a highly creditable Brazilian source, ...
Not everyone thinks Kimi Raikkonen will struggle to keep up with Fernando Alonso at Ferrari this year. Despite the fact the returning Finn Raikkonen is the Italian marque's last...
Former F1 figures Paul di Resta and Anthony Hamilton have settled their legal dispute, following a bitter court battle in London late last year. Hamilton, the father of the Merc...
Lotus enjoyed a trouble-free track debut with its 2014 car, the E22, at Jerez. Earlier rumours suggested the Enstone team had struck the same sort of Renault-powered trouble tha...
Austria's return to the F1 calendar this year is on track, Red Bull supremo Dietrich Mateschitz says. "We are striving for a perfect race weekend with sold out grandstands," sai...
Christian Horner has played down fears of a Red Bull crisis, insisting the problems with the new RB10 are "nothing major". After four consecutive world championships at the tail...
Former team driver Antonio Pizzonia has backed Williams to bounce back into competitive form. The fabled British team has struggled for success since Jacques Villeneuve won the ...
Olivier Quesnel, the former Citroen and Peugeot world rally boss, has leapt into pole position to become Lotus' new team boss. Following Eric Boullier's switch to McLaren, the g...
Now two weeks since doctors started trying to wake Michael Schumacher, the F1 legend remains in a coma. That is the news of the German daily Bild-Zeitung, reporting that while t...
McLaren is supplying a standard LCD steering wheel display to fellow formula one teams in 2014. The new display, part of the package provided by the Woking based company's techn...
Bernie Ecclestone has tipped the criminal bribery trial, set to begin in Munich in late April, to end before it even begins. "Bet you it doesn't happen," the F1 chief executive,...
Sahara Force India has expanded its driver development programme by teaming up with Hilmer Motorsport to create Sahara Force India's official GP2 team. The new partnership will ...
Daniel Ricciardo will have to make his own way at Red Bull, champion teammate Sebastian Vettel has declared. 24-year-old Australian Ricciardo, with just 50 grands prix with HRT ...
Mercedes is being touted as the early 2014 favourite, but Ferrari is reportedly also ahead of the game as F1's new V6 era dawns. The German-language Speed Week reports that, whe...
The British-based Lotus Formula 1 Team, who are set to test their 2014 challenger at Jerez throughout today and tomorrow have released a photo of their unique 'tusk' style nose....
Representatives of the Red Bull, Toro Rosso and Caterham teams will reportedly be present when Lotus does its 'filming day' at Jerez on Friday. With the Enstone team having sat ...
One of the very last seats in formula one is set to be filled by rookie Felipe Nasr. Last November, we reported that following countryman Felipe Massa's move to Williams for 201...
F1 looks set to introduce an eleventh-hour change to the qualifying rules for 2014, according to media reports. Just five weeks ahead of the Melbourne season opener, team bosses...
The Sauber F1 Team is pleased to announce Gabrielle's Angel Foundation for Cancer Research as its charity partner. Gabrielle's Angel Foundation funds junior scientific invest...
With Mercedes already cast as the early title favourite, boss Toto Wolff is tipping reigning champions Red Bull to bounce back from an early crisis. Red Bull and engine partner ...
Robin Frijns says modern formula one is "not fair". The 22-year-old Dutchman, arguably the hottest young talent not yet on the F1 grid, has seen his rise thwarted by his lack of...
Helmut Marko is sure Red Bull will get its 2014 title-defense back on track. The reigning world champions endured a disastrous opening test at Jerez as designer Adrian Newey's t...
Michael Schumacher's awakening from his medically induced coma may take weeks or even months, according to a new report. The German has was placed into a coma at the beginnin...
Jenson Button thinks GP2, F1's second-tier support series, will run the premier category close for pace in 2014. As the sport's all-new energy-recovery and V6 turbo-powered era ...
One of Kimi Raikkonen's managers, David Robertson, has died. It emerged late last year that the 70-year-old, who teamed with his son Steve to bring drivers like Finn Raikkonen a...
Adrian Newey, the fabled designer of Red Bull's troubled RB10, expects the 2014 season to be dominated by the new powertrain rules. At Jerez last week, the reigning world champi...
Even team chairman Niki Lauda thinks Mercedes has "the edge" over its rivals after the opening test at Jerez. Although teams were not focusing on performance in southern Spain, ...
Jean-Eric Vergne insists he has put in the past Red Bull's decision to overlook him for the top seat alongside Sebastian Vettel this year. The Frenchman admits he struggled init...
Depending on the forum, Bernie Ecclestone has contradictory views about F1's new V6-powered era. Speaking to the specialist press, the F1 chief executive slammed the revolutiona...
Lotus 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 ...
Despite 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 ...
German authorities are pushing ahead with preparations for Bernie Ecclestone's criminal trial. The Suddeutsche newspaper reports that the trial, following a long investigation i...
Marcus 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 ...
Lotus 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...
Honda 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...
Peter 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...
Romain 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...
After 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...
Luca 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...
Pirelli 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 ...
US 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, ...
At least a week after doctors began trying to wake Michael Schumacher from his coma, there have been no official updates about the great German's condition. But that, accordi...
Fernando 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...
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...
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...
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 ...
Niki Lauda has hit back at Bernie Ecclestone's attack on Mercedes and F1's new, greener and quieter era. In an outburst last week against the sport he heads, F1 chief executi...
There is still no news about the future of Melbourne's Australian grand prix beyond the 2015 race. That is the admission of race chairman Ron Walker, who said the state-spons...
According to one cruel joke in the Jerez paddock last week, the Red Bull RB10 has a cryptic, phonetic meaning -- 'Red Bull Are Bea-ten'. It follows a disastrous opening test ...
The unseemly nose designs up and down the 2014 pitlane have been declared legal by the FIA. We reported last week that a row over the radical noses was shaping up, with one c...
Lotus and Marussia have ended doubts about their official participation in the 2014 championship. When the governing FIA released the 2014 entry list last month, the two team...
Toro Rosso: A switch to Renault power would appear to have been a good move given their sister teams' success further up the field. However, given the problems that they and the...
Williams: Perhaps the most surprising team of the week was Williams. With the outfit changing to Mercedes power after two years with Renault, as well as the more eye-pleasing 'a...
Four days of pre-season testing concluded at Jerez yesterday afternoon, and we have found out, as expected things aren't quite as we imagined them to be. It was widely tipped...
Long-time Formula 1 personality and team prinicpal, Ross Brawn has announced his retirement. The news ends speculation that the 60 year-old would move to McLaren after stepp...
Team owner Dietrich Mateschitz is keeping his calm, despite a nightmarish opening test of 2014 for the reigning world champions Red Bull. While key Mercedes and Ferrari-powe...
The fourth and final day of testing at Jerez got underway this morning with a wet and overcast track, leaving the teams to have a second chance at testing the wet Pirelli tyres....
The 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...
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...
The 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...
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...
The 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...
Pat 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...
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