Red Bull has copied from Williams a clever technical innovation, Auto Motor und Sport correspondent Michael Schmidt reports. During winter testing, eagle-eyed experts spotted th...
Organisers of the Bahrain grand prix would like the event to return to the top of F1's annual schedule. The Sakhir circuit opened the sport's world championship in 2006 and agai...
Kimi Raikkonen rose to the top of the timesheets at Sakhir on Friday afternoon, as he set the fastest time of the day for Lotus in 1m 34.154s to beat Mark Webber's Red Bull by 0...
Heikki Kovalainen has denied he has been lured back to Caterham on the prospect of a race seat in the near future. Having been dropped from the team's race lineup for 2013, the ...
Mark Webber on Thursday refused to specifically deny reports he is set to quit formula one and spearhead Porsche's Le Mans prototype project next year. "At the moment there's al...
Ferrari got their 2013 Formula 1 Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix campaign off to the best possible start in Sakhir on Friday morning when Felipe Massa and Fernando Alonso ended FP1 ...
McLaren threw Lewis Hamilton out of its garage during one of February's winter tests, the 2008 world champion claims. Briton Hamilton, 28, rose through the junior ranks with the...
The pressure is showing on Sergio Perez, as the Mexican admitted he found boss Martin Whitmarsh's criticism in the wake of last weekend's Chinese grand prix "quite amazing". Alb...
Bernie Ecclestone has shaken up the F1 paddock. Observing that drivers were in the habit of simply walking a few steps from the teams' hospitality areas straight into the garage...
The secret of Lotus' speed in 2013 is an hydraulically-controlled active suspension system, Germany's specialist Auto Motor und Sport reports. Last month, we reported that, unde...
The small teams are worried. Currently, they pay around EUR 10 million per year for a customer engine supply, but next year's V6s are expected to cost between EUR 20 and 23 mill...
Ferrari has ordered members of its formula one race team to avoid the streets of Bahrain this week, Speed Week's Mathias Brunner reports from the island Kingdom. Brunner said th...
Bernie Ecclestone is worried F1 cars will be five seconds per lap slower next year compared to 2013. That is the claim of Auto Motor und Sport correspondent Michael Schmidt, who...
We are up and running in Bahrain ready for Round 4 of the Formula 1 World Championship, taking place in the Kingdom this weekend within a week of the last race in China. This...
Helmut Marko has scoffed at reports Red Bull could quit formula one over the 'Multi-21' team orders affair. According to Germany's Auto Motor und Sport, owner Dietrich Mateschit...
New Ferrari tester Pedro de la Rosa has revealed he could also have signed for Mercedes or McLaren for 2013. The 42-year-old Spaniard left his role as McLaren's respected test a...
Team principal Vijay Mallya: "Last weekend's race in China left us with mixed feelings: the pace of the VJM06 was evident throughout the sessions and we would have been on track...
This weekend's Grand Prix in Bahrain will be Mark's 200th Formula One race. He talks us through some of his highlights and we also hear reflections from key figures in Formula O...
Hankook, a South Korean company, has emerged as an alternative official tyre supplier for formula one. Currently the subject of intense criticism of its heavily-degrading 2013 p...
Bahrain International Circuit hosts the Grand Prix of Bahrain this weekend. As a preview a video of a lap onboard with Fernando Alonso around that track. Order 2013 Formu...
Ferrari boss Stefano Domenicali has admitted he would like Jules Bianchi's impressive start to his F1 career to lead him to "other teams". The rookie Frenchman has been a surpri...
Fernando Alonso and Mark Webber have rekindled the 'Multi-21' controversy. When the pair sat down for dinner in Dubai on Tuesday, Spaniard Alonso captured the moment on his phon...
Romain Grosjean needs to rebuild his tattered confidence if he wants to get back on terms with Lotus team leader Kimi Raikkonen. That is the advice of France's quadruple world c...
British F1 journalists have attacked Jean Todt for not travelling to Bahrain for the sport's highly controversial grand prix this weekend. In the days before F1 action kicks off...
Mike Coughlan, Technical Director: "Bahrain is a circuit that has some key characteristics that will present new challenges for the teams. It's a high braking circuit so brake w...
Media reports suggest Bernie Ecclestone could take over Long Beach's iconic street race in California, after Indycar's contract expires next year. The magazine Motorsport sa...
Sao Paulo's mayor has dismissed reports Bernie Ecclestone is close to dropping Interlagos from the F1 calendar after 2013. F1's chief executive was quoted by O Estado de S.Paulo...
Former F1 driver Mika Salo said he felt the major earthquake that struck Iran on Tuesday. Reports said dozens were killed in the 7.8 magnitude quake on the Pakistan border. Finn...
Charles Pic: "I left China on Sunday night and headed straight to Dubai for a couple of days off before going to Bahrain for race four. I was pleased with my performance in Shan...
Lotus owner Genii is offering part of the Enstone based team for sale, according to a report by Cesare Mannucci in Italy's Autosprint. Mannucci said the money would go towards t...
Pirelli has decided against taking its soft tyre compound to this weekend's Bahrain grand prix. Before the season began, F1's official tyre supplier announced that it would take...
Caterham F1 Team has announced that it is restructuring its driver line-up with Heikki Kovalainen rejoining the team as one of the two Reserve Drivers, alongside current Reserve...
Fernando Alonso is the best driver in formula one today. That is the claim of Willi Weber, the former manager of F1's great Michael Schumacher, the seven time world champion and...
Bernie Ecclestone has toned down his rhetoric ahead of the weekend's highly controversial Bahrain grand prix. Earlier, amid reports of explosions near the formula one circuit li...
Nico Rosberg: "I'll be really happy to get back in the car again on Friday after a tough weekend in Shanghai. The first three races haven't quite worked out as we had hoped on m...
McLaren boss Martin Whitmarsh has admitted new team driver Sergio Perez has struggled since replacing Lewis Hamilton. After a poor weekend for the young Mexican in China, includ...
The future of the Nurburgring's formula one race beyond this season is unclear. Earlier, even the circuit's 2013 grand prix was in doubt, as the Nurburgring grappled with financ...
Straight after the Chinese Grand Prix the Sauber F1 Team set off to the Middle East for the Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix. Located in the middle of the desert, heat will play a si...
Paul Hembery has admitted Pirelli might change tack after Sunday's Bahrain grand prix, in the wake of heavy criticism of its 2013 tyres. Mercedes' Niki Lauda, who like Red Bull ...
Bernie Ecclestone has threatened to axe Brazil's formula one race if organisers fail to urgently upgrade the ageing Interlagos circuit. The F1 chief executive told O Estado de S...
Williams will survive if Toto Wolff withdraws his major stake in the famous British team. That is the vow of Claire Williams, who is founder and boss Sir Frank Williams' daughte...
Lotus has played down reports Kimi Raikkonen could be set to jump ship to Red Bull for 2014. Team owner Gerard Lopez told France's RMC Sport that he thinks the rumours connectin...
New Sauber reserve driver Robin Frijns will get back on track this weekend in Bahrain. Earlier, the highly rated 21-year-old Dutchman said he would focus solely on his new formu...
Lotus boss Eric Boullier has backed Romain Grosjean to bounce back from a bad start to the 2013 season. Last year, while often showing lightning speed, Swiss-born Grosjean becam...
Some members of F1's travelling circus admitted their frustration at the end of the Chinese grand prix. "It's quite excruciating," McLaren team boss Martin Whitmarsh is quoted b...
Just one week after the Chinese Grand Prix, Formula One moves to Bahrain where the P Zero Orange hard and P Zero White medium tyres have been nominated. At the Bahrain Internati...
Explosions near the F1 track in Bahrain have marked the travelling circus' quick march from China to the island Kingdom. AP news agency said 'a series of explosions', including ...
Kimi Raikkonen has hinted moving to Red Bull could be an option for 2014. Rumours are swirling in the Shanghai paddock that the Finn, who is Sebastian Vettel's closest friend in...
Even amid McLaren's competitive slump, the spotlight is shining ever more brightly on Sergio Perez. The young Mexican was signed by the British team to replace Lewis Hamilton th...
Mark Webber has signed a five-year deal to switch from formula one to Le Mans-style sports car racing from 2014. That is the claim of Radio Le Mans, citing information from the ...
A rumour in the Shanghai paddock is hinting Sauber has secured a major new sponsor. Veteran correspondent for Blick newspaper, Roger Benoit, said an announcement by the Swiss te...
Fernando Alonso put his championship campaign right back on track in China, while Mark Webber's spectacular woes continued. Ferrari's Spaniard Alonso won a tyre and strategy-dom...
Like Red Bull, Mercedes has also scrapped team orders in the wake of the recent Malaysian grand prix. Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber's already tenuous relationship was shatter...
The big victim of the 'Multi-21' affair has been Sebastian Vettel's image. Previously the British humour-cracking and Beatles-loving 'Mr Nice Guy', the triple world champion's r...
By refusing to deny them, Kimi Raikkonen has only fuelled rumours he is being lined up by Red Bull to replace Mark Webber in 2014. In the wake of the 'Multi-21' affair and the r...
Mercedes must win a title, new director and shareholder Toto Wolff insists. Alongside Niki Lauda, Wolff has swept into the Brackley based team with the goal of ending Mercedes' ...
Fernando Alonso eased the heat on Sebastian Vettel in China by driving away from his theory the German might have been to blame for their Sepang clash. Comments made by Alonso a...
The last time Adrian Sutil was in China, he was involved in a nightclub altercation that almost ended his formula one career. It was early 2011, and the blood-stained run-in wit...
Felipe Massa emerged fastest from a second practice session at the Shanghai International Circuit on Friday in which lap times were heavily affected by rubber thrown off Pirelli...
McLaren has a new reserve driver twitching on the bench in China. Last year, the famous British team signed up promising 20-year-old Kevin Magnussen. The Dane is the son of form...
The Marussia F1 Team is pleased to announce its latest Russian partner, RBC, one of the largest and most dynamic media companies in Russia, ahead of this weekend's Formula 1 U...
Practice One for this weekend's Chinese round got off to a relatively leisurely start in Shanghai International Circuit on Friday morning, under overcast skies and 32 degrees Ce...
Vodafone McLaren Mercedes and Gillette, the worlds leading mens shaving and lifestyle brand, have agreed on an innovative and dynamic marketing partnership that will kick of...
Mercedes-Benz and Michael Schumacher today announced a long-term partnership which will extend far beyond motorsport and Formula 1. Michael Schumacher will mainly be involved wi...
The 'Multi-21' affair stepped up another notch on Thursday, as a feisty Sebastian Vettel withdrew his apology to teammate Mark Webber. "My apology was for the team, not Mark," t...
Lewis Hamilton was absent on Thursday as the rest of the formula one world congregated at the Shanghai circuit. Mercedes said the 2008 world champion's media, sponsor and team c...
After Red Bull beat McLaren's old pitstop speed record no fewer than five times in Malaysia, rivals have been studying the case with great curiosity. According to Germany's Auto...
Fernando Alonso on Wednesday said he intends to retire as a Ferrari driver. The double world champion, and former Minardi, Renault and McLaren driver, is now comfortably Ferrari...
A week before F1's most controversial annual race, Damon Hill has expressed concerns about the latest reports coming from Bahrain. The island Kingdom's government has denied rep...
Kimi Raikkonen has refused to confirm or deny rumours linking him to Red Bull for 2014, insisting even retirement remains an option. In the wake of the 'Multi-21' saga, with som...
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