Cosworth is for sale. Having lost its best F1 customers Williams and Caterham, in recent months it has been discussed as an open secret in the grand prix paddocks that the indep...
Porsche has denied rumours it is preparing to enter Formula One. Germany's Auto Motor und Sport reported this week that while the VW brand is open about its Le Mans return plans...
A lot of people expected an official announcement today from Lotus and Kimi Raikkonen about a new contract next year. Raikkonen has signed a new contract today but not with Lotu...
Dr Helmut Marko has admitted he cannot understand Ferrari's tactics during the Korean Grand Prix. Fernando Alonso finished behind both Red Bulls at the Yeongam track, therefore ...
A London grand prix is unlikely because the government is not willing to support it. That is the admission of Bernie Ecclestone, who told F1 business journalist Christian Sylt t...
Ferrari announced late on Tuesday that Felipe Massa is staying with the team in 2013. Although the one-year contract ties in with rumours Sebastian Vettel could replace him in 2...
Bruno Senna is hoping to stay at Williams in 2013. Most paddock experts are expecting the British team to keep the PDVSA-backed Pastor Maldonado on board, but pair him with Finn...
Formula One tyre supplier Pirelli has announced the tyre nominations for the final three grands prix of the year. In Abu Dhabi, the teams will use the P Zero White medium tyre a...
Bob Fernley has played down his boss Vijay Mallya's latest problems. Already grappling with his ailing airline Kingfisher, Force India chief Mallya now faces arrest in his nativ...
Michael Schumacher has ruled out falling back on two wheels as he prepares once again for F1 retirement. The great German raced in the German superbike series at times during hi...
Flavio Briatore is ever more pessimistic about Fernando Alonso's chances of winning the 2012 championship. Some days ago, the Spaniard's former Renault boss said Alonso only has...
Jenson Button has hit out at those suggesting McLaren is falling out with departing driver Lewis Hamilton. Hamilton is heading to Mercedes next year, and since the news broke, r...
Luca di Montezemolo has hinted Felipe Massa's future will be decided on Tuesday. As F1 left Korea on Sunday, speculation was rife that the Brazilian had done enough to secure a ...
There are rumours in the paddock that Porsche is considering a formula one foray, according to Germany's Auto Motor und Sport. The VW-brand Porsche is returning to Le Mans, but ...
Ferrari and Red Bull on Monday separately denied reports Sebastian Vettel is destined for the great Italian team in 2014. With Felipe Massa set to be re-signed for next year, th...
Sebastien Buemi has revealed he is confident he will return to the grid in 2013. Like the now Pirelli tester Jaime Alguersuari, Swiss Buemi was ousted by Toro Rosso at the end o...
Timo Glock has lamented an apparent lack of respect for F1's smallest teams. According to Germany's Auto Motor und Sport, engine supplier Renault has said it is 'not interested'...
Toro Rosso's Jean-Eric Vergne has branded his eighth-place finish in the Korean Grand Prix as his best performance in Formula One so far. To get eighth and ninth, with Daniel al...
McLaren mechanics chose a run with Jenson Button over Lewis Hamilton's farewell party in Japan recently, according to British newspapers. The reports have revealed that Hamilton...
Red Bull is still not willing to slot Mark Webber into a supporting role after Sunday's Korean grand prix. With the Australian on pole but 60 points behind Fernando Alonso's cha...
A visibly disappointed Fernando Alonso has in Korea finally lost his long-standing championship lead, as his title rival Sebastian Vettel won a third consecutive grand prix on S...
Felipe Massa has done enough to secure a new Ferrari contract for 2013. The Brazilian was at times even faster in Korea than his championship-challenging teammate Fernando Alons...
Lewis Hamilton has admitted his manager had talks with Ferrari. After six years with McLaren, the 2008 world champion went on the driver market for 2013 and has ultimately joine...
A formula one steward serving at this weekend's Korean grand prix has warned Romain Grosjean not to crash at the first corner on Sunday. Frenchman Grosjean was banned at Monza f...
While practice times had Sebastian Vettel favourite to take pole position in Korea, it was team-mate Mark Webber who finished qualifying in P1. It's a great place to start the r...
Two weeks before he is due to sit on the pitwall in his native India, Force India chief Vijay Mallya is facing arrest. A non-bailable arrest warrant was issued by a Hyderabad co...
Ferrari has denied claims in Brazil Felipe Massa has signed a new contract for the 2013 season. The news was reported from Korea by the Brazilian broadcaster Globo, but the famo...
Michael Schumacher has backed Mercedes' decision to replace him for 2013 and beyond with Lewis Hamilton. The seven time world champion told SID news agency the perception that h...
Championship lead-chaser Sebastian Vettel hit out at his engineer 'Rocky' on Saturday after missing pole in Korea. It was his Red Bull teammate Mark Webber trumping qualifying i...
Kimi Raikkonen: "The circuit is okay; it's surprisingly bumpy in some parts but it's quite different from other places we race. It's difficult for me to say about the exhaust un...
Pirelli's P Zero Yellow soft and P Zero Red supersoft tyres took to the track in Korea for the first time this season, during the two free practice sessions at the 5.615-kilomet...
The opening sessions of the 2012 Korean Grand Prix got underway at the Korea International Circuit at Yeongam today, where the day proved a little challenging for the Marussia F...
Jaime Alguersuari is preparing to announce his plans for 2013, having wrapped up his on-track duties as Pirelli test driver. "New challenges, new goals. Follow me very soon," th...
Jean-Eric Vergne: "Today was a sort of anniversary for me, as it was in Korea that I started driving the Friday morning sessions for Toro Rosso and today, that went much better ...
Peter Sauber has essentially confirmed reports Esteban Gutierrez and Nico Hulkenberg are in the running to drive for the Swiss team in 2013. With Sergio Perez heading to McLaren...
Giedo van der Garde: "Another very useful session for me and the more time I spend in the car the more confident I'm getting. This morning we were running a similar program to H...
Felipe Massa has hinted an announcement about his 2013 contract extension at Ferrari may be imminent. "I think it will not be long," the Brazilian told Totalrace, amid reports t...
Vitaly Petrov has hit back at reports he will definitely slide out of formula one at the end of the season. Previously boosted by his Russian supporters, Petrov's manager Oksana...
Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber pushed Red Bull to the top of the timesheets in the second free practice session at Yeongam on Friday afternoon. Just 0.032s separated the battl...
McLarens Lewis Hamilton set the two fastest laps in Fridays opening practice session for the Korean round. First he recorded 1m 39.280s to depose long-time pacesetter Fernan...
With the title battle now essentially a head-to-head between Sebastian Vettel and Fernando Alonso, Ferrari has acknowledged that its F2012 was outclassed by Red Bull's improved ...
Korea, among F1's new breed of grands prix, is far from the most popular stop on the sport's annual calendar. Well-known British F1 photographer Darren Heath tweeted from the me...
Team Australia will have a star-studded pairing for the 2012 Race Of Champions as triple V8 Supercar champion Jamie Whincup lines up alongside motorcycling legend Mick Doohan at...
Niki Lauda has already made a move on Adrian Newey. Austrian great Lauda, having negotiated Mercedes' new Concorde Agreement and wooed Lewis Hamilton to the German squad, has al...
Kamui Kobayashi has admitted he could lose his formula one seat due to a lack of sponsorship. Sauber is yet to name its 2013 driver lineup, but Japanese Kobayashi was considered...
Mark Gillan, Chief Operations Engineer: "After a disappointing qualifying in Suzuka both drivers demonstrated very good pace in the race, with Pastor securing a solid 8th place....
Martin Whitmarsh has defended McLaren's 2013 signing, Sergio Perez. After their on-track battle at Suzuka, in which Perez spun his Sauber into retirement, departing McLaren prot...
Mercedes chiefs Niki Lauda and Norbert Haug have scotched claims the German squad sacked Michael Schumacher. Mere days after Mercedes signed Lewis Hamilton to be Nico Rosberg's ...
South Korea will play host for the sixteenth Grand Prix of this season. As preview for that race a video of a lap around the circuit of Yeongam with Fernando Alonso ...
Peter Sauber has handed over the role of team principal to Monisha Kaltenborn, making her the first female boss on the pitwall. The Swiss squad announced in a statement that, tw...
Sebastian Vettel: "In principle, the track is made up of two parts: a permanent race track and the end, which is more like a street circuit although were not in the city. The ...
Dr Helmut Marko has revealed he is pleased Lewis Hamilton is moving to Mercedes. Red Bull's driver manager, who is also the team owner Dietrich Mateschitz's right-hand man on ra...
Honda is not ruling out a return to formula one in the future. The Japanese carmaker pulled out of the sport after the 2008 season, amid the global financial crisis and the slum...
The Yeongam circuit takes in a very wide variety of speeds and corners, with Pirelli bringing the P Zero Yellow soft and P Zero Red supersoft compounds: making it one of the tou...
Sebastian Vettel has stated he does not "understand" why Felipe Massa has struggled so much alongside Fernando Alonso at Ferrari. The 2012 championship looks set to be a head-to...
Jenson Button has admitted he is working to build a team around him at McLaren. Even as reigning champion, when the Briton arrived at McLaren in 2010, paddock figures likened th...
It is simplistic to say Red Bull has sped into the 2012 title favourites' role due to its new 'double DRS' device. As Sebastian Vettel closed the championship gap to Fernando Al...
It's another short hop in the space of a week as the Marussia F1 Team embarks on its fifth back to back race of the 2012 season - this time from Japan to Korea. Suzuka was a str...
Pastor Maldonado has admitted there is "a chance" he will switch teams ahead of the 2013 season. Days ago, before Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez was re-elected by his countrym...
Niki Lauda has confirmed that Michael Schumacher turned to Sauber and even Ferrari once he knew he would lose his Mercedes seat. Austrian legend Lauda, who has joined Mercedes a...
Giedo van der Garde (driving FP1 in Vitaly Petrov's car): "I'm looking forward to my second FP1 in a row in Korea after driving the first Friday in Suzuka. The Korean track is a...
Even on his dominant cruise to Suzuka victory, Sebastian Vettel managed to irk his Red Bull bosses. Late in the Japanese grand prix, with the race in the bag, the German sped up...
The Formula 1 World Championship continues in the Far East as it leaves Japan behind and heads to South Korea. It will be the fifth back-to-back race in the season meaning that ...
Former Ferrari driver Gerhard Berger thinks the great Italian team should drop Felipe Massa. However, after the Brazilian at Suzuka finally returned to the podium after a two-ye...
A German F1 pundit has advised Niki Lauda to take an axe to Mercedes' current personnel lineup. Lauda, the great Austrian triple world champion, has been signed on as Mercedes' ...
After a breathtaking Japanese Grand Prix with Kamui Kobayashi clinching his first podium in Formula One, the Sauber F1 Team wants to build on the momentum as it heads to South K...
McLaren's drivers have conceded that they are effectively now out of the chase for the world championship. After Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel won in Suzuka with title leader Fern...
Eric Boullier was vague when asked if Romain Grosjean's constant first-lap crashes have endangered his future in formula one. "Not for now," said the Lotus team boss, who double...
Michael Schumacher: "Korea is one of the more recent additions to the Formula One calendar, and that's still reflected in the fact that we don't get too many fans at the race. I...
Lotus has sidelined its 'double DRS' system for now. While Red Bull quickly got its similar concept up and running to great effect with wins in Singapore and Japan, Lotus has be...
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