Rarely do the worlds of formula one and the Olympics collide. But casual viewers of the prestigious equestrian dressage event could hardly believe their ears when a commentator ...
Sebastien Buemi is confident he can return to the formula one grid in 2013. After being dropped by Red Bull's driver development team Toro Rosso, the 23-year-old Swiss was signe...
McLaren, Mercedes and Force India are all struggling with excessive tyre wear this year. And according to Germany's Auto Motor und Sport, the likely culprit is the trio's common...
Martin Whitmarsh has flagged his intention to step down as president of the teams association FOTA. The union was created in the heat of the Max Mosley political war in 2008, wi...
With two seasons behind his back as a Formula 1 driver in 1988 and 1989, and a permanent link with motorsport, Luis Pérez-Sala wasnt entering an unknown world when he was nam...
Nico Rosberg has undoubtedly had the measure of Michael Schumacher since the seven time world champion returned to the sport in 2010. That is the reluctant view of Sebastian Vet...
Timo Glock has counted himself out of this year's driver 'silly season'. Theoretically, there are 2013 race seats up for grabs at teams including grandees Ferrari, McLaren and M...
A Nurburgring official has admitted the German circuit cannot afford to host formula one next year. As per the existing German GP alternating scheme with Hockenheim, the Nurburg...
Jenson Button has revealed he would only consider becoming Fernando Alonso's Ferrari teammate "in a parallel universe". The 2009 world champion's latest interview, with Italy's ...
Bruno Senna has conceded he needs to up his game in qualifying in order to secure his future at Williams. After incomplete seasons with HRT (2010) and Renault (2011), this year ...
Heikki Kovalainen believes he is ready to return to a top team like McLaren. After a difficult debut season at Renault in 2007 in the wake of Fernando Alonso's departure, the no...
Triple title winning engineer Chris Dyer could be set to return to formula one. After serving as Michael Schumacher and Kimi Raikkonen's championship-winning race engineer at Fe...
Ping-pong or the Olympics? It's a tough choice for formula one drivers as they contemplate how to spend their rare free time during the August break. Felipe Massa, having return...
Martin Whitmarsh, a former boss of the famous Finn some years ago, has admitted he has been impressed by Kimi Raikkonen in 2012. The pair worked together between 2002 and 2006, ...
Another publication is reporting rumours McLaren will follow Ferrari's lead in opting for innovative pull-rod front and rear suspension for its 2013 car. A little more than a mo...
Toto Wolff, a shareholder and now Williams' new executive director, has ruled out testing the famous British team's 2012 car. Williams test driver Susie Wolff's husband, and Fri...
Despite the current Concorde Agreement uncertainty, all 12 competing F1 teams will almost certainly line up on the 2013 grid. Originally, the FIA imposed a June 30 deadline for ...
Technical boss James Allison has confirmed speculation Lotus intends to debut its so-called 'double DRS' system in Belgium next month. On British broadcaster Sky's 'F1 Show', te...
Charlie Whiting has pointed a finger of criticism at Michael Schumacher and Mercedes in the wake of the recent Hungarian grand prix. The Hungaroring race start was delayed when ...
Formula one is officially on holiday. A gentleman's agreement between the 12 competing teams means every factory has closed its doors and sent home its staff for a full 14 day p...
Daniel Ricciardo did not interpret Red Bull's decision to keep Mark Webber in 2013 as a door slammed in his face. Now the cream of the energy drink company's driver development ...
HRT boss Luis Perez-Sala has admitted his first taste of the struggling Spanish team was not a happy one. The former Minardi driver was appointed by HRT's new owners Thesan Capi...
Sauber has not decided if it will stay with Ferrari power in 2014. The Swiss team has expressed grave doubts about the increased costs of renting engines for the radical new V6 ...
Bernie Ecclestone has admitted it is unlikely a bid to stage a grand prix at London's Olympic stadium will succeed. A company called Intelligent Transport Services recently laun...
Pirelli chief Paul Hembery thinks it would be wrong for formula one to return to the 'tyre war' era. Recent rumours hinted FIA president Jean Todt would like to see Michelin ret...
Mark Webber has described the high profile of technical controversies involving Red Bull as a "tactic" deployed by rival teams. This week, a reportedly "furious" Ferrari hit bac...
A reportedly "furious" Ferrari has hit back at Red Bull, after the reigning champions suggested the famous Italian team broke the rules "for a year". Frustrated with the constan...
Sauber is "laid back" about its driver situation for 2013. That is the claim of chief executive Monisha Kaltenborn, despite reports Kamui Kobayashi has underperformed, Sergio Pe...
Mark Webber has described the high profile of technical controversies involving Red Bull as a "tactic" deployed by rival teams. This week, a reportedly "furious" Ferrari hit bac...
There is good news from new formula one hosts in Texas as well as Sochi, Russia. Austin's new Circuit of the Americas announced that three-day general admission tickets for its ...
The recently-married Romain Grosjean knows exactly how he will be spending F1's long August shutdown. "I think it's time for a honeymoon," smiled Lotus' rookie Frenchman. But no...
McLaren looks set to be the next team with a 'double DRS'-like system aboard its 2012 car. After Mercedes and then Lotus pioneered the straightline speed-boosting concept this s...
Former F1 driver Tomas Enge has been banned by the governing FIA for 18 months. The now 35-year-old Czech, the only F1 driver ever to fail a drugs test a decade ago, failed yet ...
The stream of F1 news may be running thin as the sport races into its August slumber and factory shutdowns, but the roar of V8 engines has continued this week. Daniel Ricciardo ...
All is not yet lost for Valencia's grand prix. Recent reports suggested Bernie Ecclestone had said in Hungary last weekend that the European grand prix, held on the streets of t...
Former F1 driver Karl Wendlinger has admitted he has been impressed with Kimi Raikkonen in 2012. After sitting out two full grand prix seasons while he forayed in world rallying...
Red Bull and Wings For Life ambassador David Coulthard will be putting our Running Showcar through its paces down the streets of Denmark this weekend to mark the start of the Co...
The embattled Nurburgring's formula one future is looking brighter this week. With the fabled circuit now in an insolvency process, reports last week said F1 supremo Bernie Eccl...
Red Bull has hit back at the latest technical controversy by insisting Ferrari was the first on the grid with a hand-operated adjuster. It emerged in Hungary last weekend that, ...
In June, we reported that the highly-rated German was at war with the team's 2012 car -- outpaced by rookie teammate Charles Pic and certain something was fundamentally wrong wi...
The paddock noise about Red Bull 'cheating' is fuelled by jealousy, the team's Dr Helmut Marko has claimed. So far in 2012, the reigning champions have been at the centre of mos...
Stefano Domenicali has warned that Ferrari is only on the market for a number two driver. With the 2013 option on Felipe Massa's contract running out last week, a large number ...
A Spanish publication has spotted a walking and apparently well Maria de Villota entering an outpatient clinic in Spain this week. After 17 days in a UK hospital, and several mo...
Joan Villadelprat is full of praise for Lotus, a team he says still has the blood of Benetton and Renault flowing in its veins. Spaniard Villadelprat, who was team manager at th...
Valentino Rossi has used Ferrari as an example of an Italian racing team that managed to emerge from a deep crisis. Increasingly frustrated with his MotoGP outfit Ducati's lack ...
Pirelli has announced the first three tyre nominations for the second half of the 2012 season in Belgium, Italy and Singapore. At Spa, the home of the Belgian Grand Prix, the P ...
Jenson Button insists he is not ready to fall in line behind his teammate Lewis Hamilton's championship bid. In Hungary, Felipe Massa - who is pushing to stay at Ferrari next ye...
Norbert Haug has played down expectations Michael Schumacher's plans beyond the 2012 season will be discussed and decided during the month-long August break. With the seven time...
Eric Boullier has revealed he "definitely" plans to keep not just Kimi Raikkonen at Lotus in 2013, but also the Finn's impressive rookie teammate Romain Grosjean. The Enstone ba...
Paul di Resta's recent split with his former manager Anthony Hamilton is heading to the courts, the Telegraph has revealed. The British newspaper said Hamilton, who is McLaren d...
Pastor Maldonado insists it is not fair if he is gaining a reputation as a 'crash driver'. Sauber's Sergio Perez was furious with the Venezuelan after their clash at Silverstone...
Mercedes has started a process of restructuring its technical team, Italy's Autosprint reports. The report said the Brackley based team's aerodynamics chief John Owen is moving ...
Bruno Senna was feeling confident about the future after Sunday's Hungarian grand prix. Surrounded by burgeoning paddock rumours the Williams shareholder Toto Wolff-managed Valt...
Half a season into 2012, Jaime Alguersuari has aimed fire at his former team Toro Rosso. The Red Bull-owned squad controversially dumped its established race drivers Alguersuari...
Vitaly Petrov's manager has revealed she is in talks with three teams about the 2013 season. After Renault (now Lotus) dropped him at the end of last season, Russian Petrov move...
Reuters news agency described Michael Schumacher's Hungarian grand prix as a "comedy of errors". And two of the errors were committed by the 43-year-old even before the race sta...
A feud is brewing at the back of the grid. Germany's SID news agency said Marussia's driver duo Timo Glock and Charles Pic are not getting along. The report said rookie Frenc...
Valtteri Bottas is staking his claim on a race seat at Williams in 2013. The Finn, who is the British team's reserve and morning practice driver, was marginally faster than Will...
A trio of formula one drivers have criticised the performance of Pirelli's rain tyres. Seven time world champion Michael Schumacher on Friday suffered his second crash in wet co...
Craig Pollock's 'Pure' company has paused its operations, the German website motorsport-total and journalists Dieter Rencken and Stefan Ziegler have revealed. Pollock, formerly ...
As he pushed for victory on Sunday, rumours Kimi Raikkonen is back on Ferrari's radar continued to swirl and flourish in the Hungaroring paddock. The rumour was given life by te...
Lewis Hamilton dominated the Hungarian grand prix weekend from start to finish. But Sunday was still a very happy 31st birthday for runaway championship leader Fernando Alonso, ...
Pedro de la Rosa's stint with the HRT team looks set to continue beyond 2012. The Spanish backmarker HRT's new management, led by former grand prix driver Luis Perez Sala, convi...
A heavy shower with 42 minutes of the second free practice session still to run ended an entertaining battle for supremacy at the Hungaroring on Friday afternoon. But though the...
Nico Hulkenberg on Thursday admitted he is not certain if he will still be racing a Force India in 2013. After serving a season as the Silverstone based team's reserve last year...
The FIA has denied there is an anti-Red Bull "conspiracy" at play in 2012. In the few days between Hockenheim and Hungary, Dr Helmut Marko's grumbling about the 'engine mapping'...
Ferrari has allowed a contract 'option' on Felipe Massa's services for the 2013 season to expire, according to Italy's Autosprint magazine. Amid the Brazilian's early struggles ...
No one came within half a second of the McLarens in the first free practice for the Hungarian Grand Prix. Lewis Hamilton posted the fastest time with Jenson Button on P2. Champi...
Bernie Ecclestone is looking into buying the embattled Nurburgring, Die Rheinpfalz newspaper reported on Thursday. Citing an interview with F1's chief executive, the report said...
Red Bull's drivers on Thursday played down the impact of the 'engine mapping' rule clarification. Following the 'legal traction control' and exhaust engine blowing controversy a...
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