Volkswagen, the German carmaking giant, has played down suggestions it could launch a formula one project some time soon. "There are always rumours about Volkswagen and formula ...
A tension has crept into F1 drivers' relationships, as they look ahead to a fiery meeting at the Barcelona circuit on Friday. Fernando Alonso had given the first hints about the...
Heikki Kovalainen has admitted some disappointment about Caterham's progress in 2012. In its third season of formula one, and despite being clearly more impressive than its dire...
Illness has sidelined Ross Brawn ahead of this weekend's Spanish grand prix. The Mercedes team will instead be led at Barcelona's Circuit de Catalunya by acting principal Bob Be...
Magny Cours is still in the race to host France's return to formula one. But according to RMC, the race's former host - having run the French grand prix between 1991 and 2008 - ...
The Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team is delighted to confirm a new relationship with Starwood Hotels and Resorts, who become an official Team Partner with effect from the ...
Narain Karthikeyan is not guaranteed his HRT seat for the whole of the 2012 season. Following what the reporter referred to as a 'chat' with the Indian driver, the Times of Indi...
Red Bull Racing has joined forces with the Michael Pachleitner Group to create a Red Bull Racing Eyewear collection, which will be available in 70 countries from the 2012 Spanis...
Paul di Resta has emerged as the latest candidate to possibly succeed struggling Felipe Massa at Ferrari. Britain's Mirror newspaper said the famous Maranello based team has "ma...
Montreal has been warned to spend around $15 million on the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve or risk losing the Canadian grand prix. La Presse reports that Bernie Ecclestone has said o...
HRT Formula 1 Team incorporates Kyocera Document Solutions as its Official Supplier through a collaboration agreement for the 2012 season. The Spanish team will count on Kyocera...
The next Grand Prix is upon us and will be held at Circuit de Catalunya in Barcelona. As preview for the Spaniash Grand Prix a video of a lap onboard with Ferrari driver Fernand...
McLaren has made changes to its pit crew and processes, following recurring problems at recent grands prix. Team boss Martin Whitmarsh launched a full internal investigation aft...
Maria de Villota is not ruling out appearing during a Friday morning practice session some time in 2012. The 32-year-old Spaniard made international headlines in March when she ...
McLaren looks set to run a higher nose this weekend in Spain. Last week, at the very end of the Mugello test, test driver Oliver Turvey debuted a new front wing that featured a ...
Mark Gillan, Chief Operations Engineer: "On the back of a busy Mugello test we are looking forward to the Barcelona race. As the first race back in Europe this is traditionally...
Fernando Alonso: "On the subject of excitement, yesterday was a special day at Maranello. It was the thirtieth anniversary of the death of Gilles Villeneuve and Ferrari chose to...
The boss of Abu Dhabi's F1 circuit has criticised plans to run the young driver test at Silverstone later this year. Originally, the young driver test was scheduled to take plac...
The Spanish Grand Prix, Round 5 of the 2012 Formula One World Championship, heralds the start of the sports European season, when everything seems to move up a gear. The Ch...
Ferrari's title tilt could hinge on the competitiveness of the updated F2012 this weekend in Barcelona. "What I want is to have a competitive car in Barcelona," insisted the fam...
Spanish driver Dani Clos will step into the F112 for the first time on Friday to take part in the first free practice session of the Spanish Grand Prix which will take place at ...
Getting the setup right is a challenge teams are grappling with in 2012. So far this season, four different cars have won the four grands prix, with Pirelli's difficult tyres cr...
Carbonell and HRT Formula 1 Team have signed a collaboration deal through which the leading olive oil brand will have its image present on the drivers overalls, whilst also fo...
The Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team is pleased to announce a new partnership with IWC Schaffhausen, with the Swiss watch manufacturer becoming the Official Engineering Pa...
Michael Schumacher has been pipped at the post in the race to be the world's richest sportsman. According to the Sunday Times' annual listings, the seven time world champion's (...
Toyota Racing regrets to announce that Hiroaki Ishiura is unable to take his place in the driver line-up of the #8 TS030 HYBRID at the Le Mans 24 Hours due to a back complaint. ...
Mark Webber has hit out at F1 rival Vitaly Petrov. Last week, as the sport tested at Mugello, Russian driver Petrov suggested the high speed Ferrari-owned layout is too dangerou...
Mercedes' continued participation in formula one could be put to a shareholders' vote at the end of the year. That is the claim of the respected French commentator Jean-Louis Mo...
McLaren tested a higher front nose at the Mugello test last week. Backmarker Marussia aside, the famous British team is the only team in 2012 to have resisted the temptation of ...
Red Bull's two teams look set to test alone in Abu Dhabi later this season. Until recently, the now-traditional young drivers' test - giving inexperienced drivers the chance to ...
For the first time this year, Pirelli has nominated the combination of P Zero Silver hard tyres and P Zero Yellow soft tyres, at the Circuit de Catalunya that will host the Span...
Michael Schumacher: "After completing our testing programme in Mugello, we are now heading to the start of the European season in Barcelona next week. The positive thing about t...
The Spanish windscreen repair and replacement company and HRT Formula 1 Team have signed a collaboration deal for Cristalbox to become a new sponsor of the Spanish outfit for 20...
Vijay Mallya, team principal: "We may be approaching the fifth race of season, but it's still difficult to get a true read on the relative competitiveness of all the teams. Each...
Food giant Nestle's boss has confirmed he is set to enter the world of formula one. Austrian businessman Peter Brabeck-Letmathe confirmed to Kleine Zeitung newspaper that he has...
Sebastian Vettel: "Of all the current GP tracks, Barcelona is the one that we know the most because we have done so much testing there in recent years. That said, the knowledge ...
Rubens Barrichello is still refusing to give up on his formula one career. After a record-setting 19 consecutive seasons on the grid, the 39-year-old Brazilian lost his Williams...
Mercedes is "on the verge" of quitting formula one. That is the alarming claim of the London newspaper The Times, in an article written by its authoritative F1 correspondent Kev...
Alexander Rossi (replacing Heikki Kovalainen in FP1): "I am looking forward to getting back into the F1 car in Spain and I want to thank the team for the chance to run in FP1 in...
Carlos Sainz jr is on course for a future in formula one. The 17-year-old Spaniard is the son of Carlos Sainz, the former two-time world rally champion. Sainz jr, however, has p...
The Sauber F1 Team is looking forward to the first European round of the 2012 FIA Formula One World Championship, which will be the Santander Spanish Grand Prix on the Circuit d...
With the first stage of the season completed in distant lands, its time for Formula 1 to head much closer to home with the first European event of the Championship taking plac...
Jaime Alguersuari's father has slammed Red Bull's decision to axe his son. Jaime Alguersuari snr said the decision by Dr Helmut Marko to oust the young Spaniard after a strong s...
Ferrari might be gearing up to incorporate a 'double-DRS' setup aboard its improving F2012 car. If true, the famous Italian team would be the first team to successfully emulate ...
Tony Fernandes has admitted he would have liked corporate Malaysia to have backed his formula one team. The Malaysian entrepreneur founded a UK based start-up team in 2010, call...
Michael Schumacher paid a visit to the Pirelli motorhome at Mugello. The seven time world champion was heavily critical of the Italian supplier's 2012 tyres recently in Bahrain,...
Sergio Perez had to be treated at Mugello on Thursday following a smoky incident. Blick newspaper reports that, early on the final day of the rare in-season test, "acrid black s...
Vitaly Petrov on Thursday dealt a blow to Mugello's ambitions to join the F1 calendar. The Russian, who drives for Caterham, said the Ferrari owned circuit in beautiful Tuscany ...
F1 is slowly adjusting to the sport's new reality. Although still with a winning car, Red Bull's utter dominance is undoubtedly over. Not just that, the Pirelli tyre situation, ...
Barcelona has opened the door to alternating its grand prix with F1's other Spanish host Valencia. But the Circuit de Catalunya organisers, set to run the Spanish grand prix nex...
Jean-Eric Vergne has admitted his F1 debut would be easier if he was sharing the Toro Rosso garage with an experienced driver. Instead, the French rookie made his grand prix deb...
Mercedes appears in no mind to change its driver lineup any time soon. Breakthrough China GP winner Nico Rosberg admitted this week that he could imagine staying with the German...
Mugello, the Ferrari owned circuit near Florence, has set its sights on hosting a grand prix. As the high speed circuit hosts this week's rare in-season formula one test, circui...
Sauber has the swagger of a team of the future. The Hinwil based team struggled for survival in the wake of owner BMW's shock withdrawal in late 2009. "We've been through a quit...
An obvious tension was evident at Mugello when Pirelli's Paul Hembery was asked about Michael Schumacher. The seven time world champion had slammed F1's official supplier after ...
F1's newest winner has admitted he has no plans to leave his team. After more than a century of grands prix, Nico Rosberg finally broke through with his first race win recently ...
Sauber was the team with the biggest update package as F1's ultra-rare in-season test began on Tuesday. Kamui Kobayashi was in charge of the revised C31, which including a new e...
Mark Webber has denied signing with the Ferrari team for 2013. Spanish media reports, indicating that a letter of intent may already have been written, said Fernando Alonso favo...
Eleven of the twelve Formula 1 teams are taking part in this three day test session at Mugello, Italy, the first time in four years that there has been a test other than the You...
Rodolfo Gonzalez: "Despite the weather, which was obviously frustrating this afternoon, I've had a good day with the team here at the Mugello test. I love this track - I've won ...
Ferrari driver Fernando Alonso posted the best time between the many rain showers on the first day of testing in Mugello. A 1:22.444 was enought for a top spot for the two times...
Lucas di Grassi has admitted that even his continuing role at Pirelli is not a ticket back onto the F1 grid. "I'm in the best possible position technically, as the driver with k...
The French government is dashing to seal the lid on the country's return to F1. Bernie Ecclestone has said a deal has been reached to annually alternate a race between Paul Rica...
More reports are suggesting Mark Webber could be Ferrari-bound. One of Spain's leading F1 correspondents, Raymond Blancafort, wrote in El Mundo Deportivo that "there may be a pr...
F1's new face of 2012 is polarising the sport. It seems teams, drivers and spectators alike either love or hate the new great influence brought largely by Pirelli's new generati...
Jerome d'Ambrosio has revealed he could drive one of the Lotus cars during Friday morning practice sessions at some point in 2012. The former Virgin driver, who is managed by Lo...
The fact F1 has chosen the Singapore exchange for the sport's high profile floatation does not mean the city-state's popular floodlit street race is guaranteed. The night event'...
Kimi Raikkonen insists he is "not interested" in formula one -- except the cars, and winning. Asked by the reporter for Bild am Sonntag newspaper if the famous Finnish character...
Rumours that a top English premier league football club is entering formula one as a sponsor have proved correct. Ever since Sauber has been running teaser 'Out of the blue' and...
The first and only mid-season test will kick off tomorrow. Not at a Spanish test circuit but at the Italian Mugello circuit eleven Formula 1 teams will test new parts on their c...
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