Bernie Ecclestone is getting married again. It will be the F1 supremo's third marriage. His first wife was Ivy, and they had a daughter, Deborah. 81-year-old Ecclestone's best k...
Two teams deployed a quiet 'trick' in Bahrain in order to exploit a loophole in the long-life gearbox rules, a specialist publication claims. Williams' Pastor Maldonado had to m...
Pirelli is getting the credit - or the blame - for F1's unstable pecking order so far in 2012. For the first time in almost three decades, four different cars - McLaren, Ferrari...
Jenson Button has admitted he sees no point to changing McLaren's Mugello test programme next week. After the British team struggled for pace on Pirelli's complex tyres last wee...
Jaime Alguersuari reportedly ended talks with the Lotus (nee Renault) team late last year because he believed his job at Toro Rosso was safe. That is the claim of the Spanish pu...
F1's governing body is looking into mandating 'forward roll-hoops' to boost driver safety. The innovation would be to prevent the kind of incidents that, in 2009, seriously inju...
Rumours that F1 team owner Genii is contemplating buying the Group Lotus sports car company are continuing to gain steam. That is despite Genii's Gerard Lopez confirming recentl...
F1's plans to float on the Singapore stock exchange are continuing to harden. The sport's majority owner CVC has reportedly lined up several banks - including UBS, RBS, Morgan S...
A spat between two Britons could drive the German giant Mercedes out of formula one, according to a new media report. F1 chief executive Bernie Ecclestone recently confirmed he ...
Red Bull has poured cold water on expectations the reigning back to back world champions could be set to resume their reign over formula one. After a victory drought spanning th...
Another theory about Force India's absence from a practice session in Bahrain last weekend has emerged. Word has it the Silverstone based team sat out the second session on Frid...
James Key could be the next formula one engineer to join F1's struggling giant Ferrari. Multiple media sources, including the authoritative Italian specialist newspaper La Gazze...
A respected specialist publication has questioned the official spectator figures published by the organisers of Sunday's highly controversial Bahrain grand prix. The Sakhir c...
Music fans attending September's 2012 Formula 1 Singtel Singapore Grand Prix will be able to relive some of the greatest hits of the 1980s at a series of free concerts featuring...
After some careful assessment, HRT Formula 1 Team has decided not to take part in the upcoming Formula 1 tests celebrated in Mugello, Italy, next week (1st-3rd May). With the fi...
Bernie Ecclestone has revealed he was not happy Bahrain organisers used the acronym 'F1' in its political slogan for last weekend's race. The F1 chief executive was highly suppo...
Australian F1 fans are this week rejoicing in local hero Mark Webber even more than usual. Pressure applied by the Red Bull driver was reportedly instrumental in returning the s...
Kimi Raikkonen can add a second title to his tally in 2012. That is the claim of the 2007 world champion's countryman Mika Salo, who now commentates on Finnish television MTV3. ...
He does not agree with the seven time world champion, but Norbert Haug insists he can understand Michael Schumacher's criticism of the current generation of Pirelli tyre. Mer...
Becoming Pirelli's test driver was "not an option" for Adrian Sutil, the out-of-work F1 driver has admitted. "Right now I'm waiting," the former Force India driver told Eurospor...
Caterham F1 Team has confirmed that Rodolfo Gonzalez will be joining race drivers Vitaly Petrov and Heikki Kovalainen at the fourth official test of the 2012 F1 season, taking p...
After consecutive points-scoring finishes in Malaysia and China, Williams F1 endured a frustrating Bahrain Grand Prix. Both of its FW34s retired from the 57-lap race, leaving th...
Tyres. The political dramas aside, that word utterly dominated the Bahrain grand prix weekend. Afterwards, Michael Schumacher admitted he was "unhappy" with the situation. "Some...
All this year's title contenders know after four 'flyaway' races in 2012 is that they do not know what will happen in Spain next month. "The only certainty is uncertainty," read...
With the F1 world now returned from Bahrain, the sport is assessing the fallout of one of the most controversial grands prix in history. The drivers were conspicuously quiet ove...
Three races into the season, Eric Boullier cut a figure of frustration in the Formula 1 paddock. With round four finally providing the reward the team deserved for their efforts...
Fernando Alonso has backed his beleaguered teammate Felipe Massa. Massa is fighting to save his Ferrari seat, but his team boss Stefano Domenicali insists the Brazilian also "ne...
McLaren will join top-team rivals Ferrari and Red Bull on F1's board. It had emerged last month that only Ferrari and Red Bull had been offered the special deals for the new Con...
Jean Alesi would like to see the pressure eased on the shoulders of France's new F1 hope. Until Sunday, Alesi was the last French driver to have stood on a formula one podium, a...
The calamitous Bahrain grand prix saga has not jeopardised the island Kingdom's future on the F1 calendar. That is the strident claim of Bernie Ecclestone, after the F1 chief ex...
Lewis Hamilton is rethinking McLaren's scheduled approach to the rare and crucial in-season test at Mugello next week. The British team announced last week that both Hamilton an...
Bernie Ecclestone has confirmed that Barcelona and Valencia will, from next year, alternate a single annual Spanish grand prix race date. Currently, the two venues have their ow...
With Red Bull the latest to hold a trophy aloft this year, yet another potential 2012 champion has emerged. In theory, back to back world champion Sebastian Vettel, the Bahrain ...
Amid Ferrari's performance crisis with the struggling F2012 car, the Italian team has emerged from the opening 'flyaway' races with a solid head of steam. He might be just fifth...
Felipe Massa's future in formula one is at stake in 2012, Ferrari team boss Stefano Domenicali has admitted. He said the struggling Brazilian driver, already fighting to keep hi...
Lotus did not consider employing team orders in order to boost Kimi Raikkonen's chances of winning the Bahrain grand prix. The 2007 world champion ultimately finished second and...
Bernie Ecclestone on Sunday confirmed reports France is definitely heading back to the F1 calendar. Reports earlier this weekend said authorities had "finally agreed" a figure f...
Pirelli went on the defensive on Sunday, following criticism in the wake of the Bahrain grand prix. British commentator Martin Brundle said the Italian marque's heavily-degradin...
Red Bulls Sebastian Vettel leapt back into the limelight - and the lead of the world championship - with victory in Sunday's 2012 Formula 1 Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix. The wo...
Nico Rosberg escaped unscathed but the bird was not so lucky, after a 200kph collision in Bahrain during Friday practice. Bild newspaper reports that the Shanghai winner, and...
Internet hackers have threatened to wreak havoc as they sided against formula one over the sport's decision to push ahead with the highly controversial Bahrain Grand Prix. Th...
Bahrain's Crown Prince on Friday ruled out cancelling the troubled island kingdom's Grand Prix. "I think cancelling just empowers extremists," he told reporters, whilst standing...
Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg carried on where he had left off, following his pole position and debut victory in China last week, by setting the fastest time of the day during fr...
Kimi Raikkonen: "The soft tyres felt better today but we have to work out which tyre will work best over a stint duration. It's too early to draw any conclusion and we have to l...
Daniel Ricciardo: "Importantly, we made progress through the day, after the first session did not go too well. We couldn't get the tyres to work properly, wheel spinning on the ...
Heikki Kovalainen: "A good day for us in terms of the mileage we've covered and the amount of data we've collated. This morning the track wasn't as dusty as we'd feared, so the ...
The Bahrain International Circuit (5.412 km) hosted the first day of practice sessions today at the fourth event of the season and HRT Formula 1 Team proved its progression once...
Nico Rosberg: "That was a good start to the weekend, and whilst it's nice to be quickest today, we know that doesn't count. The most important thing still is to improve our race...
Sahara Force India completed a busy morning practice session in Bahrain with Paul Di Resta and Nico Hulkenberg each completing 26 laps respectively. Both drivers used the soft a...
Nico Rosberg has set the best time on the first day of the Bahrain Grand Prix. The Mercedes driver, who one his first Grand Prix in China, was the only one in the 1:32's. Red Bu...
Rubens Barrichello has revealed he feels partly responsible for Williams' surge in form so far in 2012. For the veteran Brazilian's final season in F1 last year, the famous Brit...
Force India might skip Friday's second practice session in Bahrain. Two of the Silverstone based team's staff members returned to the UK earlier this week after a Molotov cockta...
Fernando Alonso has admitted Ferrari currently has the "sixth or seventh" best formula one car. The Spaniard took issue with a pre-season analysis in the specialist press that p...
Lewis Hamilton has set the best time in the first free practice for the Bahrain Grand Prix. The McLaren driver realised a 1:33.572 and was three tenths faster than Sebastian Vet...
Monaco has made changes to its famous street circuit in the wake of Sergio Perez's high-speed crash last year. Ahead of his debut Monaco race, Mexican Perez lost control of h...
Force India deputy boss Bob Fernley has dismissed reports the Silverstone based team could pull out of the controversial Bahrain grand prix. Two members of the team were allowed...
Caterham F1 Team, are the latest team from the FIA Formula One World Championship to be confirmed for Bavaria City Racing Dublin which takes place in the heart of the capital on...
Mercedes GP could be set to lose a major shareholder. Citing informed sources, the German 'Manager Magazin' reports that the Abu Dhabi investment vehicle Aabar is in talks to en...
Ferrari has bolstered its aerodynamic team by hiring a former Red Bull team member. Italy's Omnicorse, and Marca in Spain, are reporting that Briton Ben Agathangelou has been si...
Bernie Ecclestone has revealed he does not support moves to install a budget cap in F1. "It wouldn't work," the sport's chief executive Bernie Ecclestone told Germany's Auto Mot...
A member of the Force India team is returning to Europe following a firebomb attack in Bahrain. The BBC reports that an incident occurred near a Force India hire car as members ...
Team principal Vijay Mallya: "The Chinese Grand Prix was certainly an entertaining race and it showed once again that we have one of the most competitive grids in the history of...
A support-race team and a respected journalist have become the next to pull out of this weekend's highly controversial Bahrain grand prix. The Porsche Supercup team MRS said its...
Organisers of the New York street race have hit back at Bernie Ecclestone's claim the inaugural 2013 date might be delayed a year. The F1 chief executive had announced a race on...
Bernie Ecclestone has confirmed he is still at loggerheads with Mercedes over the new Concorde Agreement. The German carmaker's team is the big missing name, after F1 chief exec...
Sauber's 'teaser' has done the trick, triggering paddock speculation about its forthcoming major backer. Last weekend in China, off the back of Sergio Perez's recent push for vi...
Bernie Ecclestone's latest proposal is that F1's most important races become a tennis-like 'Grand Slam'. Insisting that the calendar will probably not expand much beyond 20 race...
After a frustrating outing in Shanghai, Scuderia Toro Rosso's Daniel Ricciardo looks for a silver lining to take away from China. Ricciardo: "Well, we're in Bahrain. We left ...
Apparent troubles for New York's inaugural grand prix could be good news for Texas, according to reports in the United States. Bernie Ecclestone said on Tuesday that the race sc...
Michael Schumacher: "Having experienced a race such as China gives everybody in the team a big push, and we certainly will give our optimum to repeat our performance in the next...
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