Torrential rain washed out qualifying for the Japanese Grand Prix yesterday, forcing race organisers to postpone the session at the Suzuka circuit until this morning. Qualifying was postponed several times and was eventually abandoned for the day. Race...
Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel held off his championship-leading team-mate Mark Webber to take practice honours yesterday for this weekend’s Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka. The 23-year-old German, who beat Webber in morning practice by just four...
Ferrari’s former head mechanic Nigel Stepney has been handed a 20-month suspended prison sentence for his role in the Formula One ‘spygate’ scandal. Stepney, who appeared in court in Modena on Wednesday, was convicted of sabotaging Kimi Raikkonen’s car...
Mark Webber was more than happy with third place at the Singapore Grand Prix yesterday to keep him at the top of the drivers’ championship despite a collision with Lewis Hamilton. Red Bull’s Australian driver gambled with an early pit stop, which paid...
Fernando Alonso produced a masterful drive yesterday to win an incident-packed Singapore Grand Prix ahead of a charging Sebastian Vettel to put the world championship title race on a knife-edge. Starting from pole position, the Ferrari star led from...
Lotus might have zero points after 14 races on their return to Formula One, but their Malaysian boss Tony Fernandes says it’s been a fantastic season so far. The team’s T127 car made its debut at the Bahrain Grand Prix in Sakhir on March 12 with the...
McLaren keen to prove their worth on high-downforce Singapore track
Fernando Alonso started his Ferrari career with a stunning maiden victory in his opening race in Bahrain in March and he hopes to complete his debut season with another win – and the drivers’ world title – when the F1 circus returns to the Gulf in...
Jenson Button believes this year’s fight for the Formula One world title will go down to the wire, with the winner the driver who will stay coolest under pressure. With five races to go just 24 points, less than for a race victory these days, separates...
McLaren team chief Martin Whitmarsh predicted a thrilling fight for this year’s Formula One world championship. The McLaren boss was quick to confirm that he believed his drivers would be involved all the way after his defending champion Jenson Button...
Lotus Racing have reached an agreement with Cosworth to terminate their engine supply deal after just one year of a three-year contract. Lotus’ entry into Formula One, along with fellow newcomers Virgin and Hispania Racing, was conditional upon them...
Lewis Hamilton was left apologising to his McLaren team following a first-lap crash of an Italian Grand Prix weekend to forget. Hamilton admitted to making a mistake after qualifying with regard to his set-up after choosing the wrong path in comparison...
Italian Grand Prix winner Fernando Alonso has warned his Ferrari team they will need to find true consistency for the title run-in if they want this season to end in glory. The 29-year-old Spaniard said his hopes of a third drivers’ title would depend...
Defending world champion Jenson Button said he would rather quit Formula One than be asked to obey team orders. The 30-year-old Englishman said he had never been asked to give way and support another driver in his career. “But, if team orders come in...
Hamilton crashes out in first lap at Monza
India’s Formula One team and drivers yesterday welcomed the country’s first opportunity to hold a Grand Prix, calling it an endorsement of its recent progress. The World Motor Sport Council in Paris on Wednesday formally approved India’s inclusion on...
Spaniard Fernando Alonso insists that his Ferrari team have ironed out the issues that impeded them at Spa two weeks ago, and is expecting a strong performance at this weekend’s Italian Grand Prix. The 29-year-old double-champion, currently 41 points...
Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button may be friends and team-mates, but both are close rivals for the F1 world championship and each has his own goals as he enters the run-in to the end of the season. Yet, while Red Bull’s oft-warring pairing of impetuous...
Monza will be our weakest circuit – Horner
Rome’s hopes of staging a Formula One grand prix would appear to rest on the level of opposition from local residents. A race through the streets of the Eternal City has long been on the agenda, potentially as early as 2012. The logistics, however, of...
Australian Mark Webber finished a fighting second in yesterday’s Belgian Grand Prix and then suggested his Red Bull team needs to be ready to back him to win the drivers’ title and expect his impetuous team-mate to work in support. Webber, who...
Lewis Hamilton regained the initiative in the drivers’ world championship in emphatic style yesterday when he won a dramatic and incident-filled Belgian Grand Prix. McLaren’s 2008 champion took the lead at the start and then controlled the 44-lap race...
Hamilton desperate for Spa spark
Brazilian Felipe Massa, his appetite undiminished by the furore surrounding Ferrari’s ‘fixed’ win in Germany in July, is keen to banish all bad memories with another long-awaited triumph for the Italian team in Sunday’s classic Belgian Grand Prix. At...
British Formula One star Lewis Hamilton was fined 500 Australian dollars yesterday and dubbed a “hoon” for doing a burn-out in his street car in the lead-up to this year’s Australian Grand Prix. Melbourne magistrate Clive Alsop said Hamilton had failed...
Michael Schumacher has always maintained he has no interest in his statistical achievements, records or longevity. “That can wait until I put my feet up and smoke my pipe,” he has always joked. But 19 years on from his extraordinary Formula One debut...
Ferrari launched a scathing attack on former driver Niki Lauda following comments the Austrian made about the Italian team’s controversial team orders at the German Grand Prix in Hockenheim. “Ferrari ordered Felipe Massa to move over and let team-mate...
British duo Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton are pinning their hopes of a late season revival in this year’s Formula One world championship on tighter policing of the rules – and a revamped McLaren car. Both men want to see the sport’s ruling body, the...
Ferrari have been summoned to appear before Formula One’s governing body the FIA on September 8 to answer charges of using team orders to manufacture a German Grand Prix win for Fernando Alonso. The Italian F1 outfit have already been fined $100,000...
Three-time Indianapolis 500 winner Helio Castroneves, of Brazil, was fined $60,000 and placed on probation for the rest of the season by IndyCar officials. The punishment stems from Castroneves’s angry actions in the moments after learning he did not...
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