Filed under: Motorsports , Volkswagen This year's Sprint Cup was awarded this past weekend at Homestead , where Jimmie Johnson scored his record fourth consecutive championship with a fifth-place finish behind race winner Denny Hamlin. (Oh yeah, "spoiler alert".) Anyway, on to the interesting part: the oval speedway had some unlikely German visitors for the series finale, leading the motorsport...
PARIS - Former Renault boss Flavio Briatore has asked a French court to overturn his lifetime suspension from motor sports and force Formula One's governing body to pay...
• Di Resta has previously tested twice for McLaren • Hildebrand is Indy Lights series champion Scottish driver Paul di Resta, the cousin of IndyCar champion Dario Franchitti, will test for Force India in Spain next week along with young American JR Hildebrand. The Formula One team's owner Vijay Mallya said both were being considered for a permanent role as test and reserve driver next season....
Jim Magilton has shrugged off concerns over Queens Park Rangers' future, even if Flavio Briatore loses his legal bid to overturn a life ban from Formula One. The QPR boss has insisted he will go about 'business as usual' while Briatore carries out his court case against the FIA, which began today in France.
US F1 may be ruling out running Americans in its debut season, but a pair of youngsters are getting tests for other teams in early December. 21-year-old Indy Lights champion JR Hildebrand tries his hand in a Force India, joining DTM’s Paul di Resta at Jerez. Meanwhile, highly rated teenager Alexander Rossi joins Esteban Gutierrez for ex-BMW Sauber as a reward for performances last season, despite...
Former Renault F1 team boss and Formula1 driver manager Flavio Briatore heads to Paris Tuesday for his appeal to the French courts of the FIA World Motor Sport Council decision to ban him permanently from all FIA-sanctioned events, F1 specifically, and FIA-licensed driver management after it found... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
• Briatore says he was denied a free and fair defence • French court expected to reach verdict on 5 January The former Renault team principal Flavio Briatore has asked a French court to overturn his life ban from Formula One, saying he was denied his right to a free and fair defence. The court said it expected to reach a verdict on 5 January. Briatore, who had been a flamboyant figure in...
Nico Rosberg has officially been announced as one of the drivers for the new Mercedes team. While that much had been assumed when Rosberg announced he was leaving Williams in October, speculation has started to swirl over who his teammate will be. It is thought Mercedes, despite its claims during negotiations with Jenson Button, are searching for an all-German lineup. Nick Heidfeld would seem to have...
Filed under: Motorsports , Hirings/Firings/Layoffs , Mercedes-Benz Following earlier speculation, the newly-acquired Mercedes Grand Prix team has confirmed its first driver for the upcoming Formula One season. As expected, Nico Rosberg will be switching places with Rubens Barrichello, the departing Brawn GP driver who moves to Williams for next year. 24-year-old Rosberg is the son of former World...
Just found this game on my archive and thought I could publish it today. I know this is old school and I should have published this first before the F1 2009 but I wont do that just for this games sake. This is also known as Formula 1 2005 I think but this is the Platinum version of it. Set up a random race with random settings from the Quick Race Mode. Choose among different modes such as Time Attack,...
• Nico Rosberg confirmed as first nominated Mercedes driver • Fellow German driver Nick Heidfeld likely to join Rosberg Michael Schumacher's return to Formula One was effectively ruled out today when Nico Rosberg was confirmed as Mercedes-Benz's first nominated driver for next season's world championship. From the moment Jenson Button, having won the title for the team as Brawn, signed for...
OnPole.com 1:43 Diecast Model La Storia Collection. Ferrari F310B Japan 1997 Michael Schumacher. La Storia is the officially licensed Ferrari Formula1 models Collection, developed in straight cooperation with Ferrari at Maranello. Produced in Limited Edition runs of 10,000 pieces world-wide each La Storia model faithfully reproduces the real car shape and decoration presented in a special [...]
It took the well-reasoned tones of Ross Brawn this week to tell is what we all really knew all along. Michael Schumacher is not going to make a full-time F1 comeback to drive for the Mercedes F1 team. It may be tantalising indeed to become the first German ‘Silver Arrows’ driver in F1 since Hans Herrmann in 1955, but Michael is bright enough to know that, coming up 41, the only prospect...
• 'Nico will be able to make an immediate impact' says Brawn • Mercedes team principal says Schumacher return will not happen Nico Rosberg will drive for Mercedes in the 2010 season but the team principal Ross Brawn has dampened speculation about the Formula One return of Michael Schumacher. Mercedes acquired a majority stake in Brawn GP, which won the championship last season but which...
A Russian bidder has reportedly offered to buy 40% of Renault ’s Formula One team, according to Finland’s Turun Sanomat. The deal could potentially result in the Russian Vitaly Petrov’s signing to be Robert Kubica’s team-mate. This could explain Timo Glock’s move to Manor Grand Prix, despite his earlier strong links to the French squad.
Rather than serving as advisor to Ferrari ’s Formula One team, Michael Schumacher will now be focusing on developing its future road cars, says the Spanish publication Diario AS. Schumacher, a seven-time world champion, had signed a new three-year contract with Ferrari last September but at the time, his future F1 involvement was not mentioned.
The FIA imposed a two-year suspended ban on Renault for being involved in fixing the result of last year’s Singapore Grand Prix. Flavio Briatore and Pat Symonds have received bans from motorsport as well. FIA’s World Motor Sport Council members were in a meeting in Paris recently.