He was in hospital for four days, and is absent at the final winter test in Barcelona, but Fernando Alonso is “categorically not injured”. That was the insistence on Thursday ...
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FIA to investigate mysterious Alonso crash
F1’s governing body has vowed to look into the circumstances surrounding the mysterious crash that hospitalised Fernando Alonso for four days. McLaren initially took 28 hours to issue a statement ...
Read More »Prodromou created McLaren ‘masterpiece’
Going extreme with the new MP4-30 is a “calculated risk”, McLaren supremo Ron Dennis has revealed. Although it has struggled to run amid early troubles with new works engine partner ...
Read More »Strategy Group rejects V8 engines for 2017
The powerful strategy group on Thursday rejected Ferrari’s proposal to replace the current V6 engines with a twin-turbo V8 formula for 2017. However, Germany’s Auto Motor und Sport reports that ...
Read More »‘Upset’ Magnussen eyes Indycar ‘option’
Kevin Magnussen is not ruling out looking elsewhere to keep his racing instincts sharp. Just a year into his F1 racing career, the 22-year-old has been pushed aside by McLaren ...
Read More »Dennis upbeat despite horror start for McLaren-Honda
McLaren are continuing to put a brave face on its troubled start to the 2015 pre-season. After two of the 12 official test days before Melbourne, Fernando Alonso and Jenson ...
Read More »FIA could allow Honda to join ‘unfreeze’ – report
It remains possible the FIA will do a u-turn after excluding Honda from the new engine development ‘unfreeze’. McLaren and its new 2015 works partner Honda were undoubtedly unimpressed recently ...
Read More »Alonso to struggle at McLaren in 2015 – Trulli
Fernando Alonso’s former teammate doubts the Spaniard’s high-profile switch from Ferrari to McLaren will result in instant success. But Jarno Trulli, who was Alonso’s teammate at Renault over a decade ...
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