Formula 1

McLaren’s drivers have admitted the urgency of eating back into Fernando Alonso’s increasingly big championship lead. After ten races – or half of the 2012 schedule – the Ferrari driver ...

Lewis Hamilton looks set for a round of feisty negotiations with McLaren, after supremo Ron Dennis weighed back into the saga about the 2008 world champion’s new contract. Dennis, formerly ...

Sebastian Vettel insists Ferrari has the best car on the 2012 grid. In an interview with journalists from O Estado de S.Paulo (Brazil), Corriere della Sera (Italy) and Auto Hebdo ...

Marussia is tipped to reveal in the coming days that Maria de Villota’s test crash was the result of a “chain of unfortunate circumstances and mistakes”. The team recently insisted ...

Sauber has rejected claims that expanding F1’s ‘parc ferme’ rule could drive down costs. Germany’s Auto Motor und Sport reports that one cost-cutting suggestion from a top team is that ...

Dr Helmut Marko is critical not only of the moves to change the engine mapping rules mid-season, but also of rival teams who lobbied the FIA and then refused to ...

As expected, the FIA on Wednesday issued a rule clarification in the wake of the Red Bull ‘engine maps’ controversy at Hockenheim. The governing body’s technical boss Jo Bauer shocked ...

German journalist Michael Schmidt has expressed concern about the half-empty grandstands at Hockenheim last weekend. In Auto Motor und Sport, he said he was “surprised” by the “lack of interest” ...