Two more candidates have emerged as potential buyers of the embattled Nurburgring. F1 chief executive Bernie Ecclestone, already controlling the Paul Ricard and Istanbul tracks, revealed this weekend he is ...
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Ecclestone considers buying Nurburgring
Bernie Ecclestone has revealed he is thinking about securing the future of the Nurburgring’s formula one race, by buying the embattled circuit. Weighed under by financial problems and now for ...
Read More »Boycott could cost drivers F1 licenses – Ecclestone
F1 drivers risk losing their mandatory FIA super licenses if a boycott of this weekend’s German grand prix goes ahead. That is the warning at the Nurburgring of F1 chief ...
Read More »Nurburgring’s F1 future after 2013 ‘open’ – report
The future of the Nurburgring’s formula one race beyond this weekend’s German grand prix is clouded. We reported last week that the event is only on this year’s calendar because ...
Read More »Pirelli changed tyres without consent at Silverstone – report
F1’s tyre scandal could be set to deepen yet further, as a Spanish sports newspaper claims Pirelli – already under reprimand for ‘test-gate’ – blatantly broke the rules. Marca correspondent ...
Read More »F1 begins to respond to tyre-exploding crisis
The world of formula one has already begun to respond to the crisis triggered by Sunday’s tyre-exploding British grand prix. Earlier this year, because Pirelli insisted the problem was merely ...
Read More »Australia to keep season opener slot in 2014
Australia may retain the opening slot on the 2014 calendar. Earlier, it was thought likely the sport’s highly-controversial Bahrain race could steal Melbourne’s thunder as the scene of next year’s ...
Read More »Ecclestone waived fee to save Nurburgring race – report
Germany is only on this year’s formula one calendar because Bernie Ecclestone waived the Nurburgring’s usual race fee. That is the claim of Bild newspaper, referring to that circuit’s financial ...
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