There is still no news about the future of Melbourne’s Australian grand prix beyond the 2015 race. That is the admission of race chairman Ron Walker, who said the state-sponsored ...
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Lotus, Marussia pay 2014 entry fees – reports
Lotus and Marussia have ended doubts about their official participation in the 2014 championship. When the governing FIA released the 2014 entry list last month, the two teams’ entries were ...
Read More »FIA delays nose dispute until 2015
The unseemly nose designs up and down the 2014 pitlane have been declared legal by the FIA. We reported last week that a row over the radical noses was shaping ...
Read More »TV audience drop triggered ‘double points’ move – report
The reason for F1’s controversial move to a ‘double points’ finale has emerged, after the sport haemorrhaged 50 million television viewers late in 2013. That is the claim of F1 ...
Read More »Ross Brawn announces retirement
Despite earlier saying he would consider his F1 future during a sabbatical, Ross Brawn now insists he has definitively retired. Having stepped down as Mercedes’ team boss, the famous 59-year-old ...
Read More »Petrov’s DTM seat chances ’60pc’ – Wolff
Vitaly Petrov has a good chance of restarting his motor racing career in the German touring car series DTM. That is the claim of Mercedes’ Toto Wolff, after former Renault ...
Read More »McLaren ‘wing suspension’ causing a stir
The first technical rows of 2014 are well underway. It had already emerged that the FIA is unhappy with some of the radical nose solutions, with one camp of teams ...
Read More »Newey ‘back to the drawing board’ amid Red Bull crisis
Amid world champion Red Bull’s testing nightmare at Jerez, bigwigs Christian Horner, Adrian Newey, Helmut Marko and the visiting team owner Dietrich Mateschitz all departed southern Spain on Thursday. While ...
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