World champion Sebastian Vettel, and 2013 runner-up Fernando Alonso, will not be testing tyres for Pirelli next week in Bahrain. “Sebastian is currently on vacation,” Red Bull driver Vettel’s spokeswoman ...
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F1 seeking twelfth team for 2015
F1 is seeking a twelfth team. With the Spanish stragglers HRT having pulled out at the end of the 2012 season, the FIA on Thursday launched a “selection process” to ...
Read More »McLaren’s Magnussen experiment could fail – Kovalainen
Heikki Kovalainen says there is no guarantee Kevin Magnussen will thrive at McLaren, insisting 2014 could make or break the Danish rookie. The famous British team, for whom Finn Kovalainen ...
Read More »Lotus asks for delay of first 2014 test
Lotus has requested that the first official test of the 2014 pre-season, at Jerez late in January, be postponed for a week. That is the news of Speed Week correspondent ...
Read More »Vettel to be father in one month – report
Although news of girlfriend Hanna’s pregnancy broke only this week, fatherhood is set to arrive imminently for world champion Sebastian Vettel. Germany’s Bild newspaper reports that Hanna Prater is already ...
Read More »Red Bull, Vettel slam new ‘double points’ rule
F1’s reigning champions Sebastian Vettel and Red Bull have broken ranks and slammed the new ‘double points’ finale. Germany’s Sport Bild reports that Red Bull voted against the highly controversial ...
Read More »World champion Vettel to become father
Sebastian Vettel is set to celebrate his meteoric F1 success with the ultimate prize — fatherhood. Multiple authoritative German media sources on Tuesday, including the Bild-Zeitung newspaper and the Bunte ...
Read More »F1 says no to heavier cars, mandatory pitstops
Formula one teams this week blocked moves to raise the minimum weight limit for 2014. Drivers like Daniel Ricciardo are hurriedly trimming muscle ahead of the next world championship, as ...
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