Tag Archives: F1

Michelin has not denied rumours it might be shaping up to succeed F1’s increasingly frustrated and out-of-favour official tyre supplier Pirelli. Indeed, some reports have even hinted that the French ...

Dr Helmut Marko has said he was only joking when he suggested Red Bull might boycott the young drivers test and use its race drivers at a private test. On ...

Mercedes was not found ‘guilty’ of breaking the rules, Niki Lauda insists. The German team has been banned from the forthcoming young drivers test at Silverstone, and was officially reprimanded ...

Marussia is not racing on a “level playing field”, team chief executive Graeme Lowdon has told the Guardian newspaper. It emerged earlier this year that F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone decided ...

Ferrari has admitted it is “disappointed” to have been used as part of Mercedes’ defence as the German team escaped from the test-gate scandal with a light penalty. Before the ...

Most formula one teams have deals in place with Pirelli beyond 2013, according to a respected correspondent. Bernie Ecclestone told F1 business journalist Christian Sylt last week that the organisation ...

Jenson Button has denied the absence of former technical director Paddy Lowe explains McLaren’s struggle in 2013. Before starting work at Mercedes a few weeks ago, the highly rated Lowe ...

Ferrari has ridiculed Mercedes’ penalty in the wake of the ‘test-gate’ hearing late last week. Red Bull, who along with Ferrari lodged the original protest against Mercedes’ secret Pirelli tyre ...