The local Walloon government is seeking clarity about the future of the fabled Belgian grand prix at Spa-Francorchamps within “four or five weeks”. Jean-Claude Marcourt, the government’s economics minister, was ...
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Liuzzi unlikely to keep HRT seat – Eeckelaert
Jerome d’Ambrosio, Vitaly Petrov and Bruno Senna are all in the running to complete HRT’s driver lineup in 2012, according to the Belgian newspaper La Libre. According to the struggling ...
Read More »Valencia rejected alternating race idea – Barcelona
Valencia reportedly turned down an opportunity to safeguard Spain’s presence on the F1 calendar by alternating an annual date with Barcelona. Bernie Ecclestone confirmed last year that Spain’s two races ...
Read More »Steve Clark moves from Mercedes to Ferrari – reports
The Ferrari team is congregating this week at Madonna di Campiglio, an Italian ski resort, for its annual pre-season media event. One of the first pieces of news to emerge ...
Read More »Lotus to run radical braking system in 2012
Lotus could set the trend with the first major innovation of the 2012 season. Finland’s Turun Sanomat reports that Giorgio Piolo – arguably F1’s most respected technical illustrator – has ...
Read More »Ferrari signs Bridgestone’s Hamashima
Ferrari has signed Bridgestone’s former technical chief Hirohide Hamashima, it emerged from the ‘Wrooom’ media event in the Italian Dolomites on Wednesday. The news was announced by Stefano Domenicali, the ...
Read More »Pollock’s Pure to fire up first V6 engine in July
Craig Pollock believes there will be only a single independent engine maker in formula one in 2014. The BAR founder and Jacques Villeneuve’s former manager is now in charge of ...
Read More »F1 ‘in trouble’ before CVC deal – Mackenzie
Formula one was in “a lot of trouble” some years ago before the commercial rights were bought by CVC. That is the claim of Donald Mackenzie, who on Monday testified ...
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