Despite Bernie Ecclestone’s recent warning, Gene Haas is pushing ahead with his plans to enter F1 in 2015. After Haas, a Nascar team co-owner, responded to the FIA’s invitation to ...
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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 »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 »FIA’s Whiting says ‘clever’ Lotus nose is ‘legal’
Lotus’ innovative double-pronged nose solution for 2014 has been declared legal by the FIA’s Charlie Whiting. The solution is even clearly assymetrical, apparently only to slip through a loophole in ...
Read More »McLaren ‘wing’ suspension raises eyebrows at Jerez
Unseemly nose solutions are attracting all of the obvious attention early in 2014. But, behind the scenes, engineers are far more interested in what is lurking at the rear of ...
Read More »Ecclestone pushing for ‘double points’ in three races
Bernie Ecclestone has written a letter to F1’s eleven teams, arguing that the controversial new ‘double points’ rule should be extended to the final three races of the season. Three ...
Read More »FIA ‘bombarded’ by Lotus nose legality queries
F1’s governing body was “bombarded” with messages from rival teams after Lotus revealed the first photo of its highly-unique nose solution for 2014. The front of the unlaunched E22, which ...
Read More »Todt still at Schumacher’s bedside
FIA president and former Ferrari boss Jean Todt has returned to the Grenoble hospital bedside of his friend Michael Schumacher. The seven time world champion has been in a coma ...
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