A week before the F1 circus gathers in Melbourne for the 2014 opener, the fate of McLaren team boss Martin Whitmarsh is still not clear. Team supremo Ron Dennis has ...
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F1 teams alliance FOTA disbanded
FOTA, the once unified and powerful alliance of formula one teams, has collapsed. It emerged recently that, with top teams Red Bull and Ferrari already departed, membership fees were going ...
Read More »Teams group FOTA set to collapse – report
The F1 teams group FOTA, once a powerful and influential alliance, is on the verge of collapse. That is the claim of the Telegraph newspaper, revealing that with membership fees ...
Read More »F1 pays almost no tax – report
A clever tax arrangement sees formula one pay a tiny amount of tax, it has emerged. Writing in The Independent, leading F1 business journalist Christian Sylt said the sport paid ...
Read More »Whitmarsh urges Mercedes to sign Concorde
Martin Whitmarsh has urged Mercedes to finally sign the new Concorde Agreement. Despite Bernie Ecclestone’s earlier intimations to the contrary, it emerged at Hockenheim that Mercedes is in fact still ...
Read More »FOTA complaints led to ‘special deal’ report axe
Rival formula one teams complained when Sky News published a report suggesting Ferrari and Red Bull will receive special deals for the next Concorde Agreement. There has been speculation the ...
Read More »Team unity can survive FOTA turmoil – Whitmarsh
Lotus could become the next team to withdraw from the formula one teams association FOTA. Already departed are HRT, Sauber and Toro Rosso and also the top teams Red Bull ...
Read More »2013 Concorde rumours ‘not true’ insists Ferrari
Ferrari chiefs have denied reports the famous Italian team has already inked a new Concorde Agreement with Bernie Ecclestone. In the wake of Ferrari and also Red Bull’s departure from ...
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