Jean Todt has revealed he is prepared to listen to any proposals to revise formula one’s rules. Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo has been arguably the harshest critic of the ...
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Haas paid ‘$20m deposit’ for F1 team entry
Gene Haas proved his seriousness about entering formula one by paying a $20 million deposit. That is the claim of F1 business journalist Christian Sylt, who told us the “more ...
Read More »Report – Thursday ‘the end’ for struggling teams?
F1’s last chance to slash costs for struggling teams has now passed. The FIA’s World Motor Sport Council met in Munich on Thursday, less than a mere handful of days ...
Read More »Todt admits some F1 teams may not survive
Jean Todt has admitted some F1 teams are in danger of bowing out. Despite the impressively rejuvenated Red Bull Ring, an air of slight melancholy has gripped the F1 paddock. ...
Read More »Mercedes battle rages on Red Bull turf
Since buying the defunct A1-Ring in 2004, Red Bull’s Dietrich Mateschitz has ploughed a quarter of a billion euros into the Austrian grand prix, the local Salzburger Nachrichten newspaper claims. ...
Read More »F1 cost cutting to hit high gear in June
F1’s cost-saving efforts will shift into a higher gear in the month of May. Ever since the powerful ‘Strategy Group’ teams nixed plans for a mandatory budget cap, the tension ...
Read More »Mattiacci’s silence ‘deafening’
Marco Mattiacci is officially the lowest-profile team boss in F1, two respected correspondents have declared. Just ahead of the Chinese grand prix last month, Stefano Domenicali quit Ferrari, with president ...
Read More »Megaphone exhaust ‘didn’t work – Rosberg
F1’s supposed ‘sound problem’ is going back to the drawing board, following the track debut of the Mercedes ‘megaphone’. At the post-Spanish grand prix test in Barcelona on Wednesday, the ...
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