Timo Glock checked out of hospital on Wednesday after having his appendix removed. Following a sudden bout of appendicitis, the 28-year-old German driver had keyhole surgery on Tuesday in a ...
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Virgin announces d’Ambrosio and Glock for 2011
Jerome d’Ambrosio will make his F1 debut in 2011 alongside Timo Glock, the Virgin team announced on Tuesday. We reported earlier this month that the 24-year-old Belgian d’Ambrosio was on ...
Read More »Booth gives two years to deliver for Marussia
Team boss John Booth has been given two more years to deliver success to Virgin Racing. The ultimatum for Booth, whose F3 organisation Manor was the basis of Virgin’s 2010 ...
Read More »Lotus engine switch not Cosworth’s fault – Gascoyne
Lotus did not split with Cosworth because the British supplier’s engine was not good enough. That is the claim of Mike Gascoyne, after deciding to break a longer contract with ...
Read More »Ecclestone comments have ‘no effect’ on Virgin – boss
Virgin team boss John Booth on Friday hit back at Bernie Ecclestone’s latest stinging criticisms. Stating that only Lotus deserves to be in F1, the sport’s chief executive had referred ...
Read More »Di Grassi crashes Virgin before race
F1 rookie Lucas di Grassi has had a huge crash on the grid formation lap, 20 minutes before the start of the Japanese grand prix. The Brazilian’s Virgin car speared ...
Read More »Virgin ‘not pleased’ with Ecclestone comments
John Booth has admitted he was “not particularly pleased” when he heard Bernie Ecclestone predict that two of F1’s struggling teams might fold before the end of the season. The ...
Read More »Virgin confirms reserve driver Andy Soucek
Virgin on Tuesday confirmed reports that Andy Soucek has been signed as the new British team’s reserve driver. “We are pleased to have finalised our driver lineup and we ...
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