
Barcelona: Seven Formula One personnel were taken to hospital and 31 others tended to by circuit doctors, after a fire gutted the Williams garage while the team was celebrating Sunday's Spanish Grand Prix win. The former champions had earlier gathered outside the Circuit de Catalunya garage for a team photograph to mark Venezuelan Pastor Maldonado's first career victory and their first in nearly eight years. Team founder and principal Frank...

02:25 PM, May 14, 2012

Madrid: Barcelona and Valencia have agreed in principle to alternate their Grand Prix races so there is only one event in Spain each year from 2013, Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone has said. The world economic crisis has bitten hard in Spain, where local administrations are under pressure to make deep budget cuts as part of a new central government austerity drive. "Barcelona and Valencia have agreed that the best...

01:57 PM, Mar 11, 2012

Barcelona: Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel limbered up for what could be his sixth successive pole position with the fastest time in Spanish Grand Prix final practice on Saturday. The Formula One world champion pushed Australian team mate Mark Webber off the top of the timesheets by 0.084 of a second despite only getting in one late flying lap due to problems with his car. The lap of one minute 21.707...

06:01 PM, May 21, 2011

Barcelona: Force India's Paul di Resta was the 17th fastest while his beleaguered team-mate Adrian Sutil finished a spot behind in the 19th position at the free practice sessions ahead of Sunday's Spanish Grand Prix here on Friday. The Force India drivers had a terrible time at the Circuit de Catalunya here as both di Resta and Sutil failing to breach the 1m 26s-mark. Di Resta, who took the wheels...

10:04 PM, May 20, 2011

Barcelona: Red Bull's Mark Webber was back on the pace in Spanish Grand Prix practice on Friday at the track that ignited the Australian's title challenge last year. Webber topped the Formula One timesheets in both sessions before and after lunch on a bright day at the Circuit de Catalunya, setting his best time of one minute 22.470 seconds in the afternoon. While Red Bull enjoyed a one-two in the...

09:55 PM, May 20, 2011

For ninth straight year, the driver on pole position won Spanish Grand Prix. ...

09:52 AM, May 11, 2009

Driver starting on pole in Barcelona has won in the past eight years. ...

02:34 AM, May 10, 2009

He spoiled the party of local boy and double world champion Fernando Alonso, who came in third. ...

09:58 AM, May 14, 2007

Felipe Massa took his third straight pole position on Saturday for the Spanish Grand Prix. ...

08:34 PM, May 12, 2007

One person who didn't mind the rain was Kimi Raikkonen. The Flying Finn posted the fastest time of the day. ...

10:29 PM, May 02, 2007