Fiorano, Italy: Coming off a miserable season in which they won only one race, Ferrari plan to introduce their completely revised 2012 car during the "the first few days of February." Ferrari president Luca Cordero di Montezemolo announced the team's plans late on Wednesday at the automaker's Christmas party. Fernando Alonso took Ferrari's only victory this year at the British Grand Prix in July. In the drivers' standings, Alonso placed...
04:52 PM, Dec 23, 2011
Paris: Kimi Raikkonen expects to pick up right where he left off when he returns to Formula One, despite two seasons away from the sport. The Finnish driver, who won the 2007 championship title when driving for Ferrari but quit in 2009 and switched to rally, will make a comeback next season with the Lotus Renault team. "I can't wait to get behind the wheel," Raikkonen said on Wednesday. The...
04:09 PM, Dec 22, 2011
London: Formula One stragglers HRT expect to have their new car ready for pre-season testing in February for the first time since they entered the sport in 2010. The Spanish-owned team barely made the start of their debut season and were unable to do any laps with their new car this year until the opening Australian Grand Prix in March, where they failed to qualify. "Despite the tight deadlines and...
12:20 PM, Dec 18, 2011
Madrid: Spanish driver Jaime Alguersuari said he is "very surprised" by Toro Rosso's decision to drop him for the 2012 Formula One season. Alguersuari said on Thursday that team principal Franz Tost and adviser Helmut Marko had as recently as Monday "told me to insist on our 2012 project in F1." Toro Rosso announced two days later that Daniel Ricciardo of Australia and Jean-Eric Vergne of France would replace Alguersuari...
12:09 PM, Dec 16, 2011
Cologne: Seven-time Formula One world champion Michael Schumacher could be a candidate to become the next president of Bundesliga football club Cologne. German news agency dapd says Schumacher is one of about 20 names put forward for the position by an adviser to the club. However, Schumacher's spokeswoman Sabine Kehm says "we don't want to comment on these mind games." Cologne are looking for a successor to Wolfgang Overath, who...
12:19 PM, Dec 15, 2011
London: Toro Rosso named Australian Daniel Ricciardo and Frenchman Jean-Eric Vergne in an all-new 2012 driver line-up on Wednesday, after surprisingly ditching the youngsters who took them to eighth place in this year's Formula One championship. The decision left Switzerland's Sebastien Buemi and Spaniard Jaime Alguersuari looking for a drive with few options remaining. Vergne, 21, has tested for Red Bull and took part in Friday practice for Toro Rosso...
11:58 AM, Dec 15, 2011
London: Lotus Renault say Kimi Raikkonen has a sore wrist after falling off a snowmobile during a race. But following the competition in Austria, Raikkonen's Formula One team wrote on Twitter that "there's nothing to worry about ... he's absolutely fine." Lotus say the 32-year-old Finnish driver "only has a sore wrist. He might have it checked again on Monday, but that's all." The 2007 world champion, who quit in...
03:25 PM, Dec 12, 2011
London: Force India and Williams were among four teams to have no drivers named on an entry list for next year's Formula One world championship, published by the governing FIA on Wednesday. Williams had been expected to include at least well-funded Venezuelan Pastor Maldonado as one of their drivers but the former champions left both spaces blank, with names to be confirmed at a later date. Brazilian Rubens Barrichello, Williams's...
05:22 PM, Dec 01, 2011
Sao Paulo: Lewis Hamilton has given a strong hint that he intends to stay at McLaren for the long term. Britain's 2008 Formula One world champion has a contract to the end of next year, but he told reporters after Sunday's season-ending Brazilian Grand Prix that talks were under way to extend that. "(Team boss) Martin Whitmarsh has already spoken to me about re-signing, so I know it's there at...
06:00 PM, Nov 29, 2011
Sao Paulo: McLaren drivers Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button started looking forward to the 2012 season as soon as the chequered flag dropped in Sunday's season-ending Brazilian Grand Prix. McLaren ended the year trailing the Red Bulls again, but the team's performance improved significantly in the last few races and brought signs of improvement for next year. Hamilton retired after gearbox problems at the Brazilian GP, while Button ran well...
03:52 PM, Nov 28, 2011
Sao Paulo: Lewis Hamilton ended a long-running Formula One feud with Felipe Massa on Sunday by walking up to the Ferrari driver after the Brazilian Grand Prix and giving him a hug. "It's been a long hard year for all the drivers, and I hope they all have a good winter," McLaren's 2008 world champion, who retired from the race at Interlagos with a gearbox failure, told reporters. "It was...
12:04 PM, Nov 28, 2011
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08:48 PM, Nov 27, 2011
Sao Paulo: Adrian Sutil will start Sunday's season-ending Brazilian Grand Prix in eighth position on the grid for Sahara Force India, while Paul di Resta, the other Force India driver, could not go beyond Q2 and will start in 11th position. Red Bull's double world champion Sebastian Vettel chalked up a record 15th pole position of the season in qualifying on Saturday. The 24-year-old German, who had equalled British racer...
12:01 AM, Nov 27, 2011
Sao Paulo: Two-time Formula One champion Sebastian Vettel made history again on Saturday, breaking Nigel Mansell's 19-year record for the most pole positions in a season. One year after becoming the youngest driver to win the F1 championship, the German captured his 15th pole at the Brazilian Grand Prix on Saturday to surpass the mark set by Mansell in 1992. "Obviously it took the master in that discipline a couple...
11:42 PM, Nov 26, 2011
Sao Paulo: McLaren driver Lewis Hamilton had the fastest time in practice for the season-ending Brazilian Grand Prix on Friday, outpacing the Red Bulls of Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber. Hamilton had a time of 1 minute, 13.392 seconds at the 4.3-kilometer Interlagos track. Vettel was second with a time of 1:13.559, ahead of Webber with 1:13.587. Ferrari driver Fernando Alonso was fourth fastest in 1:13.598. With the title already...
11:40 PM, Nov 25, 2011
Sao Paulo: Formula One team Renault have confirmed that Robert Kubica will miss at least the early part of the 2012 season as he struggles to recover from serious injuries sustained in a rally crash this year. Renault had been hoping Kubica would be fit to resume his role as the team's No. 1 driver from the start of 2012, but said on `Wednesday that he will not be ready...
06:44 PM, Nov 23, 2011
Austin: Texas promoter Tavo Hellmund said he remains hopeful that Austin can still host next year's planned US Grand Prix, despite losing the rights to the race and the apparent support of Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone. Ecclestone said he canceled his original contract with Hellmund's Full Throttle Productions because of a breach of contract and may axe the race altogether. The 81-year-old Briton was left dealing with the track...
07:06 PM, Nov 19, 2011
Austin: Plans for Austin to host Formula One's US Grand Prix from next year have been cast into doubt after construction of the race track was halted and state authorities said on Tuesday that they would not pay money in advance for the race. Construction on the track has stopped because of a contract dispute between Formula One, race promoters and developers. And in a separate announcement, State Comptroller Susan...
05:51 PM, Nov 16, 2011
