London: The world's oldest Ferrari which won the 1947 Turin Grand Prix has been unveiled for the first time after restoration and is now believed to be worth a whopping $8 million. The 166 Spyder Corsa built by manufacturer Enzo Ferrari just after the World War II is believed to be world's oldest Ferrari and was restored for $5,00,000 by its owner Jim Glickenhaus from California, the Daily Mail reported....
10:29 AM, Aug 23, 2012
Ferrari's Fernando Alonso has termed McLaren's Lewis Hamilton and Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel as his main rival for Driver's world championship this season. "Hamilton and Vettel are the drivers we have focused on since the beginning. They are the biggest challengers, but all of the teams are close," Alonso told Brazil's Totalrace. "Hopefully, they will fight among themselves and not one of them will dominate." Alonso also said the difference...
09:14 PM, Aug 17, 2012
Red Bull's Mark Webber described the controversies involving his team as a 'tactic' deployed by rival teams and predicted that there would more such stories in the near future. "Its a pretty boring tactic from them, isn't it?" he said. Quite predictable. In their little bubble, if they want that, thats great," Webber said. In the past week, Helmut Marko " a former F1 driver and now the adviser with...
11:46 AM, Aug 07, 2012
Ferrari cannot afford to make any mistakes in the second half of the Formula One season, championship leader Fernando Alonso warned on Thursday. Despite being 34 points clear of Red Bull's Australian Mark Webber after three wins in the opening 10 races, the Spaniard told reporters at the Hungarian Grand Prix that there was still little between the top teams. Although he is certain to lead into the summer break...
12:50 AM, Jul 27, 2012
Mark Webber has reaffirmed that his decision to ignore the lure of driving for Ferrari and sticking with Red Bull was the right thing to do. The 35-year-old Australian had this week signed a one-year extension to his Formula One contract with Red Bull and says he has no regrets. "Although I did have talks with Ferrari, staying with Red Bull was the right thing to do," Webber wrote in...
01:02 PM, Jul 13, 2012
London: A US businessman driving a classic Ferrari car worth more than 20 million pounds has been involved in the world's most expensive car crashes ever. Multi-millionaire Christopher Cox was driving the Ferrari 250 GTO with his wife Ann, who is understood to have suffered a broken leg in the accident in Central France. Cox was taking part in the 50th anniversary tour of the Ferrari 250 GTO - an...
05:23 AM, Jul 11, 2012
New Delhi: The Khan surname often works well at the Bollywood box office, and actor Kunal Khemu, whose next film 'Go Goa Gone' is being produced by Saif Ali Khan, hopes the association creates wonders for his movie as well. Is he trying to cash in on Saif's Khan surname? "Well yes, right now I would want to cash on that and I hope it turns out to be true....
03:59 PM, Jul 07, 2012
Mumbai: Producers of the film 3 Bachelors have sent a legal notice to its actor Sharman Joshi accusing him of defaming their film. Manoj Rastogi and Pramod Sharma, who produced the film in making for 10 years, alleged that Sharman was defaming the movie after he reportedly accused that they were trying to benefit from the attention around his recent release Ferrari Ki Sawaari to pull their long-pending project out...
06:52 PM, Jul 04, 2012
Barcelona: Fernando Alonso's emotional comeback win at the European Grand Prix last Sunday has finally set one driver apart from the pack in the most tightly contested Formula One season in history. Alonso steered his Ferrari from an 11th-place start to a dramatic victory at Valencia to become the first driver to win two races this year, opening up a 20-point gap over his nearest challenger, Red Bull's Mark Webber....
02:14 PM, Jun 28, 2012
New Delhi: Boman Irani worked in Rajkumar Hirani's first film 'Munnabhai MBBS' and recently teamed with Rajesh Mapuskar for his debut vehicle 'Ferrari Ki Sawaari'. The talented actor, known for his comic roles, says he has never hesitated to work with newcomers in his decade-long career. "I hold a record. I have done 22 films with new directors. There are a lot more young directors out there. I cannot be...
01:58 PM, Jun 26, 2012
Valencia, Spain: Venezuelan Pastor Maldonado, surprise winner in Spain last month, put his Williams team back on top of the timesheets in first free practice at the European Grand Prix on Friday. The 27-year-old lapped the Valencia street circuit with a best time of one minute 40.890 seconds on a gusty and overcast morning with temperatures cooler than they had been the previous day. Red Bull's double Formula One world...
03:49 PM, Jun 22, 2012
Montreal: Ferrari's Felipe Massa raised the possibility on Thursday that he could, against the odds, become Formula One's eighth different winner in a row. The Brazilian, eclipsed by Spain's double world champion Fernando Alonso at the Italian glamour team, has not won a Grand Prix since 2008 and nor has he stood on any step of the podium since 2010. In this most unpredictable of seasons, with an unprecedented seven...
10:53 AM, Jun 22, 2012
Montreal: McLaren will try to drive a hard bargain but Lewis Hamilton said on Thursday he expects negotiations on a new Formula One contract to be straightforward in the end. The 2008 world champion is out of contract at the end of the season and McLaren chairman Ron Dennis has already said a new deal will have to reflect a changed global financial climate since the last one. Hamilton told...
10:40 AM, Jun 22, 2012
Ferrari team principal Stefano Domenicali has indicated that Fernando Alonso and Sebastian Vettel could be paired up, after it was revealed that Vettel, the 2010 and 2011 world champion, has a pre-contract with Ferrari for 2014. "I think they are both intelligent guys and they could easily co-exist together," Domenicali said. Vettel's contract with Red Bull will expire at the end of 2014, and the German has repeatedly stated that...
11:39 AM, Jun 21, 2012
Mumbai: He is not a stranger to filmdom, considering his father-in-law is veteran artist Prem Chopra and his sister Mansi Joshi is an actress and is married to actor-filmmaker Rohit Roy. But Sharman Joshi says connections don't work in showbiz and everyone has to prove his or her mettle to get recognition. "You are at the mercy of people. No connections really help here (filmdom). You have to prove yourself....
11:14 AM, Jun 21, 2012
Mumbai: Actor Sharman Joshi, who is basking in the glory of his recently released solo hero film 'Ferrari Ki Sawaari', says that even though he would strive for blockbuster films, his primary motive would be to be a part of good films as that would eventually reflect at the box office. Produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra, 'Ferrari Ki Sawaari' featured Sharman Joshi, Boman Irani and child actor Ritvik Sahore. "I...
10:40 AM, Jun 20, 2012
'Ferrari Ki Sawaari' is Rajesh Mapuskar's directorial debut and has been produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra. ...
12:59 PM, Jun 19, 2012
New Delhi: 'Ferrari Ki Sawaari' is Sharman Joshi's first solo hero film and has no female lead, but it has managed to pull in viewers and ended grossing about Rs 14 crore in the first three days of its release. Made at a budget of Rs 10 crore, including publicity and marketing, the film about father-son relationship has already recovered its cost. "The film is doing extremely well in all...
12:02 PM, Jun 19, 2012
Milan: Ferrari president Luca Di Montezemolo is urging Formula One to look into immediate cost-cutting strategies. The series has seemed largely immune to the European financial crisis. On Wednesday, Montezemolo says on Ferrari's website that F1 cannot "ignore" the crisis anymore and "we need to tackle urgently and with determination the question of costs." Ferrari was among the first to quit the teams' association last year in a dispute over...
11:17 AM, Jun 19, 2012
