The 29-year-old was dropped by Williams last year after finishing 16th in the F1 drivers' standings with 31 points. ...
11:57 AM, Feb 06, 2013
New Delhi: Williams' Formula 1 driver Pastor Maldonado said the Buddh International Circuit (BIC) is one of his favourites in the calendar. "India is enjoyable because it's so different and the track is one of my favourites. It's still a new track but it has a good combination of medium and high-speed corners, chicanes and good changes in direction," said Maldonado of Venezuela was quoted as saying on the Formula...
10:32 AM, Oct 24, 2012
London: Minor burns suffered by Brazilian Bruno Senna at last weekend's Singapore Grand Prix were caused by loose wiring and not his car's KERS kinetic energy recovery system, his Williams Formula One team said on Thursday. Williams reported after Sunday's race that Senna, who retired on the final lap after his car lost power, had some burn marks on his back and they were investigating the cause. Media reports suggested...
04:20 PM, Sep 27, 2012
Singapore: Bruno Senna has been given a five-place grid penalty for the Singapore Grand Prix after his Williams team changed his gearbox ahead of Sunday's race. The Brazilian, who damaged the gearbox when he hit a wall in qualifying on Saturday, will now start 22nd on the grid for the 14th race of the Formula One season. Senna's team mate, Pastor Maldonado, will start second on the grid alongside McLaren's...
05:09 PM, Sep 23, 2012
London: Williams want penalty-prone Pastor Maldonado to stay with them next season but Bruno Senna's future with the Formula One team is less certain, influential shareholder and executive director Toto Wolff indicated on Tuesday. The Austrian, increasingly cast as the eventual successor to team principal and founder Frank Williams, told the official Formula One website (www.formula1.com) ahead of Sunday's Singapore Grand Prix that a decision on drivers for 2013 was...
05:58 PM, Sep 18, 2012
London: Bruno Senna will celebrate a number of firsts at Silverstone this Sunday but probably not the one he wants more than any other. The Brazilian, nephew of the late triple champion Ayrton, will start a British Formula One Grand Prix for the first time and also become the first Senna to drive a Williams in the team's home race. Ayrton, winner at Silverstone in 1988 with McLaren, died in...
09:43 AM, Jul 05, 2012
Lotus must improve its qualifying performances if it aims to win its first race of the Formula One season, says reigning GP2 champion Romain Grosjean. We need to qualify better, that is not our strength this season but we are working on it, said the Frenchman. If we are able to have a strong weekend from the beginning, we are able to fight for the podium and even for victory,...
11:37 AM, Jun 19, 2012
Ahead of the European Grand Prix, an out-of-sorts Williams team has set its sights on a repeat performance of their past visit to Spain where Pastor Maldonado emerge victorious. The Grove-based team has just one point to show from two disappointing Grand Prix outings, but Maldonado and Bruno Senna were hopeful of a swift return to form. "We're constantly developing the car and it is showing good long-run consistency at...
11:15 AM, Jun 19, 2012
Barcelona: Sergio Perez of Sauber set the pace on the second-to-last day of testing before the new Formula One season gets under way. The Mexican driver steered his way to a fastest lap of 1 minute, 22.094 seconds at the Catalunya Circuit before rain showers slowed down the Saturday afternoon session. "I am very happy with how my final test day went," Perez said. "We did an intensive programme with...
12:21 AM, Mar 04, 2012
It wasn't a moment, but when Ben Hilfenhaus took three wickets in one over, he made Poppats out of India's lower order. It was stunning stuff. With the first ball of the 63rd over, he removed Vinay Kumar with a...
05:09 PM, Jan 18, 2012
Monaco: Brazilian driver Bruno Senna signed with Formula One team Williams on Tuesday, returning the Senna name to the British outfit 18 years after his uncle died. Senna, the nephew of three-time F1 champion Ayrton Senna, joins Venezuelan driver Pastor Maldonado to give the British team an all-South American lineup going into the March 18 opener in Australia. Ayrton Senna joined Williams from McLaren in 1994 and was fatally wounded...
07:53 PM, Jan 17, 2012
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
London: Rubens Barrichello's Formula One future looks increasingly uncertain after a major Williams shareholder said the team were talking to 2007 champion Kimi Raikkonen about a possible comeback. Austrian Christian 'Toto' Wolff told the Kronen Zeitung that the Finn, who won his title with Ferrari, was one of several names on their list of possible drivers for next season. "We are in conversation with Raikkonen," he said. "But he is...
03:02 AM, Nov 08, 2011
Monza: Brazilian Bruno Senna joined his late uncle Ayrton as a Formula One points scorer after finishing ninth in the Italian Grand Prix on Sunday. The last time the Senna name appeared with points against it was at the 1993 Australian Grand Prix in Adelaide won by the great triple world champion, his 41st and last victory before his death at Imola on May 1, 1994. Bruno, in his second...
03:10 AM, Sep 12, 2011
London: Brazilian Bruno Senna will drive for Renault for the rest of the Formula One season after the team reached a settlement with dropped German Nick Heidfeld on Friday. "Bruno Senna has been named as a race driver alongside Vitaly Petrov for the remainder of the 2011 Formula One season," Renault said. The news came after a separate statement announcing a settlement with Heidfeld, who had taken legal action to...
04:22 PM, Sep 03, 2011
