Filed under: Motorsports
Thursday, September 13th, the World Motor Sport Council will meet to decide on whether McLaren should be punished for industrial espionage in the Stepneygate affair. What had been winding its way to a peaceful conclusion has now been blown back open with the recent revelation that the drivers exchanged information that came from […]
Filed under: Motorsports
Teams aren’t teams in Formula One, they’re constructors. It’s part of the definition that makes F1 what it is: each team builds their own cars. Engines can be obtained from a major manufacturer - though BMW, Renault, Honda and Toyota have joined Ferrari in doing it all in-house - but in theory, at […]
Filed under: Motorsports
If you’ve got your money on Prodrive making an unprecedented F1 debut next season, we’d recommend calling your bookie and changing your bet. The British racing consultancy was preparing to hit the grand prix circuit using equipment obtained through a deal with McLaren, but the agreement that was all but dotted and crossed […]
Filed under: Motorsports, Marketing/Advertising, Renault
While Bernie Ecclestone continues to bring grands prix to new markets every year, additional locations around the world get to see part of the Formula One action through individual teams staging demonstration events.
BMW-Sauber has held several such high-profile events, returning to the Nurburgring Nordschleife and racing on ice in Switzerland, and […]
Filed under: Motorsports, Marketing/Advertising, BMW
With plans on the drawing board to potentially move the defunct USGP from Indianapolis to Las Vegas, BMW is ostensibly testing the waters by staging one of its popular Pit Lane Park demonstrations in Sin City this coming January.
BMW stages the public demonstrations at various grands prix and events around the […]
Filed under: Motorsports, Hirings/Firings, Mercedes Benz
‘You don’t want us, and we don’t want you.’ That seems to be the consensus at Mercedes-Benz regarding Fernando Alonso, who has openly stated his displeasure over the course of the season with McLaren, the F1 team principally owned and powered by Mercedes.
According to emerging reports, the majority of the […]
Filed under: Motorsports
Fans had been looking forward to it for years, and now it’s come to a close. For 2007, Formula One stepped out of the dominating shadow of seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher, the first season since his retirement, and came to today’s final race of the season in a close three-way battle between […]
Filed under: Motorsports
Singapore is getting ready to host the first night race in Formula One history after the FIA approved the proposed calendar for next year’s championship. Race promoters in Singapore got the clearance from the FIA to build the Monaco-style street circuit in May, and things are reportedly moving along well. The spectacle of […]
Filed under: Motorsports, Hirings/Firings
History, they say, has a habit of repeating itself. That’s certainly the way things have been looking in recent years as some of the greatest racing names in motorsport history have been making a comeback. But instead of the legends squeezing their aging selves into new racing equipment like so many sardines, […]
Filed under: Motorsports
Kimi Raikkonen and the boys at Ferrari can breathe a sigh of relief, as their championship has been formally confirmed by the FIA. The title was appealed by the incredibly sore losers at McLaren, who insisted that because of a temperature irregularity in the fuel in BMW’s and Williams’ cars at the season […]
