Court rules India GP can go ahead
Axe unlikely to fall on 2013 India GP This weekend’s Indian grand prix is going ahead. Earlier, a public campaigner appealed to the supreme court for an injunction against proceedings at the Buddh...
View ArticleF1 staying loud as green, ‘silent’ series looms
“Bernie has absolutely insisted that there can be no compromise on noise.” As a new ‘silent’ series gears up, formula one is on a mission to stay as loud as it can in a new, greener world. The last...
View ArticleFarewell Formula One!
“It was a good way to end my career” An emotional final race weekend in Formula One ended with Mark taking the 42nd podium of his career. He drove a typically tenacious race to second place, coming...
View ArticleF1 news update: Nasr, Schumacher, Bahrain, Ecclestone
Brazilian Felipe Nasr, and his sponsor Banco do Brasil, have joined Williams. GP2 frontrunner Nasr, 22, is the British team’s new reserve driver, and Williams said he will take part in five Friday...
View ArticleSepang not joining chorus to make F1 louder
F1 remains “amazing” According to the outspoken Australian Ron Walker, his fellow F1 promoters will speak with “an enormous voice” next week in Bahrain. Walker, fiercely critical of the quieter sound...
View ArticleF1 to allow new Kolles team in 2015
F1 is set to allow two new teams through the paddock turnstiles for 2015. Days ago, the sport’s chief executive said the bid made by Nascar team co-owner Gene Haas to enter F1 next year has been...
View ArticleSubway could become F1 sponsor – report
Subway could emulate its Nascar strategy American chain Subway could be the next sponsor to enter formula one, according to F1 business journalist Christian Sylt. Zak Brown, an F1 sponsorship guru who...
View ArticleF1 suffering global TV ratings decline – report
F1′s television ratings in key markets are strikingly down in 2014. Writing in the Spanish sports daily Marca, correspondent Miguel Sanz said the most worrying figures are coming out of Latin America,...
View ArticleKorea eyes F1 return with Seoul night race
Korea is casting jealous eyes on the success of Singapore’s city night race as it plans to return to the F1 calendar. South Korea’s first foray, at the desolate, highly unpopular and debt-making...
View ArticleLauda not sorry about Mercedes ‘unfreeze’ defiance
Dominant Mercedes is unapologetic amid increasing pressure to agree to an engine ‘unfreeze’ for 2015. The new constructors’ champions came under fire recently when Red Bull’s Christian Horner claimed...
View ArticleF1 set for three-car teams as more risk collapse
F1 risks sliding into crisis and having to reinvent its very DNA as struggling backmarker teams begin to succumb to collapse. HRT folded in 2012, and now F1’s two other newest teams Caterham and...
View ArticleF1 exit could cost Honda $150m – report
Honda ‘no great loss’ to F1 – Ecclestone Honda has pulled out of formula one to escape its huge annual budgets, but even walking away from the sport is expected to cost the beleaguered manufacturer an...
View ArticleEcclestone, Mosley, predict Honda survival
70 per cent probability F1 powerbrokers Bernie Ecclestone and Max Mosley on Thursday sounded confident that a buyer will be found for the embattled team currently known as Honda. With less than 50 days...
View ArticleBernie and Slavica Ecclestone divorced
A private hearing will be held if a financial settlement cannot be agreed. In a hearing that took less than one minute, a district judge in London on Wednesday granted Slavica Ecclestone a divorce....
View ArticleBulgaria keeps moving towards F1 race deal
“We have created a project that meets the requirements of both FIA and FIM” A race contract for an inaugural Bulgarian grand prix in 2012 could be signed as soon as next month, according to the head of...
View ArticleRome GP ‘letter of intent’ expires in 2010 – mayor
“I will soon meet with Ecclestone to confirm the letter of intent” – Alemanno. It has emerged that Rome’s agreement about a city-based formula one race in 2012 or 2013 could lapse at the end of the...
View ArticleBarcelona admits looking to renegotiate GP deal
Barcelona test dates tweak emerges Fans of the Spanish grand prix have been told to not be alarmed by the recent comments of new Catalonian president Artur Mas. On a visit to the formula one test at...
View ArticleGov’t rules out move for Albert Park GP
Albert Park’s current contract runs through 2015 Melbourne’s formula one race will only be held at Albert Park, state government minister Louise Asher said on Monday. Her comments follow speculation...
View ArticleValencia wants earlier F1 calendar slot
“F1 is spectacular in terms of boosting the economy through tourism” Organisers of the European grand prix would like an earlier date on formula one calendars of the future. The streets of the Spanish...
View ArticleCouncil votes to put US GP back on track
It seems the next twist in the road will be efforts to move the race’s provisional debut date The 2012 US grand prix is back on the right track after the Austin council signed off the Circuit of the...
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