Racing

Just 24 hours after former rally world champion Colin McRae was killed, Prodrive chief David Richards survived a helicopter crash when returning from the Belgian grand prix. Richards, McRae's former boss at Suburu, was returning to Essex (UK) from Spa-Francorchamps with his wife when the helicopter...

Aguri Suzuki has sold a stake of his formula one team to a mystery backer. The Japanese started searching for an investor when major backer SS United failed to make due payments in 2007. The Austrian newspaper Salzburger Nachrichten said a powerful Japanese businessman has plugged the budget hole...

Emails between Fernando Alonso and Pedro de la Rosa were central to the evidence that led to the disqualification and $100m fine imposed on McLaren. The FIA revealed a 15-page dossier of the evidence to the media at Spa-Francorchamps on Friday, which showed that the confidential Ferrari information...

Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton will continue to battle for the 2007 drivers' championship after the McLaren drivers escaped penalty on Thursday in the protracted World Motor Sport Council hearing in Paris. F1's governing body, however, has otherwise come down hard on Ron Dennis' Woking based...

A FIA spokesman has strengthened speculation that McLaren tried to drag Renault into F1's escalating espionage affair ahead of the World Council hearing on Thursday. Following rumours that boss Ron Dennis is in possession of potentially explosive evidence that could incriminate the French team as...

The Japanese grand prix will from 2009 onwards alternate between Fuji and the event's popular former venue, Suzuka. The redeveloped Fuji circuit, set to host formula one for the first time later this month, revealed the news in a statement on Saturday. It said Fuji president Hiroaki Kato and Bernie...

Fernando Alonso could be set to emerge right at the centre of the espionage saga. Ahead of the latest hearing of the World Motor Sport Council on Thursday, it is rumoured in the Monza paddock on Thursday that the Spaniard could have been among the team employees who knew about chief designer Mike...

The espionage saga involving McLaren and Ferrari took a fresh turn on Wednesday. F1's governing body revealed in a statement that it has received "new evidence" and had therefore decided to convene another hearing of the World Motor Sport Council in Paris. The meeting will happen on September 13...

The European Commission has vowed to redouble its efforts to stub-out formula one's persistent last links to tobacco. The EC's health commissioner Markos Kyprianou will specifically target Ferrari, the last team on the grid still accepting sponsorship from a cigarette brand (Marlboro), and the...

F1's newest team owner has refused to reveal the new name for his team. But Indian billionaire Vijay Mallya, to be the 50 per cent owner of formula one's Silverstone based team that is currently called Spyker, admitted that he would like the word 'India' to feature in the new identity for 2008...

F1's Overtaking Working Group (OWG) has agreed on its first recommendations to improve the spectacle of grand prix racing. Following the mostly processional Turkish grand prix, the German magazine Auto Motor und Sport reports that the group - headed by team technical boffins Paddy Lowe (McLaren)...

Toyota has admitted harboring at least a superficial interest in F1's reigning double world champion Fernando Alonso. With the Spaniard plainly unhappy at McLaren in 2007, his former boss and mentor Flavio Briatore this week explained that "everybody" in pitlane would be interested in making a bid...

They nearly came to blows when their careers crossed paths in formula one, but Juan Pablo Montoya and Jacques Villeneuve could soon be friends. In the drivers' briefing before the Canadian grand prix in 2001, the pair had to be physically separated after arguing about one another's driving style...

Felipe Massa and Kimi Raikkonen scored a resounding one-two in Sunday's boiling hot Turkish Grand Prix held on the outskirts of Istanbul. With McLaren's Fernando Alonso finishing a distant third, and teammate Lewis Hamilton in fifth place after a puncture, Ferrari's drivers moved to within 15...

Jacques Villeneuve is about to take his first step towards a new career in the world of NASCAR racing. The 1997 world champion, who lost his BMW-Sauber seat last year, is scheduled to test a Toyota pick-up truck in Chicago on Monday for the team Bill Davis Racing, according to American media...

Team principal Mario Theissen has played down suggestions that BMW-Sauber seriously flirted with signing Fernando Alonso for the 2008 season. Some sections of the media recently linked the long delay in confirming a new BMW contract for Nick Heidfeld next year with reports that unhappy reigning...

BMW-Sauber on Tuesday announced that it will field an unchanged race driver lineup in 2008. The Hinwil based team "realises the importance of continuity", a statement read, confirming that Nick Heidfeld would again drive alongside Robert Kubica. As reported earlier, Timo Glock has not yet been...

Michiel Mol, who quit as CEO of Spyker's road car making parent this week, has confirmed that he is hoping to buy the financially-embattled Silverstone based team. His admission on Wednesday followed the issuing of a statement by the Dutch team insisting that there is no danger that Spyker does not...

For the 2008 Mini Challenge, the series’ eighth year of competition, Mini has developed a new version of the John Cooper Works prepped racer scheduled to be unveiled at next month’s Frankfurt Motor Show. The new racecar features a 206hp (154kW) turbo engine that develops up to 280Nm...

Spanish telecommunications giant Telefonica has reportedly backed Flavio Briatore's campaign to reunite Renault with Fernando Alonso. Coinciding with reigning world champion and Spaniard Alonso's switch to McLaren, the Madrid based company - previously pledging $30m per year to Renault as a major...