Racing

Toro Rosso on Friday confirmed reports that said Sebastien Bourdais had now signed a contract to race for the Faenza based team in 2008. The multiple Champ Car title winner, Frenchman and former F3000 champion will replace Vitantonio Liuzzi, and be Sebastian Vettel's teammate. "It has been a long...

It was fifty years ago that British racing legend Stirling Moss broke the class F land speed record at Utah’s Bonneville Salt Flats in the streamlined MG EX181. The Class F rules stipulated that the engine had to displace between 1.1 and 1.5L. Moss reached an amazing 245.64mph in the tadpole...

Flavio Briatore has suggested that McLaren was only able to keep up with Ferrari this year because of the spy scandal. The Renault boss, who respectively beat McLaren and Ferrari for the world championships in 2005 and 2006, said he does not believe his counterpart Ron Dennis that no-one except...

Fernando Alonso on Sunday refused to commit to honouring the full three year term of his McLaren contract. The Spaniard joined the Woking based team from Renault this year, but has endured rocky relationships with his British colleagues Lewis Hamilton and team boss Ron Dennis. Alonso finished...

Lewis Hamilton says he apologised to his boss Ron Dennis after their radio swearing match in Hungary. The pair exchanged 'f'-words following the qualifying pitstop bungle on Saturday, which ultimately cost Fernando Alonso his pole position and McLaren 15 championship points. Dennis and Alonso...

Media reportage of the espionage scandal entered a third consecutive month on Wednesday. McLaren made public a lengthy letter from team boss Ron Dennis to Italian motor sport president Luigi Macaluso, whose own letter to Max Mosley this week resulted in the re-opening of the FIA investigation into...

Only in its third season, the calendar of the fledgling A1GP has expanded to eleven events and sees several location changes for the 2007/08 season. Launched back in March of 2004, the A1GP is described as the World Cup of Motorsport as competing teams represent individual countries instead of...

FIA president Max Mosley on Tuesday agreed to send the espionage case against McLaren to the governing body's Court of Appeal. Following the written request of Ferrari's national sanctioning organisation, the Automobile Club d'Italia (ACI), Mosley said it was right to further investigate the case...

True to the rumours, Sebastian Vettel will indeed replace Scott Speed at Toro Rosso for the rest of the 2007 season. The Faenza based team, and 20-year-old Vettel's now former employer BMW-Sauber, confirmed the news with separate official statements on Tuesday. Starting in Hungary this year, the...

Two of China’s biggest carmakers may work together on future projects if plans for a partnership go through. Nanjing and SAIC have signed a letter of intent, which basically means they’ll explore avenues to build cars together, share technologies, or even provide marketing and...

F1's governing body on Thursday announced that McLaren will not be penalised following a meeting of the World Motor Sport Council in Paris. A statement, however, revealed that the 26 Council members did find Ron Dennis' outfit guilty of breaching the International Sporting Code for possessing...

Melbourne will no longer host the opening round of the formula one season after refusing to run the Australian grand prix at night in future. Instead, Bahrain will kick off the 2008 calendar, with the Albert Park event following it in mid-March, Australian organisers revealed on Monday. "Bahrain...

World champion Fernando Alonso slashed teammate Lewis Hamilton's lead of the drivers' world title to a mere two points on Sunday by winning the chaotic European grand prix. Hamilton, in the sister McLaren, finished a lap down and just out of the points at the end of a miserable weekend for the...

F1's worsening espionage scandal has reached a new low for beleaguered McLaren. In addition to the 780-page dossier of secrets, it is now reported that Nigel Stepney, the sacked former chief mechanic, may also have telephoned and emailed Mike Coughlan with tip-offs about Maranello based Ferrari -...

The swinging prospects for a future grand prix in India took a turn for the better this week. Although the Indian Olympic Association declared last month that it has secured a preliminary deal for a race in Delhi in 2009, it was difficult to overlook the lack of confirmed funding or a circuit. But...

Less than a week after the announcement that Formula One would not be returning to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for the ’08 season, track president Joie Chitwood has announced that the event will be replaced next year by Moto-GP. With this latest US circuit on board, Moto-GP’s...

At the specially-convened meeting of F1's World Council later this month, the FIA will ask McLaren how long suspended designer Mike Coughlan had in his possession confidential Ferrari information - and how many colleagues he told. As the media speculates as to how the powerful governing body will...

The American press has pinned the blame squarely on Bernie Ecclestone for the demise of the US grand prix at Indianapolis. "Let's see if we miss America," F1's 76-year-old chief executive reacted after news broke that he had not renewed the contract with Indy counterpart Tony George to bring the...

The July 11 marks the 20th anniversary of Walter Röhrl’s victory at the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb in his Audi Sport quattro S1. Röhrl, now an official Porsche test driver, was rally world champion in 1980 and 1982 and didn’t join the Audi team until 1984. Of the many...

Lewis Hamilton has been granted a pay-rise after reaching the middle of the 2007 season as F1's championship leader. The impressive and ultra-consistent British rookie started the season with a modest retainer of about (US) $400,000 and a $10,000 per point bonus. As of the British grand prix, then...