Racing

Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] will be attempting to make a new world record for the fastest hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle when it takes its Fusion Hydrogen 999 fuel cell car to the Bonneville Salt Flats next month. The car – a collaboratively engineered racer with Ballard, Roush and Ohio State...

Update: Honda admits meeting the pair behind the allegations. Click ahead to find out more. A third team is being dragged into the Ferrari-McLaren espionage affair - Honda. The German specialist publication Auto Motor und Sport now reports that, in addition to McLaren, disgruntled Ferrari veteran...

The espionage scandal involving Ferrari's Nigel Stepney deepened late on Tuesday when McLaren admitted that one of its senior technical staff is also implicated. Woking based McLaren did not name him, but it is widely reported to be 48-year-old chief designer Mike Coughlan, who has been suspended...

Lewis Hamilton extended his lead in the world championship on Sunday despite finishing behind both Ferraris at the French grand prix. The McLaren driver met the chequered flag half a minute after Kimi Raikkonen, who leapfrogged his Ferrari teammate Felipe Massa in the second pit stops during a dry...

Motorsport's governing body, the FIA, has unveiled a list of proposed changes to Formula One’s technical regulations that it would like to see implemented by 2011. The changes are part of a push by the FIA to make F1 more road-relevant, eco-friendly and cost-effective. The FIA published a...

Ferrari's Nigel Stepney has broken his silence and declared that he is the victim of a "dirty tricks campaign" waged by the Italian team. Rumours this weekend suggested that the formula one veteran, currently the subject of a police and internal investigation for alleged illegal behaviour and...

Ferrari has commenced legal action against its veteran technician Nigel Stepney, a spokesman for the Maranello based team confirmed on Friday. The details have not been divulged, but team principal Jean Todt admitted to La Gazzetta dello Sport that the action relates to alleged "illegal" behavior...

Kimi Raikkonen could depart Ferrari as soon as the end of this season, according to reports. Germany's Auto-Bild-Motorsport said the beleaguered Maranello based team has already commenced its search for the Finn's successor, after failing to live up to his reputation and newfound status as the...

Robert Kubica will sit out the US grand prix this weekend despite passing the FIA's cognitive and physical examination on Thursday. The Pole, who was hospitalised with a sprained ankle, minor bruising and mild concussion after his huge accident in Montreal four days ago, told reporters on Thursday...

Organisers of the Indianapolis race want a long-term deal but Bernie Ecclestone said this week that formula one can live without the US. Associated Press reports that the famous Motor Speedway's boss Tony George will meet with F1 supremo Ecclestone this weekend, as the race's current contract is...

Poland's Robert Kubica left the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve aboard a medical helicopter on Sunday complaining of pain 'all over his body', according to sources in Montreal. Reports that he broke his leg in the horror shunt are believed to have been based on an in-car radio transmission from race...

Lewis Hamilton dominantly won his first grand prix in a dramatic Canadian grand prix at Montreal's Circuit Gilles Villeneuve on Sunday, but the biggest relief of the day is that Robert Kubica survived a sickening crash. BMW-Sauber's Pole was clearly knocked unconscious when his car slammed into a...

Formula One is set for a dramatic change with the announcement today that a deal has been struck between two British engineering firms for the development of an energy recovering gearbox slated for introduction into F1 by 2009. The goal is to reduce the level of greenhouse gas emissions by...

An Aston Martin DBRS9 has made motorsport history by becoming the first bio-fuelled car to win a major motorsport event in the UK. Driven by Lord Drayson and Jonny Cocker, the Barwell Motorsport owned bio-ethanol racer managed to take top honors in the latest round of the British GT championship at...

The Formula One team of the same name is not under threat despite the financial difficulties of its Dutch road-car making parent company Spyker. That is the insistence of team boss Colin Kolles, after the outfit hit the headlines over the Monaco grand prix weekend when it emerged that Spyker Cars...

F1's governing body has cleared McLaren of using illegal team orders in the controversial Monaco grand prix. The FIA conducted an investigation into the team's conduct, after the British press reacted angrily to boss Ron Dennis' admission that Fernando Alonso and his British teammate Lewis Hamilton...

Here’s a very detailed video showcasing the steps that go into designing the BMW-Sauber F1 car, complete with interviews with team principal Mario Theissen and technical director Willy Rampf.

Max Mosley in Monaco played down speculation that Volkswagen and Ford could be considering entering F1 in the near future. The rumours were sparked when the FIA's proposals for new regulations in 2011 and beyond were also sent to the aforementioned carmakers, but not seasoned private teams like...

FIA president Max Mosley insisted in Monaco that F1's governing body has not yet sanctioned Bernie Ecclestone's plans for night racing. Ecclestone, the F1 supremo, has busily been organising floodlit events in Singapore and possibly Malaysia and Australia for as soon as next year, but Mosley said...

Nick Fry says he is "happy" to see Super Aguri do well in 2007. The Honda team principal, however, also admitted to the Dutch magazine Formule 1 Race Report that he "hates" the fact that the Japanese manufacturer's satellite team is embarrassingly beating the hugely-funded works squad. Leafield...