Racing

At a press conference today it was announced that Singapore will host a Formula One grand prix for five years, starting in 2008. The race will take place late in the season on a street circuit. Contrary to earlier reports, Bernie Ecclestone confirmed on Friday that the first Singapore grand prix...

Update: Bernie Ecclestone has attempted to calm a political storm by denying that he wants to interfere with the outcome of Valencia's election results. The F1 supremo angered the region's incumbent leader Francisco Camps' opponents this week when he announced that the contract for a street circuit...

Newly crowned A1GP champion and teenager Nico Hulkenberg will test a formula one car for the first time later in 2007. That is the promise of the German's manager, Willi Weber, who is famous for steering the career of the most successful and highest earning grand prix driver of all time, Michael...

Bernie Ecclestone is still the richest man in motor sport, according to the Sunday Times newspaper's list of the 1000 wealthiest people in Britain. With his wife Slavica controlling the money via Jersey-based trusts, their fortune is estimated at (US) $4.5bn. The Times says F1 supremo Ecclestone is...

With over 45,000 fans watching, BMW-Sauber’s Nick Heidfeld took to the notorious Nordschleife at Germany’s Nürburgring in his F1.06 racecar. This was the first time in 31 years that a Formula One racer has taken to the famous circuit after the site was dropped from the event’s...

Nick Heidfeld will have his wings clipped when he tackles the Nurburgring's famous 'Nordschleife' layout in a BMW-Sauber this weekend. For a BMW event, the German will drive the 22km layout known as 'Green Hell' that almost claimed Niki Lauda's life back in 1976. But team officials have clipped...

BMW's Mario Theissen has hit out at the current four-week break between the grands prix in Bahrain and Spain. The boss of the Swiss-German squad BMW-Sauber echoed the sentiment of the majority of F1's travelling circus, which argues that such a long break would be better suited for a point later in...

F1's long running Toyota espionage saga has ended with the two former Ferrari employees handed jail sentences. Mauro Iacconi and Angelo Santini have been found guilty in a Modena court of stealing design information from Ferrari before switching to Toyota in 2002, according to Italian newspapers on...

Ron Dennis has moved to calm speculation that F1's twelfth entrant Prodrive next year will be equipped with cars and engines supplied by McLaren-Mercedes. The paddock gossip is widespread and established, and was fuelled further in Bahrain recently when Prodrive boss David Richards toured the grid...

This weekend saw Spyker’s F8-VII Formula One racecar pitted against an F16 jet-fighter from the Royal Netherlands Air Force in a drag race. The event, named 'Full Throttle', saw Dutch driver Christijan Albers race his F1 car side by side against Captain Ralph Aarts in the high-tech aircraft...

It appears the new Mercedes Benz CL coupe wasn’t big enough for the guys over at Fab Design, because the tuner has just released a new wide body aerodynamic package for the mega-coupe. The kit includes a new front bumper flanked by wide front fenders with large are intakes that cool both the...

A three-way tie for the lead of the 2007 world championship unfolded at Sakhir on Sunday as Felipe Massa won the Bahrain grand prix from pole. Fernando Alonso is now joined by Kimi Raikkonen and Lewis Hamilton at the top of the drivers' title standings, and Brazilian Massa just behind, after...

Prodrive plans to unveil the structure of its new formula one team at the British grand prix this year. After making a business trip to nearby Kuwait, team boss David Richards (pictured) is in Bahrain this weekend, and he explained to reporters that F1 news about Prodrive had dried up recently...

Starting from 2009, all cars in the FIA World Touring Car Championship (WTCC) will run exclusively on bio-ethanol fuel after the decision was approved by the championship’s governing council yesterday. From next year onwards, some of the teams will start using bio-ethanol fuel, racing...

F1's drivers have generally welcomed the impending ban on traction control. The FIA confirmed last month that the electronic driver aid will not be allowed in 2008, after it was reintroduced to formula one in 2001 following a previous ban that fell in 1993. "I think it's going to be more fun," said...

Bernie Ecclestone thinks it is unlikely that more manufacturers will enter formula one in the near future. Six of today's eleven teams are major carmakers, leading F1 supremo Ecclestone to conclude that names including Volkswagen and Porsche are not likely to join the circus. "It is very difficult...

Starting from 2008, traction control will be banned from use in Formula One as part of a number of changes approved by the FIA. The decision came after all competitors agreed to the changes at the meeting of the World Motor Sport Council in Paris on Wednesday. Traction control was introduced by the...

At the inaugural Formula One race in Melbourne, BMW Sauber’s Nick Heidfeld crossed the finish line in fourth position after qualifying third fastest the day before. Team mate Robert Kubica was close behind and was in contention for a top-ten spot for most of the race but was forced to retire...

One of the corners of the famed Nürburgring circuit will be labelled the 'Schumacher S’ in honor of seven-times F1 World Champion Michael Schumacher. The announcement was made on Sunday by a spokesman for the venue and confirmed by the Nürburgring’s managing director Walter Kafitz...

Most of us mere mortals will never get the chance to feel the acceleration of a Formula One car or experience the thrill of hitting a chicane at more than 200km/h. Some things were never meant to be, but companies like Australia’s Hyper Stimulator offer some solace with its lifelike...