Racing

The management shakeup over at Ferrari is almost complete, with the company ending speculation by announcing that Michael Schumacher would stay on as a special assistant to Jean Todt who reigns in as the new CEO. Todt replaces outgoing CEO Luca di Montezemolo who has moved on to become the chairman...

Watch a top fuel dragster launching in slow motion. The amazing camera work captures the finer details such as the flex in the huge rubber tyres and the exhaust firing from each cylinder. Thanks to Susan for the tip.

To tie in with the dramatic Brazilian F1 race, we decided to post this video of one of the Red Bull Racing cars driving through the busy streets of São Paulo on a rainy day. Watch out for the stunned spectators and the doughnut at the end.

Korean car maker Hyundai is rumoured to be readying its own Formula One team to start racing by as early as the 2010 F1 season. The launch of the new team would coincide with Korea’s first F1 event, which is also scheduled for 2010, at its new circuit in the country’s south. News...

In F1 news, BMW has confirmed Germany's Nick Heidfeld and Poland's Robert Kubica as the team’s race drivers for the 2007 Formula One season. Test driving duty will be relegated to 19-year-old German Sebastian Vettel, who will also be the official reserve driver. Heidfeld's contract was...

Certain racing categories require that several road legal cars based on the high-performance race cars are built for sale in a process known as homologation. The term features in the prominent GTO label that stands for Gran Turismo Omologato, the Italian wording for Grand Touring, Homologated...

Kimi Raikkonen will be the replacement for Ferrari’s Michael Schumacher, who is retiring at the end of this season. Twenty-six year old Raikkonen, who currently drives for Mercedes-McLaren, has signed a contract that will last until the end of 2009. He will be joined by Brazil’s Felipe...

Aston Martin’s racing division in a partnership with UK’s Prodrive has created the Rally GT, a vehicle labelled by its developers as the "world's most exclusive rally car." Already, the Rally GT has competed in three French Rally Championship events as part of its development program...

South Korea is pegged to host a new F1 event after a deal was signed today between Formula One chief Bernie Ecclestone and the province’s leader, Park Joon-young. The new location of South Jeolla, 240 miles (385km) south of Seoul will host the event starting in 2010 for a period of seven...

Porsche has displayed the potent RS Spyder Le Mans, which was created at its Weissach R&D Centre, in its stand at the Paris Motor Show. Based on the current version that’s been racing under the guise of the US Penske-Motorsports-Team, the new car has been designed in accordance with the rules...

The Nürburgring will host Germany’s only Formula One event next year according to the local newspaper Mannheimer Morgen. Officials at Germany’s other F1 site, Hockenheim, have been informed that no stage will be hosted there next year. Nürburgring’s event will be held during...

The deal was announced only 10 days ago, but Spyker has already introduced new orange and grey livery that reflects its Dutch heritage. The new colors make the Skyper racers the most distinctive cars on the grid. Spyker has also announced the GP2 Series frontrunner Alex Premat would take their...

The powers that be at FIA have once again changed the rules for next years F1 season, with the two biggest changes being the addition of Italy’s Imola circuit and the engine freeze originally planned for 2008 brought forward. After the Japanese GP, the only engine development allowed will be...

At least one Red Bull team will use Renault engines next year after the French company announced it had won the deal. Red Bull currently uses Ferrari engines in the main team and Cosworth V10s in their Scuderia Toro Rosso team. To make things interesting, Red Bull still has an engine contract with...

In a scathing interview with Radio Marca in Spain, Fernando Alonso has called soon-to-retire Michael Schumacher "the most unsporting driver in the history of Formula One." He goes on to say that "[Zinedine] Zidane retired with more glory than Schumacher," and that “he has the largest number...

Dutch car manufacturer Spyker has confirmed it has acquired MidLand F1 Racing after bring in talks for almost a month. The new team will be called Spyker MF1 Racing and will be full owned by Spyker and valued at over $100m. Michiel Mol will join on as the team director and recently departed Toyota...

As expected, the world champion Renault F1 team has signed their current test driver, Heikki Kovalainen, to race alongside Giancarlo Fisichella for the 2007 season. The team will continue to be led by flamboyant Italian Flavio Briatore. Heikki has completed over 28,000 km of testing for the Renault...

After only one season of competition, the A1 Grand Prix has already announced major changes to the specification of its race cars, which will be at a level of performance that could rival Formula One. The race that coincides with F1’s off-season, never had any intentions of competing with...

Michael Schumacher will showcase his skills at the Nürburgring this weekend driving a range of Ferrari’s including his own FXX supercar. Other cars at the Ferrari Racing Days 2006 bi-annual event will include the F2005 F1 car, the F430 and 599 GTB Fiorano among others. These public...

Formula One is already set for some drastic changes regarding its engine technology as outlined in our earlier post. The latest rumour is that one day the high-revving, naturally aspirated V8s will be replaced by either fuel cell or hybrid powerplants. We’ve already had comments from FIA...