Red Bull’s car ready in January

As reported on F1Racing.net “I’m really looking forward to the new season, no question about it. The new car is coming out in the middle of January. Hopefully we won’t have to hold too much back at all, we can get into it and show what the car can really do here in the first [...]

Webber laments stint at Williams

As reported on BBC SPORT “Flavio was never keen for me to go to Williams and I know I made a costly mistake by not listening to him,” said Mark Webber. “He was very keen for me to go to Red Bull next season, so I wasn’t going to ignore his advice a second time [...]

Alonso elected as GPDA director

As reported on autosport.com In a 45-minute meeting at the Shanghai circuit on Friday evening, the GPDA went ahead with nominating the board that they wished to represent them for the next 12 months. It was agreed that Alonso, Webber and Ralf Schumacher will become directors, with the Toyota driver also becoming the new chairman [...]

Schu will face GPDA inquisition

As reported on dailyF1news Mark Webber has confirmed speculation that the drivers’ ‘GPDA’ union will require Michael Schumacher to explain his Rascasse moment to rivals at Silverstone this week. ”We will see what he wants to tell us as fellow professionals about why he stopped,” Williams’ 29-year-old Australian driver told the Sun newspaper in England [...]

F1′s ‘embarrassing’ Fridays

As reported on HomeofSport Ferrari does not particularly like F1′s ‘Friday’ car provision, but Ross Brawn thinks without them in 2006 the sport would be ‘genuinely embarrassed’. Williams’ Australian driver said putting valuable miles on fragile engines, given the penalties for failures and some teams’ option of running a ‘Friday’ pilot, would be ‘senseless’. Did [...]