BMW sign Merc man to head-up ‘power-train F1′

As reported on crash.net The BMW Sauber F1 has announced that Markus Duesmann will join the team next year as ‘head of power-train F1′. Duesmann, who was apart of the Mercedes-Benz set-up in Brixworth, as head of F1 engine development, takes over the position from Heinz Paschen, who, according to a statement from the Swiss-based [...]

Villeneuve to quit F1 for US Nascar?

As reported on motoring.co.za Canadian Jacques Villeneuve says he might quit Formula 1 this year and move to the US-based Nascar championship in 2007. It seems likely that Villeneuve will be dropped by BMW Sauber at the end of the 2006 season in favour of Polish test driver Robert Kubica……with no top teams apparently interested [...]

Canada GP – First-Hand Experience

Farzad Bakhtiar [who maintains F1 Blog] was the lucky one to be present at this year’s Canadian GP [and this is the 20th Canadian GP he went to]. He posted his First-Hand Experience on his blog: The race itself was pretty fun. I was surrounded by Americans who took every chance to poke some fun [...]

Another name in the Red Bull hat

As reported on HomeofSport When asked about solid speculation linking Renault engines and test driver Heikki Kovalainen with the team next year, Red Bull principal Christian Horner told Speed TV: ‘We’re not going to train up drivers for other teams.’ Without further ado, then, current Ferrari racer Felipe Massa’s name dropped into the hat. ‘He’s [...]

Coulthard says stop apologising

As reported on F1Racing.net “We’ve said out sorries and I don’t see why the American fans deserve more apologies than some other races which have not been particularly good,” Coulthard told British journalists at Indianapolis. “It was an unfortunate situation but those who bought tickets have had their money back and we’ll just go and [...]

Super Aguri delay new car debut to Hockenheim

As reported on Reuters The debut had been planned for the July 16 French Grand Prix, the 11th round of the 18-race season, but the team said events had delayed that to the following race weekend at Hockenheim on July 28-30. Super Aguri said the first delay was due to a decision on the specification [...]

Bridgestone take pop at Michelin over USGP ’05

As reported on crash.net Bridgestone have said that the fans deserve a good race at Indianapolis this year – a subtle dig at their rivals, Michelin, who messed up big time in 2005 and reduced the event to a six-car farce. “Coming to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway is always a special event for Bridgestone,” Bridgestone’s [...]

Raikkonen sees end to win drought

As reported on BBC McLaren driver Kimi Raikkonen believes he can take his first victory of the season in Sunday’s US Grand Prix. “At Montreal, we were able to show the step forward we have made with the MP4-21,” Kimi Raikkonen said. “And hopefully this week in America we will be able to challenge for [...]

Horner hints at Klien axe

As reported on ITV-F1 “It is probable that we will only continue with one of our current drivers,” Red Bull Racing boss Christian Horner was quoted as saying in Motorsport News. “The driver market is pretty fluid this year.” “Christian is in his third year of F1 and he is not a rookie any more. [...]

Honda ‘over-promised’ – DC

As reported on DailyF1News “Honda are having troubled times,” David Coulthard said. “In many ways I think the team were promising before they had delivered anything. The team put too much expectation on themselves and the drivers when they had not even won one race.” Thank God !! After all these days, someone finally came [...]