Bernie gives hints about Brawn, Hamilton

As reported on homeofsport Referring to Ferrari, which is yet to announce officially that its technical director is planning a ‘sabbatical’ or retirement, he said: “It will be a different team without Michael Schumacher and Ross Brawn.” Ecclestone also may have spoiled Ron Dennis’ schedule for the announcement of a teammate for 2007 McLaren driver [...]

Bad news is no star to replace Michael

As reported on TheStar.com The reason why Bernie Ecclestone and other members of the Formula One establishment keep saying they don’t think Michael Schumacher is really serious about retiring is because if Michael goes, they know the World Championship Grand Prix circuit will just about be devoid of star power. It is one interesting article [...]

McLaren hint at Hamilton bow

As reported on M&C Sport Lewis Hamilton, the highly-rated young British driver, could be set to make his competitive bow in Formula One after his McLaren team revealed they were considering handing him a race seat for the season’s final grand prix in Brazil. “Whether anything comes out of that to change our current thinking [...]

Bernie tells McLaren to sign Hamilton

As reported on homeofsport F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone has joined Sir Frank Williams in urging McLaren to sign Lewis Hamilton to be Fernando Alonso’s teammate next year. “We need more fresh faces, Ron Dennis really should sign him up.” Now that the Supremo has spoken, I’ll say there is good chances of Hamilton driving for [...]

More transparency in F1

We have been very keenly following the comments on two posts, Alonso’s keen to spoil Schu’s retirement party and Poll: In Monaco qualifying, did Schumi stopped deliberately ?. And there are allegations and cross-allegations flying every where. The point that we saw in all the controversies was that there was no details available from FIA [...]

Fans say new rules have improved F1

As reported on autosport.com Formula One fans think the sport is more exciting this year thanks to the return of tyre changes and the revised qualifying format. That is the result of the latest FIA/AMD Formula One Survey, which was published this morning. The survey was completed by 91,000 fans from 180 countries An overwhelming [...]

South Korea to host GP in 2010

As reported on autosport.com South Korea has reached an agreement with Formula One Management to host a Grand Prix from 2010, autosport.com can reveal. The Korea Auto Valley Operation (KAVO) – a joint-venture between the Jeollanam-do province government and official F1 promoter company M-Bridge Holdings – will hold the signing ceremony in ten days in [...]

Fines imposed in motorsports

In the wake of US$ 5 Million fine imposed on the organisers of Turkish GP, below is a list of some of the biggest fines in motorsport history. US$5 Million Turkish Grand Prix organisers fined for controversial podium ceremony in August 2006 that had Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat handing out the winners’ trophy [...]

FIA: no action over Briatore remarks

As reported on autosport.com The FIA has decided that there is no need to take action against Flavio Briatore over the controversial comments he made after the Italian Grand Prix, autosport.com has learned that following a statement issued by Briatore claiming that his comments had been said as a joke, and then an interview he [...]

Bridgestone working on more excitement in F1

As reported on F1Racing.net Bridgestone is currently going through various proposals with the FIA to keep the tyres as an interesting factor in the sport. One of the options could be to bring in a special tyre that teams could pick during the race and would only make the car go faster for a specific [...]