Renault set for engine boost for China

As reported on autosport.com “For China, we will be preparing and transporting two slightly different engine specifications, one of which is a small gain over Monza, and the other a larger gain,” said Renault’s engine guru Rob White. “Between now and Thursday, the dynos in Viry will be working day and night on track simulations. [...]

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 [...]

Honda 2007 Engines to Wait

As reported on FeedmeF1 Honda successfully honed the design during testing at Jerez last week, but due to the new two-race schedule commenced with older engines at Monza, both Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello must now wait until the Japanese GP to change specification and avoid penalty. Japan ’06 is teams’ last chance to introduce [...]

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 [...]

Michelin ‘optimistic’ about remaining races

As reported on autosport.com “Over recent weeks, we have been working very hard in a specific area: our tyres’ single-lap performance,” explained Michelin’s F1 director Nick Shorrock. “After Indianapolis, we noted that our cars were systematically 0.2 seconds slower in qualifying, which had particular consequences for Renault in terms of their ability to put their [...]

F1′s next big star?

As reported on Auto123.com While we have the likes of Fernando Alonso and Kimi Raikkonen to carry us through after Schumacher leaves, there is another name on everyone’s lips after Polish racer Robert Kubica finished the Italian Grand Prix third in his only third race. Despite Kubica’s lack of experience, he did everything right in [...]

Honda to race 2007 engine in China

As reported on homeofsport Honda will attempt to use its 2007-specification engine at China’s Shanghai race next month … plan to introduce the updated 2.4 litre V8 at Monza backfired spectacularly when Anthony Davidson suffered two failures in free practice last Friday. Team boss Nick Fry told Speed TV that the cause of the Monza [...]

Alonso’s keen to spoil Schu’s retirement party

as reported on Planet-F1.com Fernando Alonso said: “I think we should be very optimistic. We were very, very quick in the last two races, as quick as Ferrari or even more so. So in the last three races we should be the favourites. I think we have been quick. The car is improving a lot, [...]

Furious Briatore vows to fight against odds: UPDATE

As reported on f1racing.net A fuming Flavio Briatore vowed to fight against the odds and beat a ‘lucky’ Michael Schumacher to the championship. The Renault team boss also took the opportunity to blast F1 authorities for what he branded ‘interference’ beyond the sporting nature of F1. “Fernando’s still in front and when we talk about [...]

Michael Schumacher to retire

It’s official now. In post race interview, Michael Schumacher said to the world that he won’t be participating with the team at same level of racing. In other words, he’s retiring from being a Formula 1 Driver for Ferrari. And that came after winning the Italian Grand Prix, with Kimi Raikkonen coming second and some [...]