Pirelli will soon name its formula one test driver. Reports have linked Mercedes reserve driver Nick Heidfeld with the role of helping the Italian marque to prepare for the 2011 season. It is believed Pirelli will conduct six tests before all the teams try the tyres for the first time in Abu Dhabi in mid [...]
Derek Warwick will return to F1 stewarding duties at the Hungaroring this weekend. In May in Barcelona, the former F1 racer made his debut as the driver representative on the FIA officials’ panel. Briton Warwick, 55 and a veteran of 162 grands prix between 1981 and 1993, did not win a race during his tenures [...]
F1 is moving to reduce the risk posed by flying wheels. Last year, GP2 driver Henry Surtees died when a stray wheel from a crashed car struck him on the head. There was a similar incident during the final practice session at Hockenheim last weekend, with Timo Glock narrowly avoiding a bouncing wheel after Vitantonio [...]
The FIA is still not ready to set a date for the hearing about the Ferrari team orders affair. It has been reported this week that the team’s one-two finish at Hockenheim will be considered during the regular World Motor Sport Council meeting in Como, Italy, on September 10. But that date clashes with Friday [...]
Flavio Briatore does not think Ferrari will be heavily punished by the FIA for the Hockenheim team orders affair. The governing body is set to consider the matter no later than September 10 at its scheduled World Motor Sport Council meeting in Como, Italy. Ferrari breached article 39.1 of the sporting regulations by ordering that [...]
Bernie Ecclestone thinks formula one should overturn its 2002 ban on team orders. As the sporting world debates Ferrari’s order for Felipe Massa to hand Hockenheim victory to Fernando Alonso, there are those who believe teams should be free to run their businesses on track. “I must confess I would agree with anyone who thinks [...]
The FIA is yet to confirm reports that it will consider the Ferrari team order issue at its scheduled meeting on September 10. International publications including Blick (Switzerland), Turun Sanomat (Finland), Autosprint (Italy), Bild (Germany) and Marca (Spain) believe it is possible the FIA will not schedule a special meeting to discuss Fernando Alonso’s Hockenheim [...]
Ferrari is not appealing its $100,000 penalty for imposing illegal team orders in the German grand prix. The stewards, also directing the matter to the World Motor Sport Council, found the Italian team guilty of both team orders and disrepute. The team denies the charge, arguing that Felipe Massa made the decision to let Fernando [...]
Ferrari has been fined $100,000 and now faces the wrath of the FIA’s World Motor Sport Council. A furore erupted after Sunday’s German grand prix, in which Felipe Massa moved aside for winner Fernando Alonso after the Brazilian’s engineer told him the Spaniard was faster. Team management, and later the drivers, were summoned by the [...]
Sebastian Vettel was slightly limping in the puddle-strewn Hockenheim paddock on Thursday. On Wednesday night, the Red Bull driver sat out the traditional pre-German grand prix football game — which the F1 drivers’ team nonetheless won. It emerges the Red Bull driver fell whilst jogging last week. “It is a little bit of a strain [...]
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