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Flavio Briatore

Briatore urges Renault to change its driver...

Dec 09, 2015No Comments

Former Renault team boss Flavio Briatore has urged the French carmaker to look carefully at its contracted driver lineup for 2016. Amid Lotus’ struggle for survival late this season, it re-signed the lucratively PDVSA-backed Pastor Maldonado

Bernie Ecclestone with Jean Todt

Jean Todt should step down – Ecclesto...

Dec 09, 2015No Comments

Bernie Ecclestone thinks FIA president Jean Todt should step back from the front line in formula one. According to the BBC, an increasingly alarmed F1 supremo told the World Motor Sport Council last week that he believes

Lewis Hamilton

Wolff not concerned with Hamilton lifestyle

Dec 08, 2015No Comments

Toto Wolff has rubbished reports it could be Lewis Hamilton’s off-track lifestyle that costs the triple world champion his seat at Mercedes. The team boss warned after the Abu Dhabi finale recently that the constant bickering

Fernando Alonso

Sabbatical not right for Alonso – Hak...

Dec 08, 2015No Comments

Lowering his guard and taking a sabbatical amid McLaren-Honda’s troubles would not be the right move for Fernando Alonso. That is the advice of fellow former double world champion Mika Hakkinen, whose own one-year sabbatical in

Fernando Alonso

Alonso will not return to Renault – B...

Dec 08, 2015No Comments

Flavio Briatore has dismissed suggestions Fernando Alonso might be considering a sensational return to lead Renault’s latest works effort in F1. The Enstone based team Lotus has already announced its driver lineup for 2016, with the

Mercedes

Benjamin Hoyle to be sued by Mercedes

Dec 08, 2015No Comments

World champion team Mercedes on Tuesday confirmed reports it is suing an engineer. The Bloomberg news agency claimed the engineer Benjamin Hoyle, working for the German marque’s F1 engine facility, took documents and data as he

Carlos Sainz Jr and Max Verstappen USA GP

Rookie Review – How the newcomers fared i...

Dec 06, 2015No Comments

The 2015 season proved to be yet another formality for Mercedes, with defending champion Lewis Hamilton and second placed Nico Rosberg sharing sixteen victories from a possible nineteen – only the circuits of Malaysia, Hungary and

German GP 2013 Nürburgring

F1 popularity still dropping in Germany

Dec 01, 2015No Comments

The popularity of formula one within Germany has continued to steadily decline. It emerges that the coverage by the German broadcaster ARD of Sunday’s skiing-and-shooting biathlon attracted 3.95 million viewers — 120,000 more than those who