German newspaper Bild is reporting that Mercedes will launch its car at the Mercedes-Benz museum in Unterturkheim, Stuttgart. They also report Schumacher would not drive the car until an official test on February 10 in Jerez, meaning Nico Rosberg will drive the car first. Plans for a joint car launch were scrapped because it was [...]

Chiefs of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix have announced that they will keep the ‘twilight’ day/night timing of the Grand Prix and the pit exit tunnel, despite both elements coming under fire from some quarters. When quizzed on the twilight timing of the race and the tricky pit lane tunnel with no speed-limit, circuit boss [...]

The four new teams to enter Formula One in 2010 – USF1, Campos, Virgin/Manor and Lotus – have all been subject to a degree of scepticism over time as to how ready they will be for the challenges of the sport when the new season arrives in March. Most famously, Ferrari derided the new entrants [...]

Well there’s definitely one Schumacher on the grid, but according to a German newspaper there could have been two. De Bild claims Ralf Schumacher had been offered a drive with one of Formula One’s new teams – USf1, Campos Meta, Lotus or Virgin Racing – but that he was happy racing in the German DTM [...]

Michael Schumacher has paid tribute to the Ferrari fans after announcing his comeback with the German Mercedes team. The seven times world champion, who won five of his titles at Ferrari, said in a letter circulated in the Italian media: “For 14 years I was a part of Ferrari and for 14 years Ferrari was [...]

Last year Bernie Ecclestone’s light-hearted annual Christmas card depicted Max Mosley with a whip, this year it is Flavio Briatore who gets the biggest roasting – he is depicted with a rocket launcher trying to blow up a boat with Max Mosley on. On the boat sailing into the distance with Mosley are the other [...]

Well, we all know Schumacher’s back and aiming for his eighth title after joining Mercedes and teaming up once again with Ross Brawn. But what will the Mercedes car be like in comparison to the rest of the grid? Well, Ross Brawn is clearly backing his new car after saying it’s already better than the [...]

Schumacher’s comeback has got many fans salivating at the idea of the old legend vs the fresh new talent but it has also slots in nicely with the many teammate rivalries we could see. Schumacher’s deal could have been decided after Button left Brawn and Nico was signed. If so, then Rosberg probably felt he [...]

Renault have announced that Frenchman Eric Bouiller will replace the disgraced Flavio Briatore as team principal of the Enstone-based F1 team. Flavio Briatore was barred from any involvement in any FIA ran motorsport event for life after the Crashgate scandal in 2008 at the Singapore Grand Prix, where Nelson Piquet Jr who was at Renault [...]

Ross Brawn has dismissed suggestions that Jenson Button was forced out of Mercedes GP to make way for Michael Schumacher – but has admitted talks with the two drivers ‘overlapped’. Despite becoming World Champion and helping secure the Constructors Championship for Brawn GP, Button decided to join McLaren and form a British Dream Team with [...]