Vitaly Petrov has today been announced as the Renault second driver, meaning that he will become the first ever Russian to drive in a Grand Prix when he makes his debut at Bahrain, in March. Petrov was announced as a Renault F1 driver on the same day as the 2010 Renault R30 was launched in [...]

Renault have today unveiled their 2010 car: the Renault R30, at Valencia. As expected, Robert Kubica is joined by Vitaly Petrov who will be Renault’s second driver and Ho-Pin Tung the reserve alongside Jerome D’Ambrosio. (More in a separate story soon). Press pack Discover Simple, Private Sharing at Drop.io var scribd_doc = scribd.Document.getDoc(26354500, ‘key-2cqonm8bcg68omeqgwtx’); scribd_doc.addParam(‘height’, [...]

Sauber have today launched thir 2010 challenger – the C29 at the Ricardo Tormo race track in Valencia. “The last few months have been very intense for us,” says team boss and owner Peter Sauber. “First we had to battle to secure the survival of the team and then we focused on putting a strong [...]

Despite Renault’s 2010 car launch being just hours away, we all have a pretty good idea of what we are going to see. Drivers GP2 runner up Vitaly Petrov is expected to be unveiled as replacing Romain Grosjean at the launch in Valencia today. Petrov brings plenty of sponsorship, namely Russian gas giant Gazprom, rumoured [...]

According to The Times newspaper, Ferrari have already started work on a ‘B’ spec car. The newspaper referred to rumours “sweeping the Italian media” about the early performance estimates for the new single seater. The report said it is feared the car is “not as good as the team were hoping for”, despite Ferrari having [...]

Virgin Racing will launch their first ever car in front of an online audience on Wednesday 3rd February. They are the third team to launch online so far, following on from Ferrari and McLaren. The VR-01 will be unveiled online on the morning of Wednesday 3 February and is expected to make its official test [...]

Liveries won’t be the only colours schemes revealed before the start of the season, the drivers also have to choose what helmet designs to go with. There have been some pretty spectacular lids over the years which should really be appreciated as F1 is getting more and more corporate. One of the results is that [...]

Amateur footage of the Williams FW32 has been recorded and placed on Youtube. The spy footage was tweeted by Rubens Barrichello who said: “Someone caught illegal footage of my car while at Silverstone.” Autosport also took a spy photo at the Silverstone maiden run.

McLaren today launched their 2010 challenger – the MP4-25 at their title sponsor Vodafone’s UK headquarters in Newbury. Like Ferrari’s yesterday, McLaren’s launch was shown live on the internet. The 2010 car looks noticeably different from last year’s race-winning MP4-24. MP4-25 features a radical aerodynamic overhaul and a significantly larger fuel tank to take full [...]

The AT&T Williams team today confirmed the appointment of Valtteri Bottas as its official test driver. Valtteri, a 20-year old from Nastola, Finland, will take up the role vacated by Nico Hulkenberg as he steps up as a team race driver. Having begun karting at the age of six, Bottas has a strong record of [...]