Sporting director of the new USF1 team has revealed that the FIA has given the team special dispensation to make their debut test on home turf in America. He said: “Because we are a new team and start everything from zero the first time we will run the car will be in the United States [...]

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Earlier on we reported that former F1 driver Eddie Irvine said that it was ‘madness’ for Jenson Button to move to McLaren, saying that he had entered ‘the lions den’ and was going to get ‘murdered’. However Jenson Button who will drive alongside McLaren favourite Lewis Hamilton next season is clearly not fazed by these [...]

Lotus have said that their 2010 car will debut next month at the Jerez test in mid February. With Jarno Trulli and Heikki Kovalainen driving for the team with Fairuz Fauzy at the test driver, Lotus is currently based in Norfolk, although a second facility based at Kuala Lumpur’s Sepang circuit is also set to [...]

Formula 1 teams are reportedly negotiating a rule that would see the infamous double-decker diffusers banned from the 2011 season onwards. According to Autosport, the FOTA Technical Regulations Working Group (TRWG) met late last year, and agreed that rules should be changed to outlaw the revolutionary diffuser. For those of you that don’t know, originally [...]

Former FIA president Max Mosley has said that, despite Flavio Briatore’s lifetime ban being overturned, the affair is far from over. In a French court on Tuesday, the judge found that Briatore’s and Symonds’s bans were past the limits of the FIA’s power, and that the bans must be overturned. The FIA’s legal team are [...]

Former Ferrari driver Eddie Irvine thinks Button’s move to McLaren to race alongside Lewis Hamilton is “madness”. Irvine, who has raced for Jordan, Jaguar and Ferrari, knows only too well what’s it’s like being pitted against a tough team-mate, as he spent the ’96 to ’99 alongside Michael Schumacher and openly admitted the German was [...]

According to the German newspaper Bild, Mercedes are going to launch their 2010 car on January 25th at the Mercedes-Benz museum in Unterturkheim, Stuttgart. It also says that the chassis will be named Mercedes-Petronas RB1, with RB being the initials of team boss Ross Brawn. They also report that the returning Michael Schumacher will not [...]

Sauber are the first team of the 13 to announce their launch date – January 31st at the Valencia circuit, before testing kicks off there the next day. Despite BMW selling the team to Sauber, the official team name will remain BMW Sauber – for the time being, at least as team boss Peter Sauber has “not [...]

Disgraced team boss Flavio Briatore has had his life ban from FIA motorsport overturned today when a French Court ruled that the FIA’s punishment was illegal. Briatore was given a lifetime ban from FIA motorsport when he ordered Nelson Piquet Jr. to crash on purpose to aid the team’s other driver Fernando Alonso, in a [...]