Force India have today launched their VJM04 car, which will be driven in 2011 by drivers Adrian Sutil and Paul di Resta. Force India’s technical director Andrew Green explained some of the changes between the VJM03, and the new VJM04, which will use the Mercedes KERS system which McLaren and Mercedes GP will also be [...]

Hispania have revealed the first pictures of their 2011 F1 challenger, the F111. Photos © HRT

Virgin Racing have unveiled their 2011 challenger at BBC Television Centre in London. As with the VR-01, the car was designed entirely using Computational Fluid Dynamics – without a wind tunnel. Drivers Timo Glock and Belgian rookie Jerome d’Ambrosio were on hand at the launch to unveil the new car, which features the MVR chassis designation, [...]

Lotus Renault GP’s Robert Kubica has reportedly suffered an accident during practice for the Rally Ronde di Andora. Kubica was driving a Skoda Fabia S2000 and hit a barrier on his side, sustaining ‘serious’ injuries. He was taken to nearby Savona by helicopter after being cut free from the car. Renault have released the following [...]

McLaren have today launched a rather radical MP4-26 at Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, Germany. Drivers Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button were there to unveil the striking new machine, which will see its first on-track action in Jerez on the 10th February for the next pre-season test, with Lewis Hamilton driving. The new car features a [...]

Aside from having the best livery of cars revealed so far, Lotus Renault GP have a clever exhaust system which is getting the F1 technical geeks rather excited; the Front Exit Exhaust (FEE). Last year the teams ran with a ‘blown diffuser’, whereby the exhaust gases were blown over the top of the rear diffuser, [...]

Robert Kubica put the new Renault R31 at the top of the timesheets as testing at the Ricardo Tormo circuit in Valencia came to a close. Could the radical front exhaust exits (we’ll have more on this later on) be paying dividends? The Pole set a 1:13.144 with just over an hour of the test [...]

Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso set the fastest time of the session on day two of pre-season testing in Valencia. The Spaniard went three-tenths quicker than Sebastian Vettel in the Red Bull, as Ferrari showed the real pace of their F150 for the first time. It was a productive day for the Italian team, with Alonso completing [...]

Today testing at the Ricardo Tormo circuit in Valencia commenced, the first pre-season test of the year. Sebastian Vettel set the fastest lap of the day in the new Red Bull RB7. Nico Hulkenberg, Gary Paffett, Paul di Resta, Jerome d’Ambrosio and Narain Karthikeyan all drove in last season’s cars. Pos Driver Team Fastest lap [...]

Toro Rosso drivers Sebastien Buemi, Jaime Alguersuari and third driver Daniel Ricciardo were present as the team launched their 2011 car, the STR6 ahead of the first day of pre-season testing at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo, Valencia. Technical director Giorgio Ascanelli has described the Toro Rosso as being quite unconventional, and he hopes that the [...]