Czech driver Jan Charouz will drive in the Hispania on Friday at Interlagos, making his debut in an F1 race weekend. He will take over the car of Tonio Liuzzi in FP1.
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Categories: Brazilian Grand Prix, Hispania, Jan Charouz
A column looking at whether Nico Rosberg is world championship material, and whether his new contract at Mercedes GP will help him with this bid for glory.
Categories: Mercedes GP, Nico Rosberg
Lotus have confirmed that Karun Chandhok will not race the inaugural Grand Prix in his home nation of India, but will drive during a session on Friday.
Categories: Indian Grand Prix, Karun Chandhok, Team Lotus
Renault’s Vitaly Petrov has been given a reprimand and a five-place grid drop for the Indian Grand Prix, after he ploughed into the back of Michael Schumacher at today’s Korean Grand Prix. “I tried to defend my position from Fernando but I was in the braking zone on the dirty side of the track which [...]
Categories: featured, Indian Grand Prix, Korean Grand Prix, Lotus Renault GP, Vitaly Petrov
Lewis Hamilton has said that today’s impressive pole position for tomorrow’s Korean Grand Prix at the Yeongam circuit isn’t “entirely unexpected”, although it’s a “great achievement” at McLaren’s 700th F1 Grand Prix.
Categories: featured, Jenson Button, Korean Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton, McLaren
Force India are now to be known as the Sahara Force India F1 Team, after Sahara India Pariwar, a promoter and patron of sports in India, today announced an equity investment in the team. Sahara India Pariwar will be investing approximately $100 million into the Force India Formula One Team. With this investment both the Sahara India [...]
Categories: featured, Force India, slideshow
2011 World Series by Renault runner-up Jean-Eric Vergne will make his F1 debut this weekend at the Korean Grand Prix, replacing Jaime Alguersuari for the Friday morning session, before completing three other Friday sessions before the end of the season. Toro Rosso said that “Jaime sits out the session because the last time a driver [...]
Categories: featured, Korean Grand Prix, Toro Rosso
Red Bull have handed Mark Webber a nice birthday present in announcing that the 35-year-old Australian will stay with the team through 2012…
Categories: Driver Market, featured, Mark Webber, Red Bull, slideshow
Guest writer James Stock pens his first post looking at how Renault have fallen from double world champions in 2006 to the sticky situation they find themselves in today…
Categories: featured, Lotus Renault GP, Opinion
This week the news has arisen that Virgin Racing have axed technical director Nick Wirth and severed the ties with his company Wirth Research, and that they may abandon their all-CFD approach. The news hardly comes as a surprise given the team’s dreadful start to the season. They arrived as one of the new teams [...]
Categories: featured, Marussia Virgin, slideshow
