According to the Italian media, former McLaren chief engineer Pat Fry will join Ferrari. 46-year-old Fry left McLaren after 17 years with the team in May, having been responsible for cars such as the 2007 championship winning MP4-22 and this year’s championship leader MP4-25. When Fry left McLaren, the Woking team’s managing director Jonathan Neale [...]

As far as Formula 1 adverts go, this is a real good’un! Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button try to build a McLaren, from scratch. Have a watch!

The circuit is on a man-made island in the St. Lawrence River, part of the city of Montreal. It is one of the most unusual circuits on the Formula One calendar. With a mix of long straights and low-speed chicanes hemmed in by unforgiving concrete walls, it’s a bit like combining Monaco with Monza, and [...]

The modern anticlockwise Istanbul circuit combines some of the best corners of other tracks. The first corner for instance was inspired by the ‘Senna S’ curve at Brazil’s Interlagos circuit. But the corner which everyone talks about is Turn 8 – a ferociously fast, flat-out four-apex left hander, putting an incredible 4.5 G-force on the [...]

Rubens Barrichello and Patrick Head have defended the Brazilian’s decision to throw the William’s steering wheel out of the car after crashing during the Monaco Grand Prix. The $50,000 wheel was subsequently ran over by Karun Chandhok, who was not happy with Barrichello, saying: “What was he doing? Charlie Whiting actually asked me about it. [...]

Update: Michael Schumacher has been handed a 20 second penalty for the incident described below, moving him out of the points positions and Sebastien Buemi into them. The talk of the paddock following the Monaco Grand Prix is of course the incident which saw Michael Schumacher jump Fernando Alonso after the safety car went in [...]

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It was first on the F1 calendar in 1950 and has never been off it since 1955, being the scene of some of the most famous races ever in the history of the sport.The tight, twisty course, the narrow roads and close barriers, the tunnel and the glamorous location in the principality means it is [...]

The Spanish Grand Prix is one of the most famous races of the year and has been part of the racing calendar since the 1960s. Legendary drivers like Ayrton Senna, Nigel Mansell and Michael Schumacher have battled it out here, and the Catalunya track has seen photo finishes, massive crashes and daring displays of skill. [...]

Williams’ Nico Hulkenberg has today driven a Porsche 911 around the infamous Nurburgring Nordschleife, but it was no normal Porsche 911. It was the GT3 R Hybrid, which uses KERS-style flywheel technology developed by the Hybrid power branch of the Williams F1 team. Hulkenberg said: Great car, fascinating technology and an incomparable track.  This circuit [...]