F1 ringmaster Bernie Ecclestone’s greedy ways have shone through again, as he has revealed Monaco could be thrown off the calendar as soon as 2011. “I think we can do without Monaco, they don’t pay enough. The Europeans are going to have to pay more money or we will have to go somewhere else,” Ecclestone [...]

F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone has said he hopes there will be a United States Grand Prix in New York as early as 2012. Ecclestone said: “I’m trying to get F1 to the US in 2012, opposite Manhattan in New Jersey with skyscrapers in the background. The track would be just fifteen minutes from the city [...]

Monza will continue to hold the Italian Grand Prix until 2016, following a deal between F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone, and the track’s owners. There had been some worry about the historic circuit holding the GP after 2012 when it’s contract ran out. There is a Grand Prix planned to be held through the streets of [...]

In this blog post, An F1 Blog analyst Steph Farnsworth and guest author Graham McNamee tackle the big question: is F1 ‘ringmaster’ Bernie Ecclestone good for the sport? Without further ado, lets get straight to the debate with Graham, who is arguing against Bernie. Graham McNamee : No Love him or loathe him, Bernie Ecclestone [...]

When I was sat, earlier on today watching the World Rally Championship season preview on Dave, seeing all the drivers having discussions with their fans, and signing caps etc, it got me thinking about how, in some respects, rallying is so much better than Formula 1. In Formula 1, everything is so corporate, with the [...]

F1 ringmaster Bernie Ecclestone has come up with an ingenious solution to the overtaking problem in F1 – by, erm, building shortcuts on the track. Ecclestone, speaking at the annual Ferrari pre-season jamboree in the Italian Dolomites, said the shortcut could be used by drivers five times during the race. “It would be very easy for [...]

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 [...]

The four new teams to enter Formula One in 2010 – USF1, Campos, Virgin/Manor and Lotus – have all been subject to a degree of scepticism over time as to how ready they will be for the challenges of the sport when the new season arrives in March. Most famously, Ferrari derided the new entrants [...]

Last year Bernie Ecclestone’s light-hearted annual Christmas card depicted Max Mosley with a whip, this year it is Flavio Briatore who gets the biggest roasting – he is depicted with a rocket launcher trying to blow up a boat with Max Mosley on. On the boat sailing into the distance with Mosley are the other [...]

It is believed that the Turkish Grand Prix will soon be no more after F1 rights holder Bernie Ecclestone reportedly told organisers that the race promotion fee will be doubled for the 2011 race, from $13.5 million to $26 million per year. An official of the Turkish Grand Prix believes it is unfair that they [...]