After a ‘highly constructive and positive’ meeting of the Formula One Commission (all the sport’s stakeholders) yesterday, they have agreed to a number of proposed rules. 2010 F1 Season New points system To encourage ‘racing to win’, the comission have agreed to change to the propsosed points system: 1st: 25pts 2nd: 18pts 3rd: 15pts 4th: [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Happy New Year to you all. I was thinking about Jean Todt and his hiring of Gilles Simon the other day.  Whilst I have no problem with him hiring his old mates and colleagues, in fact, I expected it – I am interested very much by the statements he made to the Le Figaro newspaper [...]

Ferrari team boss Stefano Domenicali has told Italian newspaper La Stampa that the points system could be revised again, this time with pole position and fastest lap set to be awarded points. Domenicali said: “We wait for the decisions of the Sporting Working Group (SWG) of the FIA, which will meet in January to approve [...]

There were worries that they were to follow Toyota out of F1 last month, but today it has been revealed that Renault will remain in the FIA F1 World Championship in 2010 after concluding a deal with Genii Capital, a Luxembourg-based investment firm specializing in new technologies, brand management and motorsport. The full Renault statement [...]

By the end of the 2009 season Ferrari had written off development on their F2009 car, abandoning what had been a disastrous year for them in order to focus on 2010. It’s not a new gamble – it paid off for Brawn (nee Honda) last season, and completely failed to pay off for BMW when [...]

Red Bull‘s Sebastian Vettel has revealed the team will be powered by Renault next year. The team had named the French engine supplier on their FIA entry, but team principal Christian Horner had said the decision was not official. When questioned on the topic during a TV interview, he said: “We’re staying with Renault.”

Jenson Button and his team Brawn GP collected their Drivers and Constructors trophies and were officially crowned World Champions at the FIA Gala in Monaco last night. Jenson Button took the award for F1 World Champ, team boss Ross Brawn collected Brawn GP’s championship trophy and Sebastian Vettel and Rubens Barrichello took their second and [...]