Timo Glock (20th, 21st) “A difficult day for me. We had a few problems in the first session with a fuel leak, which cost us pretty much the whole session – I only got two runs at the end. In the second session we had to change the set-up quite a lot, which took up [...]

Virgin Racing have completed their two-day shakedown today, with Timo Glock kicking things up a notch from yesterday’s exploratory laps, completing 42 laps of the 1.8km Stowe circuit during the morning. Lucas di Grassi then took over in the afternoon recording his first 36 laps as an F1 driver, before saying: “It feels good. It [...]

Virgin Racing today made its driver announcement in London, where it was confirmed that Manor have teamed up with Richard Branson’s Virgin brand, and that Lucas di Grassi will drive alongside Timo Glock at the team. di Grassi said: “I could never imagine a F1 debut as perfect as this one. Entering F1 with John [...]

Virgin Racing driver Timo Glock is certain seven-times F1 World Champion Michael Schumacher will make a return to the sport. The former Toyota driver, now partnered alongside Lucas Di Grassi at Virgin said: “There’s still a lot of speculation, but in the end he is a crazy race driver, and he wants to come back [...]

Today it was announced that Lotus F1 Racing would run ex Toyota driver Jarno Trulli and ex Mclaren man Heikki Kovalainen for 2010. Both have won only one Grand Prix. This seems to be a fairly good pairing for Lotus; age and experience alongside youth and potential. The only team which will have a more [...]

We reported earlier that Lotus team boss Tony Fernandes had announced by his Twitter account that he was to announce the drivers he had signed for the team’s debut season on Monday. However, it seems he may as well call off the announcement as according to an AP source Jarno Trulli has been signed for [...]

Some would say it was about time, but today Lucas di Grassi has confirmed that he will be driving in F1 next year with one of the four new teams, be it; Virgin, USF1, Lotus or Campos. di Grassi said; “It will be in one of the four new teams entering the sport. It’s a [...]

Ferrari F1 driver Felipe Massa went close to winning in his own karting event recently – Desafio Internacional das Estrelas, including winning one of the two races, but he finished in second to Michael Schumacher, who won the event overall. However Massa has just won the 500 Miles of Granja Viana event near Sao Paulo [...]

I apologise for being so late, but only now have I had the time to dig out the photos and upload them to our gallery. Anyway, onward and upward and Michael Schumacher has won Felipe Massa‘s kart race – Desafio Internacional das Estrelas or International Challenge of the Stars, which has been held every year [...]

The new Mercedes team have today announced their two drivers for the Young Drivers Test at Jerez, Spain which will take place later this month – Mike Conway and Marcus Ericsson. Mike Conway, the 26 year old from Kent, England has previously won the Formula Renault and British F3 titles. This year he has competed [...]