How would your face look at 5 times the force of gravity in a McLaren MP4-25? Well, now you can find out with this hilarious tool from McLaren sponsor Vodafone, named ‘G-Force GP’, in which you upload a photo of your face, and it generates a video of what you’d look like going 250mph. Lewis [...]

According to leading doctors, the ‘barcode’ on the Ferrari livery and drivers’ overalls is subliminal advertising for the cigarette company Marlboro, and there is mounting pressure on the EU to launch an enquiry over the logo on the F10. John Britton, a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians said: “The bar code looks like [...]

Here’s my favourite F1 story of the day: Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso has had his thumbs insured for almost £9million. A spokesperson for the Spaniard said: ”Alonso’s thumbs are a big symbol as, apart from being essential when driving a Formula One car, they represent a sign of victory and that everything is under control and [...]

Renault today confirmed an agreement that will see branding from Lada, Russia’s leading automotive marque, appear on the chassis of the Renault F1 Team R30 race cars during the 2010 season, and on the overalls of their 25-year-old Russian driver Vitaly Petrov. Renault F1 Team Chairman Gerard Lopez commented: “We are proud to announce this [...]

Ross Brawn has said that his team – the new Drivers and Constructors champions Brawn GP have a title sponsor for next season. So this season Brawn GP have had only one permanent sponsor, (and that is only a minor sponsorship deal)  Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group, but Branson is taking his Virgin brand to [...]

The F1 drivers salaries have been released today and they show that the ‘iceman’ Kimi Raikkonen is by far and away the highest paid F1 driver as he earns a cool $45m at Ferrari – over twice what the second highest paid driver Lewis Hamilton earns – $18m. These figures don’t even include other driver [...]

  The Renault F1 team have announced they have signed a deal with the Dutch watchmaker, TW Steel, who will become the teams official timing sponsor. They said in a press release that the sponsorship will come into effect at this weekends Abu Dhabi Grand Prix where the R29 will carry TW Steel branding on [...]