19-year-old Spaniard Jaime Alguersuari will continue driving for the Toro Rosso team in 2010. Alguersuari has only 8 races experience in F1, from when he took over from Sebastien Bourdais in the latter half of last season. There had been a delay in conformation, but today it was announced that Alguersuari will partner Sebastien Buemi [...]

It has been a busy day in regards to car launch announcements – here are the dates you need to add to your diary: McLaren will launch it’s 2010 MP4-25 on January 29th. Toro Rosso will not have a car launch. Renault will launch their car on the 31st of January – the same day [...]

Scuderia Toro Rosso boss Franz Tost has denied that the team are in talks with Michael Schumacher’s brother, Ralf. Ralf Schumacher originally said: “Competing against Michael is not that important for me. In any case, I would seriously consider an interesting and attractive offer to drive in a competitive Formula One team.” Partnering up with [...]

Gary Paffett of McLaren topped the timesheets in today’s second young drivers test at Jerez, with the 2005 DTM champion and long-time McLaren test driver setting a fastest time of 01:18.718 in a day dogged by rain. The Williams driver Nico Hulkenberg with a 2010 race seat for the team set a time of a 1:19.184 in his [...]

The FIA have today published the 2010 F1 entry list on their official website. A few interesting points of note from this entry list are as follows: Although Brawn GP are listed , it also says; This team has indicated its intention to change its team name to Mercedes Grand Prix prior to the start [...]

Jaime Alguersuari says he has signed a deal to keep him at Toro Rosso for next season. Alguersuari said;  “We signed a deal a few months ago.” On the subject of next year’s hopes, he said; “It would be seriously brilliant to be capable of points or podiums, seriously fantastic. But in all honesty is [...]

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 [...]

Italian Mirko Bortolotti will test for Toro Rosso next month. The 19-year-old, who finished fourth in this year’s Formula Two Championship, is a member of the Red Bull Junior programme and won the 2008 Italian F3 title. Mirko Bortolotti has driven a Formula 1 car before, when he impressed testing for Ferrari in 2008. Bortolotti [...]