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 [...]

The FIA has said in a press release on its website that Sauber‘s application to get a team on the grid in 2010 has been successful, with them taking the place of the departing Toyota team. The press release read: The FIA has written to inform BMW Sauber AG that their application for an entry [...]

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 [...]

Former team owner Peter Sauber will have a team back in F1 in 2010, provided that they are allocated grid places after he bought the outgoing BMW team. Sauber were previously an F1 team from 1993-2005 before they were purchased by BMW. They competed 206 times and scored 6 podiums, despite never taking a race [...]

One of the new teams in town for 2010, Manor Grand Prix have today announced their first driver – Timo Glock. Glock made his debut in F1 in 2004 when he got to drive 4 races for Jordan who he was test driving for. However Glock fell out of favour and didn’t get to drive in [...]

After the bombshell of Toyota pulling out yesterday, it seemed we were heading for a double-whammy with Renault calling an emergency meeting in Paris. However the result of that meeting sounds positive and it seems Renault will continue on the F1 grid in 2010. The Enstone based team have had a tough 2 years, finishing [...]

Renault have called an emergency meeting on Wednesday to decide whether the team will stay in F1 as a team, switch to engine suppliers, or leave the sport completely. Renault had their least competitive F1 season  this year since 2001 and finished the 8th best constructor in a season marred by the ‘crashgate’ scandal. Previously [...]

It was rumoured for a couple of days but today Toyota announced their shock withdrawal from Formula 1. It seems that F1 is a luxury Toyota can no longer afford in the global financial situation. The Toyota boss Akio Toyoda told a press conference in Tokyo: “This was a difficult but ultimately unavoidable decision. Since [...]

The Japanese newspaper the Mainichi Daily News is reporting that Toyota will withdraw from F1 for the 2010 season. The team are set to follow other Japanese companies Honda (who are now Brawn GP) and Bridgestone who will stop supplying tyres to F1 following next years 2010 season. The newspaper is citing the global financial [...]

Toyota driver Kamui Kobayashi has said that when he was driving in GP2 earlier this season, prior to covering for Timo Glock in an F1 Toyota race seat, he no longer had any money to race in the F1 feeder series and almost went to work in his father’s sushi restaurant, until the lucky break [...]