F1
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Honda to return in 2015 as McLaren engine supplier
Honda is returning to Formula One racing in 2015, after a seven-year hiatus, as McLaren’s engine partner, the Japanese carmaker said yesterday. The link-up between Honda and McLaren, the second most successful team in the sport after Ferrari in...
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Honda to return in 2015 with McLaren – sources
Honda will return to Formula One in 2015 as McLaren engine partners, replacing Mercedes, sources close to the company said yesterday. Honda’s Chief Executive Takanobu Ito is set to make an official announcement as early as today, one of the sources...
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Ferrari and Lotus the F1 winners on return to Europe
The first European race of the Formula One season provided a boost for Ferrari and Fernando Alonso, with Lotus and Kimi Raikkonen also smiling, but left plenty of other former champions feeling the pain. While Red Bull retained their lead in both...
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Pirelli chief announces tyre changes
Pirelli are to bring in changes to their tyres from the Canadian Grand Prix for the sake of the fans. The Italian manufacturer has res-ponded quickly to the criticism that followed Sunday’s Spanish Grand Prix during which there were 77 pit stops, at...
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Spain’s Alonso has best chance yet with Ferrari
Spanish Grand Prix winner Fernando Alonso says he would happily forego another race victory this season so long as he took the title, but the Ferrari driver really has every chance of success on both fronts. Sunday’s triumph at the Circuit de...
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Alonso turns up the heat
Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso rewrote the Formula One form book and turned up the heat in the championship battle by winning his home Spanish Grand Prix for the second time yesterday. The double world champion’s second victory of the season, and 32nd of...
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Alonso enjoys Spanish success
Fernando Alonso ended a seven-year wait to claim his second Spanish Grand Prix triumph to thrill his fans in Barcelona. Ferrari and Alonso managed the strategy to ensure the 31-year-old took the chequered flag for the 32nd time in his career, in a...
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Mercedes sweep front row
Germany’s Nico Rosberg handed Mercedes their third pole position in succession yesterday with team-mate Lewis Hamilton sealing a front row lockout at the Spanish Formula One Grand Prix. The pole was Rosberg’s second in a row after Hamilton, the 2008...
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Rosberg takes pole position
Nico Rosberg secured back-to-back pole positions for the first time in his Formula One career as Mercedes locked out the front row ahead of the Spanish Grand Prix. Mercedes have become this season's one-lap specialists as they have now taken pole at...
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Chris Pook brought in to help US F1 race
The troubled Grand Prix of America has hired one of the United States’ most respected men in motor sport to boost their hopes of being on next year’s Formula One calendar. The race in New Jersey, with the Manhattan skyline as a backdrop, was...
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Vettel and Alonso set the pace in Spain GP
Triple world champion Sebastian Vettel set the fastest lap in Spanish Grand Prix practice yesterday with Ferrari’s local favourite Fernando Alonso a close second to split the Red Bull drivers. With sunshine replacing the morning’s drizzle, when...
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Statistics for the Spanish Grand Prix
• Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso has 31 career wins, Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel 28, Mercedes’s Lewis Hamilton 21, Lotus’s Kimi Raikkonen 20 and McLaren’s Jenson Button 15. • One more win for Raikkonen would make him the most successful Finnish driver in...
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Alonso must make the most of being at home
Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso needs to make the most of home advantage when Formula One’s European season starts up in Barcelona on Sunday. Fernando Alonso has ground to make up on Red Bull’s triple champion Sebastian Vettel after four races in Asia...
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Technical director Allison leaves Lotus F1 team
Highly-rated technical director James Allison is leaving Lotus and will be replaced by Nick Chester, the Formula One team said yesterday. The announcement before the first race of the European season in Spain this weekend will be seen as a blow for...
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Williams hoping for Barcelona boost
Williams are hoping this weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix will prove to be a turning point in their so-far troubled Formula One season. For only the second time since Williams’s first full F1 campaign in 1978, the Grove-based marque have failed to score...
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British GP organisers wary of ‘Vettel effect’
British Formula One Grand Prix organisers are counting on Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button producing the goods in the next few races to boost ticket sales dented by a ‘Vettel effect’. Sebastian Vettel has won the last three championships in...
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Force India chief expects few changes
Force India deputy team principal Bob Fernley believes Barcelona will not herald the big turnaround for teams as has often been the case in the past. With the opening quartet of flyaway races out of the way, the short break ahead of the Spanish...
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Only top 10 teams to get prize money
Bernie Ecclestone has made clear that Formula One will pay prize money to only the top 10 teams from the end of this season. Since 2010, payments have been made to the 11th and 12th-placed teams to help three newcomers on reduced budgets who came in...
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Kubica says he tested in Mercedes simulator
Robert Kubica has tried out the Mercedes team’s Formula One simulator in another sign of the Polish driver’s burning desire to return to grand prix racing. “Yes, I was in the Mercedes F1 simulator in the past,” the former Sauber and Renault driver...
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F1 testing set for early start
Formula One is planning to bring forward its pre-season testing programme next year which could see cars on track as early as January. Current sporting regulations prevent teams from running in January, but with F1 due to undergo its most pivotal...
