NEWS ARCHIVE
2012 FORMULA ONE ENTRY LIST
The FIA has releasesed the official entry list for the 2012 Formula One world championship.
RAIKKONEN: I NEVER REALLY LOST THE PASSION
Renault issued the following Q&A with Kimi Raikkonen after announcing the Finn will drive for the team in 2012.
RAIKKONEN SIGNS WITH LOTUS RENAULT!
Formula 1 will have six world champions on the grid in 2012 with the news that Kimi Raikkonen has signed for Lotus Renault GP.
BOTTAS FAVOURITE FOR WILLIAMS SEAT?
Reigning GP3 champion Valtteri Bottas is emerging as favourite to partner Pastor Maldonado at Williams next season.
VIRGIN SIGNS PIC FOR 2012
After today's season ending Brazilian GP, Marussia Virgin Racing announced that Frenchman Charles Pic will drive for the team in 2012 alongside Timo Glock.
BRITISH BROADCASTERS REVEAL 2012 PLANS
BBC and Sky, which will both follow the F1 world championship in 2012, have revealed some details of the planned coverage.
DID EXHAUST HEATING CAUSE VETTEL'S ABU DHABI PROBLEM?
Autosport, the respected British weekly magazine, suggests in today's issue that Sebastian Vettel's Abu Dhabi tyre failure was caused by Red Bull using exhaust gases to generate tyre temperature.
DAVE RYAN AT INTERLAGOS
Former McLaren sporting director Dave Ryan is working with Lotus Renault GP at the Brazilian GP.
TEXAS READY TO PAY?
Organisers of the proposed US Grand Prix in Austin, Texas, have said that they are ready to pay the necessary sanctioning fee to secure a place on the 2012 F1 calendar.
THURSDAY PRESS CONFERENCE
Brazilian GP - Thursday Press Conference
INTERVIEW: PEDRO DE LA ROSA
Irrespective of whether Rubens Barrichello, 40 next May, Michael Schumacher will not be the only 40-year-old on the grand prix grid next season. Pedro De la Rosa, 41 in February, talks about his new two-year deal with HRT to return to a full-race seat.
KUBICA NOT READY FOR 2012
Robert Kubica, seriously injured in a rally crash in February, has told Lotus Renault GP that he will not be ready for the start of the 2012 F1 season. The team will therefore work towards finalising next year's driver line-up without him.
ANALYSIS: OVERTAKING UNDER THE MICROSCOPE
Overtaking and its 'quality' has been much discussed in 2011 since the return of KERS, the advent of DRS (the Drag Reduction System) and the higher wearing Pirelli tyres.
ANALYSIS: HONDA TO COME BACK WITH MCLAREN?
The respected German publication Auto Motor und Sport reports that Honda could be considering a technical collaboration with McLaren to start when F1 makes the move to small capacity turbocharged engines in 2014.
DE LA ROSA TO HRT IN 2012
The HRT Formula 1 team has announced that driver Pedro de la Rosa will race for the team next season.
TONY STEWART WINS THIRD NASCAR TITLE
Tony Stewart has won his third NASCAR championship today at the final round of the season at Homestead, FL.
UK LOOKS INTO F1 BRIBERY ALLEGATIONS
The British government's Serious Fraud Office is looking into whether to conduct an investigation into the bribery allegations that have emerged in the ongoing trial of German banker Gerhard Gribkowsky.
PETROV HITS OUT AT RENAULT
A lengthy interview on Russian television has laid Vitaly Petrov's future with Lotus Renault GP under the spotlight.
VERGNE IMPRESSES AGAIN
As the Abu Dhabi young driver test reached its conclusion Jean-Eric Vergne, unsurprisingly perhaps, topped the time sheets for the third consecutive day at the wheel of Red Bull's RB7.
CAMERON ATTENDS MCLAREN OPENING
British prime minister David Cameron was present at McLaren's Woking base today as the company officially opened the new Foster + Partners designed McLaren Production Centre, where it will base its automotive division alongside its racing activities.
VERGNE QUICKEST AGAIN
Jean-Eric Vergne again topped the Abu Dhabi young driver test times for Red Bull on the second day of running at the Yas Marina circuit.
AUSTIN GP WORK STOPS AMID DISPUTE
The return of the United States Grand Prix, scheduled for November of 2012 in a new facility currently being built in Austin, Texas, has been cast into doubt as as work on the circuit has been halted.
KUBICA AND FERRARI
The word on the Abu Dhabi street said that Renault may not be able to wait long enough on Robert Kubica's fitness before deciding its 2012 driver line-up.
VERGNE QUICKEST FOR RED BULL
Frenchman Jean-Eric Vergne topped the first day of the Abu Dhabi young driver test at the wheel of Red Bull Racing's championship-winning RB7.
PIRELLI INVESTIGATES VETTEL FAILURE
Pirelli and Red Bull Racing are working together to solve the mystery of pole position man Sebastian Vettel's first lap tyre failure in the Abu Dhabi GP, the world champion's first non-finish of a dominant season.
F1 QUALIFYING UNLIKELY TO CHANGE
Despite suggestions that Q3 drivers who do not set a time in order to conserve tyres are spoiling the spectacle, it is unlikely that F1's qualifying format will change next year.
MICHAEL STARTS WITH MCLAREN
Former Williams technical director Sam Michael is present with McLaren in Abu Dhabi as an observer.
MORE DISCUSSION ON THIRD CARS
There has been more discussion in F1 on the possibility of teams running third cars after Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo raised the subject again recently.
THURSDAY PRESS CONFERENCE
Abu Dhabi GP - Thursday Press Conference
MERCEDES EXTENDS CONTRACT WITH ROSBERG
Mercedes GP announced today that they have agreed to a multi-year contract extension with driver Nico Rosberg.
ECCLESTONE APPEARS AT GRIBKOWSKY TRIAL
Formula 1 commercial supremo Bernie Ecclestone today admitted in a Munich court paying banker Gerhard Gribkowsky $44 million which, he said, was to avoid a possible Inland Revenue investigation into his tax affairs.
NEW PRESIDENT FOR RENAULT SPORT F1
Jean-Michel Jalinier will become the president of Renault Sport F1 on January 1 next year, replacing Bernard Rey.
NIELSEN SWAPS LOTUS FOR CATERHAM!
Steve Nielsen, former Lotus Renault Grand Prix sporting director, who left the team earlier this year, is to take up the same role with Tony Fernandes' Team Lotus operation, soon to be renamed Caterham.
WICKENS DOUBLES UP IN ABU DHABI
World Series by Renault 3.5 champion Rob Wickens will drive for Marussia Virgin Racing in the first session of Friday practice in Abu Dhabi, replacing Jerome D'Ambrosio.
ZANARDI TRIUMPHS IN NEW YORK MARATHON
Ex F1 driver and twice IndyCar champion Alessandro Zanardi has won the hand bicycle class of the New York Marathon.
BUTTON HOPES DRS WILL TRANSFORM ABU DHABI
Jenson Button hopes that DRS, in association with KERS, will make next weekend's penultimate round of the world championship a fitting show at what McLaren team principal Martin Whitmarsh regards as "probably the most futuristic and impressive circuit on the calendar."
WILLIAMS KERS FOR HRT
HRT will have a KERS system in 2012, having renewed and extended its collaboration with Williams until the end of next year.
ROSSI TO TEST WITH TEAM LOTUS
Twenty-year-old Alexander Rossi will test for Team Lotus in the Abu Dhabi young driver test.
F1 NAME CHANGE GO-AHEAD SET TO END LOTUS CONFUSION
The Formula 1 Commission is understood to have approved the F1 name-change applications that were part of the agenda at a meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, today.
ANALYSIS: COULTHARD BACKS MASSA
David Coulthard has come out firmly on the side of Felipe Massa over the Indian GP penalty that left anyone with eyes in their head incredulous.
VERGNE TO TEST RB7
Jean-Eric Vergne will drive the championship-winning Red Bull RB7 in the Abu Dhabi young driver tests on November 15-17.
