Formula One News — July 2007

Spyker F1 has announced that Christijan Albers will no longer race for the team. The decision was taken as a result of one of Albers's main personal sponsors failing to make a payment.

Christijan Albers has been dropped by Spyker because his sponsorship has failed to appear. The Dutch driver has struggled to stay competitive this year with his rookie team-mate and it was clear that his position was dependent entirely on funding.

Ten years ago British Prime Minister Tony Blair ran into his first scandal in office when Bernie Ecclestone donated £1m to the Labour Party and, coincidentally, the party changed its views about tobacco advertising at racing circuits.

Today in Court 59 at the High Court in London the case of Ferrari Spa versus Coughlan and Another will be heard by Mr Justice Briggs. It is anticipated that Ferrari's lawyers will give more details of their plans regarding legal actions but will probably also include a request to extend an injunction against McLaren chief designer Mike Coughlan which forbids Coughlan and others from giving data to a third party.

After his pole position on Saturday, Lewis Hamilton was a national hero but down in the McLaren camp there were worries that the Ferrari pace was going to be too quick to stop.

British GP - Race Notes

British GP - Sunday Photos

British GP - Sunday Press Conference

British GP - Sunday Team Quotes

British GP - Race Incidents

British GP - Race Results

Ferrari's Nigel Stepney has been giving his version of events in the ongoing scandal over espionage and sabotage in Maranello. Stepney has been accused of both by Ferrari.

Lewis Hamilton blasted to pole position for the British Grand Prix in a knife-edge finish during the qualifying. Hamilton made no mistakes (as usual) and ended up edging out Kimi Raikkonen by a small margin when the Finn drifted wide at the final corner and lost traction in the run down to the start-finish line.

British GP - Saturday Photos

British GP - Saturday Press Conference

British GP - Saturday Team Quotes

British GP - Qualifying Results

The British Grand Prix weekend has seen the espionage scandal roll on with huge amounts of rumour and gossip, making it very difficult to figure out what is truth and what is speculation.

Kimi Raikkonen remained at the front in the Saturday morning practice session ahead of McLaren's Fernando Alonso, Felipe Massa and Lewis Hamilton. Onbce again the fastest of the chasers was Nico Rosberg in the Williams ahead of Ralf Schumacher's Toyota, the Toro Rosso of Tonio Liuzzi and Heikki Kovalainen's Renault.

British GP - Practice 3 Results

On Friday afternoon Kimi Raikkonen was again at the top of the F1 timesheets with Ferrari team-mate Felipe Massa behind him. Whether this is a clear indication for the rest of the weekend remains to be seen but third fastest was Ralf Schumacher, a long way back in his Toyota.

British GP - Friday Photos

British GP - Friday Press Conference

British GP - Friday Team Quotes