Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone believes Lewis Hamilton ’saved’ F1 last season.
Many predicted the sport would be dull following the retirement of seven-time World Champion Michael Schumacher at the end of the 2006 season.
However, F1 experienced one of its best seasons in recent history during 2007 after a closely fought battle between McLaren’s Hamilton and [...]
Felipe Massa is refusing to blame Formula One’s ban on electronic driver aids for his poor start to the season.
The Ferrari driver started the Malaysian Grand Prix on pole position, but spun off the track on lap 31 of the race while running second to team-mate and world champion Kimi Raikkonen.
The Brazilian also spun at [...]
Qatar motorsport authorities are hoping a planned upgrade of their Losail International Circuit could help lure Formula One.
The track has previously hosted a round of the World Superbike Championship, and crucially earlier this year staged the first floodlit MotoGP race.
With Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone eager for other venues to follow Singapore’s lead this year [...]
Lewis Hamilton ended Friday’s action in Malaysia at the top of the timesheets after a late charge to dethrone Felipe Massa.
Massa had been leading the way after taking the P1 slot off his team-mate Kimi Raikkonen, who led the bulk of the session. However, the Finn was unable to hold of a charging Massa, who [...]
Reliability problems for Raikkonen in Sepang
Ferrari’s F2008 may have been the quickest car at Sepang on Friday morning but it was also one of the more unreliable as Kimi Raikkonen once again found himself sitting on the sidelines while the action went on without him.
Shortly after moving to the top of the timesheets, the Finn [...]
World champion worried about reliability of his Ferrari car.
Kimi Raikkonen admits Ferrari’s lack of reliability is a concern, but he is confident the team will find a solution soon.
Ferrari picked up one point during the Australian Grand Prix after both Raikkonen and Felipe Massa were forced to retire. The Finn was later bumped up to [...]
Australian Grand Prix winner Lewis Hamilton believes there is more to come from McLaren-Mercedes this weekend in Malaysia.
Hamilton and team-mate Heikki Kovalainen picked up a total of 14 points in Melbourne, with rivals Ferrari scoring just a single point through world champion Kimi Raikkonen.
Having stormed to victory, Hamilton nevertheless claimed to have approached the [...]
Lewis Hamilton has hailed his victory in the season-opening Australian Grand Prix as the best of his career so far.
Starting from pole position, the 23-year-old McLaren-Mercedes driver led the race from start to finish, taking the chequered flag some 5.4 seconds ahead of BMW Sauber driver Nick Heidfeld.
The victory was the fifth in a F1 [...]
Fernando Alonso
is refusing to get carried away by his fourth-place finish in the
Australian Grand Prix, the Renault returnee readily conceding that he
benefitted from the chaos around him in Melbourne.
Fifteen of the 22 starters in Albert Park eventually retired
from Sunday’s season-opener, with the double world champion one of the
main beneficiaries as he came through from [...]
Ferrari team boss Stefano Domenicali has said that the world champions endured a “dreadful weekend” at the season-opening Australian Grand Prix.
Having dominated winter testing, Ferrari were installed as favourites for the Melbourne race and were even tipped to score a one-two victory.
In the event, they managed to claim just a solitary point - Ferrari’s worst [...]
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