Bernie hails Hamilton impact

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 [...]

Massa refuses to blame ban

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 [...]

Ferraris fastest in P1

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 [...]

Raikkonen’s reliability worry

 
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 [...]

Hamilton – We’ll push harder

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 [...]

Ferrari – Our ‘dreadful weekend’

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 [...]

F1 2008 – Team by team

Ferrari (#1 Kimi Raikkonen, #2 Felipe Massa)
Another year, another title double for F1’s most established and charismatic team. One might argue that both were was handed to them on a plate: McLaren being thrown out of the 2007 constructors’ championship following the ’spying’ controversy and then making mistakes in the final two races of the [...]

Hamilton fastest in Barcelona,Alonso in rear,Force India 7th

Alonso struggles at rear of field

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British tyro Lewis Hamilton set the fastest time in the final pre-season test at Barcelona.
With the first grand prix of the season in Australia just 19 days away, Hamilton and his McLaren team-mate Heikki Kovalainen were considerably quicker than world champion Kimi Raikkonen’s Ferrari.
On a dry day, the [...]