2011 February | F1Zone

Good week, bad week

Good week, bad week – 28th February. Good week: - Fans of retro liveries. We have the green and yellow Lotus, the black ...

To Infiniti and beyond for Red Bull

It is being reported by BBC Sport on Monday that World Champions Red Bull Racing will rebadge their engines ‘Infiniti’ this season, with ...

Daimler complete Mercedes buy out

The Mercedes GP Formula 1 team is now wholly owned by the car manufacturer’s parent company Daimler AG and financial partner Aabar Investments ...

Mercedes confirms 100pc Brawn takeover

Feb.28 (GMM) Mercedes has finally confirmed reports it has taken over 100 per cent of the Brackley based F1 team. We reported earlier in February that Ross Brawn and his business partners had agreed to sell the outstanding 24.9 per cent of the former...

No stock floatation plans for McLaren

Feb.28 (GMM) McLaren has become a third formula one team to say it has no plans to join rival Williams in floating shares on the stock market. With Oxfordshire based Williams' 27 per cent floatation on the Frankfurt exchange to begin later this week,...

Sauber, Force India stick with original test dates

Feb.28 (GMM) Sauber and Force India have confirmed reports that some teams are sticking with the originally scheduled dates for the final pre-season test in Barcelona. It had been reported elsewhere that all the teams had agreed to move the four-day ...

NEC joins Sauber as premium sponsor

Feb.28 (GMM) The well-known Japanese multinational NEC is a new sponsor of the Sauber team. The prominent blue branding of the Tokyo-based giant on the Swiss team's C30 car was not present at the recent Barcelona test. That branding debuted on the c...

McLaren may be facing early ‘gap’ to rivals – Button

Feb.28 (GMM) Jenson Button has acknowledged the possibility that McLaren might not be on the pace early in the 2011 season. The MP4-26 has been hailed as the bravest of the new class of 2011, but Button and Lewis Hamilton have not strongly featured o...

Report – nine teams sticking with original test dates

Feb.28 (GMM) Up to nine of F1's twelve teams are reportedly sticking with the originally scheduled dates for the final pre-season test in Barcelona. It had been reported elsewhere that all the teams had agreed to move the four-day test, rescheduled d...

Red Bull to race Infiniti-branded engines in F1

Feb.28 (GMM) The Renault engines used by reigning world champions Red Bull are set to be rebranded as 'Infiniti' for the 2011 season. Infiniti is the premium division of the Japanese carmaker Nissan, which is also headed by Renault chief executive Ca...

Williams’ radical gearbox hard to copy – Michael

Feb.28 (GMM) Sam Michael is confident Williams' innovative 2011 car will be hard for the British team's rivals to copy. The Oxfordshire based team's technical director singled out only four innovations of note among the class of 2011: Renault and Red...

Todt visits Kubica in hospital

Feb.27 (GMM) FIA president Jean Todt on Sunday visited Robert Kubica in hospital. According to Italian reports including the local Il Vostro Giornale as well as Italian news agency ANSA, the Frenchman was accompanied by other officials of the sport's...

Hamilton to drive NASCAR at Watkins Glen

Feb.27 (GMM) Lewis Hamilton is set to drive a premier Sprint Cup NASCAR for the first time later in 2011. American sports network ESPN reports that the McLaren driver will swap his formula one car for Tony Stewart's Chevrolet. The exhibition, organi...

Bahrain, travellers, hoping for rescheduled race

Feb.27 (GMM) The Kingdom of Bahrain is still hoping its formula one race can be rescheduled for later in 2011. Some observers are concerned there is no room on this year's crammed calendar for a rescheduled race, following the cancellation of the sea...

Q&A with Sergio Perez

Mexican rookie Sergio Perez spoke to the Official F1 website about his dream job

Malaysia thinking of night race

The organisers of the Malaysian Grand Prix are hoping to stage a night race at the Sepang Circuit before the contract ends in ...

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