Marussia drivers Timo Glock and Charles Pic are hoping for improvements as the season resumes in Belgium next weekend. Neither driver has scored a point and the team sits 11th in the championship. "Over the next nine races we will be working hard to optimise our current package, at the same time as doing some important work towards next year", said Timo Glock. "Those races will take place over just 14 weeks though, so with the long haul phase it will be non-stop action. To […]

Ron Howard’s action-drama about the battle between Niki Lauda and James Hunt for the 1976 Formula 1 world championship will be released in September next year. Rush is now in post-production after being shot on location over a three-month span in the U.K., Germany and Austria. The film is expected to be a success not only due to its storyline, but also because of the impressive team behind it. Howard is a two-time Oscar winner for A Beautiful Mind (Best Director and Best Picture), and […]

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Pirelli has announced the first three tyre nominations for the second half of the 2012 season in Belgium, Italy and Singapore. At Spa, the home of the Belgian Grand Prix, the P Zero Silver hard and P Zero White medium tyres will be nominated, allowing the drivers to meet the demands of a circuit that puts plenty of energy through the tyres. Just like Spa, Monza – Pirelli’s home race – is characterised by high speeds and fast corners, meaning that the P Zero Silver […]

Red Bull will be reverting to a standard engine mapping setting in the days ahead of the Hungarian grand prix. Italy's Tuttosport is reporting that Formula One's governing body will shortly formalise their advice to teams that what was uncovered at Hockenheim last weekend will no longer be tolerated. The FIA's Jo Bauer had flagged up Red Bull's engine settings at Hockenheim, admitting he thought the 'maps' on Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber's cars were not legal. The stewards, however, found that while the settings […]

Romain Grosjean and Pastor Maldonado are the crash-kings of 2012, according to Germany's Auto Motor und Sport. The publication has calculated that Lotus' Grosjean would be ahead of Nico Rosberg in the drivers' championship had he kept his nose clean so far. In Melbourne, he crashed with Williams' Maldonado; in Malaysia, he had contact with Michael Schumacher, and in Barcelona his rival was Sergio Perez, and at Monaco and Silverstone he came to blows on the first laps. "In total Grosjean could have 18 more […]

'Moscow' was the word on F1 fanatics' lips at the weekend. On the last days off before the arduous Hockenheim-Hungary double header, Russia was the centre of the sport's attention. Although the coastal resort city Sochi will host the first Russian grand prix in 2014, modern F1 cars and current drivers including Lewis Hamilton demonstrated their wares on a temporary street circuit around the Kremlin. "I think Moscow has an opportunity, I hope, in the future to put on a street race," Briton Hamilton is […]

At least three teams are going ahead with the young driver test at Silverstone this week. With November's Abu Dhabi plans up in the air, there had been uncertainty the Silverstone alternative was going ahead at all until HRT said Chinese driver Ma Qing Hua will be running on Thursday and Friday. The French-language news agency AFP now reports that Williams and Marussia will also be in action. Williams will be running its reserve and 'Friday' driver Valtteri Bottas, while the Marussia-sponsored GP2 drivers Max […]

Pirelli's Paul Hembery is confident Jaime Alguersuari will be back on the grid soon. After losing Red Bull's backing and his Toro Rosso seat at the end of last season, the now 22-year-old Spaniard kept his F1 dream alive by accepting the role as official tyre supplier Pirelli's main test driver. This week, he is in action at Belgium's fabled Spa Francorchamps. "These days there are few opportunities for drivers to drive Formula One cars," Hembery told El Confidencial. "Right now Jaime is doing almost […]

Timo Glock will almost certainly sit out Sunday's European grand prix. The German sat out qualifying on Saturday, and according to multiple media sources he was travelling to a local hospital for checks whilst his usual rivals were in action on the Valencia street circuit. Marussia has described the 30-year-old's ailment as a "stomach bug", but sources say he could be suffering from either food poisoning or a virus. Bild newspaper said he will "almost certainly" not race on Sunday, even though the FIA has […]

Bernie Ecclestone has hit back after German banker Gerhard Gribkowsky this week sensationally admitted he received millions in bribes from the F1 chief executive. Gribkowsky recalled the diminutive Briton telling him that, "In Formula One, the practice is you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours". German media reports said the former BayernLB risk officer also told the court that Ecclestone said he had the power to re-shuffle contracts so that the bank's stake in the lucrative sport would be diluted. At the same time, […]