Mar.15 (GMM) Toro Rosso is not ready to take on F1's grandee teams, its Spanish driver Jaime Alguersuari has insisted.

Numerous figures and observers have singled out the Red Bull-owned team's innovative STR6 car as a potential surprise podium conten...

Mar.15 (GMM) Fernando Alonso does not think his former team McLaren is set to endure a season in the midfield in 2011.

When asked by El Pais newspaper about the British squad's apparently uncompetitive MP4-26 car, the Ferrari driver answered: "They'r...

Q: How has the preseason build up been for you? Rubens Barrichello: This is my second year with the team and we are in much better shape than we were this time last year. Everything has been prepared well and the team are doing a really good job getting everything ready in time for Melbourne. Q: How does the FW33 compare to last year’s car? RB: I think we are better on performance than last year. The car is a different animal though so there […]

Mar.14 (Marussia Virgin Racing) Marussia Virgin Racing and CNBC, the leading global broadcaster of live business and financial news and information, have joined forces in an exclusive global partnership that sees CNBC becoming the team’s official ‘Business Media Partner’ for the 2011 Formula One season, which gets underway on 27 March in Melbourne, Australia. The partnership gives CNBC branding on various Marussia Virgin Racing assets including its new Formula One car and driver’s racesuits, and in the paddock, as well as hospitality. Alongside this, the […]

Mar.14 (GMM) Williams' FW33 car will feature its KERS system for the season opening Australian grand prix next weekend.

Rubens Barrichello had admitted last week that the British team was considering not using the system in Melbourne due to not fully...

Mar.14 (GMM) Narain Karthikeyan is confident he can get back up to speed in formula one within a few races of his 2011 return.

The Indian's highly rated teammate Vitantonio Liuzzi was significantly faster in the limited testing he has done with the H...

Mar.14 (GMM) After the team's new car sat out the entire pre-season test period, owner Jose Ramon Carabante insists there is no risk that HRT will also miss the 2011 season opener in less than two weeks.

"It is certain that we will be in Australia an...

HRT will not test its newly-launched 2011 car. The F111 was rolled into the Barcelona pitlane on Friday but not tested due to some missing parts. And the Spanish team said it will also not run on Saturday - the final day of pre-season testing - "due to a customs problem". Hispania announced that the car's "dampers were not released by customs". "The result of this is that we can't run tomorrow. This is life and we will overcome this problem," said team boss Colin […]

Narain Karthikeyan faces the tough task of getting back up to speed in Formula 1 after a long absence this year while driving for a team that did not have a great 2010 season in HRT.But the Indian is optimistic that both he and his team can prove a poi...

Williams technical director Sam Michael thinks it is too early to judge whether or not his team will run KERS at the start of the season, following the problems it has suffered in Barcelona testing this week.The Grove-based outfit has had to remove its...

Renault team principal Eric Boullier believes that it would be unwise to write off Mercedes and McLaren as potential rivals to his team in 2011, despite both teams struggle to find pace in testing.Renault's R31, along with Red Bull's RB7 and Ferrari's ...

Conducted and provided by the Williams team press officeQ. How did your first test day go in Barcelona this week?Pastor Maldonado: We had a KERS problem which unfortunately cost a few hours' track time and we only did two short runs. It is better for t...