Rumours Nico Rosberg could be flirting with a switch to Ferrari are gaining strength this week. A source triggered the speculation by telling the Cologne publication Express that the 26-year-old is "thinking about" the famous Italian team. Mercedes' Rosberg, however, has a contract for 2012, as does Fernando Alonso's Ferrari teammate Felipe Massa. But Bild newspaper reports that Rosberg "has a clause that allows him an early termination under certain circumstances". After India, Rosberg openly criticised his race strategy that appeared to have favoured teammate […]

Red Bull can afford to let its huge points lead over McLaren drop this weekend and yet still wrap up the constructors' world championship with three races to spare. Last weekend in Japan, Sebastian Vettel needed a single point to beat Jenson Button to the 2011 drivers' crown, and duly scored 15 with his podium place. The next step is the teams' crown, with Red Bull's lead of 130 points over McLaren able to drop to 129 points in Korea and yet still ensure a […]

Team owner Dietrich Mateschitz is ready to celebrate Sebastian Vettel's second consecutive world championship for Red Bull. The German driver still has to achieve at least a tenth place at one of the remaining five races in 2011. But given his nine wins and more than 300 points so far, an interviewer for Austria's Kleine Zeitung told billionaire Mateschitz that it is impossible that that the title will slip away from Vettel. "Basically you are right, of course," Mateschitz responded, before laughing: "But what if […]

He might be the fastest in 2011 but Sebastian Vettel is not the highest-earning driver on the grid. That is the claim of Germany's Bild-Zeitung daily, reporting that the 24-year-old double champion-elect is making 'just' EUR 16 million this season. Ahead of him are Fernando Alonso (25 million) and Michael Schumacher (21m), but Bild claims that Vettel is fast catching up. The newspaper said the Red Bull driver earns more with every success, including a EUR 6 million bonus for winning the championship this year […]

Aug.24 (GMM) Bernie Ecclestone has admitted he would like to see Michael Schumacher on the pitwall when he hangs up his helmet once again.

Throughout F1's August break, the seven time world champion and his management had to fend off the latest round...

Jun.27 (GMM) The media slammed the sagging spectacle of Sunday's European grand prix.

After seven exciting races boosted by the new overtaking 'DRS' system and heavily degrading Pirelli tyres, the formula did not conspire to spice up the usually-proc...

Jun.25 (GMM) Sebastian Vettel has urged Red Bull to finally solve its KERS glitches.

The otherwise dominant RB7 has been slowed multiple times in 2011 as the team grapples with a custom KERS system that is smaller and less powerful than usual in orde...

May 25 (GMM) Gerhard Berger on Wednesday dismissed rumours he is set to return to formula one as a boss.

The great Austrian, who after retiring from formula one spent time as BMW's joint motor sport director before co-owning the Toro Rosso team, has ...

May 18 (GMM) Bernie Ecclestone has hailed the updated British grand prix venue but admitted it is "a great shame" the improvements were not made a decade ago.

Ecclestone, historically fiercely critical of the famous Northamptonshire circuit, attended...

May 17 (GMM) The Red Bull Ring is ready for formula one but Gerhard Berger doubts its owner is pushing for the return of the Austrian grand prix.

Some years ago, the ten-time grand prix winner co-owned Toro Rosso with countryman and billionaire Dietr...

May 16 (GMM) Dietrich Mateschitz has ruled out relocating his pacesetting formula one team Red Bull Racing to Austria.

The energy drinks mogul and Austrian billionaire reopened the former A1-Ring, rechristened as the Red Bull Ring, at the weekend.

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May 12 (GMM) Dietrich Mateschitz has repeated his recent claim that formula one's return to Austria in the near future is a "more than minor" chance.

The Red Bull mogul was speaking as the former grand prix venue at Zeltweg, previously called A1-Ring...