Caterham reserve driver Alexander Rossi will test for the team in first practice at the Canadian Grand Prix next month. Rossi was due to drive in Bahrain but was called up to Caterham's GP2 team, postponing his run. "The weekends that I'm not doing GP2 I'll be looking to be drive the F1 car in Friday practice sessions and that will start in Montreal, he told ESPN. "Beyond that I'll be doing at least one more, and possibly others, but it's hard to say exactly […]

McLaren team principal Martin Whitmarsh says the current pay driver situation is sad for the sport. Several drivers on the 2013 grid owe their positions down to their financial backing, a situation that concerns Whitmarsh. "I think, personally, it's sad to have so many pay drivers in Formula One," he told ESPN. "The numbers have crept up, and while I'm sure it's good and exciting for those that can afford it, you would hope that in the premier form of motorsport worldwide that you wouldn't have […]

The venue of the German Grand Prix is still a mystery, with Bernie Ecclestone suggesting that it may not be decided until after the start of the season. The state government in Rhineland-Palatinate announced last year that the Nurburgring was on the verge of bankruptcy after failing to make the repayments on a $370m loan following a major upgrade in 2009. Ecclestone told Reuters last week that he was close to a deal with the Nurburgring - which hosts the race biannually - although such a […]

Vijay Mallya has admitted the new Buddh circuit in New Delhi might not be completed by the time of October's inaugural Indian grand prix. But the billionaire, India's FIA representative and also owner and boss of the Force India team, insists the event will go ahead anyway. It has emerged that the homologation inspection of the venue, originally scheduled for the first week of August, will now take place on September 1. Indian official Vicky Chandhok insisted the delayed date is for "purely administrative reasons" […]

Apr.22 (GMM) Ferrari's F1 drivers are the highest-earning sportsmen in their respective countries, a new report has found.

The full analysis by ESPN The Magazine, showing 182 countries and their top-earning athletes, will be published on May 2.

Feli...

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...

Feb.18 (GMM) The Formula One Group has lost another attempt to exclusively control the "F1" abbreviation.

In 2007, the French website F1-Live and the sport's brand exploitation division Formula One Licensing fought over the right to use the "F1" abbr...