Kimi Raikkonen has revealed he would like to contest August's rally of Finland. F1's 2007 world champion returned from world rallying to grand prix racing this year. "Of course I wanted to do better. But I'm not finished. I want to go back, whether for my career or after I don't know," the 32-year-old told Motorsport News, according to the official WRC website. Earlier, Raikkonen admitted he had sidelined his rallying career for now in order to concentrate on F1. Before the 2011 season, Lotus' […]

Heikki Kovalainen is looking for Caterham to move into the midfield, according to his new management company. Having handled his own career in the wake of Flavio Briatore's demise, Finn Kovalainen recently signed up with IMG, the sports and entertainment management giant. The 30-year-old has rebuilt his reputation since 2010 in the wake of mixed tenures for top teams Renault and McLaren. According to IMG Motorsport's head of clients Martin Anayi, Kovalainen is now regarded by Formula One team bosses up and down pitlane as […]

Another television broadcaster has pulled out of this weekend's Bahrain grand prix. It had already emerged that Sky Deutschland, MTV3 Finland and Japan's Fuji TV would not be reporting from the scene of the race in the troubled island Kingdom. Now, it emerges that the travelling regulars for France's TF1 are not in Bahrain either. The French-language RMC Sport reported that, like the other broadcasters, the decision was taken "because of the unstable situation" in Bahrain. It has also emerged that Stefano Mancini, the regular […]

Ferrari is looking ahead to Barcelona next month, as the famous Italian team plans to begin putting a difficult start to the 2012 season behind it. Test driver Marc Gene, who is travelling to the grands prix this year, said the F2012 was "born well" but fell behind the other leading teams as the winter pre-season progressed. "From here it will take time to improve it," he told the Spanish newspaper Diario Sport. "The next big developments will arrive in Barcelona, although at every race […]

Statistically, the Chinese grand prix raced straight into the history books as one of the most exciting Formula One events of all time. "For me, we are having some of the best races in Formula One history," agreed Jenson Button after finishing Sunday's Shanghai race behind Nico Rosberg. Finland's Turun Sanomat newspaper reports that only three grands prix in the history of the sport played host to more individual overtaking moves. The report said there were 72 passes in total on Sunday, not including the […]

Finnish television broadcaster MTV3 has decided that they will not be sending their F1 reporting team to Bahrain, despite the FIA's announcement that the Bahrain Grand Prix will go ahead next week. MTV3 will instead provide coverage and commentary on the race from Helsinki. Under normal circumstances, MTV3's F1 news crew will travel to each grand prix to cover it live. "We felt the best alternative was to broadcast from Finland, although the State Department has softened its travel advisory on Bahrain. Formula 1 events […]

The 2012 season has kicked off promisingly, with more overtaking moves recorded in the first two races than in the same exciting period last year. The finding is significant, given the highly lauded contribution early in 2011 made by the new passing aid 'DRS', and new official supplier Pirelli's heavily-degrading tyres. Finland's Turun Sanomat newspaper said 2012 has so far broken even the all-time records of early last season, when there were 63 overtaking moves - excluding the first laps - in Australia and Malaysia […]

Even two races into the 2012 season, it is pointless to draw up a 'pecking order'. Indeed, the picture in the media is muddled. With Ferrari in deep trouble until the Sepang downpour, Fernando Alonso's surprise win was therefore a "maximisation of misery" for the famous Italian team, according to Finland's Turun Sanomat newspaper. After Australia, and another qualifying lock-out in Malaysia, some elements of the media were already referring to McLaren as the "dominant" team. But Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button struggled in Sunday's […]

Kimi Raikkonen's managers have revealed they only now take a back seat in the career of the 2007 world champion. Britons David and Steve Robertson have guided the famous Finn throughout his motor racing career. But Steve told Finland's Turun Sanomat that they only intervene now when the 32-year-old driver requests it -- such as when he needed to negotiate last winter with Williams and his ultimate 2012 employer, Lotus. "We came to the end of the road really in late 2009," he said. That […]

Mercedes got its Barcelona test off to an early start on Sunday. At the same time, the rest of the F1 world was only setting up at the Circuit de Catalunya ahead of Tuesday's kick-off for the second of three pre-season testing sessions. Mercedes, however, trod a different path recently by keeping its 2012 car under development at its Brackley factory while main rivals including Red Bull, Ferrari and McLaren got their test campaigns up and running. Again running Michael Schumacher and Nico Rosberg this […]

Lotus team owner Gerard Lopez insists he is delighted with Kimi Raikkonen, despite earlier negotiations to secure the Finn's services having foundered. After a two year break to drive rallies and in Nascar, the 2007 world champion is back in Formula 1 this year with the former Renault team. "We had some contact with Kimi in 2010," revealed Lopez, according to Finland's Turun Sanomat newspaper. Reports in 2010 linked Raikkonen with the Enstone based team, but the talks apparently soured after becoming public knowledge. "I […]

Adrian Sutil and Vitaly Petrov have emerged as candidates to become Ferrari's official reserve driver in 2012. With Jules Bianchi moving into Force India's Friday practice seat this year, it was reported that Italian GP2 driver Davide Rigon had succeeded him at Ferrari. In fact, the Maranello based team is believed to not consider the 25-year-old as ready to step in should Fernando Alonso or Felipe Massa need replacing during a grand prix weekend. Indeed, Ferrari said Rigon has extended his contract and will be […]