Williams aims to have its 2012 car up and running for the first test of the official pre-season, technical director Mike Coughlan has revealed. When Mercedes announced that its next single seater will only be ready for the second test - taking place two weeks after Jerez in early February - it triggered speculation other teams might tread a similar path. But Ferrari and Red Bull have said they want to be ready for Jerez, and Oxfordshire based Williams has a similar plan. "The car […]

Sauber on Friday revealed that its 2012 car will be ready for the first test of the pre-season. The Swiss team announced in a statement that the Ferrari-powered C31 will be launched at Jerez on 6 February, the day before the start of the official group test at the southern Spanish circuit. Hinwil based Sauber has retained 2011 drivers Kamui Kobayashi and Sergio Perez for next season. With the C30, they secured seventh place in the constructors' world championship in 2011, scoring more points than […]

Ferrari's 2012 car will be ready to roll at the first official test of the winter pre-season. A spokesman for the Italian team told Reuters as well as Autosprint (Italy) and SID news agency (Germany) that the new single seater will be revealed before its Jerez debut in early February. A precise launch date was not specified. "Definitely, the new project is a clean break with the past and a very different one," Luca Colajanni is quoted as saying. Spain's AS newspaper reported that Fernando […]

The car in which Sebastian Vettel will push for an ultra-rare triple back-to-back world championship will be launched on February 5. That is the claim of France's Auto Hebdo, with the autohebdo.fr website saying the official unveiling of the 2012 Red Bull will take place at the energy drink-owned team's Milton Keynes headquarters. February 5 is two days before the first official test of the 2012 pre-season kicks off at Jerez, and the RB8's designer Adrian Newey has revealed the intention is to take the […]

Lotus Renault GP, which will be renamed as Lotus F1 next season, is planning to unveil their 2012-spec car on February 6, according to French media sources. The new car will be unveiled a day before the start of the first winter testing session at the Jerez circuit in Andalucia, Spain. Newly-signed Lotus Renault drivers, Kimi Raikkonen and Romain Grosjean, will be present to unveil the new car, although the name of the car is still unknown. Since the team is is planing to adopt […]