McLaren has played down suggestions Honda will unfairly benefit from the great British team's continuing collaboration with Mercedes next year. It was announced in Tokyo on Thursday that McLaren will be powered by 'works' turbo V6 engines provided by Honda from 2015. But, before then, McLaren will run with customer Mercedes power next year, as the sport switches to the all-new and radical engine regulations. The situation has raised some red flags: will the development of Honda's new V6 benefit from the insight gained from […]

Honda has confirmed that it will return to Formula 1 in 2015 as McLaren's engine supplier

Although the uncertainty about his future is now over, Lewis Hamilton admits it could be awkward when he walks into his garage at Suzuka this weekend. The Japanese grand prix will be the first race in the Briton's six-year career at which other McLaren team members know for sure that Hamilton is departing. The 2008 world champion has decided to switch to Mercedes for 2013, prompting Hamilton to admit: "It will be interesting walking into the garage (at Suzuka). "There are a couple of guys […]

Honda has now added its denial to rumours the Japanese carmaker could be looking to return to F1 by supplying a V6 engine to McLaren in 2014. With McLaren's Mercedes relationship reverting to mere 'customer' status after next season, Auto Motor und Sport reported recently that Honda could fill the void by returning to F1 and rekindling its ultra-successful past link with the famous British team. "That's all wide of the mark," McLaren managing director Jonathan Neale said last week. And Honda chief executive Takanobu […]

Toro Rosso's current drivers are still unsure if they will be racing beyond the 2011 season. Team owner Red Bull's driver manager Dr Helmut Marko is famous for the pressure he puts on contracted drivers. And hanging over Jaime Alguersuari and Sebastien Buemi's heads at present are the advancing careers of Marko's latest favourites Daniel Ricciardo and Jean-Eric Vergne. "We have not talked about the future or next year's contract," Spaniard Alguersuari told the EFE news agency at the weekend. "It is very important that […]

A home Grand Prix is always a very special and emotional race for any driver, and many have claimed just seeing their fans can give them extra impetus. However, for Kamui Kobayashi his return to Suzuka, where the team scored its best result of 2010, will be very poignant after the devastation caused to Japan this year. The country’s sole Formula One driver shares his thoughts about the situation his beloved country has found itself in, his initiatives to help the victims and their families, […]

Jun.6 (GMM) Sebastien Buemi has emerged from a terrifying incident during a formula one demonstration drive in Japan.

The Swiss driver was at the wheel of a recent Red Bull single seater in Chiba, Japan, when a member of the event's staff ran in fron...

Mar.14 (GMM) The formula one world has expressed shock and sadness amid the Japanese earthquake and tsunami disaster.

The disaster struck while the F1 world, including Japanese driver Kamui Kobayashi, was testing in Barcelona late last week.

"My cou...

Feb.28 (GMM) The well-known Japanese multinational NEC is a new sponsor of the Sauber team.

The prominent blue branding of the Tokyo-based giant on the Swiss team's C30 car was not present at the recent Barcelona test.

That branding debuted on the c...