Officials close to the Bahrain International Circuit claim that this year's Bahrain Grand Prix will take place on Sunday 30th October. The officials report that they are awaiting on a reply from the Buddh International Circuit, as October 30th is currently the date when the inaugural Indian Grand Prix will take place. Bernie Ecclestone has contacted the Indian GP officials, with those close to the circuit confirming this contact. It is unclear whether they would be willing to move their race from October 30th, with […]

Vettel extends his lead to 34 points with a third win of 2011 After just four races, the rest of the field must be scratching their heads as they work out just how they can stop Sebastian Vettel from storming to his second world title. He took pole position with ease on Saturday and simply cruised away from his competitors on Sunday, stopping a fourth time when he didn’t really need to, and won by 8.8s, a margin that flattered his opponents. For the first […]

If Malaysia provided Formula One with a great race, then China was even better. There was no need for rain, no need for Safety Cars and no need for controversial collisions. The new rules worked and Lewis Hamilton emerged victorious in an unpredictable race, when the tables turned in favour of various drivers throughout the 56 laps. Sebastian Vettel’s pole lap suggested that if he got to the first corner with his lead intact, it would be very difficult for anyone to stop him. As […]

Ford Abu Dhabi World Rally Team's Jari-Matti Latvala and Miikka Anttila missed a dramatic victory in the Jordan Rally by just 0.2sec today after the closest finish in world rallying history.  They held a slender 0.5sec lead in their Ford Fiesta ...

The 24th Race Of Champions will be held on the weekend of December 3-4, 2011 at the Commerzbank-Arena in Frankfurt, Germany. The stadium, one of the settings for football’s 2006 World Cup, will be the second successive German venue to host ROC following last year’s event at Düsseldorf’s ESPRIT arena, Home heroes Michael Schumacher and Sebastian Vettel have become the first drivers to sign up as they bid to win the ROC Nations Cup for a record 5th year in a row.

Vettel takes his second 2011 win and extends his lead to 24 points. Pre-race, all the talk was about the weather. With rain having held off on Friday and Saturday, it was destined to come on race day. However, despite a few spots, the anticipated deluge never arrive but instead, the Sepang circuit put on a cracking race, largely thanks to the high wear rate of the Pirelli tyres. Despite all the variables, Sebastian Vettel won for the fourth race running to pull out a […]

Since the start of the 2009 season, Formula One teams have been banned from testing their cars outside of grand prix weekends. This has been met both favourable and unfavourable, depending on the team and the driver. Michael Schumacher labels it ‘ridiculous’. But is the testing ban good for Formula One, or should it be scrapped. Over 2 years since it was introduced, we take a look at the positives and the negatives. There are two main issues when it comes to the current lack […]

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You've watched the race, you've read the reports, but here are all the facts and stats from Sunday's opening round of the new season

It was a different car on a different track but Sebastian Vettel picked up where he left off with a dominant victory in the Australian Grand Prix, his third win on the bounce but more crucially, he takes a very early advantage in the title race. Having usually started a season poorly – he took 12 points from the first two events in 2010 and failed to score in the first two in 2009 – Vettel set himself the target of starting the season on […]

Everyone thought the new RB7 was fast. But nobody was expecting them to be as quick as they showed in today’s qualifying session. Vettel’s pole lap of 1:23.529 was seven tenths of a second quicker than anyone else could manage, and then on the next lap he did a 1.23.6 just for good measure. Mark Webber was less impressive though as he could manage only 3rd. It looks like it might be a tough task for Webber to keep Vettel in check this season. The […]

So the first proper day of the new F1 season started with a tame couple of sessions but certainly raised a few eyebrows. McLaren going 1st and 2nd in FP2 was certainly a shock for the majority of the paddock, who had written off the MP4-26 after an awful winter. It is only practice, but whatever McLaren has done appears to be working. Red Bull took the honours in the first session and it appeared to be that they focused on race pace in the […]