Pirelli has decided to test tyres for the 2014 season at Vallelunga, near Rome. After some teams vetoed the tyre supplier's plans to head to Austin with McLaren and one of the British team's 2011 cars, we reported that Aragon, Spain, had been earmarked as a likely alternative venue. But Auto Motor und Sport on Thursday said Pirelli has in fact decided on Vallelunga, and has invited other teams to attend as well. A new date has also been decided -- 11 and 12 November, […]

Tony Fernandes has admitted he would have liked corporate Malaysia to have backed his Formula 1 team. The Malaysian entrepreneur founded a UK based start-up team in 2010, calling it Team Lotus before a bitter spat developed with the Lotus name's owner Proton. "While I was building a Formula 1 team, I was being sued by my own countrymen," he told The Star newspaper. "We're the only true Formula 1 team developed in Malaysia." Now called Caterham, the team's only Malaysian sponsorship is from AirAsia […]

Sep.12 (GMM) Even the notoriously partisan Italian press was enthralled with German Sebastian Vettel's performance in a blue Red Bull at Monza.

Usually only impressed with feats in a red cockpit, the country's media hailed 24-year-old Vettel as F1's ...

Aug.28 (GMM) The return of the French grand prix could be announced just before Sunday's race at Spa-Francorchamps.

It is believed that Bernie Ecclestone's Paul Ricard circuit will be named as F1's new French venue, to annually alternate the hosting ...

Aug.28 (GMM) Bernie Ecclestone will be trackside on Sunday for the Belgian grand prix.

So far this weekend, the F1 chief executive has been in Rome where he has bankrolled his daughter Petra's $2 million wedding, which took place on Saturday.

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Aug.27 (GMM) Bernie Ecclestone has not been at Spa-Francorchamps this weekend because he is in Rome preparing for the wedding of his daughter Petra.

22-year-old Ecclestone, the youngest of the F1 chief executive's two daughters, will marry British en...

Jun.19 (GMM) Historic Monza is more important to formula one than Rome, the Italian capital's mayor Gianni Alemanno has admitted.

Rome came close to joining the sport's annual calendar until Bernie Ecclestone ruled that each country should host only ...

May 2 (GMM) The Italian hospital that nursed Robert Kubica back to health is set to file an insurance claim to recover the hefty bill.

Italian reports including La Gazzetta dello Sport, La Stampa and ANSA say the Pole's 76-day stay in Pietra Ligure's...

Apr.12 (GMM) Robert Kubica is recovering so well he is reportedly planning to attend the beatification of his late Polish countryman and former Pope John Paul II on May 1.

The Renault driver, recovering from horrific rally crash injuries in an Italia...

Mar.10 (GMM) Vitantonio Liuzzi is looking to the future this week rather than back at a stop-start formula one career so far.

After being ousted by Force India despite having a 2011 contract, the 29-year-old Italian will complete the grid this season...

(GMM) Rome mayor Gianni Alemanno has announced the city is taking “a step back” with its plans for a formula one race on the streets of the EUR district. Although formerly supportive of the plans, Bernie Ecclestone last week wrote to Alemanno warning that with Monza already on the calendar, F1 had no room for two Italian rounds per season. That was interpreted as the start of negotiations to annually alternate Rome and Monza, but Alemanno has announced that Rome should now turn most of […]