Mark Webber set the fastest time as championship leaders Red Bull responded to challenges from McLaren and Ferrari in practice for the Korean Grand Prix. The Australian’s best effort of one minute 37.942 seconds left him just ahead of rivals Fernando Alonso of Ferrari and McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton. Renault’s Robert Kubica was fourth from Jenson [...]
Fernando Alonso has a secret agreement to join Ferrari for four years from 2011, Italian sports daily La Gazzetta dello Sport reported on Sunday. The twice Formula One world champion has never hidden his desire to go to the Italian team and Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo recently fuelled the ongoing speculation by refusing to [...]
Motor racing chief Max Mosley wants Europe to toughen up media privacy laws after he was awarded 60,000 pounds ($106,100) in damages because a newspaper published details of his role in a sado-masochistic orgy. The head of Formula One’s governing body will on Monday ask the European Court of Human Rights to force newspapers to [...]
Fernando Alonso’s surprise victory in Singapore has put Renault in pole position to retain the double world champion’s services next season, even if he said afterwards that it had changed nothing. “I didn’t say that,” the Spaniard replied when asked whether it could now be assumed he would be staying with the French manufacturer. “This [...]
Lewis Hamilton can chalk up his third win in a row when he returns to Budapest for Sunday’s Hungarian Grand Prix, a race he won in controversial circumstances last year. McLaren’s Formula One championship leader, now four points clear of Ferrari’s Felipe Massa after stunning wins in Germany and Britain, has every chance of extending [...]
Two-times NASCAR champion Tony Stewart is to leave Joe Gibbs Racing after 11 years, the team said on Wednesday. Stewart will complete the 2008 season with Gibbs and is expected to announce his new team later this week. Media reports said that Stewart, 37, will become a driver for and a partner in Haas CNC [...]
Lewis Hamilton answered his critics and got his title campaign back on track with a superb British Grand Prix win. The McLaren driver mastered tricky conditions, and his team made the right tactical calls, as all his main title rivals had a day to forget. Hamilton is now tied on points at the top of [...]
McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton set the fastest time in practice for the Canadian Grand Prix on Friday with a best lap of one minute 15.752. After a wet track had restricted the drivers in the morning session, the world championship leader pulled out a time which was 0.271 faster than that of second quickest Robert Kubica [...]
Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo said on Wednesday that Max Mosley should quit as chief of motor racing’s world governing body over his involvement in a sex scandal. “I think that he should realize that sometimes it is necessary to say to yourself I have to leave for reasons of credibility,” Montezemolo told the ANSA [...]