The year that Jacques Villeneuve’s F1 career ground to an ignomious halt (though there’s always that singing career, eh Jacques?), Juan Pablo Montoya went to NASCAR, Fernando Alonso’s second F1 championship seemed to be little more than a sideshow to the Michael Schumacher show, and Lewis Hamilton beat Nelson Piquet Jr (who, to paraphrase Giorgio […]

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STR boss Gerhard Berger says he was the man behind Mika Hakkinen’s recent McLaren test, and even thanks Ron Dennis for saving him money.
“Mika got a drive at the cost of Ron, and that made me smile a bit! It worked out quite well. If I convinced him to drive a car, then it would […]

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A couple of weeks ago we were in Paris for the 2006 Race of Champions at the Stade de France, and I thought I’d finally get round to posting some photos from the event. Next year RoC will be held at Wembley and I have to say I’m disappointed because there’s something very special about […]

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Super Aguri will retain Sakon Yamamoto in 2007, as their second test driver.
“It is great news that I am able to stay in Formula One with Super Aguri F1 Team in 2007 and would like to thank everyone who has supported me, especially Aguri-san (Aguri Suzuki),” Yamamoto stated. “I will try to do my best […]

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German driver Adrian Sutil will drive for Spyker in 2007 as teammate to Christijan Albers, after beating 2006 incumbent Tiago Monteiro to the seat.
Speaking about the news, Sutil said: “I really enjoyed being in the F1 paddock this year and to be honest I thought I would be a test driver in 2007. Colin Kolles […]

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Champ Car driver Sebastien Bourdais is in line for a 2008 Toro Rosso seat. according to STR boss Gerhard Berger.
“Yes, he is definitely in the frame for 2008,” Berger told autosport.com. “But not for 2007, as he has a contract. I would like him to honour that, absolutely.”

STR’s 2006 drivers, Vitantonio Liuzzi and Scott Speed, […]

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Now on the way home from the Race of Champions (online thanks to the wonders of GNER onboard wifi). Another great event, although I thought the crowd was much reduced from last year. A real shame that Scott Speed couldn’t attend in the end but Travis Pastrana drove superbly on his own, which we were […]

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Scott Speed and James Thompson have replaced the injured Jimmie Johnson and Jenson Button in the US and English teams respectively for this year’s Race of Champions at the Stade de France in Paris.
I’m currently in Paris for RoC and I’m really pleased Scott will be driving - things were looking a bit thin on […]

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Champ Car champion Sebastien Bourdais is to test for Toro Rosso at Jerez de la Frontera this week, despite declaring earlier this year that his chances of an F1 drive were minimal. Toro Rosso have yet to confirm 2006 incumbents Tonio Liuzzi and Scott Speed, and team boss Gerhard Berger […]

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Team Netherlands have been excluded from the A1GP Sentul, Indonesia feature race following a Stewards’ Enquiry. The exclusion of Jeroen Bleekemolen moves Malaysia’s Alex Yoong up to fifth.
Amended Feature race results

A1 Team

Driver

Time

Gap first

1

New Zealand

Jonny Reid

1.10.36.607

2

Germany

Nico Hulkenberg

1.10.37.785

+1.178

3

France

Nicolas Lapierre

1.10.40.869

+4.262

4

Italy

Enrico Toccacelo

1.10.45.268

+8.661

5

Malaysia

Alex Yoong

1.10.51.225

+14.618

6

Mexico

Salvador Duran

1.10.51.977

+15.370

7

Czech Republic

Jaroslav Janis

1.10.56.674

+20.067

8

Switzerland

Neel Jani

1.10.59.730

+23.123

9

USA

Phil Giebler

1.11.03.845

+27.238

10

Australia

Ryan Briscoe

1.10.42.187

1 lap

11

Indonesia

Ananda Mikola

1.10.44.586

1 lap

12

Ireland

Richard Lyons

1.10.51.517

1 lap

13

China

Ho-Pin Tung

1.10.56.361

1 lap

14

Brazil

Tuka Rocha

1.12.17.989

1 lap

15

Pakistan

Nur […]

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