F3 Euroseries racer Tom Dillmann will be Team Switzerland’s rookie driver for the New Zealand and Australian rounds of the A1GP series.
Max Welti, team principal, A1 Team Switzerland: “I am hopeful that Neel Jani will be able to share his experience with Tom Dillmann and that Tom won’t forget what he learned during testing in […]

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Despite previously stating they would not be holding an official launch for their 2008 car, McLaren have now decided to hold a launch event at the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart on 7th January.
Ralf Schumacher will take a not-unexpected sabbatical from F1 in 2008.
“I will take a break from Formula 1 in 2008 as things look […]

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BCN Competicion have signed Italian driver Paolo Nocera for the 2008 GP2 season.
Tomas Enge may return for Team Czech Republic in the A1GP series next year. Enge returned to the A1 cockpit in Zhuhai, finishing fifth in the sprint race and eighth in the feature race.
‘Our results in Zhuhai were better than the car we […]

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FIA president Max Mosley has once again brought his unique sense of diplomacy to Sir Jackie Stewart’s call for a shake-up in the governance of the FIA.
“Dear old Jackie,” Mosley said, with a barely suppressed sneer. “He knows nothing about sports governance. Because he never stops talking, he doesn’t know much about anything, actually. He […]

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F1’s qualifying format will change for 2008, with the contentious Q3 cut to ten minutes to remove the ‘fuel burn’ phase.
The qualifying practice session will take place on the day before the race from 14.00 to 15.00. The session will be run as follows :
a) From 14.00 to 14.20 (Q1) all cars will be permitted […]

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There has been a rash of signings for the 2008 GP2 series this week. iSport have confirmed Bruno Senna and Karun Chandhok, Trident have confirmed Mike Conway, Super Nova have confirmed Christian Bakkerud for the new GP2 Asia series, which kicks off in January.
Sam Bird, who finished fourth in the 2007 British F3 series has […]

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Most people would consider a $100 million fine and losing all their 2007 constructor’s points a pretty harsh punishment for a F1 team but then most people aren’t Jean Todt and Luca di Montezemolo, who apparently won’t be satisfied until Ron Dennis gets publicly flogged.
“Should Ron Dennis be banned? We can’t rule in place of […]

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Mattias Ekström beat Michael Schumacher in the final of the Race of Champions at Wembley yesterday to take his second victory at the annual event. Earlier, Schumacher and teammate Sebastien Vettel won the Nations Cup for Germany.
When interviewed at the event Schumacher insisted that he would not be making a return to racing, but would […]

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Former Renault F1 driver Heikki Kovalainen has been confirmed as a McLaren driver for 2008, ending Pedro de la Rosa’s hopes of a return to a race drive.
McLaren F1 CEO Martin Whitmarsh said: “We had a number of options open to us and as always we want to make sure that we have the most […]

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