Romain Grosjean has taken pole for the inaugural race of the new GP2 Asia Series in Dubai, ahead of Bruno Senna. The two are likely to be the main contenders for the championship title.
Former McLaren teammates Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso have been busy taking pops at each other, indirectly at least.
“He showed me just […]

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Felipe Massa and Kimi Raikkonen set the pace at Valencia testing yesterday, ahead of Nico Rosberg, driving the new Williams, and the McLaren duo of Heikki Kovalainen and Pedro de la Rosa. Former Williams driver Alex Wurz made his track début as Honda test driver.
Nigel Stepney, the man at the centre of last year’s spygate […]

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Jonny Reid may have pleased the home crowd with a win in today’s A1GP sprint race in Taupo but it was Team Germany’s Christian Vietoris who survived an eventful feature race to take his first A1 victory, becoming the third German driver to win races in the series.
Team Switzerland came to Taupo as series leaders […]

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Jonny Reid pleased the home crowd by taking pole for tomorrow’s A1GP sprint race at Taupo, ahead of South Africa’s Adrian Zaugg. Team France driver Loïc Duval, who qualified third for the sprint, went on to take pole for the feature race, ahead of Team Germany’s Christian Vietoris.
Honda F1 have named former Williams racer Alex […]

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The Taupo circuit in New Zealand, which is due to hold the next round of the A1GP championship in two weeks time, has been hit by two earthquakes this week. The track is now inspected to assess any damage.
Despite the 2008 F1 entry list being published last week, Super Aguri insist they have still not […]

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Yu Zhifei, ex-manager of the Shanghai International Circuit, has been jailed for four years after being convicted of embezzling more than 1m yuan (£69,500; $137,500) during the late 1990s, when he was head of Shanghai Shenhua Football Club.
Yu helped to develop Shanghai’s race circuit and helped to organise the country’s first Grand Prix in September […]

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Just to be different, perhaps, the Williams F1 team will not hold an official launch of their 2008 car, the FW30.
The team continues with its driver pairing of Nico Rosberg and Kazuki Nakajima, along with new test driver Nico Hülkenberg.

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