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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Former Spyker F1 driver Christijan Albers is to test an Audi DTM car in Spain this week, and may return to the series in 2008 for the Audi-powered team Futurecom-TME, run by Spyker F1 boss Colin Kolles.
Newly announced Renault F1 test driver Romain Grosjean will race for ART in GP2 in 2008.
“Romain is the second […]

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The Renault F1 team have confirmed their 2008 line-up, with the return of double world champion Fernando Alonso and promotion of test driver Nelson Piquet Jr.
Speaking about the announcement Flavio Briatore said: “Fernando and Nelsinho will form one of the most exciting driver line up of 2008. We are delighted to be welcoming Fernando back […]

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Race stewards in China are investigating Lewis Hamilton’s Fuji victory after Toro Rosso team principal Franz Tost complained to them on the basis on a Youtube video of the Webber/Vettel incident.
“You could see quite clearly that Hamilton slows down quite unexpectedly,” said Tost.
“Look at the video. Sebastian would have had to have gone between the […]

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BMW Sauber test driver Timo Glock went fastest at Jerez yesterday, on the first day of the final F1 test of the 2007 season. Tonio Liuzzi was second quickest for Toro Rosso, ahead of Sebastien Buemi for Red Bull.
A winding-up order is to be served on the company behind the Grand Prix Masters series. The […]

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Renault boss Flavio Briatore says F1 races are ‘boring’, and that recent changes have not improved matters.
“A one hour 30 minute race is too long because the last 30 minutes - 90% of the time - is really boring,” he said.
“Every time there’s excitement it’s because something’s happened outside or because it’s […]

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