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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The ongoing dispute over the legality of Toro Rosso’s 2007 car has taken another turn, with team bosses Gerhard Berger and Franz Tost apparently suggesting that the blueprints obtained by Spyker and used in evidence in Spyker’s arbitration proceedings could have been tampered with.
Meanwhile, Spyker’s dispute with Super Aguri - the other team at the […]

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Super Nova’s Luca Filippi took a surprise pole position for the first race of the 2007 GP2 series in Bahrain, just under a tenth of a second quicker than Piquet Sports’ Xandi Negrao. Andreas Zuber was third quickest for iSport, with Lucas di Grassi fourth for reigning champions ART. Bruno Senna was an impressive fifth […]

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Ferrari’s Felipe Massa took pole in Malaysia by three-tenths of a second from McLaren’s Fernando Alonso in a storming finish to today’s qualifying session. Their respective teammates, Kimi Raikkonen and Lewis Hamilton, will start tomorrow’s race from third and fourth on the grid respectively. BMW Sauber had another strong qualifying, with Nick Heidfeld fifth fastest […]

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Perhaps unsurprisingly, Sepang stewards have rejected Spyker’s protest over the legality of the 2007 Toro Rosso.
“Spyker have made an application for arbitration and must by definition therefore be deemed to accept that a dispute such as this (the grounds of the protest being effectively the same as that matter to be determined in arbitration) does […]

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Felipe Massa was unsurprisingly quickest in first practice for this weekend’s Malaysian GP, with the weekend already looking like another Ferrari/McLaren battle with Fernando Alonso second quickest followed by respective teammates Lewis Hamilton and Kimi Räikkönen. Nico Rosberg was fifth quickest for Williams, with former teammate Mark Webber sixth for Red Bull.
Tonio Liuzzi and Scott […]

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The Spyker team have launched arbitration proceedings against Super Aguri & Toro Rosso over the legality of their 2007 cars. The Chamber of Commerce in Lausanne, which rules on all disputes involving the Concorde Agreement, will oversee Spyker’s complaint.
Max Mosley is staying remarkably silent on this - most unusual for Max - and it can […]

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Kimi Raikkonen comfortably took the first Ferrari pole position of the post-Michael Schumacher era (to use that increasingly tiresome phrase) in Melbourne, ahead of McLaren’s Fernando Alonso and Nick Heidfeld in the BMW Sauber. Lewis Hamilton qualified fourth on his F1 debut, ahead of Robert Kubica in the second BMW Sauber.
Takuma Sato and Anthony Davidson […]

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Super Aguri may take court action to regain the services of test driver Guido van der Garde, who defected to Spyker after just one’s day testing at Valencia.
“Giedo should have completed the 300 kms necessary for the F1 superlicense, but we instead had to restrict his run to a few installation laps because his company […]

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Scuderia Toro Rosso owner Gerhard Berger says the team are ready for a court battle if, as expected, Williams and Spyker contest the legality of STR’s 2007 car, a version of Red Bull Racing’s RB3.
“If they want to do so, fine, then we will fight it out,” Berger told the official Formula One website. “But […]

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