Since at least 15 engineers at Renault, including the head of vehicle performance and R&D, deputy technical director, deputy chief designer and chief designer Tim Densham, knew about the McLaren technical information that is at the centre of the latest spy investigation, we can only wait with baited breath to see what the FIA are […]

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Nigel Stepney, under investigation in Italy after Ferrari filed a formal complaint against him, has insisted he has done nothing wrong and is the victim of a ‘dirty tricks campaign’.
“I have confidence I’ll be cleared by the legal process that is now taking place,” he said from the Philippines where he is holidaying with his […]

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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 FIA has modified its bodywork tests after McLaren requested clarification over Ferrari’s sprung floor mounting system. The system is also believed to be used by BMW Sauber.
BMW Sauber driver Robert Kubica topped the times in the first day of testing at Sepang today, ahead of Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen and Alex Wurz for Williams. […]

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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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Agreement over the use of customer cars in F1 looks unlikely in the run up to the opening race of the season in Melbourne next weekend, with Williams and Spyker not ruling out legal action to challenge the legality of Scuderia Toro Rosso and Super Aguri’s 2007 cars.
“I cannot tell you what will happen for […]

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