With the news that Red Bull has placed another of its junior drivers, Mikhail Aleshin, in the new F2 category along with Robert Wickens, I’m getting a bit nervous about the future of GP2. Common sense suggests that two such similar categories cannot coexist with the same level of success. As a GP2 fan, I’d […]

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Not wanting to go into the McLaren appeal hearing in Paris too much but this little nugget in the Times caught my eye:
McLaren had submitted papers in advance of the hearing making clear they were going to rely on the Liuzzi-Sutil case at the Japanese GP last year as a precedent. In this case the […]

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Former F1 World Champion Niki Lauda has attacked the 25 second penalty imposed on Lewis Hamilton in the Belgian GP yesterday which dropped the McLaren driver from first to third.
“This is the worst judgment in the history of F1,” said Lauda. “The most perverted judgment I have ever seen. It’s absolutely unacceptable […]

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McLaren will appeal the 25 second penalty handed to Lewis Hamilton at Spa which dropped him from first to third. A hearing of the FIA’s International Court of Appeal will decide on the matter.

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 McLaren have - inexplicably - been moved back up the pitlane for this weekend’s Monaco Grand Prix, after being dumped down the order in Bahrain.
“Technically, it’s an advantage as far as we can see and where we are in the pit lane doesn’t affect the races,” team boss Ron Dennis said in Bahrain. “If there […]

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Super Aguri have withdrawn from the 2008 F1 world championship with immediate effect.
“In order to realise my dream to become an owner of a Formula One team, I applied for a grid position in the FIA Formula One World Championship in November 2005,” said team principal Aguri Suzuki in a statement issued by the team. […]

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Romain Grosjean has won the inaugural GP2 Asia championship, despite not finishing today’s sprint race in Sakhir. Grosjean was forced to retire from the race however his point for fastest lap was enough to secure the title.
Kamui Kobayashi won the race, ahead of Sébastien Buemi and Vitaly Petrov.
The News of the World is to send […]

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Robert Kubica will start tomorrow’s Bahrain Grand Prix from pole position after the BMW Sauber driver just edged out Ferrari’s Felipe Massa in qualifying today. McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton starts third, with Kimi Raikkonen fourth.
Honda had a good qualifying, with Jenson Button lining up ninth ahead of Fernando Alonso, and Rubens Barrichello in twelfth.
Romain Grosjean took […]

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ADAC tells Mosley to reconsider his role
Dutch motorsport federation wants Mosley to quit
Max, even the Caravan Club think you should go. Do take the hint.

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Former F1 World Champions Jody Scheckter and Sir Jackie Stewart have suggested beleaguered FIA President Max Mosley consider his position in the wake of last weekend’s lurid allegations in the News of the World.
Jody Scheckter said: “There is absolutely no question in my mind Mosley should resign.”
And Sir Jackie Stewart, who has had a series […]

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