Despite previously stating they would not be holding an official launch for their 2008 car, McLaren have now decided to hold a launch event at the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart on 7th January.
Ralf Schumacher will take a not-unexpected sabbatical from F1 in 2008.
“I will take a break from Formula 1 in 2008 as things look […]

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Most people would consider a $100 million fine and losing all their 2007 constructor’s points a pretty harsh punishment for a F1 team but then most people aren’t Jean Todt and Luca di Montezemolo, who apparently won’t be satisfied until Ron Dennis gets publicly flogged.
“Should Ron Dennis be banned? We can’t rule in place of […]

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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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Nico Rosberg has signed a new contract with the Williams F1 team for the 2008 and 2009 seasons, ending speculation that he was in line to replace Fernando Alonso at McLaren.
Martin Brundle, under fire from the FIA over an earlier column in The Sunday Times, has launched a robust counterblast in today’s column.
As a […]

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McLaren will have to wait until four weeks before the start of the 2008 F1 season to discover if their 2008 car is deemed legal, after the FIA decreed that other teams would be allowed to make representations at a further meeting on 14th February 2008.
Meanwhile, the FIA is to sue newspaper The Sunday Times […]

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Renault have been found guilty of being in possession of McLaren intellectual property at a hearing in Monaco today, however the team will not be penalised.
“An extraordinary meeting of the World Motor Sport Council was held in Monaco on December 6, 2007,” read the FIA statement.
“The World Council found Renault F1 to be in breach […]

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Renault are considering taking legal action against McLaren if they are cleared of spying charges in Monaco today.
Speaking to British newspaper The Daily Express, (Flavio) Briatore said: “A lot of very bad things have been said about us by McLaren in the last few weeks, very damaging.
“We will be cleared and once the verdict is […]

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Silly season has been rather muted this year with all the political shenanigans but now we’re into the winter it has resumed full force in relation to where Fernando Alonso is going to be in 2008 and who will be replacing him at McLaren. After being linked with RBR and former team Renault, Alonso is […]

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2008 entry list
Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro
1.  Kimi Raikkonen
2.  Felipe Massa
BMW Sauber F1 Team
3.  Nick Heidfeld
4.  Robert Kubica
ING Renault F1 Team
5.  Fernando Alonso
6.  Nelson Piquet
AT&T Williams
7.  Nico Rosberg
8.  Kazuki Nakajima
Red Bull Racing
9.  David Coulthard
10. Mark Webber
Panasonic Toyota Racing
11. Jarno Trulli
12. Timo Glock
Scuderia Toro Rosso
14. Sebastien Bourdais
15. Sebastian Vettel
Honda Racing F1 Team
16. Jenson Button
17. Rubens Barrichello
Super Aguri F1 […]

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The FIA’s International Court of Appeal has rejected McLaren’s case over the fuel temperatures of the BMW and Williams cars in last month’s Brazilian Grand Prix.
Apparently McLaren’s appeal is ‘inadmissable‘.

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