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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Kimi Raikkonen bounced back from a lacklustre display at the Australian GP last weekend to take a resounding victory at Sepang today. BMW’s Robert Kubica was second, ahead of McLaren’s Heikki Kovalainen. Raikkonen’s Ferrari teammate Felipe Massa exited into the scenery after starting from pole position. Jarno Trulli took a superb fourth for Toyota, ahead […]

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Felipe Massa took pole position today for tomorrow’s Malaysian Grand Prix at Sepang, while teammate Kimi Raikkonen made it an all-Ferrari front row. McLaren drivers Heikki Kovalainen and Lewis Hamilton were third and fourth but have been summoned to the stewards after Nick Heidfeld and Fernando Alonso complained of being blocked on their flying laps. […]

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iSport driver Karun Chandhok set the pace in the first day of GP2 testing at the Paul Ricard circuit today, edging out ART’s Romain Grosjean and FMS’s Andy Soucek in the morning session. Pastor Maldonado went fastest in the afternoon session for Piquet Sports, ahead of Racing Engineering’s Javi Villa, but he failed to beat […]

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Testing for the 2008 GP2 season got underway at the Paul Ricard circuit this week, with Ben Hanley (Campos), Javi Villa (Racing Engineering) and Romain Grosjean (ART) setting the pace in the new-for-2008 car. Pastor Maldonado (Piquet Sports) had set a fast time on Thursday but his car was excluded for a technical infringement.
GP2 testing […]

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F1’s qualifying format will change for 2008, with the contentious Q3 cut to ten minutes to remove the ‘fuel burn’ phase.
The qualifying practice session will take place on the day before the race from 14.00 to 15.00. The session will be run as follows :
a) From 14.00 to 14.20 (Q1) all cars will be permitted […]

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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 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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