Teams to Cut Jobs in 2010 - Cost Reduction Plan
18 Aug 2009, 09:11 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Although the details of the new cost-cutting regulations for the 2010 Formula One season are currently being guarded very carefully by the Formula One Teams Association (FOTA), some of them have lea...
Renault Will Race at Valencia, Fined $50,000
18 Aug 2009, 07:50 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / As expected, Renault's one race ban following the Hungarian Grand Prix was overturned by the International Court of Appeal on Monday. The FIA judges agreed that the initial sanction issued by t...
Jean Todt Dismisses Favoritism Allegations If FIA President
14 Aug 2009, 10:38 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Former Ferrarian and current candidate for the FIA presidency Jean Todt today insisted that he will be totally impartial in his relationship with the Formula One teams. Although he was heavily linke...
Ari Vatanen Announces Members for FIA Role
14 Aug 2009, 09:49 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / After Jean Todt last week revealed his election agenda for the FIA presidency, it's now Ari Vatanen's turn to announce the members that are going to support him in the race against the Fre...
Ecclestone Hits at Unexperienced F1 Teams
13 Aug 2009, 13:40 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Just when you'd think the whole FOTA-FIA-FOM saga has ended, Bernie Ecclestone comes right up and gets the last saying. Now that the new Concorde Agreement has been signed – linking all t...
High-Ranked FIA Official Will Try to Reverse Renault Ban
11 Aug 2009, 09:35 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Renault's chances of seeing their one-race suspension from the FIA overturned have grown these days, following media reports showing that a high-ranked Spanish official of the ruling body will ...
Mosley Continues to Back Todt for the FIA Presidency
11 Aug 2009, 07:56 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Although this has constantly attracted plenty of public critics from Ari Vatanen, current FIA president Max Mosley continued to lobby for former Ferrari boss Jean Todt. The 69-year old Brit couldn&#...
Ferrari Admit 2009 Rules Have Failed
11 Aug 2009, 07:12 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / The 2009 Formula One Championship has seen more changes to the sport's regulations than any other season before. Totally revised aerodynamic package, the return of slick tires, the introduction...
FIA Announces 2010 Entry List Now Re-Opened
10 Aug 2009, 06:31 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / The International Automobile Federation (FIA) is now officially looking for a new team for the 2010 Formula One Championship. Following BMW's exit from the sport – announced less than 2 w...
Michelle Yeoh to Attend CGI Meeting in New York
6 Aug 2009, 14:48 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / While Jean Todt is busy making his election programme for the FIA presidency known within the members of the Paris-based body, girlfriend Michelle Yeoh is also fulfilling her duties as global ambass...
Jean Todt Reveals Election Agenda for FIA Presidency
6 Aug 2009, 06:50 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Having Frenchman Jean Todt as the new president of the International Automobile Federation (FIA) doesn't mean he will become directly involved in the actual governance of the Formula One Champi...
FOTA Confirms New Concorde Agreement
6 Aug 2009, 06:11 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Less than a week after the FIA announced Max Mosley had put his signature on the new Concorde Agreement, the Formula One Teams Association (FOTA) issued a statement of their own regarding the matter...
Spa to Share F1 Race with Nurburgring?
5 Aug 2009, 09:26 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / With the Formula One Teams Association (FOTA) and the International Automobile Federation (FIA) pressuring the FOM to keep historical venues inside the sport of Formula One, plenty of speculations a...
Valencia Doubles Ticket Sales Thanks to Schumacher
5 Aug 2009, 08:54 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Despite the FIA's decision to suspend the entire Renault F1 outfit for the race at Valencia due to their wrongdoings in the Hungarian Grand Prix – and, consequently, Fernando Alonso &ndas...
John Surtees Urges the FIA to Learn from His Son's Death
5 Aug 2009, 07:00 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Losing a son is never easy, and former F1 champion John Surtees is experiencing plenty of that these days. As his 19-year old son Henry lost his life during an F2 race a few weeks ago, John is still...
Red Bull Confirms Alguersuari's Test Request Was Rejected
4 Aug 2009, 09:49 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / After confirming that they will oppose Michael Schumacher's testing of the Ferrari F60 prior to the European Grand Prix in the next few weeks, Red Bull today disclosed the reasons for that deci...
Williams Strongly Opposes Schumacher Test
3 Aug 2009, 12:44 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Following his brief testing session with the Ferrari F2007 last weekend, Michael Schumacher was aiming to do some more laps with Ferrari's 2007 challenger during the course of this week. In ord...
New Concorde Agreement Signed
2 Aug 2009, 10:13 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / We can now say that the war between the International Automobile Federation (FIA) and the Formula One Teams Association (FOTA) finally came to an end, after a press release issued by the former sta...
Schumacher to Test Ferrari F2007 This Weekend
31 Jul 2009, 08:22 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / As shown in one of our previous reports, Michael Schumache and Ferrari have found a way to trick the FIA rules regarding the in-season testing ban. As no driver is allowed to test a 2009 challenger ...
FIA to Judge Renault Appeal on August 17
31 Jul 2009, 07:29 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / The FIA's International Court of Appeal (ICA) announced the final date for Renault F1's appeal on the Hungarian Grand Prix stewards' decision. According to a press release from the ru...