Motorsport News
Beckman tops Funny Car qualifying in Pomona
ESPN - 10 Feb 2018 03:12
Jack Beckman (Funny Car), Clay Millican (Top Fuel) and Drew Skillman (Pro Stock) topped their respective qualifying sessions Friday in the season-opening Lucas Oil NHRA Winternationals in Pomona, California.
Eric Boullier was 100 per cent certain Fernando Alonso would quit McLaren in 2017
Total F1 - 10 Feb 2018 00:20
McLaren racing director Eric Boullier has revealed that he truly believed Fernando Alonso would call it quits in 2017 after the Honda engine proved to be less powerful and less reliable than its predecessor. In an Amazon...
Brown: Alonso a McLaren driver 'first and foremost'
Total F1 - 10 Feb 2018 23:50
Fernando Alonso Zak Brown boss insists that Fernando Alonso is primarily a McLaren driver despite his five-race Toyota World Endurance Championship program. Alonso will race the Japanese marque's TS050 Hybrid LMP1 at WEC...
Patrick arrives in Daytona for 1st stop of 'Danica Double'
Miami Herald - 10 Feb 2018 23:16
Danica Patrick watched drivers turn laps out of the corner of her eye. In her whirlwind preparation for the "Danica Double," getting a car ready for the first event of …
Kurt Busch sets aim on becoming 4th repeat Daytona 500 champ
Miami Herald - 10 Feb 2018 22:22
Kurt Busch is ready for his close-up outside the car. Busch signed with an entertainment agency in the offseason and may soon make the leap from stock cars to the …
Whiting to 'open everybody's eyes' at FIA seminar
Total F1 - 10 Feb 2018 20:50
Formula 1 race director Charlie Whiting is keen to see all FIA championships learn from each other at a seminar in Geneva with new ideas on governing track limits discussed. Whiting has opened the second annual FIA race ...
'Formula E is a street party, not a sports event' says F1 boss Chase Carey
Total F1 - 10 Feb 2018 20:00
Formula 1's Chase Carey has hit back at Alejandro Agag, the CEO of Formula E, after he claimed that the all-electricsingle seater championship would one day become more popular than motorsport's premier racing series. Wh...
'Grid Kids' to replace grid girls in Formula 1 for 2018
Total F1 - 10 Feb 2018 20:00
Formula 1 and the FIA have announced that grid girls will be replaced by grid kids for the 2018 season. Despite having a long history at the pinnacle of motorsport, it was announced at the end of January that the practic...
Russia's Sochi circuit set for new owners
Total F1 - 10 Feb 2018 20:00
The Sochi Autodrom, home to Russia's Formula 1 race, is set for a change of ownership. The track, built around the 2014 Winter Olympics infrastructure, is currently owned by the regional administration’s Center Omega v...
Fernando Alonso's quest for motorsport's Triple Crown
Total F1 - 10 Feb 2018 20:00
Fernando Alonso will make his World Endurance Championship debut this year as he chases the Le Mans’ segment of the Triple Crown, and, as we explain, it demonstrates the turnaround in his perception by the wider motors...
McLaren announces multi-year partnership deal with computing giant Dell Technologies
Total F1 - 10 Feb 2018 20:00
McLaren has announced a new sponsor for the 2018 season with American computing giant DellTechnologies joining the team on a 'long-term' deal. The deal will see the world’s largest privately-controlled technology compa...
McLaren are much happier and working very well with Renault - Ramirez
Total F1 - 10 Feb 2018 19:50
Jo Ramirez says he senses a very different McLaren as the British team prepares for 2018. McLaren's long-time former team coordinator told Spanish radio Cadena Cope that dumping Honda means the team now 'sees light at th...
Grid girls, the Halo, Hulkenberg doesn't hold back!
Total F1 - 10 Feb 2018 19:20
Renault's Nico Hulkenberg is definitely at odds with a few of Formula 1's latest decisions, expressing his opinion in no uncertain terms. Last year, the German driver was firmly in the camp of those who were against the ...
Helmut Marko adamant Red Bull Racing is 'ready'
Total F1 - 10 Feb 2018 17:50
Helmut Marko says Red Bull Racing's schedule has suffered no setbacks over the winter and the team will present itself at pre-season testing in Barcelona fully prepared. The Milton Keynes-based outfit typically endured a...
Patrick climbs in car to prepare for final NASCAR race
Miami Herald - 10 Feb 2018 17:04
Danica Patrick made a quick stop in Grand Cayman for a speaking engagement before pulling through the gates at Daytona International Speedway for her first stop on the "Danica Double." …
Video: Ferrari fires up its 2018 challenger for the first time
Total F1 - 10 Feb 2018 16:50
Ferrari has firedup its 2018 challenger for the first time, a major milestone for any team ahead of its February 22nd launch. More»
Dual program won't burn out Alonso - Brown
Total F1 - 10 Feb 2018 16:30
Zak Brown says Fernando Alonso's hectic racing schedule won't affect the Spaniard's performance or commitment to McLaren this season. As the Woking-based outfit prepares for a new dawn after switching from Honda to Renau...
F1 costs are totally out of control and Liberty, FIA must act
Total F1 - 10 Feb 2018 15:50
McLaren executive director Zak Brown has slammed the current financial strategy in Formula 1 and has urged owners Liberty Media and governing body the FIA to put a plan in place "as the highest priority". Since Liberty's...
Rosberg still has the same answer to one specific question
Total F1 - 10 Feb 2018 15:40
At every public appearance or in each interview, Nico Rosberg gets asked the same question, and his repetitive answer isn't about to change. The 2016 Formula 1 world champion, who left the sport on a whim weeks after sec...
2018 'not ugliest F1 season' - Vasseur
Total F1 - 10 Feb 2018 15:30
Frederic Vasseur has played down two of the biggest controversies in F1 at present. Many believe that the introduction of the ‘Halo' and the banning of ‘grid girls' means that 2018 could be a particularly ugly season...
McLaren sees potential to exploit performance from Halo
ESPN - 10 Feb 2018 14:51
McLaren's chief aerodynamicist Peter Prodromou says the Halo opens up opportunities to gain aerodynamic performance as well as having some obvious downsides.
Mercedes structure means it could handle F1 tech chief exits - Wolff
Auto Sport - 10 Feb 2018 14:35
The Mercedes Formula 1 team now has such strength in depth that it could withstand any of its senior technical personnel leaving, reckons boss Toto Wolff