Williams F1 Team Garage...

The Williams F1 team was celebrating their first victory in eight years at the Spanish Grand Prix in Barcelona with a team photo when something, possibly a KERS unit, sparked an explosion . Video shows the garage burst into flames and sources are reporting multiple injuries. A team...

Historic Schumacher Fer...

Filed under: Motorsport A Ferrari F1 car driven by Michael Schumacher during the 2000 Austrian Grand Prix is up for sale at a Monaco auction, and expected to make around £700,000. It’s yet another stunning lot up for sale in the forthcoming RM Auctions Monaco sale , set to be...

Mercedes threatening to...

Filed under: Formula One According to a report in the Daily Telegraph , Mercedes is extremely unhappy with terms being offered by Bernie Ecclestone and could leave F1 – or possibly take Bernie to court. The root of the argument is the belief that Bernie is offering big incentives...

F1 racer announces new ...

Filed under: Motorsport The Caterham Formula One team has announced that driver Heikki Kovalainen will be sponsored by Angry Birds for the coming season, wearing the novelty helmet above. For those of you that haven’t caught onto the merrily macabre mobile avifaunal extermination...

Over 1m ‘clocked&...

Filed under: Consumer The car history checkers over at HPI Check have said that more than one million of the cars it looked at last year had an inconsistent mileage reading, suggesting they’d been clocked. The surprising number shows that, far from being an dying issue limited to...

Raikkonen would have st...

Filed under: Formula One Kimi Raikkonen has argued he is back in the mood for F1 by revealing he would have kept racing in 2010. “I was never planning to leave the sport in the first place,” the 2007 world champion told the Times of India. “I had a contract for 2010...

Vettel names new Red Bu...

Filed under: Formula One Sebastian Vettel has named his new 2012 Red Bull chassis ‘Abbey’. With the Adrian Newey-penned RB8, the 24-year-old German will push to become F1′s third-ever triple consecutive world champion, after Juan Manuel Fangio and mentor Michael...

Petrov insists Alonso a...

Filed under: Formula One Vitaly Petrov has hit out again at his ‘pay-driver’ label, insisting even the highest paid driver on the grid has a similar arrangement with his team. “I see no difference between myself and Alonso,” said the Russian, who has moved his...

Marko not worried about...

Filed under: Formula One Dr Helmut Marko has dismissed suggestions Red Bull is entering the 2012 season with a question mark over the legality of its new car. With two days of pre-season testing remaining, the reigning world champions took a heavily revised car to Barcelona recently and...

Hamilton vows to focus ...

Filed under: Formula One Lewis Hamilton has promised to stop partying and focus more on performing, the 2008 world champion has told mainstream British newspapers. The McLaren driver had a tumultuous 2011 season on and off the track, but the 27-year-old has vowed to bounce back now....