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Watson: Dennis stupid to accuses DC of brain fade.
Former F1 driver John Watson has said that Ron Dennis was 'stupid' to blame David Coulthard for stalling on the grid before the parade lap.
Webber kicks off Benetton test in Valencia.
The Benetton-Renault team was confronted with very bad weather during the first day of testing in Valencia, Spain today. Mark Webber and the team were only able to run for one hour this afternoon but despite this Webber was third quickest.
Silverstone test - day 1: 1st May.
Jordan-Honda test driver Ricardo Zonta was fastest today at a dry Silverstone. Next up one-tenth slower was Olivier Panis for BAR-Honda, third was Kimi Raikkonen in the Sauber-Petronas over half a second down on Zonta.
BAR-Honda team delighted with first podium finish.
British American Racing-Honda scored their first podium finish this weekend at the Spanish Grand Prix when Jacques Villeneuve came home third.
Dennis wrongly accuses DC of 'brain fade'.
McLaren boss Ron Dennis has been forced to eat his words after wrongly accusing David Coulthard of stalling before the parade lap got under way.
Schumacher and Button land 'Bernies' at launch.
Michael Schumacher and Jenson Button added to their silverware collections on the eve of the Spanish Grand Prix, when they received Formula One's equivalent to the Oscars.
Hakkinen: I turned traction control off.
Mika Hakkinen was just 0.085secs from pole position for the Spanish Grand Prix - and then admitted that he wasn't using traction control.
Spanish development welcomed.
The Barcelona grand prix venue seems to change with each passing visit from the Formula One circus but, despite appearing at times like another Spanish building site, the work is being welcomed.
Sony starts search for 'F1 World Champion'
Sony is launching an international competition next month to find the world's best player-driver of its all-new PlayStation game 'Formula One 2001', which goes on sale 25 May.
Good day for Jaguar.
Jaguar Racing welcomed Pedro de la Rosa on board by posting one of its best free practice performances of the season in Barcelona today.
I could have raced for Prost, says Wurz.
McLaren test driver Alexander Wurz has revealed that the Prost-Acer team offered him Gaston Mazzacane's seat before ex-Jaguar driver Luciano Burti.
McLaren's backroom engineers and their vital role.
F1 is not all glamour, fast cars and beautiful women. Back at the team's factories there is a host of engineers working long hours so the Michael Schumacher's and David Coulthard's of this world can have a successful race.
Spanish GP preview - Benetton-Renault.
Benetton-Renault head to Spain this weekend on the back of a truly dismal start to the 2001 season and at Barcelona this trend looks unlikely to change much to the frustration of all involved.
Hakkinen denies quit rumours.
1998 and 1999 World Champion Mika Hakkinen has denied rumours he is set to quit Formula One at the end of the year. Hakkinen who has had a dreadful start to 2001 said such talk was rubbish.
Spanish GP - Thursday press conference.
Drivers: Ralf Schumacher (Williams) and Mika Hakkinen (McLaren). Team Personnel: Mario Theissen (BMW), Hiroshi Yasukawa (Bridgestone) and Pierre Dupasquier (Michelin) Q: Ralf (Schumacher), what difference has the win at Imola made? Has anything changed?
Jordan launches new powerboat in Spain.
Jordan Grand Prix, which announced its involvement with the Honda Formula 4-Stroke series in January this year, will present its new powerboat at Port Vell in Barcelona on Thursday.
Jordan adds to engineering strength at races.
As a further step towards achieving the goals shared by Jordan and Honda, 2001 has seen an enhanced engineering structure for the team with the addition of a third engineer on each race car.
FIA confirm 100 year-agreement with SLEC.
At an extraordinary meeting held today in Paris the FIA World Motor Sport Council confirmed the 100-year agreement for the commercial rights of the FIA Formula One World Championship with the company SLEC.
Rapid Ralf faces licence loss.
As the driver wound down his car window, he was greeted by the old familiar phrase: "... and who do we think we are sir, Ralf Schumacher?"
Alesi slams return of traction control.
F1 veteran Jean Alesi has spoken out against traction control just days before it is set to be re-introduced at this weekend's Spanish GP.
Preview: Spanish Grand Prix 2001.
F1 heads to Spain this weekend for the fifth round of the Championship. The big question is going to concern traction control. What effect will this have? If any, Who is going to be best prepared to exploit it?
Irvine sad to see Burti go.
Eddie Irvine has said that he is sorry his former teammate, Luciano Burti has left Jaguar and that while it is not usually a good idea to change drivers mid-season Pedro de la Rosa should do a good job.
Michael Schumacher praises Michelin.
Three times World Champion Michael Schumacher has revealed that although he expected Williams and BMW to be strong in 2001 he did not realise Michelin would be so good so soon.
Prost wanted to borrow de la Rosa, says Lauda.
Jaguar's Niki Lauda has revealed that Alain Prost contacted him before the San Marino GP as he wanted to 'borrow' Pedro de la Rosa as he was unhappy with the form shown by Gaston Mazzacane.