Haas team principal Guenther Steiner says the ongoing overtaking debate in Formula 1 has caused more problems than benefits and has called for a stop in knee-jerk reactions to issues.
While Fernando Alonso has been content with the initial McLaren package with Renault engines in race trim, the two-time Formula 1 world champion is demanding the same from its qualifying package to fight further up the grid.
Formula 1 commercial chief Sean Bratches has confirmed that efforts are being made to swap the dates for next year’s races in China and Bahrain in order to avoid clashing with a national holiday.
As one of only three Formula 1 teams to have tested at Sakhir in the run-up to the 2009 world championship campaign, Toyota is hoping this weekend's Bahrain Grand Prix will provide it with just the tonic to put a disappointing outing in Shanghai behind it and return to the rostrum once more.
Despite having run Lewis Hamilton to within a point of the 2008 Formula 1 Drivers' World Championship, Felipe Massa still comes in for a good deal of unjustified criticism amongst paddock observers - that is the view of former grand prix star Johnny Herbert.
For the second time in as many races, Jarno Trulli and came to blows in the Brazilian Grand Prix at Interlagos at the weekend - only this time it was the Frenchman who came off worst.
It is 'not impossible' that Red Bull Racing will overhaul 'junior' outfit Scuderia Toro Rosso in the Formula 1 Constructors' World Championship in the final race of the 2008 campaign in Brazil this weekend - especially as the Milton Keynes-based outfit was the 'more competitive' of the two last t
Fernando Alonso may 'belong' in a Ferrari or McLaren-Mercedes, but 'mentality-wise he is not the complete package' in Formula 1 - that is the view of British former grand prix star Derek Warwick.
Though sixth place in the Japanese Grand Prix at Fuji Speedway at the weekend marked his fifth points-scoring finish in as many outings, Sebastian Vettel revealed that it could have been better still but for losing out on the opening lap.
Singapore and Japanese Grand Prix winner Fernando Alonso has vowed that should the opportunity present itself, he will 'help' Ferrari's Felipe Massa to prevail in the 2008 Formula 1 World Championship.
Despite having endured two collisions along the way, Felipe Massa's drive in the Japanese Grand Prix has been praised as 'amazing' by Ferrari, whilst the man himself refuted all blame in his comings-together with Lewis Hamilton and S?bastien Bourdais.
Formula 1 World Championship leader Lewis Hamilton admitted after his disastrous Japanese Grand Prix today that he had 'made a mistake and paid for it' - but he insisted he would be changing nothing in his seeming 'win-or-bust' approach to the final two races of the campaign.