Nick Heidfeld tried out a new, more conventionally rearward-facing exhaust on Lotus Renault GP's struggling R31 during Friday practice at the N?rburgring - but the signs are it is not ready to be used just yet...
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Following the FIA's controversial decision to reinstate the 2011 Bahrain Grand Prix, Red Bull Racing star Mark Webber warns that 'F1 and sport in general isn't above having a social responsibility and conscience'
Hispania Racing (HRT) has become the first competitor to walk away from the Formula One Teams' Association (FOTA) - although the reason why varies depending upon who you choose to ask...
Current F1 2010 World Championship leader Lewis Hamilton reviews Martin Whitmarsh's success since taking over at the helm of McLaren from Ron Dennis - and admits his relationship with his father is still not back to what it once was
Some of F1's most experienced campaigners - Lotus' Jarno Trulli, Red Bull Racing's Mark Webber, Renault's Robert Kubica, Williams' Rubens Barrichello and Force India's Adrian Sutil - have expressed their fears about the new driver-operated moveable rear wings for 2011
Pioneered by McLaren-Mercedes and since copied by Ferrari, the controversial F-duct aerodynamic device will be banned from F1 in 2011 following Fernando Alonso's one-handed driving in the Spanish Grand Prix in Barcelona...
Double-diffusers - an innovation that threatened to turn the first half of the 2009 F1 World Championship campaign into a political battleground - are to be outlawed from 2011, the Formula One Teams' Association (FOTA) has agreed
McLaren-Mercedes team principal Martin Whitmarsh has officially been announced as the new chairman of the Formula One Teams' Association (FOTA), replacing Ferrari President Luca di Montezemolo in the role
New Virgin Racing team principal and former Virgin Galactic CEO Alex Tai insists he will be far from out-of-his-depth when he dives into the shark-infested waters of F1 in 2010
McLaren Racing managing director Jonathan Neale offers his views on F1 2010-style, when new teams are set to swell the grid and a new grand prix joins the calendar to-boot...
Double F1 World Champion Fernando Alonso has contended that 2009 has been the worst season in years for the sport and 'maybe the worst in history' - as he expressed his exasperation with the ongoing FIA/FOTA dispute and expensive regulation blunders.
A blueprint calendar for the Formula One Teams' Association's new breakaway series in 2010 has been leaked to the media - with no fewer than ten current or recent grand prix circuits listed amongst the 17 venues.
N.Technology has withdrawn its application for a slot on the 2010 F1 World Championship starting grid, blaming the FIA's 'highly questionable process' of selection, 'wrong actions' and 'objectionable management methods' that it contends have 'undermined the sport as a whole' - and along with Prod
Record-breaking Formula 1 World Champion Michael Schumacher has warned Max Mosley against forcing through his controversial and unpopular budget cap in the top flight in 2010, urging that the FIA President 'cannot expect drastic changes to be accepted by such important manufacturers' - and stress
The spectre of a 'breakaway' series run by dissenting rebel teams has intensified with the understanding that the Formula One Teams' Association (FOTA) is in discussions with MotoGP commercial rights-holder Dorna Sports SL should the ongoing stand-off with Max Mosley over the controversial ?40 mi
The list of potential new entrants onto the 2010 Formula 1 starting grid in the top flight's budget-capped era is 'a joke' and mere 'provocation' by FIA President Max Mosley, Flavio Briatore has blasted - as the FIA-FOTA dispute shows no signs of reaching a resolution and the spectre of a 'breaka
Following the ruling in a Paris court yesterday (Wednesday) that threw out its bid for an injunction to be granted against the FIA's contentious ?40 million budget cap for Formula 1, Ferrari has re-iterated its threat to withdraw from what it believes would be a 'watered-down' category in favour
Just a day on from Renault having joined the bunch of teams threatening to quit over the FIA's contentious ?40 million optional budget cap, Flavio Briatore has gone on the offensive in blasting that 'whoever has EUR20 million or EUR25 million should not be able to operate a Formula 1 team' and cl
Former world champion Kimi Raikkonen has dropped hints that the new optional ?40 million budget cap set for introduction in 2010 could be the final straw that causes him to hang up his grand prix helmet - contending that 'this is not F1 anymore'.
Flying in the face of the opinions expressed by both Ferrari and BMW over the past week, Ross Brawn has thrown his support behind the FIA's new optional ?40 million budget cap in Formula 1, warning that without it the top flight risks 'turning [engineers] into Swiss watchmakers' - but equally und
Mercedes-Benz has received 'several enquiries' about its KERS (Kinetic Energy Recovery Systems) technology in Formula 1, Norbert Haug has revealed - with reigning world champion Lewis Hamilton praising it for having 'performed fantastically through all the races'.
Whilst congratulating Jenson Button and Brawn GP on their staggering Australian Grand prix success in Melbourne last weekend, Martin Whitmarsh has sought to stress that the ex-Honda F1 outfit would likely not have been on the starting grid Down Under at all had it not been for McLaren-Mercedes' h
McLaren-Mercedes and Renault threatened to organise a boycott of the Australian Grand Prix, Bernie Ecclestone has revealed - but the Formula 1 supremo warned the teams that 'if they come in here with a gun and hold it to my head, they had better be sure they can f***ing pull the trigger'.
The driver with the most race wins to his name will be crowned 2009 Formula 1 World Champion, it has been announced, after the FIA revealed its definitive list of cost-cutting and interest-enhancing measures to be implemented during the forthcoming campaign.