Valentino Rossi's WRT team principal has said the Italian was not to blame for the pit stop mishap in Sunday's GT World Challenge season-opener at Imola.
McLaren has become the latest Formula 1 team to suffer a pit stop blunder with Stoffel Vandoorne released unsafely after his right-rear wheel was not correctly attached to his MCL33 during a practice stop towards the end of FP2 at the Chinese Grand Prix.
Kimi Raikkonen has urged Ferrari to alter its pit stop procedure to ensure it never suffers a nightmare repeat from the Bahrain Grand Prix when a Ferrari mechanic suffered a broken leg after being hit by the Finn’s car.
The 2008 Formula 1 campaign was a memorable one for many reasons, both good and bad, with the title contenders at times looking like they were doing everything possible not to win the championship.
Though understandably overshadowed by the dramatic title fight, Giancarlo Fisichella produced one of the undoubted starring performances of the Brazilian Grand Prix at Interlagos at the weekend - at one point even threatening to challenge Kimi Raikkonen.
Ferrari has finally bowed to mounting pressure to ditch its controversial 'traffic lights' pit-stop system, in revealing that it is to re-instate the traditional manual 'lollipop' for the final three races of the 2008 Formula 1 World Championship campaign.
Bernie Ecclestone has hit back at Luca di Montezemolo for describing the inaugural Singapore Grand Prix as a 'circus', by describing Ferrari as the 'clowns' - and claiming that if Felipe Massa fails to win the Formula 1 World Championship this year, he will have his team to blame.
Nick Heidfeld may have raced to his tenth points-scoring result of the 2008 Formula 1 World Championship in the sport's inaugural Singapore Grand Prix at the weekend - in the process lifting him to within a single marker of defending world champion Kimi Raikkonen in the drivers' standings - but h
Nick Heidfeld again used his experience, strong racecraft and wet weather expertise to good effect in the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps today - as he mastered the treacherous conditions to perfection to secure his fourth rostrum finish of the 2008 Formula 1 campaign, and with it regain
Felipe Massa sent out a clear message to his Ferrari employers that they should start to focus all their efforts on him for the remainder of the 2008 Formula 1 World Championship campaign - after dominating the European Grand Prix from pole position.
The recently announced revisions to the British Touring Car Championship format for 2004 spells an end to the pitstops in which so many races were won or lost in 2003.