Cosworth ready for F1 return – JA on F1 behind the scenes

I went up to Cosworth recently to have a look around and find out how the testing has been going. Cosworth is returning to F1 after an absence of three years and in many ways they symbolise the new post-manufacturer F1 era, as the power behind Williams and the new teams.
There was quite a bit [...]

Virgin Racing’s secret: Behind the scenes at Wirth Research

Of the new teams in Formula 1 it looks as though the radical Virgin Racing car is probably going to be the fastest, once it hits its stride, but preparations for the season have been undermined somewhat by reliability problems in testing.
The car has been unable to hold on to its hydraulic fluid and during [...]

Button – “It’s all about the first few laps..”

World Champion Jenson Button spoke to a few of the leading F1 websites today on a phone-in from the McLaren Technology Centre.
He seemed very upbeat after the testing and clearly believes that he has a competitive car. However he said that the last few weeks have proved to him that the first few [...]

Branson not impressed with Ferrari’s attack on “limping” new teams

Virgin Racing’s ultimate boss Sir Richard Branson dropped in to Barcelona today to see his new F1 car testing and to deliver some well chosen words in response to Ferrari’s attack earlier this week on the new teams.

The now infamous attack by the “Horse Whisperer” on the Ferrari website this week laid into the new [...]

Barcelona Day 1 – It’s all about the wings

Today the 11 teams who have got their cars ready for the start of the new season were on track for the first day of the final official test at Barcelona.

Mark Webber set the fastest time, but the headline lap times are not really important at this stage, that will come in the later stages [...]

Final test at Barcelona should give form guide for season

The final official test starts this morning in Barcelona, with 11 teams out on track – all the teams competing this season except for USF1 and Campos.
The four day test is the final chance for the teams to test out new developments before the first race in Bahrain on 14 March.
The first two tests [...]

Stefan GP takes one step back, while F1 loses faith in US team

The thrusting Stefan GP team took its first backwards step today when it was forced to call off its planned test in Portugal due to a lack of tyres. The team does not have an entry but is hoping that it will be given one soon if USF1 or Campos fails to make it.
Bridgestone, [...]

Decoding Jerez – Button tops times, but it’s all to play for

After a rainy first couple of days, the second Jerez test actually turned out to be quite revealing and a picture has emerged of how the teams line up with the new season now less than a month away.
So far most of the testing has been reliability based, with some performance work this week by [...]

Should USF1 be allowed to skip four races?

It has been widely reported today that the USF1 team has asked the FIA for permission to miss the first four races of the season, starting at the beginning of the European season.

Team founder Ken Anderson spoke to the New York Times on Friday and admitted that the team was not currently good to go, [...]

Campos takes the emergency route as Kolles returns to F1

The struggling Campos Meta 1 team has had a significant change of ownership with one of the partners, Jose Ramon Carabante, taking the majority shareholding. He has installed former Midland and Force India team principal Colin Kolles as team principal of the new team.
The move follows Campos’ abortive efforts to sell the team to A1GP [...]

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