Kobayashi attracts sponsors for home race
Oct.7 (Sauber) Sauber Motorsport gets extra support from Japan for Kamui Kobayashi’s home race next weekend in Suzuka. Planex Group and MJ Co. Ltd. will be sponsoring the team for the Japanese Grand Prix. Furthermore, Scalp-D, the manufacturer of hair care products, is expanding its presence on the C29 race cars. The MJ logos will [...]
Former Renault boss Bob Bell departs team
Oct.6 (GMM) Former team principal Bob Bell has left Renault, the formula one team announced on Wednesday. Bell’s role as managing director, assumed after Flavio Briatore was ousted and banned last year in the crashgate scandal, will be taken over by current team boss Eric Boullier. “We would like to thank Bob Bell for his [...]
Bottas unlikely to step up to 2011 F1 seat
Oct.6 (GMM) Williams reserve driver Valtteri Bottas has put his hopes of stepping into the team’s race cockpit on hold until 2012. The 21-year-old Finn, third in the F3 Euroseries standings, admitted recently that British team Williams was “not likely to change” its current driver lineup for 2011. “The next step would be GP2,” Bottas, [...]
Force India set to drop Liuzzi for 2011
Oct.6 (GMM) Vitantonio Liuzzi has played down rumours Force India is planning to replace him at the end of the season. Speculation swirled in the Singapore paddock two weeks ago that the Silverstone based team’s rookie ‘Friday’ driver Paul di Resta has secured a deal to move into a race cockpit in 2011. On paper, [...]
Japanese GP: Virgin Racing preview
Oct.05 (Virgin Racing) The team heads back to the Far East again this week for Round 16 of the FIA Formula One World Championship, the Japanese Grand Prix, which takes place at Suzuka on 8-10 October. Suzuka International Racing Circuit is one of the great tracks of Formula One. It was designed by John Hugenholtz [...]
Japanese GP: Hispania Racing preview
Oct.05 (Hispania Racing) The Suzuka circuit is one of the oldest remaining tracks of the Formula 1 Championship. It is a very technical one, but almost every driver counts it amongst their favorites. The 5.807 km of the figure-eight circuit are very special as it is the only layout on the Formula One calendar which [...]
Kubica: Suzuka punishes driver mistakes
Oct.05 (Renault) Robert Kubica was expected to play a bigger role, near the front, in the past two Grand Prix races but it did not quite transpire as the midfield playground was the destiny of the Renault R30. Nevertheless Poland’s finest is in top form as he showed when scything his way through the field [...]
Alonso: Now it starts getting serious
Oct.05 (Ferrari) Singapore Grand Prix winner Fernando Alonso speaks after his night time win on the Marina Bay streets and the task ahead where he goes into the Japanese Grand Prix second in the championship title race, eleven points adrift of Mark Webber. Alonso: “I have been back in Switzerland for a few days now. [...]
Sauber insists no plans to sell Swiss team
Oct.5 (GMM) Peter Sauber has denied the signing of Telmex as a major new sponsor means he might be prepared to sell his Swiss formula one team. On Monday, the Hinwil based team announced that Telmex, headed by the richest man in the world Carlos Slim, will have “a significant presence” on the livery of [...]